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SUNDAY EVENING minister of labour; Tim Roach, general all work to end occupational segregation. 18:30, or end of conference secretary, GMB; Mark Serwotka, Speakers: Maria Buck, FBU; Institute of Employment Rights (IER) & general secretary, PCS; Dave Fern Whelan, PFA Campaign for Trade Union Freedom (CTUF) Ward, general secretary, CWU Chair: Deborah Reay, ASLEF A MINISTRY OF LABOUR: WHAT CAN Chair: Carolyn Jones, IER/CTUF Venue: The Restaurant IT DELIVER FOR WORKING PEOPLE? Venue: The Old Ship Hotel, BN1 1NR Refreshments provided The IER and CTUF have been developing Refreshments provided ideas for a ministry of labour since 2016. 12:45 Trade unions have additional ideas on MONDAY LUNCHTIME Freedom for Öcalan what a ministry of labour should deliver 12:45 THE BATTLE FOR TURKEY’S and during a period of consultation ASLEF FUTURE – THE CRITICAL ROLE OF over the past 12 months, thoughts on IS IT STILL A MAN’S WORLD? TRADE UNIONS, CIVIL SOCIETY what a ministry of labour can achieve In 2019 are there still jobs for men and jobs AND THE KURDISH MOVEMENT have been developed and refined. for women? Do industry and employers The Turkish government has embarked on At this meeting, the shadow minister of do enough to try and eradicate gender a programme of mass arrests, detention, labour, Laura Pidcock, MP, and union stereotypes in employment? Do trade closure of opposition media, and attacks general secretaries will outline what they unions need to campaign more around on trade unionists and NGOs. It is rapidly believe a ministry of labour could deliver this issue? Come and hear women becoming an extreme authoritarian state. for workers and for the economy. members of ASLEF – the train drivers’ It is also clear that the Turkish regime The policies of the last 30 years are not union; the (FBU); and continues to actively support jihadi groups working. We need a new agenda and a the Professional Footballers’ Association attacking the progressive Kurdish forces comprehensive revision of workers’ rights. (PFA) discuss their personal experiences of in Syria in their bid to crush the fledgling Speakers: Laura Pidcock MP, shadow breaking down barriers and how we can democratic state that the Kurds have been

10 Guide 2019 establishing. Join trade unionists who from the trade union movement and increasing demands for capacity, value have worked with the Turkish progressive climate change action groups for money and climate change, how can unions and the Kurds in Turkey and Chair: tbc mutual cooperation put passengers and Rojava to discuss how to strengthen Venue: Meeting Room 6 workers back at the heart of the railways our solidarity with those engaged in Refreshments provided and maintain high safety and standards? the struggles in this critical region. Speakers: Tom Lee, director of standards, Speakers: Manuel Cortes, general 12:45 RSSB; Manuel Cortes, general secretary, secretary, TSSA; Elif Sarican, anthropologist, Morning Star TSSA; Emily Lightowler, head of policy, rail activist of Kurdish Women’s Movement BUILDING A MEDIA FOR review and industry reform, Abellio Group and writer; Shavanah Taj, PCS and vice- THE LABOUR MOVEMENT Chair: Christian Wolmar, transport president, Wales TUC; Tony Burke, As the prospect of an early general election writer, broadcaster and journalist assistant general secretary, Unite looms, the labour movement is facing Venue: Meeting Room 1c Chair: Christine Blower, NEU ferocious attacks from right-wing media. Refreshments provided Venue: Meeting Room 1a/b What is the role of the Morning Star and Refreshments provided other left outlets? How do we build an 12:45 alternative media for the labour movement? Trade Union Coordinating Group (TUCG) 12:45 Morning Star editor Ben Chacko will be ACTION ON THE CLIMATE General Federation of Trade Unions (GFTU) joined by trade union general secretaries. EMERGENCY: HOW SHOULD TRADE UNION Plenty of time for questions and discussions. TRADE UNIONS RESPOND? EDUCATION – A NEW START Speakers: Ben Chacko, Editor, Morning With parliament having declared a Trade union education cannot continue in Star; Manuel Cortes, general secretary, climate and ecological emergency, and the old way. New ways of teaching and TSSA; Amanda Martin, president, NEU; in the run up to further school strikes