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Adam, Megan |
Canada |
Communications worker |
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Adams, Roy
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Canada
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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. |
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Adhikari, Sharad
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Nepal |
Civil servant |
NCSEA |
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Aguirre, Rosalinda |
United States |
Union organizer |
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Aitken, Kevin
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New Zealand

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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
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Ali, Zulfaqir |
Pakistan |
Union information secretary |
PBKLU |
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Alzaga, Valerie |
The Netherlands |
Organizing campaign coordinator |
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Anderson, Don |
New Zealand |
IT consultant |
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Andrews, Natasha |
United Kingdom

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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
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Angel, Ron |
New Zealand |
Union organiser |
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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.
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Anshumali, Amit |
United States |
Student |
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Armitage, Christine
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United Kingdom
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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. |
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Astolfi, Drew |
United States |
Community organizer |
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Atkinson, Margaret |
Australia |
Union documentalist |
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Atleson, James |
United States |
Professor of international & US labor law |
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Arreola, Valentina |
United States |
Registered nurse |
UNAC UHCP |
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Austen, Jane |
Australia |
Union campaigner |
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Azam, Zia Ullah |
Pakistan |
Union general secretary |
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Babaluni, Be Abdul |
New Zealand |
Writer |
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Babcock, Ian |
Canada |
University administrator |
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Badhesha, Hardeep |
Australia |
Train guard |
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Baker, Stephen |
Australia |
Union organiser |
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Bainger, Wendy |
Australia |
Community development worker |
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Ball, Matt |
United Kingdom |
Director of Unions21 |
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Ballantyne, Morna |
Canada |
Director of union education |
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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. |
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Batchelor, Scott |
Australia |
Union official |
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Baxter, David |
Scotland |
Bus driver |
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Beeman, Mindy |
United States |
Cable splicing technician |
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Beley, Markian |
Canada |
Accountant |
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Bellairs, Mick |
Australia |
Union organiser |
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Bernard, Elaine |
United States |
Labor educator |
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Bibby, Andrew |
United Kingdom |
Writer, labour journalist |
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Billott, Victor |
New Zealand |
Union communications officer |
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Bishop, Shawn |
Canada |
Housekeeper |
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Blackadder, Derek |
Canada

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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
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Blackshaw, Liz |
United Kingdom |
Director, TUC Organising Academy |
GMB, UCU, Unison |
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Blum, Rye |
United States |
Community organizer |
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Bolster, Pat |
New Zealand |
National union official |
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Bousquet, Marc |
United States |
Professor and union national councilor |
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Brandon, Cherie |
Australia |
Union organiser |
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Brelsford, Emma |
Australia |
Union organiser |
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Briskin, Linda |
Canada |
Professor |
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Brisebois, Luc |
Canada |
Local union president, social worker |
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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. |
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Brown, Karen |
Australia |
Researcher |
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Brown, Pamela |
Canada |
Union office manager |
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Brown, Tony |
Australia

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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. |
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Brulin, Gunnar |
Sweden |
Union journalist |
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Bullock, Doug |
United States |
County legislator |
ACFL |
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Buchanan, Andrea |
Australia |
Union organiser |
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Budiarti, Indah |
Indonesia |
Union organizing and communications |
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Bulley, Craig |
Australia |
Radio producer |
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Butler, Valerie |
Australia |
Union organiser |
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Butterworth, Jamie |
Australia |
IT specialist |
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Buyukakan, Ismail |
United Kingdom |
Shop assistant, researcher |
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Cabrera, Legna |
United States |
Assistant Director of Labor Programs |
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Campbell Eagles, Lian |
Australia |
Education administration |
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Canel, Tom |
United States |
Union organizer |
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Cardino, Rafael |
Philippines |
Teller |
TOEWU |
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Chandler-Mills, Dean
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New Zealand

