TUC Congress Guide 2016
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➤ (FORCHARTER FRINGE) 4 CONFERENCE IN EXCHANGE HALL EXCHANGE FOYER CAFE ➤ ➤ CONGRESS MAIN ENTRANCE FIRST FLOOR EXHIBITION CHARTER FOYER EXCHANGE 10 (FOR FRINGE) CENTRAL 8 (FOR FRINGE) TOILETS REGISTRATION EXCHANGE ROOMS 1-7 (FOR FRINGE) ➤ CENTRAL HALL EXCHANGE 11 (NOT IN USE) (FOR FRINGE) CENTRAL FOYER (NOT IN USE) (FORCHARTER FRINGE) 4 CONFERENCE IN EXCHANGE HALL EXCHANGE FOYER CAFE ➤ ➤ CONGRESS MAIN ENTRANCE EXHIBITION GROUND FLOOR CHARTER FOYER EXCHANGE 10 (FOR FRINGE) CENTRAL 8 (FOR FRINGE) TOILETS REGISTRATION EXCHANGE ROOMS 1-7 (FOR FRINGE) CENTRAL HALL EXCHANGE 11 (NOT IN USE) (FOR FRINGE) CENTRAL FOYER (NOT IN USE) FINDING YOUR WAY AROUND MANCHESTER CENTRAL Credential badge holders afternoon session of Congress. TUC Publications/Bookmarks stand All credential badge holders must Manchester Central keeps lost (Stand 11) in the exhibition area. enter Manchester Central by the property for two months. After Charter entrance (to your right this time it is given to charity. Refreshments when facing the venue). No-one will If you have lost something Refreshment points are in the be allowed entry to the building at Manchester Central, email exhibition area. The café sells a without their credential being worn concierge@manchestercentral. range of food and drink including and easily visible; and you must co.uk or call 0161 834 2700. hot meals and snacks. keep your credential visible for checking within the building too. Distribution of leaflets Accessibility Leaflets, booklets and appeals may Delegates will have notified the TUC You will also need to keep with you only be distributed from stands in the before Congress of particular access your secondary photo ID, such as a exhibition area. TUC stewards will be needs such as seating requirements passport or modern driver’s licence. checking this restriction is observed. and documentation. All meeting Manchester Central security It is against the rules of Congress rooms have an induction loop. will undertake bag checks to distribute material relating to at the main entrance. motions. This could lead to them There are accessible toilets in the being removed from the Agenda. main venue and on the upper Belongings level. There is level access from Please ensure you remove all Congress documents the street into the venue via belongings from the Congress Hall Extra copies of Congress a ramp. You can find full details at at the end of each morning and documentation are on sale from the tuc.org.uk/congress-accessibility Guide 2018 5 THE FRINGE These are the fringe meetings the TUC knew about by the time the Guide went to press. 12.45-2pm for lunchtime, 5.45-7.15pm for evening The TUC’s own meetings are shown in purple For a guide to the location of Fringe meeting rooms see page 5 SUNDAY EVENING in the history of our country. Contributions 12.45 18.30 (or end of conference) from the floor will be welcome. TUC Race Relations Committee/Centre IER/CTUF Speakers: Mick Whelan (General for Labour and Social Studies (CLASS) ROLLING OUT THE MANIFESTO Secretary, ASLEF), Sarah Wooley IS THE ECONOMY RACIST? FOR LABOUR LAW (BFAWU), Kelvin Hopkins (MP), Professor The Chancellors’ budgets have In 2016 IER published a Manifesto for Costas Lapavitsas (author of Left Case disproportionately disadvantaged women Labour Law offering policy proposals Against the European Union) and Black communities. The burden suitable for the 21st century. The ideas were Chair: Jacquie Johnson (former of austerity has been placed on the supported by unions, TUC, Greens and President NATFHE/UCU) shoulders of the poorest with communities SNP. The Labour Party’s popular election Venue: The Briton’s Protection, 50 Gt suffering as the public services they rely Manifesto, 2017 incorporated many of the Bridgewater St, Manchester M1 5LE on disappear. Grenfell has highlighted ideas. IER’s experts have since translated Refreshments provided how Black communities are stuck in those ideas into legislative proposals and the poorest housing. Studies by JRF on a second edition of the Manifesto will be 12.45 ethnicity and poverty identified that Black launched at the fringe. Joining the platform Trade Union Coordinating Group (TUCG) workers are concentrated in low-skilled will be Lauren Townsend (TGI Friday) HOW FIGHTING TRADE UNIONS sectors associated with low pay and more highlighting the extent to which the balance MAKE A REAL DIFFERENCE likely to be in insecure work than white of power in UK workplaces has shifted How can we demonstrate the value of trade workers and that they are also trapped against workers. It’s time to put unions back union membership to a new generation in low-paid work, have lower-status jobs at the heart of our economy and at the of workers? By showing in practice how within high-paying occupations and centre of workplace relations. The fringe has fighting back together delivers results in the struggle to access decent jobs. This fringe kindly been sponsored by Morrish Solicitors. workplace and across our communities. will discuss how institutional racism is not Speakers: John