new learning subjects are needed. After Liam Young, CWU media co-ordinator; and civil disobedience planned for later several years of discussion with unions, Ronnie Draper, general secretary, BFAWU; in the autumn, how far are trade unions education partners in the UK and overseas, Len McCluskey, general secretary, able to show support and solidarity new thinking has emerged. Much of this Unite; and others to be confirmed with these calls for urgent action, whilst is reflected in the recent bookTrade Chair: Bob Oram, Morning Star making the case for a just transition to an Union Education, from Workable Books. Management Committee environmentally sustainable economy? Speakers at this meeting will share some Venue: Meeting Room 1d What might be the role of trade unions in of the new ideas and opportunities. Refreshments provided building the case for a green new deal? Speakers: Matteo Bergamini, Shout Out; Jill What are the implications of catastrophic Westerman, GFTU Educational Trust Trustee, 12:45 climate change for trade union members in former Principal, Northern College; Colin Prospect the global south, and how can we promote Kirkham, national project director, GMB; PENSION EQUALITY – TACKLING the need for radical action for workers Alison Stoecker, education campaigner, THE GENDER PENSION GAP both nationally and internationally? Paul di Felice, principal, Ruskin College Women are much more likely to experience Speakers: Rebecca Long Bailey MP, Chair: Oshor Williams, PFA poverty in retirement and to suffer anxiety shadow BEIS secretary; Jo Grady, and GFTU president about their finances. Research by Prospect general secretary, UCU; Kevin Courtney, Venue: Syndicate 4 shows that the gender pension gap is general secretary, NEU; Asad Rehman, Refreshments provided over twice the level of the gender pay executive director, War on Want; Frances gap. These levels of gender inequality in Fox, UK Student Climate Network 12:45 pensions should be a national scandal but Chair: tbc Heathrow Airport there is hardly any awareness of it and no Venue: Meeting Room 8 HOW CAN WE GROW THE UK’S plan for action from government. This fringe Refreshments provided AVIATION SECTOR WHILST MEETING meeting is intended to raise the profile of CLIMATE CHANGE TARGETS? the gender pension gap and discuss the 12:45 Britain’s aviation industry is an engine practical steps we can take to tackle it. Trade Unionists for Safe for national growth, creating and Speakers: Alison McGovern MP; Sue Ferns, Nuclear Energy (TUSNE) supporting one million jobs across senior deputy general secretary, Prospect; REDISCOVER NUCLEAR: WHY the country. But this growth cannot Gregg McClymont, The People’s Pension NET ZERO NEEDS NUCLEAR come at any cost – the aviation sector Chair: Eleanor Wade, vice- Building on over 60 years of highly is committed to decarbonising and president, Prospect skilled, well-paid jobs for the UK playing its part in reducing emissions to Venue: Regent Room, Grand Hotel workforce, the nuclear industry currently achieve a net-zero economy by 2050. Refreshments provided directly employs around 65,000 people Heathrow itself is decarbonising across all areas of the country. and its infrastructure will be 12:45 The vast majority of expert opinion carbon-neutral by next year. Rail Safety and Standards Board (RSSB) now recognises if we are to meet Heathrow, industry and climate change WORKING TOGETHER FOR net zero emissions and curb climate action representatives will debate the best A BETTER, SAFER RAILWAY change, nuclear power should continue path forward for the industry, whether Our railways are some of the safest in the to have a role in our energy mix. through carbon offsetting, sustainable world with almost 250,000 workers. As the As our energy needs for the future will fuels or electric/hybrid aircraft. 20th anniversary of the Ladbroke Grove become increasingly electrified, efforts Speakers: Matt Gorman, director accident approaches, we are reminded of must continue to plan, fund and construct of sustainability and environment, what can go wrong when standards slip. the capacity required to keep the lights Heathrow Airport; a representative from Trade unions have been key for over 100 on. This meeting will consider exactly Virgin Atlantic; a representative from years in securing workers’ rights, safety how much of our electricity will need Sustainable Aviation; representatives improvements and workplace justice. With to come from nuclear power plants, as

