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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.

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	I	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

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	Jack, Phil	United States	Faculty
	Jacoby, Sanford	United States	Teacher	AAUP
	Jammeh, Joy	Senegal	Student
	Jarvis, Peter	United Kingdom	Union tutor	USDAW
	Jimenez, Carlos	United States	Labor NGO national director	CWA
	Jolly, Aidan	United Kingdom	Musician	MU
	Jones, Amber	New Zealand	Student	Student union
	Jones, Jolyon	United Kingdom	Social worker	Unison
	Jones, Louisa	New Zealand	Union organiser	EPMU
	Jones, Ray	United Kingdom	Trade union official	Amicus
	Jones, Samara	Canada	Union research and communications worker	AFL

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	Kaboolian, Linda	United States	Lecturer in public policy
	Kadar, Zsuzsa	Hungary	Trainer in gender	VDSZ
	Kansanen, Laura	Finland	Visual artist who has been involved in progressive groups and causes for years. Artistic advisor to the New Unionism project, helps review the website and publications as she awaits the second coming of Pippi Longstocking.
	Keil. Michael	Denmark	Trade union tutor	DFF
	Kelber, Harry	United States	Labor journalist	CWA
	Kelly, Jeff	United Kingdom	Director, UK Partnership Institute (initially set up by TUC). Trainer/facilitator who leads workshops on partnerships and team working. Has been an active unionist for over 35 years and has represented members of several unions including TGWU (Unite) Amicus (Unite), GMB and the POA. Jeff believes that the way forward for industrial relations is partnership working, and that this is fundamental in improving working conditions and job security, as well as in sustaining a competitive organisation. Committed to delivering partnership that is both effective and sustainable.	GMB
	Kelly, Linda	United Kingdom	Heads up the industrial relations team of the Ministry of Justice in the UK. Also associate and founding director of the UK Partnership Institute. Formerly a teacher, City broker, policy maker and personnel and training manager of the Labour Party. Pragmatist and consensus-builder, motivator and problem-solver. Membership of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, BEd (Hons) from Leeds and recognition as a Myers Briggs assessor. A director of the Training Standards Council, board member of the European TUC College, and council member of Employment NTO, plus other senior posts.
	Kemp, Anna	Canada	Co-op worker	Student union
	Kemp, Holly	Australia	Union organiser	CPSU
	Kempton, Paul	United Kingdom	Welfare rights advocate, manager of unit	Unison
	Kenny, Anna	New Zealand	National postal and logistics organiser for the NZ Engineering, Printing and Manufacturers' Union. Also a singer-songwriter in the award winning union choir: Choir Choir Pants on Fire.	EPMU
	Keogh, Josh	United States	Bicycle mechanic	IWW
	Kerbel, Jeremy	Australia	Union researcher	LHMU
	Kirkham, John	United Kingdom	Works with The Work Foundation (formerly The Industrial Society), a UK-based organisation of which the TUC and UNISON are partners, dedicated to improving the quality of working lives. Coach, facilitator and negotiator. Firmly believes that all people have a valuable contribution to make to the world of work, and that it is the challenge of management to harness this collective experience for the benefit of all stakeholders in an organisation.
	Kirwan, Gary	United Kingdom	Full time trade union official	GMB
	Klingzell-Brulin, Malin	Sweden	Editor	LIVS
	Kloosterboer, Dirk	Netherlands	Union policy advisor / researcher. Wrote "Innovative Trade Union Strategies" for the Netherlands Trade Union Confederation FNV: a booklet on creative union responses to changes in international labour relations and production. Also runs the exceptional Union Renewal blog.	FNV
	Koczera, Peter	United States	Organizer	IATSE
	Koletsis, George	Australia	Starting out as a metal-worker, has been a political activist, union organiser and education worker for most of his life. Worked mainly in Australia, Romania, and around Eastern Europe, with stints as a project manager and contract consultant for the ILO and other international organisations. A committed socialist with an outspoken sense of humour and a natural egalitarianism... cuts through bureaucracy like a chainsaw (on methedrine) through butter.	AMWU
	Kvist Olsen, Rune	Norway	Workplace designer

