The 1890 Maritime Strike, one of the largest ever in Australia, also involved New Zealand and Fijian workers, and its impact reverberated throughout the Pacific Rim because of the global structure of capital and labour in the maritime industry. British, European and American employers, politicians and academics took an interest in the dispute, part of a strike wave sweeping Europe, North America and Australasia in 1889-94.  
 
The New Zealand Work and Labour Market Institute invite you to attend:
 
Globalisation and Labour in the Pacific: Re-evaluating the 1890 Maritime Strike Symposium

Time:        9.00am-5.30pm
Date:        Thursday, 4 November 2010  
Venue:     Conference Room 1, Copthorne Hotel, 196-200 Quay Street, Auckland City, New Zealand

The symposium is organised by the Auckland Labour History Group and NZWALMI; in association with the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History and the Labour History Project.

Attendance:  All welcome.
Fee: $40 includes lunch and refreshments.   
 
RSVP By Friday, 22 October 2010 to: Institute Office Manager at nzwalmi@aut.ac.nz

The Centre for Human Resource Management at the University of Melbourne and the Faculty of Business and Economics at Monash University invite you to attend:

The Isaac Industrial Relations Symposium 2010 In honour of Emeritus Professor Joe Isaac AO

TIME: 2.00pm - 4.30pm

DATE: Friday 20 August, 2010

VENUE: Woodward Conference Centre on Level 10 of the Law Building at the University of Melbourne.

RSVP: To reserve your place at this free event please email isaac-workshop@unimelb.edu.au by 16 August, 2010. Please include Isaac Symposium in the subject line. The symposium will conclude with a late afternoon reception.

See attached invitation for details.

Selected papers from the 23rd AIRAANZ Conference in Newcastle are now published as a symposium in the JIR, vol 52, no 1, February 2010.

Organised by the Business and Labour History Group of the New Zealand Work & Labour Market Institute, Auckland University of Technology in association with the Auckland Labour History Group

AUT Conference Centre, Auckland                                       
19-20 November 2009

The International Labour Organisation (ILO) is dedicated to bringing decent work and livelihoods, job-related security and better living standards to the people of all countries. In 2009 the ILO celebrates its 90th Anniversary, against a backdrop of financial crisis and critical levels of unemployment around the world. Looking to the future means understanding the past, and as such the ILO’s 90th anniversary celebrations allow us to reflect on its achievements in promoting rights at work and decent employment, enhancing social protection and strengthening social dialogue and tripartism on work-related issues.
The ILO is the world's oldest and only tripartite international agency, created in 1919 as part of the Treaty of Versailles that ended World War I, to reflect the belief that universal and lasting peace can be accomplished only if based on social justice. The first annual International Labour Conference began on 29 October 1919 in Washington DC. It adopted the first 6 International Labour Conventions. Today the ILO has 188 Conventions and Declarations and 199 Recommendations. In 1998 the 8 Core Conventions were consolidated into 4 International Labour Standards:

• Freedom of association & right to collective bargaining 
• Abolition of forced labour
• Elimination of Worst Forms  of Child Labour     
• Equality of opportunity and treatment

Keynote Speakers include:
Peter Mackay (Business NZ). Peter Anderson (ACCI), Helen Kelly (President, NZCTU), Margaret Wilson (Professor of Law at Waikato University & former NZ Minister for Labour), and representatives of the ILO, ACTU, Australian Department of Education, Employment & Workplace relations, and NZ Department of Labour.

CALL FOR PAPERS


Papers are called for in the following areas:
What has been the significance of the ILO for Australia and New Zealand?
What influence have Australia and New Zealand had on the ILO?
What does the future hold for interaction of the ILO with Australia & New Zealand?

Abstracts of 300 words should be submitted to nzwalmi@aut.ac.nz by 15 September. These will then be refereed and authors will be informed of acceptance by 1 October. Papers accepted will be presented at the symposium and following refereeing of the full written papers they will be published in a special issue of the NZ Journal of Employment Relations in June 2010.

SYMPOSIUM ATTENDANCE

Attendance is open to all.
Please contact Ann Williamson at nzwalmi@aut.ac.nz or +64 (0)9 921 9999 ext 6505
Lunch will be provided.
A charge of $45 will apply.