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well as other challenges to come. as to why, to the disappointment of 17:45 Speakers: Tom Greatrex, chief executive, their enemies, unions refuse to die. Cuba Solidarity Campaign UK Nuclear Industry Association; Craig Speakers: Rhys Davies, Helen CUBA: 60 YEARS OF REVOLUTION. Marshall, president, Prospect; Marta Blakely, Wil Chivers, Katy Huxley, all SOLIDARITY AGAINST Krajewska, deputy director, power, of WISERD, Cardiff University; Ronnie THE BLOCKADE, TRUMP Energy UK; speaker from EDF, invited Draper, general secretary, BFAWU AND INTERVENTION Chair: Craig Dobson, Unite Chair: Steve Davies, WISERD, 2019 marks the 60th anniversary of the Venue: West Bar Cardiff University Cuban Revolution and the 80th anniversary Refreshments provided Venue: Syndicate 3 of the Cuban Workers Central (CTC). It Refreshments provided provides an opportunity to celebrate 12:45 the gains made by the Cuban people TUC & Centre for the Acceleration 13:00 in health, education, social welfare and of Social Technology (CAST) Trades Councils internationalism despite almost six decades MEETING THE CHALLENGES OF TRADES COUNCILS: DO of cruel blockade. Their achievements DIGITAL: A PRACTICAL WORKSHOP THEY HAVE A FUTURE? are under very real threat from the Trump Next year, 50 per cent of UK workers will The Trades' Councils' Conference administration, which has ratcheted up be millennials – people who first entered motion to Congress this year calls for sanctions to unprecedented levels with the the workforce during the internet age. Their increased representation; the meeting express intention of increasing suffering and expectations of organisations like unions will present the case for support and trying to starve the Cuban people into revolt. are for greater speed, control, flexibility discuss how trades' councils can be Come and hear from Ulises Guilarte, and openness than many unions can more effective in delivering working- general secretary of the CTC, and currently meet. If we’re to stay relevant class solidarity at local level and so the first Cuban trade union leader to and increase our effectiveness, we need strengthen the TUC as a whole. attend Congress for ten years and find to make use of new digital technologies Speakers: Dave Chapple, Bridgwater out why it’s important to support the across all the functions of our unions. TUC Secretary and 2019 Trades Cuba motion at Congress this year. This workshop will help people from all Councils' delegate to Congress Speakers: Ulises Guilarte de Nacimiento, roles across the movement to identify the Chair: to be confirmed general secretary, Cuban Trade Union challenges they face in making the most Venue: Gresham Room, The Federation; Dave Ward, general secretary, of digital. We’ll map the issues and devise Old Ship Hotel, BN1 1NR CWU; Kevin Courtney, joint general secretary, practical first steps that all participants can Refreshments provided NEU; Steve Gillan, general secretary, POA take themselves, or work on together to pilot Chair: tba new approaches. You don’t need to be a MONDAY EVENING Venue: Meeting Room 1d digital expert or bring any technology along 17:45 Refreshments provided but come prepared to do a lot of talking to Centenary Committee each other. We’ll supply expert facilitation WHY JALLIANWALA BAGH 17:45 and all the post-it notes you can fill! MASSACRE APOLOGY IS A TRADE CWU Due to the nature of this workshop, we UNION ISSUE AND WHERE NEXT NEW DEAL FOR WORKERS can’t admit more than 36 participants, so Education is knowledge, so much The trade union movement needs to come please come early if you want to join in. of our colonial history is unknown together to campaign and fight for a new Facilitators: Charné Tromp, CAST; or forgotten because it is not on the deal for workers. This requires a bold set John Wood, TUC Digital Lab; Clare curriculum. People have to search out any of political demands, including a four-day Coatman, TUC Young Workers’ Project information. This needs to be addressed. week and a huge shift in the balance of Venue: Charlotte Suite, Grand Hotel On April 13 1919, the day of Vaisakhi, power in the economy. It also