Main Conference: http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/globalunionsconference/

Session:

Global Unionism in the ‘Information Age’: Information Communication Technologies and Effective Bargaining

(Panel Chairs: John Hogan and Peter Nolan)

International Conference on Global Companies - Global Unions, Global Research - Global Campaigns

New York, New York, February 2006

Panel Programme

Eric Lee, Global campaigning: Beyond protest emails and solidarity messages

David Beaumont, ICTs, Union transparency,activism and bargaining power: lessons from the frontline

Stephen Little and Margaret Grieco, Big Pharma, international labour, social movements and the internet: coordination and critical perspectives on international business.

Chris Bailey, The Liverpool dockworkers' strike 1995-98 and the Internet

John Hogan, ICTs, Trade unions and Effective Bargaining: Mapping the terrain and surveying the debate

Contributors and Affiliations

John Hogan

Senior Lecturer in Industrial Relations, University of Hertfordshire, UK

E-mail: j.1.hogan@herts.ac.uk

Peter Nolan

Montague Burton Professor of Industrial Relations and Director of ESRC Future of Work Programme, University of Leeds, UK

E-mail: p.j.nolan@leeds.ac.uk

Eric Lee

Web designer and Internet consultant for the trade union movement, as well as founder of Labour Start (www.labourstart.org) and author of The labour Movement and the Internet: The New Internationalism

Stephen Little

Head of the Centre for Innovation, Knowledge and Enterprise within the Open University Business School and a Co- Director of the University's Centre on Innovation, Knowledge and Development (http://www.open.ac.uk/ikd/introduction.htm)

Margaret Grieco

Tenured Full Professor of Transport and Society, Napier University, Edinburgh; Visiting Full Professor, Cornell University, USA. (Web sites: http://www.geocities.com/transport_and_society/

and www.people.cornell.edu/pages/mg294)

Chris Bailey

Founder and coordinator of LabourNet. He was central to the Internet activity staged in support of 500 Liverpool dockworkers who were sacked in 1995 and whose 2 year struggle for reinstatement, including widespread international solidarity action, has been widely recognised within the labour movement as the most successful use of the Internet ever by the labour movement. Since the dispute, Chris has specialised in campaigning for the protection of internet freedom and in promoting the use of the internet amongst social movements in Eastern Europe.

Email: chrisbailey@socialrights.org

David Beaumont

A pioneer of extending union participation through ICTs in the UK trade union movement, where he has been a lay union official. His activities have been the subject of reflection on the potential of ICTs for trade unions by academics from and publishing within the USA, Canada, Australia and the UK.

Email: david@johmar.com

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