History & Policy

Gail Cartmail, Assistant General Secretary, UNITE

Nick Jones, journalist and broadcaser, and former BBC industrial and senior political correspondent

6 October 2018 - 10:00 am - 17:00 pm

In 1868, while suffering under major legal restrictions, the British trade unions teamed up to found a central body to lobby for their wider social and industrial aims and rights. Today, when unions are again subject to severe legal disadvantage, it is timely to recall the first Trades Union Congress (TUC) and unions’ achievements, and to look forward on union prospects for the future.

A History & Policy Trade Union and Employment Forum conference, with speakers and chairs including:

Sarah Veale, former Head of Equality and Employment Rights at the TUC

Michael Gold, Professor of Comparative Employment Relations, Royal Holloway University of London

Nick Jones, journalist and broadcaser, and former BBC industrial and senior political correspondent

6 October 2018 - 10:00 am - 17:00 pm

In 1868, while suffering under major legal restrictions, the British trade unions teamed up to found a central body to lobby for their wider social and industrial aims and rights. Today, when unions are again subject to severe legal disadvantage, it is timely to recall the first Trades Union Congress (TUC) and unions’ achievements, and to look forward on union prospects for the future.

A History & Policy Trade Union and Employment Forum conference, with speakers and chairs including:

Sarah Veale, former Head of Equality and Employment Rights at the TUC

Laura Cohen, CEO, British Ceramic Confederation

Nick Jones, journalist and broadcaser, and former BBC industrial and senior political correspondent

6 October 2018 - 10:00 am - 17:00 pm

In 1868, while suffering under major legal restrictions, the British trade unions teamed up to found a central body to lobby for their wider social and industrial aims and rights. Today, when unions are again subject to severe legal disadvantage, it is timely to recall the first Trades Union Congress (TUC) and unions’ achievements, and to look forward on union prospects for the future.

A History & Policy Trade Union and Employment Forum conference, with speakers and chairs including:

Sarah Veale, former Head of Equality and Employment Rights at the TUC

Lord John Monks, General Secretary of the TUC 1993-2003

Nick Jones, journalist and broadcaser, and former BBC industrial and senior political correspondent

6 October 2018 - 10:00 am - 17:00 pm

In 1868, while suffering under major legal restrictions, the British trade unions teamed up to found a central body to lobby for their wider social and industrial aims and rights. Today, when unions are again subject to severe legal disadvantage, it is timely to recall the first Trades Union Congress (TUC) and unions’ achievements, and to look forward on union prospects for the future.

A History & Policy Trade Union and Employment Forum conference, with speakers and chairs including:

Sarah Veale, former Head of Equality and Employment Rights at the TUC

Peter Ackers, Visiting Professor, Loughborough University

6 October 2018 - 10:00 am - 17:00 pm

In 1868, while suffering under major legal restrictions, the British trade unions teamed up to found a central body to lobby for their wider social and industrial aims and rights. Today, when unions are again subject to severe legal disadvantage, it is timely to recall the first Trades Union Congress (TUC) and unions’ achievements, and to look forward on union prospects for the future.

A History & Policy Trade Union and Employment Forum conference, with speakers and chairs including:

Sarah Veale, former Head of Equality and Employment Rights at the TUC

Dr James Moher, a former union official and historian of the Labour movement

6 October 2018 - 10:00 am - 17:00 pm

In 1868, while suffering under major legal restrictions, the British trade unions teamed up to found a central body to lobby for their wider social and industrial aims and rights. Today, when unions are again subject to severe legal disadvantage, it is timely to recall the first Trades Union Congress (TUC) and unions’ achievements, and to look forward on union prospects for the future.

A History & Policy Trade Union and Employment Forum conference, with speakers and chairs including:

Sarah Veale, former Head of Equality and Employment Rights at the TUC

John Edmonds, former General Council chair and GMB General Secretary

6 October 2018 - 10:00 am - 17:00 pm

In 1868, while suffering under major legal restrictions, the British trade unions teamed up to found a central body to lobby for their wider social and industrial aims and rights. Today, when unions are again subject to severe legal disadvantage, it is timely to recall the first Trades Union Congress (TUC) and unions’ achievements, and to look forward on union prospects for the future.

A History & Policy Trade Union and Employment Forum conference, with speakers and chairs including:

Sarah Veale, former Head of Equality and Employment Rights at the TUC

Mark Curthoys, research editor, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

6 October 2018 - 10:00 am - 17:00 pm

In 1868, while suffering under major legal restrictions, the British trade unions teamed up to found a central body to lobby for their wider social and industrial aims and rights. Today, when unions are again subject to severe legal disadvantage, it is timely to recall the first Trades Union Congress (TUC) and unions’ achievements, and to look forward on union prospects for the future.

A History & Policy Trade Union and Employment Forum conference, with speakers and chairs including:

Sarah Veale, former Head of Equality and Employment Rights at the TUC

Paul Nowak, TUC Deputy General Secretary

6 October 2018 - 10:00 am - 17:00 pm

In 1868, while suffering under major legal restrictions, the British trade unions teamed up to found a central body to lobby for their wider social and industrial aims and rights. Today, when unions are again subject to severe legal disadvantage, it is timely to recall the first Trades Union Congress (TUC) and unions’ achievements, and to look forward on union prospects for the future.

A History & Policy Trade Union and Employment Forum conference, with speakers and chairs including:

Sarah Veale, former Head of Equality and Employment Rights at the TUC

20 June 2018 - 18:00 pm - 20:00 pm

Room K-1.56, King's College London, Strand, London, WC2R 2LS

In spite of Equal Pay Laws and House of Commons Resolutions, there is still a gender pay gap in Britain - and hear an analysis of the recently gathered gender pay reports of large companies from the Equality and Human Rights Commission.

History and Policy’s Trade Union and Employment Forum is holding a seminar at King's College London featuring:

Helen Glew, Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Westminster, who will explain the history of Equal Pay in Britain,

and

Sue Coe, Employment Head at the Equality and Human Rights Commission, who will analyse the results from the gender pay reports from organisations with over 250 employees.