needs an Refreshments provided over 1,500 innocent unarmed citizens ambitious plan to cooperate in recruiting were brutally murdered by General new members and building towards a 12:45 Reginald Dyer with their bodies left national day of action on 1 May 2020. Wales Institute of Social & Economic to rot in the blazing sun. Three times Speakers will give their views on how we Research, Data & Methods (WISERD) more were injured and denied medical achieve this and the practical steps the “THE REPORT OF MY DEATH HAS treatment and drinking water. People movement needs to take to deliver a new BEEN GREATLY EXAGGERATED”: of Amritsar and five other Punjab deal for workers and make the world of work THE RESILIENCE AND RENEWAL districts suffered unprecedented tyranny the number one political issue in the UK. OF TRADE UNIONS at the hands of the British rulers. Speakers: Dave Ward, general secretary, Unions have faced decades of hostile The descendants of those killed and CWU; Miatta Fahnbulleh, chief executive, legislation designed to make them injured deserve an apology for the New Economics Foundation ineffective and have seen the collapse atrocities they endured. This is part of Chair: tba of parts of the economy that were union our history which has been forgotten Venue: Syndicate 4 strongholds and the growth of precarious but needs to be remembered and Refreshments provided work. Yet although union density and taught in our schools, both sides, not membership have declined since the 1980s, just the oppressors/ruler’s story. 17:45 millions of workers remain members and To find out more, please come along. Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung there are signs of growth in surprising areas. Speakers: Lord Bilimoria tbc; Dave Ward, Office & Involvement and So how do we explain the resilience of general secretary, CWU; Kevin Courtney, Participation Association (IPA) unions and what practical help does this general secretary, NEU; Harsev Bains IS THURSDAY THE NEW FRIDAY? THE offer us for the possibilities of renewal Chair: Joginder Bains FUTURE OF WORKING TIME AND and growth of workplace organisation? Venue: Meeting Room 1a/1b HOPES FOR A FOUR-DAY WEEK Ronnie Draper joins researchers from Refreshments provided The Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, FES and WISERD as they present new data the Involvement and Participation

12 Guide 2019 Association (IPA) are launching a joint workplace that we also experience many Unite national officer; Amanda report on the future of working time of the pressures that significantly impact Campbell, editor Unite Landworker and the prospects of a four-day week. on our mental health. Indeed, research Chair: Diana Holland, assistant A century of working time reductions in shows that nearly two thirds of us have general secretary, Unite Britain has stalled since the 1980s but public experienced a mental health issue where Venue: Regency Room, Hilton Hotel appetite for a shorter working week has not work is a contributing factor. In mentally Refreshments provided gone away. Proponents of a four-day week healthy workplaces we are more likely to argue it could provide a major boost to the have increased engagement, productivity, TUESDAY LUNCHTIME UK’s productivity, help to reduce carbon and job satisfaction. This fringe will look at 12:45 emissions, provide more time for family and how organisations can create a mentally Centre for Labour and Social Studies (CLASS) community care and volunteering as well healthy workplace by weaving in wellbeing LET’S TALK ABOUT EXPLOITATION: as promoting well-being and quality of life across processes and policies at all levels. CHANGING THE NARRATIVE for employees. Nevertheless, significant Speakers: Martin Coyd, operations ON IMMIGRATION barriers remain for many firms around the director, health, safety and Why have living standards fallen? Why is complexity of implementing such a policy. wellbeing, construction, MACE it harder to find secure work? Why are so Speakers: Patrick Briône, head of policy Chair: Simon Blake, chief executive, many stuck in a low pay, no pay cycle? For and research at the IPA; Kate Bell, head Mental Health First Aid, MHFA some the answer to all of these questions of rights, international, social and Venue: The Restaurant is immigration. Immigrants have long been