TUC Fringe Meeting 2009

The Institute of Employment Rights and the United Campaign held a joint fringe meeting at this years TUC Congress in Liverpool.

Speakers included:
Brian Caton POA; Keith Ewing IER; Tony Kearns CWU; John Hendy QC IER / UC
Len McCluskey UNITE; Mark Serwotka PCS; Sarah Veale TUC; Matt Wrack FBU

Chair
Carolyn Jones IER

Speakers' papers from
Redundancy and the Law: Fear and Economic Uncertainty at Work
held on
Wednesday 8th July

Speakers' papers from the Evening Lecture
60 YEARS OF ILO CONVENTION 98: ASSERTING THE RIGHT TO ORGANIZE AND BARGAIN COLLECTIVELY
held on
Wednesday 1st July

Contributors included:
Prof Keith Ewing, King’s College London, John Hendy QC, Tonia Novitz, Bristol University and Jan Beulens, Belgian lawyer from Antwerp University

The Institute will be shortly producing a publication on Collective Bargaining

Morning Star Conference
Saturday 20th June

Tony Burke, Unite the Union and Carolyn Jones, IER speak at the conference on the topic of
The union fightback begins