Global Solidarity Summer School
28 August 2009 - 29 August 2009, 12:02 - 12:02
Welcome to the Global Solidarity Summer School in Waterford.
ICTU Global Solidarity is organising a Summer School in Waterford on the 28th and 29th of August. This will be an excellent opportunity to learn more about the most urgent equality and social justice issues in our world today.
The Summer School will take place in Tower Hotel in Waterford, www.towerhotelwaterford.com
The Summer School will start at 1.00 p.m. on Friday the 28th and conclude at approximately lunch time on Saturday. There will be a wide range of inputs from national and international speakers.
Affiliated unions are welcome to nominate participants.
The fee per delegate is €50/£40 sterling. This covers seminar documentation, lunch and tea/coffee on Friday and Saturday and a seminar dinner on Friday evening.
Please note that accommodation is available in the Tower Hotel and Congress has made a block booking of both single and twin rooms for Friday 28th August. However rooms must be booked directly and well in advance by each union for its own delegation. The following accommodation rates apply:
Single room Bed and Breakfast € 75 per night
Twin room Bed and Breakfast € 110 per night (per room)
Please quote ICTU booking when reserving accomondation.
To adequate time for the Seminar materials to be sent out, names and addresses of delegates, along with fees, should be forwarded to Marian Flynn, ICTU, 32 Parnell Square, Dublin 1 by the 1st of August at the latest.
Final Programme Global Solidarity Summer School, Waterford 28 - 29 August.
Friday 28 August.
12.00 - 13.00
Light lunch
13.00 - 14.00
Opening of the Summer School
- The Assistant General Secretary of ICTU, Sally Anne Kinahan.
- The Minister for Overseas Development, Peter Power.
- The General Secretary of Lesotho Congress of Democratic Unions, Elliot Ramochela
14.00 - 15.30
The Irish Aid/ICTU/LECODU - Lesotho trade union capacity building project.
- David Joyce, Development Officer, ICTU
- Elliot Ramochela, General Secretary, Lesotho Congress of Democratic Unions
15.30 - 15.45
Coffee break
15.45 - 17.15
Climate Change and the trade union movement
- Niamh Garvey, Climate Change expert, Trocaire
- Asbjorn Wahl, Vice Chair of the Road Transport Worker's section of International Transport Worker's Federation and Official of the Norwegian "Fagforbundet".
17.15 - 19.00
Trafficking and Forced Labour
- Jeroen Beinaert, The International Trade Union Confederation's coordinator of the Global Campaign against trafficking
- Denise Charlton, Chief Executive of the Immigrant Council of Ireland on their report on sex trafficking
19.30 - late
Dinner followed by the Waterford Council of Trade Unions Centenary Celebration with an African Dance Group, a Gospel Choir and a Moldovan Saxophonist.
Saturday 29 August
9.30 - 11.00
Human and Trade Union Rights
- Steve Benedict Responsible for the Human and Trade Union Rights department of the International Trade Union Confederation
11.00 - 11.15
Coffee break
11.15 - 12.15
Global recession and tax havens
- Prionnsias Breathnach, Senior Lecturer, NUI, Maynooth
- Nessa Ni Chasaide, Debt and Development Coalition
12.15 - 13.00
Panel discussion on ways forward.
13.00
Light lunch
If you require any additional information you should contact either Stellan Hermansson or Marian Flynn in ICTU at 01-889 77 77.
Best regards,
Stellan Hermansson
Global Solidarity Officer
Venue
Tower Hotel, Waterford