economics, TUC; Rebecca Long-Bailey Refreshments provided scapegoated, but the way in which the MP, shadow secretary of state for business, anti-immigration sentiment has been woven energy and industrial strategy, invited 17:45 into the Brexit narrative has given it a new Chair: Miatta Fahnbulleh, chief executive TUC Women’s Committee potency. Of course, the truth is that, in at the New Economics Foundation, invited TACKLING PERIOD POVERTY the absence of trade unions and collective Venue: Meeting Room 6 The TUC Women’s Conference motion bargaining, it is employers that have driven Refreshments provided to Congress focusses on tackling period down wages and workers’ rights. Join us poverty. For some women the impact of for lunch to discuss the facts, the need for a 17:45 poverty, low pay and welfare cuts can mean new narrative explaining worker exploitation Greener Jobs Alliance (GJA) choosing between food or sanitary wear. and how the union movement can take a ‘DAD’S ARMY’ OR LABOUR’S GREEN Period poverty is real, and particularly affects firm stance against immigrant scapegoating. INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION? schoolchildren, homeless women, refugees Speakers: Manuel Cortes, general The government’s efforts to tackle the and asylum seekers. This fringe will highlight secretary, TSSA; Maya Goodfellow, climate crisis are “like a Dad’s Army campaigning by the Women’s Committee, author of “Hostile Environment: How operation,” says its independent advisers. unions and other charities and campaigners. Immigrants Became Scapegoats”; and So, this fringe meeting will debate Speakers: Hannah Whelan, Bloody Tim Roache, general secretary, GMB Labour’s green industrial revolution, with Good Period; speaker from On the Baw; Chair: Dr Faiza Shaheen, Director of CLASS plans for high quality, unionised jobs and speaker from Unite’s Period Dignity Venue: The Restaurant productive zero-carbon industries across at work campaign; Sian Elliott, TUC Refreshments provided the UK. Unions and the TUC now demand Women’s Equality Policy Officer a just transition, putting jobs, skills and Chair: Sue Ferns, Chair of the 12:45 ‘union voice’ at the heart of these plans. TUC Women’s Committee First Actuarial LLP Meanwhile, as air quality deteriorates, Venue: Meeting Room 1c INTERGENERATIONAL driven by fossil fuel emissions, unions are Refreshments provided SOLIDARITY BEATS organising at work on the health risks INTERGENERATIONAL CONFLICT and to build an alternative zero-carbon 17:45 Generational differences are increasingly economy. The Greener Jobs Alliance Unite exploited to create division. On a range of (GJA) will launch our new, free, online, just LANDWORKER: 100 YEARS OF RURAL social issues – lack of affordable housing, transition training module. Our aim is to NEWS AND WHY COUNTRYSIDE environmental issues, provision of pensions help unions boost workplace organisation WORKERS NEED TRADE UNIONS – the finger is pointed at a greedy older and awareness to tackle the climate crisis. Unite Landworker is probably the oldest generation pulling up the ladder behind Speakers: Danielle Rowley MP, shadow trade union journal still in circulation. As them. Meanwhile, young people are painted climate justice and green jobs minister; we celebrate our Centenary we look at as snowflakes, unwilling to deal with difficult UCU speaker, tbc; Zamzam Ibrahim, the issues, the battles and the victories issues. Are generational differences the president, National Union of Students the union’s journal has helped achieve; real cause of the social ills we face? (NUS); Bill Adams, regional secretary, how Landworker is still relevant today The trade union movement plays an TUC; Aaron Kiely, Friends of the Earth in fighting for our members; the current important role organising across the Chair: Graham Petersen, Greener Jobs threats to food and farming’s future; generations, recognising common interests Alliance/Trade Union Clean Air Network the future of the UK’s rural workers and and resisting attempts to divide working Venue: Meeting Room 8 communities and why, more than ever, we people. This discussion will bring together need trade unions in the countryside – speakers spanning, a few! generations 17:45 and how we must stand in solidarity with – exploring their own experiences and Mental Health First