Is “social Europe” dead? ECJ judgements and workers’ rights

national | worker & community struggles and protests | event notice Wednesday October 08, 2008 11:14 by Eugene Mc Cartan - Communist Party of Ireland cpoi at eircom dot net James Connolly House, 43 East Essex Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2: 087 9733414

Workers Rights Under Attack

NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE AND JOHN HENDY Q.C AS AN ADDITIONAL SPEAKER.

lLars Lundberg (member of Executive Committee, Swedish Building Workers’ Union) hIS UNION WAS INVOLVED IN THE BLOCKADE OF THE BUILDING SITE THAT LED TO THE JUDGEMENT FROM THE EUROPEAN COURT OF JUSTICE.
JOHN HENDY Q.C IS A LEADING BARRISTER SPECIALISING IN LABOUR LAW AND HAS WRITTEN EXTENSIVELY ON THE LAVAL, RUFFERT AND LUXEMBOURG CASES.

Communist Party of Ireland
invites you to a seminar on the theme

Is “social Europe” dead?—ECJ judgements and workers’ rights

Saturday 1 November from 11 a.m - 1-00pm
at Liberty Hall,
Beresford Place,
Dublin.

Guest speakers:
Lars Lundberg (member of Executive Committee, Swedish Building Workers’ Union)
John Hendy QC (chairperson, Institute of Employment Rights).
RSVP cpoi@eircom.net

Communist Party of Ireland—75 years fighting for workers’ rights

p.s.
Please note change of venue due to the number of requests to attend the seminar already received. If you would like to secure your place please contact us.

*Lars Lundberg* is a member of the Building Workers Union in Sweden and a member of its Executive Committee. He has been active in the Swedish labour movement for many years.

*John Hendy QC * is one of Britain's leading barristers and specialises in labour law and has written extensively on ECJ judgements (Laval, Ruffert and Luxembourg cases). He was legal brief to the National Union of Miners in Britain during the miner strike. He is also chairperson, Institute of Employment Rights < www.ier.org.uk > . Both speakers are flying in specially for the seminar.

The seminar will provide an important opportunity to hear from people with first hand knowledge and experience in relation to these important judgements which will have a major and growing impact on the lives of Irish workers and their families over the coming period.