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The New Unionism Network is a group of people - listed below - who are working to build and energize the union movement. We're a network rather than an organisation (see below), with no links to any other group. Membership is open to anybody who supports the principles set out here. As well as regular members, there are also founding members who have agreed to help us establish the network. We make no hierarchical distinction between the two.

Members
	A	A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
	Adam, Megan	Canada	Communications worker
	Adams, Roy	Canada	Formerly professor of industrial relations, with specialities in international and comparative IR and international labour rights. Founding member and chair of the Society for the Promotion of Human Rights in Employment. Member of the International Labour Rights Commission, and frequent contributor to and editorial board member of International Union Rights. Works with Canadian and U.S. unions to promote recognition of labour rights as human rights, especially with regards collective bargaining.
	Adhikari, Sharad	Nepal	Civil servant	NCSEA
	Aguirre, Rosalinda	United States	Union organizer	AFT
	Aitken, Kevin	New Zealand	Union organiser for the last ten years, and union delegate for five years before that. Spent time with unions in Australia's building, construction and mining industries, then training in the Australian variant of the organising model. Worked with the EPMU in New Zealand, then the AUS -- organizing work around the concept of social capital and helping develop a "relational organizing" model. Currently with Manufacturing and Construction Workers' Union.	MCWU
	Ali, Zulfaqir	Pakistan	Union information secretary	PBKLU
	Alzaga, Valerie	The Netherlands	Organizing campaign coordinator	CTW
	Anderson, Don	New Zealand	IT consultant
	Andrews, Natasha	United Kingdom	Natasha runs our FaceBook group. She has been a shop steward, branch chair, young members' rep, communications officer, and vice chair of the National Young Members' Forum. Also activist for age and minimum wage issues, and union negotiator for NATFHE and TGWU. Currently researcher and seminar leader at the University of Kent, teaching industrial relations, including labour law. Working on a project concerning women and management across professions in Kent, studying effects of training, networks and mentoring on the ‘glass ceiling’.	Unison
	Angel, Ron	New Zealand	Union organiser	EPMU & SFWU
	Angell, Richard	United Kingdom	Parliamentary and Equalities Manager leading the organisations liaison with the Labour Party, MPs, Minister and Civil Servants, as well co-ordinating the union's Equalities Agenda.	Community
	Anshumali, Amit	United States	Student
	Armitage, Christine	United Kingdom	Director of the UK Partnership Institute, set up by and still linked to national union body, the TUC. The Institute works to build worker participation and influence at enterprise level, and has done pioneering worked with major organisations in the UK and internationally including HBOS, Dfid, the Cabinet Office, the Home Office and Carlsberg. The case studies section of our Online Library contains examples of this work.
	Astolfi, Drew	United States	Community organizer
	Atkinson, Margaret	Australia	Union documentalist	AMWU
	Atleson, James	United States	Professor of international & US labor law	AFSCME
	Arreola, Valentina	United States	Registered nurse	UNAC UHCP
	Austen, Jane	Australia	Union campaigner	LHMU
	Azam, Zia Ullah	Pakistan	Union general secretary	GFTU

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	Babaluni, Be Abdul	New Zealand	Writer
	Babcock, Ian	Canada	University administrator	CUPE
	Badhesha, Hardeep	Australia	Train guard	RTBU
	Baker, Stephen	Australia	Union organiser	AWU
	Bainger, Wendy	Australia	Community development worker	HSU
	Ball, Matt	United Kingdom	Director of Unions21	Community
	Ballantyne, Morna	Canada	Director of union education	CUPE
	Ballinger, Jeff	United States	Currently completing a Ph. D. fellowship at McMaster University in Ontario. It was awarded on the basis of work in labor rights research and advocacy – three decades evenly split between America and Asia. Has a juris doctor degree from NY Law School. Early in the 1990s, founded the consumer information organization, Press for Change. Using research done in Indonesia, this NGO was among the first to build the anti-sweatshop movement, mainly in the U.S., Europe and Australia. In 2007-8, Jeff taught International Industrial Relations (both grad and undergrad) at Webster University in Vienna.