Aid England these workers in the battles to come. looking forward to ways in which we 32 MILLION REASONS TO A must for all those interested in can build a collective voice for all. PROTECT AND PROMOTE MENTAL rural Britain and union journals. Speakers: Dr Jennie Bristow, Senior Lecturer, HEALTH IN THE WORKPLACE Speakers: Barry Leathwood, ex NUAW School of Psychology, Politics and Sociology, Workplaces present challenges that can general secretary; Chris Kaufman, ex Canterbury Christ Church University, author be powerful drivers for personal growth Unite national officer; Ivan Monckton, of Stop Mugging Grandma: the ‘generation and positive wellbeing. Yet, it is in the Unite rural campaigner; Bev Clarkson, wars’ and why boomer blaming won’t

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solve anything; Jonathan Charles, Society 12:45 12:45 of Radiographers (SoR), instrumental in Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) TUC Young Workers Committee setting up the SoR student reps forum PUBLIC SECTOR PENSIONS NOWHERE TO TURN – YOUNG and SoR activist; Hilary Salt, Founder, – CAMPAIGNING TO WIN PEOPLE’S MENTAL HEALTH AT WORK First Actuarial LLP; other speakers, tbc Against the backdrop of the A mental health crisis is gripping Chair: Hilary Salt, First Actuarial LLP government’s attack on public sector our workplaces and employers Venue: Regent Room, Grand Hotel pensions and the brilliant FBU victory aren’t equipped to deal with it. Refreshments provided in court, come and listen to speakers Unhealthy working practices, low pay, and join the discussion with those at insecure work, bullying and no control over 12:45 the heart of the pension’s debate. time – young people’s experience of work GMB, TSSA, Unite & The unlawful age discrimination in the is increasingly causing poor mental health. Apprentice Trailblazer Group firefighters’ and judges’ cases, is based And with cuts to essential mental health DEVELOPING THE UNION on the similar transitional protection services, there’s nowhere left to turn. The OFFICER APPRENTICE STANDARD measures applied generally across public TUC Young Workers Committee is putting Come and find out what the cross-union service pension schemes reformed young people’s mental health at the top of trailblazer group has developed so far in four to five years ago. There should the agenda. Unions must hold employers terms of an apprentice standard for union be a complete “read across” of this to account – to reduce stress, improve officers. Also, explore ways in which unions judgement to PCS members in the civil terms and conditions, and support young can use the apprentice standard to develop service pension schemes and those in workers with their mental health at work. existing officers and the officers of the future. other public service pension schemes. Come and join young members to discuss This fringe meeting is part of the consultation The panel at this fringe will explore how to campaign on this issue within being carried out as the apprentice “what next” for trade unions to ensure unions, in workplaces and communities. standard is in the process of being member’s pensions are honoured. Speakers: Young workers from finalised with the aim of it being available Speakers: Mark Serwotka, general secretary, a number of unions for use by unions from January 2020. PCS; Matt Wrack, general secretary, FBU; Chair: Kathryn Mackridge, TUC The trailblazer group is supported by Jo Grady, general secretary, UCU Venue: Meeting Room 6 GFTU, chaired by Barbara Kielim of Chair: Fran Heathcote, president, PCS Refreshments provided Unite and consists of representatives Venue: Meeting Room 1a/b from GMB, TSSA, PCS, RCN, RCM, Refreshments provided 12:45 POA, Voice, Nautilus and NASUWT. Trade Unionists for Safe Speakers: Sarah Jane McConnell, 12:45 Nuclear Energy (TUSNE) TSSA; Colin Kirkham, GMB. TUC Race Relations Committee, RADIOACTIVE WASTE: DELIVERING Chair: Barbara Kielim, Unite supported by RCM & Maternity Action GEOLOGICAL DISPOSAL Venue: Meeting Room 1c HEALTH CHARGING RUINS LIVES For sixty years nuclear has contributed Refreshments provided The introduction of health charges as to the UK’s electricity needs, medical part of the hostile environment policy science, industry and defence. Its 12:45 has impact on patients and health care radioactive waste