Sweatshops, workers and international solidarity
No Sweat annual conference 2006

11.30-6pm, Saturday 25th November
School of Oriental and African Studies, off Russell Square (near Euston, Russell Square and Goodge Street tubes, and not far from Kings Cross).

Agenda

11.30 on: registration

12-12.15pm: Film: ‘The Case for Solidarity’

12.15-1pm
G2: Opening plenary: chair: Mick Duncan
SEIU activist from Houston Justice for Janitors strike
Paul Kenny (GMB General Secretary)
Houzan Mahmoud (Federation of Workers’ Councils, Iraq)

1.40-2.45pm
G2: Retails madness: Walmart and the supermarkets + film. With Nadia Idle from War On Want
G50: Living wage, and ethical campus campaigning: Anne-Marie O’Reilly (People and Planet), Jeremy Anderson (Queen Mary Living Wage Campaign), Sofie Buckland (NUS National Executive)
G52: Organising Homeworkers. Film: ‘Homework in China’. With National Group on Homeworking and HomeWorkers Worldwide

3-4.15pm
G2: Jean production in China + film: ‘China Blue’. With Sam Maher from Labour Behind the Label
G50: Fidel Castro: friend of Cuban workers? Forum with Paul Hampton from No Sweat and Stephen Wilkinson from the Cuba Solidarity Campaign
G52: Doha, world trade and the WTO. With Jeff Powell from the Bretton Woods Project

4.25-5.25pm
G2: Organising Migrant workers: Alex Asave (RMT activist on their campaign to organise Tube cleaners) and Anita Ceravolo (TGWU)
G50: Activists, e-appeals, using the web. Sam Maher from LBL and Eric Lee from LabourStart
G52: Climate Change and the Multinational Corporations. Speakers include Duncan Law from the Campaign Against Climate Change and Clive Bradley from No Sweat

5.30-6.00pm
G2 closing plenary: with John McDonnell MP (Labour Representation Committee chair and candidate for the Labour leadership) and Mick Duncan from No Sweat
Room G51: creche (places must be booked in advance)

- Stalls
- Social on Saturday evening: 7.00-Midnight with acts incluing Robb Johnson at the Ivy House, Southampton Row. Entrance is £5/£3 which includes a free drink.

- Activists’ training day, Sunday 26 November. 11.00-3.30 at the TGWU office on Theobalds Road, Holborn, central London (near the corner with Southampton Row).

Tickets are £8 waged and £4 unwaged and can be bought on the day.