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	Lai, Rex	United States	Organization development consultant, ex union organizer
	Laird, George	New Zealand	Union education organiser	SFWU
	Lambert, Denyse	Canada	Respectful workplace trainer	CUPE
	Lampousaki, Sofia	Greece	Lawyer, researcher	GSEE
	Landsbergis, Paul	United States	Professor / labour educator	AFT
	Larche, Jean-Pierre	Canada	Communications worker	CSN
	Larsen, Jennifer	United States	Senior research technician
	Law, Michael	New Zealand	University lecturer in labour studies	AUS
	Le Blanc, Ida	Trinidad & Tobago	Union leader	NUDE
	Leary, Chris	United Kingdom	Union convenor	Unison
	Lebans, Gayle	Canada	Union organizer	OPSEU
	Lee, Adam	United States	Union officer	USW
	Lee, Amy	Australia	Industrial officer/ employment lawyer	APESMA
	Leitch, Richard	United Kingdom	Civil servant	PCS
	Lenchner, Charles	United States	Organizer, New Organizing Institute
	Lenihan, Denis	United Kingdom	Trade union official	PCS
	Little, Andrew	New Zealand	National Secretary of NZ's largest private sector union, the Amalgamated Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union, since 2000. EPMU has members in 10 industries, from cleaners to clerical workers to the highest-skilled trades people. Qualified lawyer and former national student president. Sits on many boards and organisations. Has led the union through a process of consolidation and modernisation, and helped develop a strategic approach in industrial relations.	EPMU
	Littlewood, Stephen	Australia	Union organiser	FSU
	Lombardi, Gerald	United States	Researcher
	Long, Colin	Australia	Researcher	NTEU
	Lozanski, Laura	Canada	Occupational health and safety officer	COPE
	Lynch, Eddie	Ireland	Taxi driver, union branch secretary	IWU

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	MacMillan, Leanne	Canada	Union researcher / lawyer	CUPE
	Maher, Samantha	United Kingdom	NGO campaigner	TGWU
	Malone, Geraldine	Ireland	Union organiser	SIPTU
	Manborde, Ian	United Kingdom	Teacher	Amicus
	Mannion, Martin	Ireland	Union organiser	SIPTU
	Marasco, Brigid	Australia	Union communications officer	ASU
	Margolies, Ken	United States	Professor, Director of Organizing Programs	SEIU
	Mark, Monica	Canada	Union support worker	USW
	Marshall, Howard	United Kingdom	Civil servant	Unison
	Martin, Pete	United Kingdom	Union tutor and organiser	BECTU & UCU
	Maso, Thobile	South Africa	A trade unionist since before the end of the apartheid era, helped establish the Post and Telecommunication Workers Association in 1986. Amandla nga wethu yebasebenzi, basebenzi masimanyane. Currently co-ordinates education in the South African Municipal Workers' Union. Well-known workers' poet, lately has been setting some of his poems to music.	SAMWU
	Mason, Rob	United Kingdom	University lecturer	UCU
	Matthews, Peter	Australia	Retired / community work
	May, Maggie	Australia	Union organiser	NTEU
	McCarten, Matt	New Zealand	Union official	Unite
	McCarthy, Mary	Canada	Union staff	CUPE
	McGarry, Alison	United Kingdom	Trade union officer	Unite
	McIntosh, Alex	Australia	Organiser	NUW
	McKeown, Andrew	Australia	Organiser	CPSU
	McKnight, David	Wales	Community Development Worker	Unison
	McLauchlan, Ruth	United States	Quality assurance consultant
	McLean, Greg	Australia	Assistant National Secretary of the Australian Services Union, responsible for public services, state and local government, water/energy utilities and public transport. Extensive experience in public sector reform. Has campaigned widely against privatisation, both nationally and internationally. Holds post-graduate qualifications in Industrial Relations and was a rank and file member before becoming involved in union work.	ASU
	McLeod, Georgina	New Zealand	National union policy advisor - health sector	NZCTU
	McNally, Michael	Australia	Union organiser	NTEU
	Melton, Yvonne	United States	Operator	CWA
	Milburn, Tom	United Kingdom	Trade union staff	Unison
	Miller, Polly	New Zealand	Polly worked for the NZ Public Services Association for two years, having been a delegate for two before this, and then moved to the UK where she worked for three years with UK unions NUT and UNISON, followed by a stint with the UK Partnership Institute.	PSA
	Milligan, Joanne	United Kingdom	Public affairs advocate	Unite
	Mitchell, Stephany	New Zealand	Union organiser and educator	SFWU & PSA
	Moase, Godfrey	Australia	Union organiser	NUW
	Moore, Clancy	Australia	Union organiser	ASU
	Mohle, Beth	Australia	Union assistant secretary	QNU
	Molina, Frank	United States	Union field rep, organizer	UFCW
	Moller, Kirsten	Denmark	Project coordinator	DP
	Moly, Yumiko	Australia	Student	ACFTU
	Montgomery, Chai	United States	School bus driver / steward	Teamsters
	Moodliar, Suren	United States	Non-profit employee
	More, Abhijit	India	As a doctor and social activist in India, is involved in various campaigns like campaign for patient's rights and for universal access to healthcare and social security.
	Morgan, Brian	United Kingdom	Care manager	Unison
	Morgan, Robert	Wales	Organiser	Unite the Union
	Moser, Richard	United States	Has been an organizer in higher education for the last decade or so. All told he has some 35 years of experience in the peace, labor, and student movements including earlier stints as a full-time community organizer and labor organizer. Earned his Ph.D. from Rutgers in 1992. Author of The New Winter Soldiers: GI and Veteran Dissent During the Vietnam Era, and co-editor of The World the Sixties Made: Politics and Culture in Recent America. National Field Rep for AAUP from '98 to '04 and first chair of Campus Equity Week. Currently Senior Staff Rep at the Rutgers AAUP-AFT specializing in membership recruitment and issues relating to contingent faculty. He is a member of CWA local 1032.	CWA
	Mountford, Sean	Australia	Union organiser	AMWU
	Mpendu, Zett	South Africa	Union organiser	SAPSWU
	Mukoya, Kent	Kenya	Corporate planner, labour NGO	KLGWU
	Mullen, Tony	Australia	Worked for Australian Education Union since 1990: first as an organiser, now as an educator. Describes his work as a struggle to move the organisation from a servicing to an organising culture, and from rhetoric to reality. Facilitates industrial education for members in schools and vocational colleges, focusing on rights, representation and organizing, plus modules such as occupational safety and health.	AEU
	Mulready, Pamela	Australia	Educator	NTEU
	Munger, Joseph	United States	Crane operator	USW
	Murphy, Alice	Australia	Trade union official	CPSU