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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
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Carpenter, Jeanne |
United States |
Organizer |
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Carruthers, Linda |
Australia |
Union research and education |
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Cavalluzzo,
James |
Canada |
Community social worker/union officer
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Chitty, Ben |
United States |
Librarian |
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Choi, Hae-Lin |
Germany |
Union researcher |
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Clark, Dawn |
United Kingdom |
Trade union officer |
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Cochrane, Paul
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New Zealand

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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. |
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Coey, Ken
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United Kingdom

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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. |
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Cohen, Bruce |
United States |
College professor |
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Cohen, Seth |
United States |
Teacher |
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Colbath-Hess, Chris |
United States |
Teachers' union president |
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Conle, Fritz |
United States |
Organizer |
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Cook, John |
United Kingdom |
Civil servant |
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Cooper, Trish |
Australia |
Union official |
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Cormier, Chris |
Canada |
Child and youth worker |
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Cornine, Robert |
United States |
Organizer |
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Costello, Peggy |
United States |
Pipe fitter |
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Cowling, Terry |
United Kingdom |
Gallery supervisor |
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Cradden, Conor |
France

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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. |
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Cross, Paul |
United Kingdom |
Trade union organiser |
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Crowther, Rob |
United Kingdom |
Trade union organiser |
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Cullinan, Josh |
Australia |
Union organiser |
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Curtis, Peter |
Australia |
Educator |
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Davies, Steve |
United Kingdom |
Senior research fellow |
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Davis, John |
Australia |
Radio producer |
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Dawodu, Smith Abiola |
United Kingdom |
Security officer |
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Dehwe, Clementine
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Zimbabwe

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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. |
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DelGiorno, Sue |
United States |
Union field coordinator |
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Dellevi, André-Roger |
Canada |
Airline worker |
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Deniz, Mehmet Baki
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Turkey |
Student |
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Deschamps, Johanne |
Canada |
Union rep |
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Devlin, Brian |
Australia |
Union educator |
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Dias, Xavier |
India |
Writer and researcher |
JMACC |
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Diaz, Christine |
United States |
Flight attendant |
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Dikotsi, Ramakhera |
South Africa |
Educator, union negotiator and shop steward |
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Dodds, Randy |
United States |
Data management / President ex-officio |
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Doe, Jenny |
United States |
NGO activist |
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Dolby, Adrian
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United Kingdom |
Student services assistant |
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Domaszek, Rachel
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United States |
Union rep |
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Donais, Blaine |
Canada |
Union staff/mediator/consultant |
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Dondley, Stephen |
United States |
Labor website developer |
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Dougherty, Danny |
Australia |
Union official |
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Downey, Randall |
United States |
Medicare counselor/trainer |
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Dubro, Alec |
United States |
Writer |
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Duffy, Grant |
New Zealand |
Partnership practice manager |
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Duncan, Alastair |
New Zealand |
Union secretary |
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Dungan, Brian |
United States
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Technical services |
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Dymny, Jerzy |
Canada |
Political musician
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Early, Steve |
United States |
Labor journalist |
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Eaton, Adrienne |
United States |
Professor |
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Edwards, Richard |
United Kingdom |
Union organiser |
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Eisenscher, Michael |
United States |
Labor educator / organizer |
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Eldret, Lisa |
Switzerland |
Global union federation organiser |
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Elliot, Elliot V. |
Australia |
Seaman
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Elliott, Graham |
New Zealand |
Ticket collector
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Elliott, Warren |
United Kingdom |
Disclosure officer |
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Ellis, Lincoln |
Canada |
Union organizer |
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Emami, Jessica |
United States |
Graduate student |
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Erne, Roland |
Ireland
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Lecturer in International and Comparative Employment Relations
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Espinosa-Organista, Luis |
USA / Mexico |
Union organizer |
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Evans, Mark |
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 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. |
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Falconer, Alex |
Australia |
Union organiser
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Falvey, Natalie |
Australia |
Trade union official |
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Farr, Jan
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New Zealand
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Writer, activist, former union communications worker |
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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. |
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Fellner, Kim |
United States
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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. |
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Field, Nathan |
Canada |
Student |
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Fink, Eric |
United States