is currently being stored Justice for Colombia workers. The system endangers vulnerable safely at sites around the UK. The time TRADE UNIONS, PEACE AND patients such as pregnant women and has come to dispose of the waste safely, HUMAN RIGHTS IN COLOMBIA undermines public health as it acts securely, with care for the environment Despite the signing of the 2016 peace as a deterrent to those who may well and not leave to future generations to agreement, political violence is escalating need treatment. More fundamentally it sort out. This is a national priority. in Colombia. Last year, 34 trade unionists undermines the basics ethos under which An internationally recognised solution were murdered in the country, accounting the NHS was established to provide lies in the construction of a geological for almost two-thirds of worldwide cases treatment free at the point of delivery. disposal facility (GDF), which will be one and more than double the previous year’s The fringe meeting will discuss how of the UK’s largest ever environmental figure. Community leaders, environmental trade unions can effectively campaign protection projects bringing the activists and FARC former guerrillas are also against health care charges and how to prospect of many skilled jobs for several highly targeted. With major concerns over advise members dealing with charging generations. This meeting will consider the future of the peace process, what does and negotiate with employers. what is needed to make this happen and the future hold for Colombia and what can Speakers: James Anthony, Vice President, discuss the advantages and disadvantages the international community do to support UNISON; Dr Jackie Applebee, Unite, of locating and constructing a GDF. communities and activists on the frontline? tbc; Scarlet Harris, Maternity Action; Speakers: John Corderoy, programme Speakers: Mariela Kohon, senior Paul Williams MP, tbc; RCM speaker manager, Radioactive Waste Management; international officer, TUC and Chair: Gloria Mills, TUC Race Peter McIntosh, national officer, energy former director JFC; others tbc Relations committee and utilities, Unite; other speakers tbc Chair: Mick Whelan, general Venue: Meeting Room 8 Chair: Craig Dobson, Unite secretary, ASLEF Refreshments provided Venue: Syndicate 3 Venue: Meeting Room 1d Refreshments provided

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12:45 17:45 and picket. However, this has not yet Unions 21 Campaign against Climate Change fed through into public campaigning. DO UNIONS HAVE THE RIGHT CLIMATE CHANGE AND TRADE It is crucial that our movement campaigns OPERATING MODELS FOR UNIONS RAISING AMBITION for Labour to implement this policy and that THE 21ST CENTURY? One year on from Greta Thunberg's first the next Labour government acts quickly Join Unions 21 with guest speakers for climate strike, the global movement of and decisively. Come and join the debate the publication of their new analysis that school students is calling on adults to join on how we campaign to achieve this. explores how unions could evolve to take them. Trade unions have always led on Speakers: Matt Wrack, general secretary, advantage of newer ways of working. social justice issues. We will discuss how FBU; Jo Grady, general secretary, UCU; From simple resource allocation to looking we can mobilise in the UK in response Ruth Cashman, Free our Unions and at innovation hubs, how can unions to the young people's call for workers UNISON; striking member, PCS BEIS, tbc stay equipped to tackle the challenges to join the global climate strike on 20th Chair: Michelle Rodgers, RMT of the 21st century workspace? September. And how the trade union Venue: The Restaurant Speakers: John Forth, Cass Business movement can bring forward solutions, School, City University; Mathias such as a green new deal, rooted both 17:45 Askholme, HK Labs, Denmark in the climate emergency in which the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) Chair: Sue Ferns, Chair, Unions 21 poorest everywhere are in the front line, SOLIDARITY WITH PALESTINE Venue: West Bar and in the need for a just transition. Since the election of Donald Trump Speakers: Dave Green, FBU; speaker the collective rights of the Palestinian 12:45 from UCU; Frances Fox, UKSCN; Muna people have come under intensifying Electoral Reform