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MANCHESTER INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS SOCIETY
 

The Manchester Industrial Relations Society is a well-established and important forum for the discussion of industrial relations and employment issues within Britain and internationally. Founded 44 years, the Society has mounted a continuous annual programme of meetings addressed by distinguished speakers from the industrial relations, HRM and trade union work. We now have over 140 members from across the north-west drawn from management, trade unions, Acas, Equality and Human Rights Commission, Industrial Law Society Human Rights, and universities.

If you want to be:
kept informed of the latest development in industrial relations
have the opportunity of listening to nationally prominent IR figures
participate in debates about important employment related issues
meet other north-west based practioneers and IR academics
 
then you should joint the Manchester Industrial Relations Society.

Applications for membership (£20 or £3 for full-time students), with cheques made payable to the Manchester Industrial Relations Society, should be sent to: Professor Ralph Darlington, Salford Business School, University of Salford, Salford M5 4WT

Tel: 0161-295-5456; email: r.r.darlington@salford.ac.uk

Website : www.business.salford.ac.uk/mirs

Forthcoming MIRS meetings

Thursday 16 October 2008 6pm

Arthur Priest Memorial Lecture

Industrial Relations in China

Speaker: Bill Taylor

Fulbright Fellow, School of Industrial and Labor Relations. Cornell University, and

Associate Professor, City University of Hong Kong

Thursday 13 November 2008 6pm

Joint Meeting with CIPD

An Approach to Industrial Relations in Royal Mail: Balancing Pace with Patience

Speaker: Sandy Batho,

Ex-Head of Employee Relations, Royal Mail Letters

Director of Human Resources and Change, National Trust (Scotland)

 

Thursday 4 December 2008 6pm

Unions Online: E-Campaigns, Facebook, Twitter and Beyond

Eric Lee

Editor of www.labourstart.org

All meetings take place in the Main Lecture Theatre, Manchester Metropolitan University, Aytoun Street, Manchester (near Piccadilly railway station)

Best wishes.
Professor Ralph Darlington
Professor of Employment Relations
Salford Business School
University of Salford
Salford M5 4WT

Phone: 0161-295-5456

email: r.r.darlington@salford.ac.uk

Manchester Industrial Relations Society website:

www.business.salford.ac.uk/mirs