	Batchelor, Scott	Australia	Union official	AMWU
	Baxter, David	Scotland	Bus driver	Unite
	Beeman, Mindy	United States	Cable splicing technician	CWA
	Beley, Markian	Canada	Accountant
	Bellairs, Mick	Australia	Union organiser	FSU
	Bernard, Elaine	United States	Labor educator	NEA
	Bibby, Andrew	United Kingdom	Writer, labour journalist	NUJ
	Billott, Victor	New Zealand	Union communications officer	MUNZ
	Bishop, Shawn	Canada	Housekeeper	CAW
	Blackadder, Derek	Canada	Has worked with the Canadian Union of Public Employees and one of its predecessors since 1989. Before that was active in unions for about 10 years. Worked as an organizer (recruiting new members), an executive assistant, and with for most of his time with CUPE as as servicing representative. Also works towards greater international solidarity between workers and unions through his work in a labour-friendly NGO, and is a senior correspondent with LabourStart.	CUPE
	Blackshaw, Liz	United Kingdom	Director, TUC Organising Academy	GMB, UCU, Unison
	Blum, Rye	United States	Community organizer
	Bolster, Pat	New Zealand	National union official	SFWU
	Bousquet, Marc	United States	Professor and union national councilor	AAUP
	Brandon, Cherie	Australia	Union organiser	LHMU
	Brelsford, Emma	Australia	Union organiser	LHMU
	Briskin, Linda	Canada	Professor	YUFA
	Brisebois, Luc	Canada	Local union president, social worker	CUPE
	Bronfenbrenner, Kate	United States	Teacher/researcher at Cornell University in the area of union and employer strategies in organizing and bargaining in the global economy. Particularly interested in cross-borders strategies involving unions and NGOs to take on transnational firms and neoliberal supranational bodies such as the WTO, World Bank, IMF etc, that have set the rules that are forcing the race to the bottom worldwide. All work looks at issues of race, gender, and class. Also trains undergraduates in labor research skills so they learn about about corporate power and union strategy, and hopefully get inspired to work with the labor movement or other social justice organizations.	AAUP
	Brown, Karen	Australia	Researcher	NTEU
	Brown, Pamela	Canada	Union office manager	CUPE
	Brown, Tony	Australia	Teacher and researcher, interests centre on adult education and learning especially as applied to social movements including unions, advocacy and activist organisations. Developed a research agenda around Popular Education, Activism & Organising, and commissioned research projects with three national trade unions. Completed his doctorate in 2002 on Australian trade unions' role in training reform and restructuring in the 1980s and 1990s, and since then has published widely in the field.	NTEU
	Brulin, Gunnar	Sweden	Union journalist	LIVS
	Bullock, Doug	United States	County legislator	ACFL
	Buchanan, Andrea	Australia	Union organiser	QTU
	Budiarti, Indah	Indonesia	Union organizing and communications	PSI
	Bulley, Craig	Australia	Radio producer	CFMEU
	Butler, Valerie	Australia	Union organiser	CEPU
	Butterworth, Jamie	Australia	IT specialist	NTEU
	Buyukakan, Ismail	United Kingdom	Shop assistant, researcher	Unite

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	Cabrera, Legna	United States	Assistant Director of Labor Programs	SEIU
	Campbell Eagles, Lian	Australia	Education administration	QTU
	Canel, Tom	United States	Union organizer	AFSCME
	Cardino, Rafael	Philippines	Teller	TOEWU
	Chandler-Mills, Dean	New Zealand	45 years in the union movement and still smiling. Began as a clerical union delegate in Tubemakers of Australia, and went on to organise workers in local government, theatre, electrical work, and, for the last sixteen years, public services in New Zealand. Has particular experience in local government and uniformed services.	PSA
	Carpenter, Jeanne	United States	Organizer	CWU
	Carruthers, Linda	Australia	Union research and education	RBTU
	Cavalluzzo, James	Canada	Community social worker/union officer	BCGEU
	Chitty, Ben	United States	Librarian	AFT
	Choi, Hae-Lin	Germany	Union researcher	ver.di
	Clark, Dawn	United Kingdom	Trade union officer	Unison
	Cochrane, Paul	New Zealand	Began work as a public servant in 1983, became union delegate, then officer for the New Zealand Public Services Association (PSA). Worked with the union for the next twenty years, the last five spent as National Secretary. Headed PSA's organisational development, as the union developed a workplace-centred partnership strategy. Since then membership has grown strongly, with the increase now totaling almost 50%. In 2005 left to do independent work on organisational development, focusing on participative approaches to strategy-building.	PSA
	Coey, Ken	United Kingdom	Over 25 years experience in coaching individuals and teams to achieve improved cooperation and performance. He has worked in the UK, New Zealand and Sweden. Currently based in the UK, he and his colleagues in VillmanCoey (Sweden) have worked with the union movement (and others) on developing teamwork and shared goals at both national and international level.
