Twenty unions in Cork City and county have joined forces in a first-of-its-kind initiative to better organise workers and the wider community. The initiative, called One Cork, involves a much deeper level of collaboration between the unions — at workplace and societal levels — to organise, campaign, educate, train, and communicate with workers, their families and the wider community. The work of One Cork will focus on a number of areas, including organising workers into trade unions on a collaborative basis and communicating workers’ rights more effectively. The pilot will be replicated in Belfast before being extended.
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For more information, please contact the editor Jan Cremers, Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies (AIAS) cbn-aias@uva.nl or the communications officer at the ETUI, Mariya Nikolova mnikolova@etui.org. For previous issues of the Collective bargaining newsletter please visit http://www.etui.org/E-Newsletters/Collective-bargaining-newsletter. You may find further information on the ETUI at www.etui.org, and on the AIAS at www.uva-aias.net.