Society (ERS) Suleiman, Friends of the Earth attacks. Israel has further entrenched its WORKERS VS WESTMINSTER: Chair: Suzanne Jeffery, Campaign system of oppression: passing a racist HOW TRADE UNIONS CAN HELP against Climate Change nation state law in 2018, maintaining its BUILD A BETTER DEMOCRACY Venue: Meeting Room 1a/b crippling siege on Gaza, and continuing Our democracy is in crisis and our political Refreshments provided to rapidly expand illegal settlements system is broken. Power is held by the few, in defiance of international law. not the many. We need a radical vision 17:45 Join us to hear how, now more than for a democracy that is responsive and Daily Mirror & TUC ever, we can stand up for justice and accessible to workers. Trade unions must BRITAIN TALKS equality for the Palestinian people. be at the centre of the fight for a better On the third anniversary of Brexit, The Please visit the PSC stand No32 in the politics to fairly represent workers’ interests. Daily Mirror partnered with the Daily exhibition area for more information. Speakers: Lynn Henderson, PCS, Express to bring thousands of individuals Speakers: Len McCluskey, general national officer for Scotland and Ireland; together across the Brexit divide for the secretary, Unite; Mariela Kohon, Howard Beckett, Unite, assistant ground-breaking Britain Talks project. senior international officer, TUC; general secretary; Dr Jess Garland, This is a chance to watch some of the Hazem Jamjoun, Al-Shabaka, The ERS, director of policy and research unique short films about the meetings Palestinian Policy Network; Mark Venue: Syndicate 4 and hear from participants who were Serwotka, general secretary, PCS; Refreshments provided brave enough to cross the Brexit divide. Josie Bird, president, UNISON; Mick TUC General Secretary Frances O’Grady, Whelan, general secretary, ASLEF; Barbara TUESDAY EVENING The Daily Mirror editor Alison Phillips and Plant, national president, GMB; Kevin 17:30 The Daily Mirror’s Ros Wynne-Jones look Courtney, general secretary, NEU. Unite at what we can learn about our divided Chair: tbc BURNING THE CANDLE AT BOTH country and how to move forward together. Venue: Meeting Room 1d ENDS – THE EFFECT OF LONG AND Speakers: Frances O’Grady, general Refreshments provided UNSOCIAL HOURS ON WORKERS’ secretary, TUC; Ros Wynne-Jones, HEALTH AND RELATIONSHIPS Daily Mirror’s Britain Talks and Real 18:30 Workers are increasingly being forced to Britain; Terrence Farrand and Donna Labour Assembly Against Austerity work longer and at more unsocial hours. Chadwick, participants in Britain Talks. STAND WITH CORBYN – UNITE This has a cumulative damaging effect on Chair: Alison Phillips, Editor, Daily Mirror. TO END TORY AUSTERITY their health and personal relationships. Venue: Meeting Room 1c Austerity has devastated our communities The fringe will hear details of workers’ Refreshments provided – now is the time for real change experiences and what the union movement with a -led Labour needs to do to tackle these problems. 17:45 government for the many, not the few. Speakers: Diana Holland, assistant Fire Brigades Union (FBU) Speakers: Labour shadow cabinet members; general secretary, Unite; Ellie Mae FREE OUR UNIONS – REPEAL Mark Serwotka, general secretary, PCS; O’Hagan, journalist and campaigner; THE ANTI-UNION LAWS Ronnie Draper, general secretary, BFAWU; Janet Newsham, acting chair of Hazards The anti-union laws – not just the 2016 Trade Roger McKenzie, assistant general campaign. Speakers from construction, Union Act, but multiple laws going back to secretary, UNISON; Steve Turner, assistant road haulage and bus industry. 1980 – continually undermine workers’ ability general secretary, Unite; Lara McNeill, Chair: Dr Faiza Shaheen, director of CLASS to organise. They mean our movement is Labour Party NEC youth representative. Venue: Meeting Room 8 fighting the challenges of pay, insecurity Chair: Christine Blower, former Refreshments provided and erosion of terms and conditions NUT general secretary with our hands tied behind our backs. Venue: Ambassador Suite, Hilton Hotel Labour Party conference has voted for Refreshments provided clear policy to repeal all the anti-union laws and replace them with strong legal rights, including strong rights to strike

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