	Cohen, Bruce	United States	College professor	NEA
	Cohen, Seth	United States	Teacher	AFT
	Colbath-Hess, Chris	United States	Teachers' union president	CTA
	Conle, Fritz	United States	Organizer	Teamsters
	Cook, John	United Kingdom	Civil servant	PCS
	Cooper, Trish	Australia	Union official	AMWU
	Cormier, Chris	Canada	Child and youth worker	OPSEU
	Cornine, Robert	United States	Organizer	IUOE
	Costello, Peggy	United States	Pipe fitter	UA
	Cowling, Terry	United Kingdom	Gallery supervisor	PCS
	Cradden, Conor	France	Independent researcher working in labour movement theory, industrial relations, the sociology of work and business ethics. Was formerly head of research at the AUT and branch secretary of TGWU. Now works mainly with global union federations and labour-oriented NGOs, and has recently published a book looking at the relationship between corporate behaviour and workplace democracy. PhD was awarded by the European University Institute in Italy.
	Cross, Paul	United Kingdom	Trade union organiser	Community
	Crowther, Rob	United Kingdom	Trade union organiser	Unison & GMB
	Cullinan, Josh	Australia	Union organiser	ASU
	Curtis, Peter	Australia	Educator	AEU

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	Davies, Steve	United Kingdom	Senior research fellow	UCU
	Davis, John	Australia	Radio producer	NUW
	Dawodu, Smith Abiola	United Kingdom	Security officer
	Dehwe, Clementine	Zimbabwe	Started working for the General Agriculture and Plantation Workers Union in Zimbabwe in 1985, first as an organiser, and then national women's coordinator. Moved to Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions as health and safety training officer, and HIV/Aids project coordinator. Currently based in South Africa, working for the Global Unions network as HIV/Aids project coordinator.	ITUC
	DelGiorno, Sue	United States	Union field coordinator	AFL-CIO
	Dellevi, André-Roger	Canada	Airline worker	CAWU
	Deniz, Mehmet Baki	Turkey	Student
	Deschamps, Johanne	Canada	Union rep	FTQ
	Devlin, Brian	Australia	Union educator	AMWU
	Dias, Xavier	India	Writer and researcher	JMACC
	Diaz, Christine	United States	Flight attendant	IAMAW
	Dikotsi, Ramakhera	South Africa	Educator, union negotiator and shop steward	NAPTOSA
	Dodds, Randy	United States	Data management / President ex-officio	NEA
	Doe, Jenny	United States	NGO activist
	Dolby, Adrian	United Kingdom	Student services assistant	Unison
	Domaszek, Rachel	United States	Union rep	EM
	Donais, Blaine	Canada	Union staff/mediator/consultant	SEP
	Dondley, Stephen	United States	Labor website developer	OPEIU
	Dougherty, Danny	Australia	Union official	AMWU
	Downey, Randall	United States	Medicare counselor/trainer
	Dubro, Alec	United States	Writer	NWU
	Duffy, Grant	New Zealand	Partnership practice manager	PSA
	Duncan, Alastair	New Zealand	Union secretary	SFWU
	Dungan, Brian	United States	Technical services	CWA
	Dymny, Jerzy	Canada	Political musician	IWW

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	Early, Steve	United States	Labor journalist	NWU
	Eaton, Adrienne	United States	Professor	AAUP
	Edwards, Richard	United Kingdom	Union organiser	PCS
	Eisenscher, Michael	United States	Labor educator / organizer	AFT / OPEIU
	Eldret, Lisa	Switzerland	Global union federation organiser	IUF
	Elliot, Elliot V.	Australia	Seaman	MUA
	Elliott, Graham	New Zealand	Ticket collector	RMTU & Unite
	Elliott, Warren	United Kingdom	Disclosure officer	PCS
	Ellis, Lincoln	Canada	Union organizer
	Emami, Jessica	United States	Graduate student	OPEIU
	Erne, Roland	Ireland	Lecturer in International and Comparative Employment Relations	SIPTU
	Espinosa-Organista, Luis	USA / Mexico	Union organizer	UFCW
	Evans, Mark	United Kingdom	Mark is a health care assistant and in previous years has been international officer for his union branch. He now undertakes mostly advisory and supportive roles within the workplace, due to a broader frustration with the union movement. Still very interested in and committed to trade union revitalisation, and in particular new ideas for workplace democracy and post-capitalist economic visions, his preferred model for which is parecon: participatory economics.	Unison

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	Falconer, Alex	Australia	Union organiser	HSU
	Falvey, Natalie	Australia	Trade union official	USU
	Farr, Jan	New Zealand	Writer, activist, former union communications worker