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	Naether, Robert	United Kingdom	Totally disabled	GMB
	Ndiku, Judah	Kenya	Lecturer	UASU
	Needleman, Ruth	United States	Professor of Labor Studies	AAUP
	Newsome, Danielle	United States	Student
	Nicolai, Dan	United States	Organizer	SEIU
	Nobin, Jaysing	Mauritius	Union treasurer	WMAEU
	Norling, Ken	Australia	Union administrative officer	NTEU
	Norris, Mark	United Kingdom	Trade union organiser	CWU
	North, Jim	United States	Medical records worker	SEIU
	Nowak, Paul	United Kingdom	UK Trades Union Congress (TUC) New Unionism Project Director in May 2002, then TUC's National Organiser. Before this TUC regional secretary in the North East and Cumbria. Currently leads TUC’s work to support union efforts on organising and recruitment, which includes the development and delivery of the TUC Organising Academy, and co-ordinates the TUC’s ‘Leading Change’ training and development programme for senior union officers, and supports the TUC’s work on inter-union relations.	TUC

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	O'Callaghan, Marj	Australia	National Industrial Officer	AMWU
	O'Connor, Liz	Mexico	Organizer	SEIU
	O'Donnell, Dianne	United Kingdom	ICT Desktop Technician	Unison
	O'Donnell, Michael	Canada	Federal health and safety officer	PSAC
	O'Donnell, Tony	Australia	Union organiser	NUW
	Oduor, Wycliffe	Canada	Postal worker	CUPW
	Ogden, Max	Australia	Fitter and turner who spent 30 years as a union official; for most of that time grappling with issues around workplace and union democracy. Retired in 2004, having established and worked for the Foundation for Sustainable Economic Development at Melbourne University. Still involved with the Foundation’s project 'Work & Social Cohesion Under Globalisation'. Working with the ACTU and some New Zealand unions on new strategies involving workplace democracy and high performance work systems.	AMWU
	Oram, Bob	United Kingdom	Union National Exec councillor	UNISON
	O'Rourke, Martin	Ireland	Union organiser	SIPTU
	Ouzas, Jan	Canada	Business clerk	CUPE
	Oztemel, Deniz	United Kingdom	Probation officer	NAPO

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	Palgi, Michal	Israel	Organizational sociologist
	Pandolfo, Charlie	Australia	Union organiser	AMWU
	Parker, Bob	Australia	Has worked to represent and advocate for the interests of nurses and midwives in Queensland for over 15 years. Now, as Senior Organiser, the focus is more toward mentoring and coaching Organisers and Growth teams to build, strengthen, enhance capacity and power, while innovating new pathways.	QNU
	Parkinson, Michael	United Kingdom	Call centre adviser	CWU
	Peacock, Bob	Canada	Support services worker	HEU
	Pekarek, Andreas	Australia	PhD student	NTEU
	Pitts, Harry	United Kingdom	Adult education admin/tutor, student
	Pope, Jim	United States	Professor of US Constitutional & Labor Law	AAUP
	Potter, Martin	United Kingdom	Railway worker	RMT
	Powell, Rebecca	United States	Union organizer	WEA
	Power, Kim	Canada	Trade union rep	CEP
	Procaccini, Marco	Canada	Communications worker	CEP

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	Quedou, Dewan	Mauritius	Union President	WMAEU
	Quinn, Jim	Ireland	Union organiser	Unite the Union
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