From: "rc-am" <rcollins at netlink.com.au> Date: Tue, 3 Aug 1999 14:09:59 +1000
| 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/pblic/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.)
|