Membership


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

Abbas, Ghulam	Pakistan	Student
Abrahams, Marshall	United Kingdom	Involved in mapping and research for the purposes of union organising, patricular of the Global Delivery Sector.	ITF
Adam, Megan	Canada	Communications worker
Adams, Roy	Canada	Former 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. Works with unions to promote recognition of labour rights as human rights, especially with regards collective bargaining.
Addai-Poku, Christian	Ghana	Teacher	NAGRAT
Adhikari, Sharad	Nepal	Civil servant	NCSEA
Adiv, Assaf	Israel	Union national coordinator	WAC Maan
Aguirre, Rosalinda	United States	Union organizer	AFT
Ahmed, Scarlett	United States	Government employee - state labor department	PEF
Aitken, Kevin	New Zealand	Union organiser for the last 12 years, and delegate for 5 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 and AUS in New Zealand, using concepts of social capital and helping develop "relational organizing". Currently with MCWU.	MCWU
Albert, Michael	United States	Publisher and co-ordinator of the left wing network ZNet. Also author of "Parecon: Life after Capitalism" and "Realizing Hope". Michael has worked (with participation from others) to develop the alternative economic and social models known as Parecon (Participatory Economics) and Parsoc (Participatory Society).
Ali, Zulfaqir	Pakistan	Union information secretary	PBKLU
Alioti, Gianni	Italy	Union worker	FIM-CISL
Alzaga, Valerie	The Netherlands	Organizing campaign coordinator	CTW
Anderson, Don	New Zealand	Independent IT consultant, former international co-ordinator of the Association of Progressive Communications (APC), co-developer of SafeSpace™, founding member and former Chairperson of PlaNet Internet, developer of Younionize (http://younionize.info) and Converge (http://www.converge.org.nz) among many others.
Anderson, Jeremy	United Kingdom	Union researcher	ITF
Anderson, Shanti	New Zealand	Casual worker
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
Aparre, Feliciano	Philippines	Plumber and union president	USPA
Arachchige, Magadhee	Sri Lanka	Executive, ICCSE	ICCSE
Arlofelt, Brian	Denmark	Union organizer	3F
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.
Arslanoglu, Asalettin	Turkey	Unionist
Asomugha, Chibuzo	Nigeria	Teacher	ASUP
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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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.
Barker, Sarah	New Zealand	Organiser	NZNO
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
Benet, Bill	United States	Educator/researcher/activist	NWU
Benner, Chris	United States	Professor
Bernard, Elaine	United States	Labor educator	NEA
Berry, Joe	United States	Labor educator and organizer	NEA, AAUP, NWU/UAW
Berthelette, Eric	United States	Master journeyman plumber	UA
Bibby, Andrew	United Kingdom	Writer, labour journalist	NUJ
Billott, Victor	New Zealand	Union communications officer	MUNZ
Bird, Annie	United Kingdom	Machine operative	Unite
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
Blackmore, Glenn	Australia	Union organiser	CPSU
Blackshaw, Liz	United Kingdom	Director, TUC Organising Academy	GMB, UCU, Unison
Blum, Ron	United States	Freelancer	NWU
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
Brasch, Walter	United States	Journalist / activist	CWA, APSCUF
Brault, David	Canada	Private sector teacher	ETEA
Breen, Roy	United States	Boiler operator	WINS
Brelsford, Emma	Australia	Union organiser	LHMU
Briskin, Linda	Canada	Professor	YUFA
Brisebois, Luc	Canada	Local union president, social worker	CUPE
Bristow, David	New Zealand	Educator, organiser	SFWU
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
Buchanan, Margaret	Australia	Union organiser	APESMA
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
Cameron, Kirsten	Australia	Public servant	PSA
Campbell Eagles, Lian	Australia	Education administration	QTU
Can, Ilhan	Colombia	NGO worker	FNV
Canel, Tom	United States	Union organizer	AFSCME
Cardino, Rafael	Philippines	Teller	TOEWU
Carpenter, Tim	United States	Organizer
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
Chelliah, Lalitha	Australia	Nurse	ASU
Chinguno, Crispen	Zimbabwe	Trade union activist and researcher whose interests are social movements and revolutions, trade unionism, strikes, the sociology of violence, working class consciousness, violence/power, working class agency, globalisation and global governance, work restructuring and labour flexibility.	ZCTU
Chiong, Victor	Philippines	Union organizer	AGWWS
Chislett, Paul	Canada	Retired, student, social justice radio show host
Chitty, Ben	United States	Librarian	AFT
Choi, Hae-Lin	Germany	Union researcher	ver.di
Clark, Dawn	United Kingdom	Trade union officer	Unison
Clarke, Jack	United Kingdom	Union researcher - Organising and Leverage	Unite
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
Cole, Sarah	New Zealand	Union organiser	PSA
Conle, Fritz	United States	Organizer	Teamsters
Conway, M. Quentin	New Zealand	Public servant
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
Corral, Bobet	Philippines	Researcher
Costello, Peggy	United States	Pipe fitter	UA
Cowling, Terry	United Kingdom	Gallery supervisor	PCS
Cradden, Conor	France	The mastermind behind New Unionism's excellent Twitter feed. Conor is an 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.
Craig, Steve	United Kingdom	National project worker	UCU and UCATT
Cross, Paul	United Kingdom	Trade union organiser	Community
Crowther, Rob	United Kingdom	Trade union organiser	Unison & GMB
Cull, Tyler	United States	Electrician	IBEW
Cullinan, Josh	Australia	Union organiser	ASU
Curtis, Peter	Australia	Educator	AEU


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