GURN
Description
The Global Union Research Network (GURN) was established in January 2004 as a follow up to the millennium debate of the Global Unions Group. After a request from the international labour movement, the initiative to establish the network was taken by the ILO's Bureau for Workers' Activities (ACTRAV) in cooperation with the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU), the Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD (TUAC) , the Global Union Federations (GUFs) and the ILO's International Institute for Labour Studies (IILS).
The aim of the research network is to give union organizations better access to research carried out within trade unions and allied institutions, while enabling them to exchange information on matters of joint concern and to develop the capacity to make analyses and take part in debates and policy formulation. ETUI has joined GURN as lead-organisation and will contribute to the network by providing it with its expert knowledge on priorities dealt with at the ETUI and thereby contribute to the dissemination of the European input to the global debate. It has been agreed that ETUI will establish a topical page on "Collective bargaining and Wages" and provide the European input and assist in the creation of other topical pages by providing the European input. ETUI-REHS officers will participate in the annual GURN/GLU conference in Johannesburg, South Africa in April 2007, where the results of the institute's research projects on the European situation will be disseminated.
Researchers
Dr. Maarten Keune
Senior researcher, ETUI-REHSphone: +32 (0) 2 224 07 23
Maria Jepsen
Head of departmentphone: +32 (0) 2 224 04 90
Andrew Watt
Senior researcher, ETUI-REHSphone: +32 (0) 2 224 05 12
