CGLR Seminar - 14th Febraury

Union campaigning and organising around major sports events


You are invited to a seminar jointly sponsored by Cardiff University’s Centre for Global Labour Research and the Wales TUC. With an eye on the lead up to the London Olympics in 2012 and the FIFA World Cup in South Africa in 2010, this seminar brings together two labour movement experts to draw on the experience of labour in campaigning and organising around major sports events – both within the host country and along the supply chain. The seminar is part of a Global Labour University research project.

Speakers:

The lessons of the Atlanta Olympics

Stewart Acuff, AFL-CIO Organising Director

Before becoming head of organising at the AFL-CIO, Stewart Acuff was President of the Atlanta Central Labor Council and played a key role in the union campaign around the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, leading the union negotiations with the Olympics committee.

Campaigning in the sportswear sector: Play Fair 2008

Doug Miller, Multinationals Project Coordinator, International Textile, Garment and Leather Workers Federation (ITGLWF)

Doug Miller is one of the leading trade union campaigners involved in the Play Fair 2008 coalition with the Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC) and the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC). Initially working around the Athens Olympics, Play Fair 2008 is focused on the Beijing Games, leading the campaign to pressurise sportswear and athletic footwear companies, the International Olympic Committee (IOC), National Olympics Committees, as well as national governments to take steps to eliminate the exploitation and abuse of workers in the global sporting goods industry.

Time and place:

12.00-2.00 pm, Thursday, 14 February 2008.

Committee Room 1, Glamorgan Building

King Edward VII Avenue, Cardiff

Details of how to find us are here: http://www.cf.ac.uk/locations/index.html

The event is free, but registration is required. If you wish to attend please email Sian Moseley at MoseleySE@cardiff.ac.uk or telephone on 029 2087 4983. A buffet lunch will be provided.