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Contract and Agency Labour, Research and Education as Organising Tools Professor Richard Croucher Middlesex University Business School. The problems:. 1. Extreme lack of reliable data on CAL.

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  1. Contract and Agency Labour, Research and Education as Organising ToolsProfessor Richard CroucherMiddlesex University Business School

  2. The problems: 1. Extreme lack of reliable data on CAL. 2. What information there is and what successes there have been have not been widely or usefully disseminated. 3. Global Framework Agreements only rarely refer to CAL and where they do it is in a 'soft' way. 4. Most of the world's unions have little or no experience either of organising or of bargaining.

  3. A positive example: The Azeri Oil and Gas Workers Union and Contract Labour 1. Union had no tradition of organising; typical post-soviet union. 2. Union was member of ICEM Black Sea Network built through TU education over years. 3. Dozens of contracting firms in industry, employing Azeris unlike expatriates employed by oil companies. 4.Dispute arose while Black Sea Network meeting in Baku. 5.Network supported union to organise contract workers in McDermott. 6.Now many CAL workers organised and experience galvanised Network.

  4. Local Capacity Building 1. Much current activity is about large developed country unions who dominate GUFs. 2. TU education to build confidence and capacity between activists in linked countries needed. 3. This education can be linked to workers' research and fed back to GUFs. 4. Workers' research on supply chains and the concerns of CAL workers required. 5. Research and education can be used in symbiotic relationship to build confidence and capacity. 6. Process can help to re-balance GUF activity from the bottom up, towards local union action.

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