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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. |
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Fischer, Tom |
Australia |
Union organiser |
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Flood, Nadine |
Australia |
Union official |
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Fogde, Karsten |
Denmark |
Trade union advisor |
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Ford, John |
Canada |
Retired union worker |
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Ford, Paul |
United States |
Medical professional |
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Fortescue, Robyn |
Australia
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Trade union official |
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Foster, Barry |
New Zealand |
University lecturer (IR) |
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Foster, Louise |
United Kingdom |
Area organiser |
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Foster-Burnell, Oliver |
United Kingdom |
Local government officer |
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Fowler, David |
United Kingdom |
Trade union worker |
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Freeman, Richard B
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United States

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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. |
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Frohlich, Jack |
United States |
Retired union official |
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Fullerton, Randy |
United States |
Retired from the building trades union |
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Garay, Mauricio |
Canada |
Regional union organizer |
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Garver, Paul |
United States
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Global union official (retired) |
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Gaul, Chloe |
Australia |
Union educator |
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Gibbons, Helen |
Australia |
Trade union organiser |
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Gillespie, Robin |
United States |
Union ergonomist |
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Glover, Nicholas |
United States |
Support technician
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Gonzalez, Eduardo |
Australia |
Union organiser and education officer with the Australian Manufacturing Workers' Union.
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Gorman, Jim |
Canada |
Retired |
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Govender, Gino |
South Africa |
Workers' Institute Director |
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Gray, Chris |
United Kingdom |
Union information officer |
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Gray, John |
United Kingdom |
Social housing officer |
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Green, Lester Muata |
United States |
Emergency medical services worker |
UEPF |
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Gregory, Mark
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Australia

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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'. |
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Grieg, Russel
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United Kingdom

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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. |
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Grima, Theresa |
Australia |
Union education officer |
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Grossman, Jonathan |
United States |
Union representative |
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Groube, Emma |
Australia |
Union organiser |
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Guenard, Thomasin |
United States |
Union organizer |
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Guille, Howard |
Australia |
Retired union secretary |
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Gunstone, Tim |
Australia |
Union growth organiser |
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Gwyther, Ross |
Australia
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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. |
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Hagen, Mark |
Germany |
Union officer / researcher |
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Hall-Jones, Peter
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New Zealand
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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. |

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Hallett, Adelia
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New Zealand

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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. |
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Hanlon, Beven |
New Zealand |
Corrections officer |
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Hanssen, Rolv
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Norway

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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. |
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Haque, Ziaul |
India |
Businessman |
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Hardt, Michael |
United States |
Teacher |
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Hardy, Paul
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Ireland

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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. |
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Harrison, Sam |
United Kingdom |
TUC union academy organiser |
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Harvey, Keith |
Australia |
Union Industrial Officer |
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Hearn Mackinnon, Bruce |
Australia |
University lecturer |
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Heckscher, Charles
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United States

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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. |
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Herrera, Kathy Luz |
United States |
Union electrician / county legislator |
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Hickman, Martin |
United Kingdom |
Civil servant |
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Hieber, Paul |
United States |
Respiratory therapist |
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Higgins, Sue |
United Kingdom |
Theatre nurse |
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Hikaumba, Leonard
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Zambia

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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. |
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Hodges, Damon |
Australia |
Union organiser |
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Holland, Kevin |
United States |
Telephone technician |
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Holland, Marvin |
United States |
Cleaner
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Holme, Madeleine |
Australia |
Campaigns officer |
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Holmes, Leanne |
Australia |
Bus driver |
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Horn, Carl |
New Zealand |
Union organiser |
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Hume, Duncan |
United Kingdom |
Probation officer |
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Hunter, Peter |
Australia |
Union technical officer |
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Hunter, Philip
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Switzerland
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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. |
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Hyland, Elizabeth |
United States |
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