Trade Unions & Industrial Action (#03)
HR Risk Forums: Trade Unions & Industrial Relations
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Time: 11:00 - 11:30 | FREE
When: Thursday, 15th February 2024
Ahead of our full-day Effective Negotiations with Trade Unions Workshop, this thirty minute webinar highlights the key challenges employers are facing in 2024.
Our research tells us beyond any doubt that employers are finding the new trade union landscape challenging. Both potential political changes and more robust union conflict will intensify the pressure on employers.
Communication and corporate relations expert Lee Whitehill shares expertise from a couple of decades at the coal face of union policy and practice.
If employee retention and avoiding industrial action is on your radar for 2024, don't miss this important update!
This information-packed session looks at:
- The challenges employers are facing in 2024, including a change of government
- How the unions agendas are changing: understanding an increasingly sophisticated leveraging strategy
- Preparing for robust conflict in industrial action
We are accepting questions before and during the broadcast. Please send your questions to elizabeth.smith@bfi.co.uk.
Delegate feedback
"Excellent speakers – focussed, entertaining, knowledgeable"
"Informative, practical with lots of helpful tips to support working with TUs"
"Great, some very practical tips on handling negotiations and especially from someone who has been a TU rep"
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Which functions will benefit from attending
- DIRECTORS, SENIOR MANAGERS, HR AND RECRUITMENT PROFESSIONALS, EMPLOYEE AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS, EMPLOYMENT POLICY, LEGAL, TRADE UNION REPRESENTATIVES, EMPLOYMENT LAW, OPERATIONS, CONCILIATION AND ARBITRATION, DIRECTORS AND MANAGERS WITH INDUSTRIAL AND EMPLOYEE RELATIONS RESPONSIBILITIES
Schedule
Welcome and introduction
Elizabeth Smith
Director of Research , Business Forums International Ltd. (BFI)
Elizabeth is director of research and a founding co-director at Business Forums International. She is responsible for all programme content and writing, and researches current areas of interest for senior HR professionals in large organisations. BFI is the UK’s leading HR risk specialist conference and training provider, delivering key and timely information to over 3,000 delegates a year both through public and in-house training courses. Before founding BFI in 1996, Elizabeth specialised in researching corporate financial programmes in Asia and the Middle East, based in Dubai. She also worked in advertising and publishing in the Middle East and London. Elizabeth was educated in the West Indies, Saudi Arabia and Belgium before reading Modern Languages at Durham University. She is currently developing an online training course for line managers to raise awareness of menopause symptoms and ways that employers can work to make their workplaces more inclusive.
Trade Union relation challenges employers face in 2024
Lee Whitehill
Director of Communications , Whitehouse Communications
Lee is Director of Communications for Whitehouse Communications a leading political communications and media relations company operating in the UK and EU. He has nearly twenty years experience in commercial consultancy and has worked with some of the world's best known companies including Airbus, Leonardo, Babcock, Nissan and Aston Martin as well as global brands such as Coca-Cola, Red Bull and Budweiser. His experience includes leading the London public affairs practice of Hill and Knowlton, a WPP top 10 global PR agency, and ten years as a Director and Group Head of Marketing with Interel Group, a Brussels based public affairs consultancy with offices across North America, Europe and Asia. He specialises in advising clients on reputation, political and government affairs, media strategy and crisis communications. More recently he has been Communications Director for the Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions (CSEU) which is an affiliate organisation consisting of four unions, Unite, GMB, Community and Prospect, running campaigns on behalf of 100,000 members in complex manufacturing and defence. Lee has also founded his own consultancy specialising in digital campaigns and training and has delivered crisis communications workshops for the UK trade body for theme parks and visitor attractions and Effective Political Communications training for members of the Public Relations Consultants Association (PRCA). A winner of the ‘Private Sector Public Affairs Campaign’ of the year, he was recently nominated for ‘Best Use of Digital’ by the Maritime Foundation Media Awards. He is a former Labour Party staffer and worked on the election campaigns in 1997, 2001 and 2005. He began his career in London as Head of Campaigns and Media for the trade union, Unite, where he was the official print and broadcast spokesperson working for two general secretaries across a range of national campaigns and disputes, including the closure of Heathrow following wildcat industrial action.
- The challenges employers are facing in 2024, including a change in government
- How the unions agendas are changing: understanding an increasingly sophisticated leveraging strategy
- Preparing for robust conflict in industrial action
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