ICTUR Publications

Organising migrant workers in trade unions (June 2005), £5

Trade unions of the world, 6th edition (June 2005) published by John Harper Publishing / ICTUR, £65

World map of trade union rights (2003), £5

International trade union rights for the new millennium by Professor KD Ewing and Tom Sibley, £30.00 (£8.00 trade unions and students);

International Union Rights journal, £20.00 annual subscription.

For details of how to order any of these publications please contact the ICTUR office directly.

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Organising migrant workers in trade unions (June 2005) published by ICTUR, sponsored by the Southern and Eastern Region TUC, £5

The British Committee of ICTUR has brought together this collection of first-hand, frontline organising experiences in order to stimulate new ideas and strategies for linking up union organisers, migrant workers and community organisations.

"Migrant workers often enter the UK with the hope that they will find a better life, with high pay and a better standard of living. The reality is often very different. In this publication, the British Committee of the International Centre for Trade Union Rights brings together information about the experience of migrant workers and trade union initiatives to work with migrant communities to establish traditional or new forms of representation".
Mick Connolly, SERTUC

"The collection demonstrates that there is both the appetite and capacity in British trade unions to seriously tackle the challenge of organising migrant workers. And even more importantly, it documents positive examples of where and how it has been done, providing solid evidence not just of unions' aspirations to organise migrant workers but of successful campaigns".
Laurie Haselden, SERTUC

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Trade unions of the world, 6th edition (June 2005) published by John Harper Publishing / ICTUR, £65

The 6th edition of this unique reference book appears in familiar softcover A4 format and runs to more than 400 pages. With entries on more than 170 countries TUW 2005 is an excellent companion for all trade union researchers and officers. As international issues become increasingly relevant to the day to day concerns of trade unionists the need for this reference source is all the more pressing. TUW sets itself modest goals; the historical summaries provided for each country are by no means intended to represent 'the last word', but they nonetheless provide a very convenient guide to some of the important issues that have influenced the development of the labour movement in any given country. With entries for industrialised nations running to some 10 pages or more TUW represents an excellent first port of call for research. Along with a historical background of the union movement in each country, TUW also provides contact details and brief notes about trade unions operating in each country and at the international level. Order your copy now.

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International trade union rights for the new millennium by Professor KD Ewing and Tom Sibley, £8.00

There is a need for certainty, for clarity, and for robust modernisation of the principles of Freedom of Association as we enter the 21st Century. This much has emerged during the course of the 4 year research and consultation program carried out by ICTUR (which has become known as the Millennium Project). ICTUR, in association with our colleagues at the Institute of Employment Rights, has now produced this booklet - which serves as the final report in the Millennium Project series.

International trade union rights for the new millennium sets out clearly and simply the findings of this wide-randing program and presents some of the main findings of the consultation exercise, concluding with proposals for an ambitious re-think of the very principles of ILO freedom of association. Professor Keith Ewing, of Kings College London and IUR's legal editor, calls for the principles to be consolidated - drawing together the essential jurisprudence of the last 40 years and the unnecessary comlexity of the - no less than 5 - ILO Conventions which currently govern the concept into a single, comprehensive statement of Freedom of Association which is accessible to all.

This booklet also looks at the question of enforcing ILO standards and of the need for entirely new standards to reflect a modern world of globalisation and transnational corporations. ICTUR calls for the formal recognition of a right to international trade union action and for international trade union bargaining as an essential counterbalance to the vast power of the transnationals, and for changes to be made to the ILO complaints system which would provide a right for complaints to be made against those companies which fail to respect the ILO standards effective in the 'host countries' to their various national operations.

An important resource for trade unionists - and indespensible to academic study of the Freedom of Association texts - this booklet is one of the vital contributions to the debate of labour standards and the ILO, taking in the WTO and the Social Clause, and looking closely at the variations in ILO Freedom of Association standards before arriving at an engaging conclusion. Trade unions face 2 challenges as they move into the new millennium; one from hostile governments, and another from the predatory global corporations. This booklet sets out a trade union agenda for the development of effective strategies to resist the new threats to their fundamental right to organise.