LRG WG2: Trade Union Strategies for Remunicipalisation/Insourcing
- 14 Jun - 14 Jun
- Geneva, Switzerland
13:00 - 16:00 CEST
This workshop will look at how remunicipalisation/in-sourcing can be used as trade union strategy to win jobs and conditions at the workplace.
Background
This is the 2022 workshop of the PSI Global LRG Network’s Working Group on Remunicipalisation/In-sourcing (WG2). The workshop will look at how remunicipalisation/in-sourcing can be a trade union strategy to win jobs and better conditions at the workplace, as well as to grow union membership in local public services.
Agenda
13h00-14h00 (60’) - Ongoing Trade Union Remunicipalisation Campaigns: experiences from Asia-Pacific
Opening contributions by:
Daniel Papps , Manager of Industrial, Rules, Governance, and Compliance, USU/ASU, Australia
Sunghee Oh, Director of International Relations, KPTU, South Korea
Followed by Q&A
Speaker presentations
14h00-14h50 (50’) - Better Public Services, Better Jobs: De-privatisation as an Industrial Relations Strategy
Opening contributions by:
James Lazou, Unite Researcher, Health, Local Authorities and Not-for-Profit Sectors UNITE, UK
Donna Rowe-Merrimann, National Secretary, Business, Community and Environment, UNISON, UK
Followed by Q&A
14h50-15h30 (40’) - WG2 Member Discussions in Breakout Rooms
Followed by Plenary Reporting
15.30-15.45 (15’) - Latest Remunicipalisation Analyses from Public Futures
Update by:
Franziska Paul, Research Associate in Global Remunicipalisation, University of Glasgow, UK
15.30-15.45 (15’) Conclusions and Next Steps
Guidance & Resources
Guidance Questions
How can we build a remunicipalisation/in-sourcing campaign around pay and conditions and permanent employment?
How can labour arguments be made compelling with local administration and service users?
How can we organise, mobilise and grow membership through remunicipalisation/in-sourcing campaigns?
How can the trade union(s) and progressive civil society allies establish a monitoring process and legal safeguards to protect services from future re-privatisation?
Background resources
A. Cumbers, B. Pearson, L. Stegemann and F. Paul, “Mapping Remunicipalisation: Emergent Trends in the Global De-Privatisation Process in April 2022”, PUBLIC FUTURES DATABASE (2022) Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow, UK
PSI Remunicipalisation and the COVID-19 pandemic (2022) – (FR, ES)
USU/ASU Campaign “Council Services by Council Workers” (2021)
PSI-PSIRU Taking our public services back in house - A remunicipalisation guide for workers and trade unions (2020) (FR, ES)
UNITE Better Public Services: A Unite Toolkit for Insourcing in Local Government (2019)
PSI The Labour Dimension of Remunicipalisation. Public service workers and trade unions in transition (2019) (FR, ES)
Columbia Institute/CUPE, BACK IN HOUSE: Why Local Governments are Bringing Services Home (2016) – (FR)