State of the Union panel 2: Rebuilding worker movements - Ian Potter Museum of Art

State of the Union panel 2: Rebuilding worker movements

 

Changes in the material conditions of work have posed challenges for unions. Precarious work, political interventions and socio-cultural shifts have fundamentally altered the way workers and workplaces function.

This lively panel of trade union experts attempted to answer the question implicit in the exhibition title – what is the state of the union today – through a discussion of the social and political conditions that have led to precarious work and inequality, and the new forms of union organising that are rebuilding and renewing the worker movement.

Speakers
Carina Garland, Assistant Secretary, Victorian Trades Hall Council
Tim Kennedy, Secretary, National Union of Workers (NUW)
Colin Long, Secretary, National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU)

Convenor
Imogen Beynon, Organiser, National Union of Workers (NUW)

This panel was presented in partnership with the National Union of Workers. The State of the union panel series was supported by the City of Melbourne Arts Grants Program.

The Potter acknowledges the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation as the traditional owners of the land on which we work and create. We recognise that sovereignty was never ceded and pay our respects to Elders, past, present and emerging.