	Feickert, Dave	New Zealand	Mine safety advisor and consultant in industrial relations, ergonomics and energy. Has acted as adviser to ETUC General Secretary John Monks; the New Zealand Government's Partnership Resource Centre on workplace partnerships; and a number of international trade unions on energy economics and policy. Formerly European Officer for the Trades Union Congress and head of research and Industrial relations officer for the National Union of Mineworkers, UK.	EPMU
	Fellner, Kim	United States	Development director for Working America and author of Wrestling With Starbucks: Conscience, Capital, Cappuccino. 17 years in the labor movement as: organizing propagandist for the Service Employees International Union; information director for the Screen Actors Guild; and executive director of the National Writers Union. Also a founding director of the National Organizers Alliance.	NWU
	Field, Nathan	Canada	Student
	Fink, Eric	United States	Law professor and labor union/workers' rights lawyer. His research focuses on the sociology of law, the legal profession and legal education; labor law and the labor movement; and the informal regulation of social practices. Has also taught at St. Joseph’s University, University of Chicago and The Anglo-American College in the Czech Republic. Practiced law with several firms in Philadelphia, concentrating on labor and employment law and civil litigation.	AAUP
	Fischer, Tom	Australia	Union organiser	CPSU
	Flood, Nadine	Australia	Union official	CPSU
	Fogde, Karsten	Denmark	Trade union advisor	3F
	Ford, John	Canada	Retired union worker
	Ford, Paul	United States	Medical professional	SEIU
	Fortescue, Robyn	Australia	Trade union official	AMWU
	Foster, Barry	New Zealand	University lecturer (IR)	AUS
	Foster, Louise	United Kingdom	Area organiser	Unison
	Foster-Burnell, Oliver	United Kingdom	Local government officer
	Fowler, David	United Kingdom	Trade union worker
	Freeman, Richard B	United States	Harvard Professor of Economics, co-chair of Harvard trade union programme. Of the 25 books he has written or edited, unionists probably most familiar with "What Workers Want", co-written with Joel Rogers. The most thorough study of US workers' aspirations in 30 years, this book "delivers a message about workplace democracy that union leaders would do well to build into their organizing strategies" (Dissent magazine). One of USA's foremost thinkers on the future of labour and unionism.
	Frohlich, Jack	United States	Retired union official	TWU
	Fullerton, Randy	United States	Retired from the building trades union

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	Garay, Mauricio	Canada	Regional union organizer	LIUNA
	Garver, Paul	United States	Global union official (retired)	IUF
	Gaul, Chloe	Australia	Union educator	ASU
	Gibbons, Helen	Australia	Trade union organiser	LHMU
	Gillespie, Robin	United States	Union ergonomist	Freelancers
	Glover, Nicholas	United States	Support technician
	Gonzalez, Eduardo	Australia	Union organiser and education officer with the Australian Manufacturing Workers' Union.	AMWU
	Gorman, Jim	Canada	Retired	CUPE
	Govender, Gino	South Africa	Workers' Institute Director
	Gray, Chris	United Kingdom	Union information officer	Unison
	Gray, John	United Kingdom	Social housing officer	Unison
	Green, Lester Muata	United States	Emergency medical services worker	UEPF
	Gregory, Mark	Australia	Unionist and folklorist; has been a union activist for about forty years, paid and unpaid. An avid collector of union songs: "the hidden voice of those determined not to be written out of history by corporate power". In 1997 launched what is quite possibly the best website of its kind: www.unionsong.com. In one of his many articles on union and workers' music, he quotes Woody Guthrie: 'Maybe you got a new song. You have, if you said what you really had to say about how the old world looks to you, or how it ought to be fixed'.	CPSU
	Grieg, Russel	United Kingdom	Union rep and negotiator. Has also been national lead negotiator, barman, manager in a bank, trainee legal exec, chair of a building society trade group and Buddhist. Currently studying trade unionism at Northern College, Barnsley. Also involved in developing various organising tools and resources for Unite's membership in the finance sector.	Unite
	Grima, Theresa	Australia	Union education officer	AMWU
	Grossman, Jonathan	United States	Union representative	SEIU
	Groube, Emma	Australia	Union organiser	CPSU
	Guenard, Thomasin	United States	Union organizer	HUCTWU, AFSCME
	Guille, Howard	Australia	Retired union secretary	NTEU
	Gunstone, Tim	Australia	Union growth organiser	NUW
