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Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:42:38 +0200
From: Niki Best <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: Forum on Labor in the Global Economy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Online Conference on Organized Labour in the 21st Century
(Apologies for cross-posting)
ANNOUNCEMENT
Juan Somavia and Bill Jordan to open
online Conference on Organized Labour
in the 21st Century
Juan Somavia, the Director General of the ILO, and Bill Jordan,
General Secretary of the ICFTU, will
launch a debate in an online Conference "Organized Labour in the 21st
Century". The Conference will be
run by the International Institute for Labour Studies, of the ILO, in
cooperation with the ICFTU, and will
begin in mid September 1999.
Participation in the Conference, which is aimed at trade unionists and
labour researchers, will be open,
and those who have signed up in time for the opening (before
mid-September) will have a chance to react
and put questions to the keynote speakers by e-mail, or over the web.
Anyone wanting to participate can learn more by going to the
Institute's website, where it is possible to
sign up from today to participate in the Conference:
http://www.ilo.org/public/english/130inst/research/network/index.htm
(Background documents are also available from this web address.)
The Conference focuses on the future of trade unions around the world,
and is expected to run for
approximately twelve months. Guest speakers will be invited to act as
"panelists" every month. Each
month, a new topic (with new "speakers") will be launched. The topics
will be announced about a week
in advance and are likely to include:
- Employment and development
- The law and trade unions
- Responses to globalization (trade, investment, labour standards)
- Unions and structural adjustment
- Transnational industrial relations
- Collective bargaining and social dialogue
- Informal sector and marginalised workers
- Social protection
- Recruitment and organizing
- Political strategy (party politics, alliances with NGOs, etc.)
- Women in unions
- Youth in unions
- Union structures and services (membership participation, mergers,
finances, etc.)
If you do not have access to the World Wide Web, but would like to
participate, send an empty e-mail
message to this address, and you will be subscribed automatically.
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ABOUT
THE CONFERENCE ON LABOUR IN THE 21st CENTURY
Please contact:
Mr A.V. Jose
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