McDonnell (Shadow Speakers: Mick Cash (General Secretary, considered or addressed when economic Chancellor), Lauren Townsend RMT), Janice Godrich (President, policy is formulated, implemented, and (Unite/TGI Fridays campaigner) and PCS), Ian Lawrence (General Secretary, framed and how this can be changed. John Hendy (QC IER/CTUF) NAPO), Sarah Woolley (BFAWU) Speakers: Faiza Shahen (Dir of Chair: Carolyn Jones (IER/CTUF) Chair: Ronnie Draper (General CLASS), Dr Adotey Bing-Pappoe, Clive Venue: Charter 4 Secretary, BFAWU) Lewis MP (TBC), Wanda Wyporska Refreshments provided Venue: Exchange 1 (Dir of The Equality Trust) (TBC) Refreshments provided Chair: Gloria Mills – (Chair (TUC MONDAY LUNCHTIME Race Relations Committee) 12.30 12.45 Venue: Exchange 3 Trade Unionist Against the EU Unions 21 Refreshments provided EMBRACE BRexit – RebuILD EVErydAY VOICE IN THE AND TRANSFORM BRITAIN EVErydAY ECONOMY 12.45 Brexit offers opportunities we never had As part of Unions 21’s new Commission British Dietetic Association (BDA) while members of the EU. This is now being on Collective Voice, this session explores FOOD SECURITY AND SUSTAINABILITY recognised by almost everyone, even the what collective voice and bargaining Food security combines the politics of Guardian. Jeremy Corbyn said, 'the next can look like in the 21st century. population growth, diet, the globalisation Labour government will ... [take] advantage Speakers: Rachel Reeves MP, Jon Skewes of food production and distribution of new freedoms outside of the EU to allow (Executive Director), Patrick Roache with the limitations of soil, water, land Government to intervene to protect our NASUWT, Amy Leversidge FDA and use availability and climate change. Our industrial base'. The speakers will explore Unions 21 Mike Clancy (Prospect) speakers will ask what is the future of the opportunities offered by Brexit and Chair: Becky Wright (Unions 21) sustainable food for everyone on the planet discuss how the trade union movement Venue: Exchange 2 and in particular what will Brexit mean can take part in this most exciting phase Refreshments provided for UK food systems and sustainability? Guide 2018 11 THE FRINGE Speakers: Professor Tim Lang, City service for victims of anti-Muslim hate and democracy and equality in an area University London (TBC), Elizabeth Atherton prejudice. Tell MAMA maps, monitors ravaged by violence and repression. RD, Sustainable Diets and Heath manager and measures anti-Muslim hate in the Speakers: Simon Dubbins – Unite MEDACT (TBC), Andy Burman, Chief UK. We provide tailored victim support, International Director, Elif Sarican – Kurdish Executive British Dietetic Association advocacy for victims of hate crime and Students Union, Abdulkarim Sabri Omar Chair: Annette Mansell-Green, BDA discrimination, signposting and referrals – Representative from Rojava (Democratic Venue: Charter 4 for legal advice and support, and court Federation of Northern Syria), Majdoleen Refreshments provided support for victims. Tell MAMA also Hassan - Representative from Rojava provides training for local authorities (Democratic Federation of Northern Syria) 12.45 and other bodies on understanding the Chair: Christine Blower – NEU Rail, Maritime and Transport Union (RMT) changing nature of anti-Muslim hate. International Secretary REPARATIONS: WHO’s BEEN PAID Since it was founded in 2012 Tell MAMA’s Venue: Exchange 10 FOR AFRIKAN ENSLAVEMENT? work has led to over 1,000 arrests, and Refreshments provided Reparations for slavery is the idea that it has helped over 15,000 people. compensatory payment needs to be Speakers: TBC 12.45 made to the descendants of Africans Venue: Exchange 5 Heathrow Airport Ltd who had been enslaved as part of the HEAThroW SKILLS TASKFORCE - Atlantic Slave Trade. Enslavement is a 12.45 DEVELOPING THE SKILLS NEEDED crime against humanity. What we forget Trade Unionists for Safe TO buILD AN EXPANDED HEAThroW is that since abolition in 1833, payments Nuclear Energy (TUSNE) The Heathrow Skills Taskforce will officially were made to those who profited from JUST TRANSITION AND NUCLEAR JOBS launch their recommendations to ensure this trade up to 2015. The reparations As the UK shifts towards decarbonised Britain has the critical skills and talent campaign is about the unpaid wages of energy sources, and the lines between needed to build and operate an expanded those that were enslaved. The RMT has energy and electricity become more and Heathrow, and other nationally significant been holding a Reparations Conference more blurred, this event seeks to examine infrastructure projects. This follows the for the past 12 years and encourages the role nuclear will play in a just transition overwhelming backing by Parliament fellow affiliates to support this campaign. to a low-carbon future. Attendees will hear for Heathrow expansion earlier this year. Speakers: Sean Hoyle (RMT’s National from industry, union and environmental Delegates will have the opportunity to President), Judy Richards (Co Chair Global voices to discuss the need for a balanced hear from – and pose questions to – Afrikan Congressuk (GACuk)), Glenroy energy mix.