	Gwyther, Ross	Australia	Has spent many years as a research geophysicist, as well as working most of his life in community politics around peace, environment and labour movement issues.	NTEU

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	Hagen, Mark	Germany	Union officer / researcher	ver.di
	Hall-Jones, Peter	New Zealand	Has worked in the union movement for 18 years, starting out as an organiser/activist in unions for the unemployed, followed by work in transport and public services unions, and then Public Services International in France. Primarily communications and information roles. Currently lives in Porirua New Zealand, developing the New Unionism website and publications, and working with others on developing the network.	PSA
	Hallett, Adelia	New Zealand	Joined the union movement as a working journalist in the 1980s, and went on to work for New Zealand's largest private sector union the EPMU, setting up their communications department and a union newswire service as part of the process. Has a strong feel for strategic innovation, and now does freelance consultancy for several unions and NGOs. Last year won a national public relations award for her work on a wages campaign that led to real wages growth in New Zealand for the first time in a decade.	EPMU
	Hanlon, Beven	New Zealand	Corrections officer	CANZ
	Hanssen, Rolv	Norway	Bus driver in Norway for 18 years - and a union rep for most of that time. Then union officer for 11 years. Took part in developing "model municipalities", which involved harnessing workers' skills and knowledge to improve public services. Was a leader of the local federation LO in Trondheim, and helped establish broad alliances among unions on a proactive (ie rather than reactive) basis. Has written books and pamphlets in Norwegian about privatisation, tendering, private public partnerships and how unions can take the initiative in restructuring.	NUMGE
	Haque, Ziaul	India	Businessman
	Hardt, Michael	United States	Teacher
	Hardy, Paul	Ireland	Has been working in SIPTU's Organising Department since 2005. Particularly interested in the efforts of unions, including his own, to renew themselves as political and industrial structures based on membership commitment and activism. Member of the Labour Party and a correspondent for LabourStart. Was formerly an activist and member of the National Union of Journalists' national executive.	SIPTU
	Harrison, Sam	United Kingdom	TUC union academy organiser	NASUWT
	Harvey, Keith	Australia	Union Industrial Officer	ASU
	Hearn Mackinnon, Bruce	Australia	University lecturer	NTEU
	Heckscher, Charles	United States	Director for the Center for Workplace Transformation, part of the School of Management and Labor Relations at Rutgers University. Has written a large number of books and papers on new unionism, union reform, participatory unionism, developing workplace partnership, the collaborative enterprise, and network theory. Prof Heckscher has been directly involved in a large number of industrial transformations, and these have given his work a practical value which unions have come to value highly. A selection of his writings is available here.
	Herrera, Kathy Luz	United States	Union electrician / county legislator	IBEW
	Hickman, Martin	United Kingdom	Civil servant	PCS
	Hieber, Paul	United States	Respiratory therapist
	Higgins, Sue	United Kingdom	Theatre nurse	Unison
	Hikaumba, Leonard	Zambia	Trade unionist currently serving as President of the Zambia Congress of Trade Unions, as well as for the Civil Servants and Allied Workers Union of Zambia. Employed in Zambia's Ministry of Agriculture as a senior livestock officer, and also involved in campaigning against HIV/Aids.	CSAWUZ
	Hodges, Damon	Australia	Union organiser	CPSU
	Holland, Kevin	United States	Telephone technician	IBEW
	Holland, Marvin	United States	Cleaner	TWU
	Holme, Madeleine	Australia	Campaigns officer	UnionsWA
	Holmes, Leanne	Australia	Bus driver	RTBU
	Horn, Carl	New Zealand	Union organiser	NDU
	Hume, Duncan	United Kingdom	Probation officer	NAPO
	Hunter, Peter	Australia	Union technical officer	AMWU
	Hunter, Philip	Switzerland	Has worked as a consultant to the ILO in Geneva for the past five years, focusing on multinationals and the social responsibilities of business. Worked extensively on research, policy analysis and awareness raising for unions at the global level, concentrating on labour rights and the global economy. Current research interests include the political and international solidarity dimensions of trade union renewal.
	Hyland, Elizabeth	United States		Teamsters
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