2018

21-23 November:  The 3-day long field trip to Brussels gave the students of the European IR & HRM module and the WEGE module the opportunity to visit EU institutions as well as business and trade union confederations. The students met with EU officials and practitioners from the European Parliament (MEPs Martina Anderson and Sean Kelly, Ireland), the European Trade Union Confederation (Pablo Sánchez Centellas, EPSU; Torsten Müller, ETUI), BusinessEurope (Jessie Fernandes, Advisor; Sascha Daghofer, Advisor Federation of Austrian Indutries), and the European Commission (Stefano Filauro, Tim Van Rie, Filip Tanay, DG EMPL).

15 November:  Migrant workers' rights as human rights will be the topic of the joint video conference between UCD and Cornell University. Whilst James Gross (Cornell) will provide US persepctives, Roland Erne (UCD) will give European views.

11 October:  We hosted a public seminar on the special issue 24-2, 2018 of the SAGE journal Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research  entitled Trade unions and the polity: agendas and alliances. 

11 September:  Roland Erne was invited as keynote speaker at the Industrial Relations in Europe Conference IREC 2018 in Leuven (Belgium, 10-12 September). The ERC project team delivered first research findings in two panels. 

6 September:  Roland Erne was invited to open the conference La fin d'un monde? Salariat, sundicats et politiques du travail face aux réformes libérales in Paris. 

1-4 September:  A new 4-day long field trip to Florence took students from our US partner university Cornell to the prestigious European University Institute (EUI), the renowned Centre on Social Movement Studies (Cosmos) at the Scuola Normale Superiore (SNS), the academic center of New York University (NYU) and the national Centro Studi CISL of the reformist Italian trade union confederation (CISL).

14 June:  Roland Erne and Jamie Jordan introduced the European Research Council project at the UCD HRM & Employment Relations Research Seminar in the UCD Smurfit School of Business: Labour Politics and the EU's New Economic Governance Regime.

10 May:  Roland Erne presented on collective bargaining in the EU at the Unite the UNION Ireland seminar Bargaining for Progress: Collective bargaining in Ireland - realities, aspirations and workers' rights.

13 March:  We celebrated publicly the start of the European Research Council (ERC) project Labour Politics & the EU's New Economic Governance Regime in the UCD Smurfit School of Business.

(Andy Storey mentions OurTable in his article about Direct Provision in Ireland.)

2017

22-24 November:  The 3-day long field trip to Brussels gave the students of the European IR & HRM module and the WEGE module the opportunity to visit EU institutions as well as business and trade union confederations. The students met with EU officials and practitioners from the European Parliament (MEP Matt Carthy, Ireland), the European Trade Union Confederation (Pablo Sánchez Centellas, EPSU; Aline Hoffmann, ETUI; Matthieu Méaulle, ETUC), BusinessEurope (Guillaume Cravero, Senior Advisor), and the European Commission (Grzegorz Drozd, DG GROW; Tim Van Rie, DG EMPL).

14/15 June:  We hosted a UCD Jean Monnet Chair Lunchtime Seminar Series with international speakers that was attended by students, researchers and industrial relations practitioners:

13 June:  As part of the WEGE module, we organised a field trip to Eurofound (European Foundation for the Improvement of Working and Living Conditions) on 13 June, where we met the following EU officials: Erika Mezger (Deputy Director); Christian Welz (Senior Project Manager) and Peter Kerckhofs (Research Officer) in the Working Life Unit; Stavroula Demetriades (Senior Research Manager, Employment Unit).

2016

16-18 November:  The 3-day long field trip to Brussels gave the students of the European IR & HRM module the opportunity to visit EU institutions as well as business and trade union confederations. The students met with EU officials and practitioners from the European Parliament (MEP Lynn Boylan, Ireland), the European Trade Union Confederation (Martin Todd, EPSU; Thorsten Müller, ETUI), BusinessEurope (Guillaume Cravero, Senior Advisor), and the European Commission (Stefano Martinelli, DG EMPL; Henning Ehrenstein, Adrian Poignant, Frank Siebern-Thomas, DG GROW).