Friday 5 November
London 9.30am - 3.30pm: A guide for apprenticeships aimed at unions and employers is launched at the fourth annual union learning reps conference for the TUC southern and eastern region at the Holiday Inn Hotel, Coram Street, London, WC1N 1HT.
London 11am: Kay Carberry, TUC Assistant General Secretary, addresses a Public and Commercial Services rally against planned civil service job cuts. Westminster Cathedral.
Saturday 6 November
London Unions for Cuba 2004 conference. Speakers include: TUC President Jeannie Drake; Kay Carberry; Kevin Curran, GMB General Secretary; Rodney Bickerstaffe; Tony Benn; Jane Carolan, Chair of Policy at UNISON; and Francisco Duran Harvey, CTC Deputy General Secretary. Contact: campaigns@cuba-solidarity.org.uk
Monday 8 November
London 10am: Brendan Barber, TUC General Secretary, to address a TUC conference ’30 years on - The future of the Health and Safety Commission’. Other speakers include: The Rt Hon Jane Kennedy MP, Minister of State for Work and Pensions; Bill Callaghan, Chair of the HSC; David Eaves, former Deputy Director General of the HSC; David Walters, TUC Professor of Work Environment at Cardiff University; Dr Janet Asherson of the CBI; and Rory O’Neil, Editor of Hazards Magazine.
Birmingham 4pm: Brendan Barber to take part in a panel debate entitled ’people’ at the CBI annual conference.
Wednesday 10 November
London TUC Migrant Workers and Trade Unions conference which aims to help unions develop policies on labour migration and discuss and exchange practical experience of assisting migrant workers. Speakers include: Rt Hon David Blunkett MP, Home Secretary; Brendan Barber; and Maeve Sherlock, Chief Executive, Refugee Council.
Thursday 11 November
The TUC gives oral evidence on its submission recommending an increase in the National Minimum Wage to the Low Pay Commission. The TUC will also publish its submission.
London 5pm: Brendan Barber to launch a new TUC publication ’Learning and Organising’ showing the benefits of learning programmes to the role of unions in the workplace, including: increased organisation; increased activism; increased membership; increased diversity; improved skills and confidence of members and reps and; improved perceptions of members/managers.
Friday 12 November
London 2pm: Joint TUC and IPPR half-day conference that will review how the internet has already benefited trade unions, and how unions can support organising on-line. Contact: Emily Keaney e.keaney@ippr.org
Tuesday 16 November
Westminster TUC lobby of Parliament on public sector pensions.
Wednesday 17 November
London 7pm: Brendan Barber gives the Annual Employment Lawyers Association lecture on the role of unions in resolving disputes in the workplace and promoting productive relationships between employers and employees. The Caf Royal, Regent Street.
Labour market statistics published - TUC economists will be available for comment and interviews.
Thursday 18 November
Health and safety enforcement statistics published - TUC experts available for comment and interviews.
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