Dear UALE and IFWEA friends: Joe Berry and I have just spoken with our faculty contact at Ton Duc Thang University in Viet Nam, Hoang Thi Tuong Vinh, who is organizing a conference to be held January 4, 2024. The conference is a collaborative effort between the Law School and the Department of Labor Relations. It is being held at the request of the Viet Nam General Confederation of Labor, the national labor union. The mandate from the union to the University was to “learn from other countries.” The conference is explicitly a way to gather research to inform how Viet Nam will implement changes in their labor law. Collective bargaining as an adversarial process is a relatively new element of their labor regime. (We’ll be happy to provide more deatils about this to anyone who is interested. We taught there three times pre-COVID.) They are looking for paper submissions to this conference. The specific situation that they are most interested in hearing about is how collective bargaining is carried out in enterprises where workers are represented by more than one union — for example, where there might be three different unions in one business relating to one employer. They are interested in case studies from different sectors as well as from different countries. This is a unique opportunity for UALE members to share experience and learn from the global labor movement. The conference, which will be entirely in English, will be on line for overseas participants but in person at Ton Duc Thang in Ho Chi Minh City. Here is the call: Dear Sir, Madame, Faculty of Labour Relations & Trade Unions and Faculty of Law of Ton Duc Thang University and College of Management of Nanhua University co-organize The International Conference on Labour Relations and Labour Law 2024 (ICLRLL 2024) in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam on January 05th, 2024. The aim of ICLRLL 2024 is to provide a forum for academics and professionals to share research findings, experiences and knowledge in labour relations and labour law. We welcome the submissions in the following specific topics on labour relations and labour law. Authors of accepted papers will be invited to present their work at the Conference both online and offline. This conference will be organized on the following tracks and topics: Keynote speakers: - Professor Wann-Yih Wu, Nanhua University, Taiwan - Professor Sébastien Point, Strasbourg University, France Discussion topics: - Work productivity and efficiency - Roles of government in collective bargaining - Roles of trade union at upper level in collective bargaining - Strategies, tactics and process of collective bargaining - Collective bargaining experiences of your country or different countries in the world in the context that there are many trade unions at the enterprise level - Federation of labour structure and functions of its level - Law regulations on collective bargaining and collective bargaining agreement - The principle of bargaining in good faith in law of your country - Other labour relation and law issues. We would like to invite you to be a part of the ICLRLL 2024 and submit your research papers for presentation consideration with the following timeline: Registration and abstract submission deadline: 30 September, 2023 Full paper submission deadline: 20 November, 2023 Announcement of full paper acceptance: 30 November, 2023 Conference: 05 January, 2024 All papers must be submitted online and subjected to a blind peer-review process by the Committee. Please submit your full paper to the Conference via the email: iclrll2024@tdtu.edu.vn <mailto:iclrll2024@tdtu.edu.vn> . Your questions may be addressed to our Conference's email at iclrll2024@tdtu.edu.vn <mailto:iclrll2024@tdtu.edu.vn> . Your participation in this effort to produce research papers will contribute to the written body of knowledge and to the success of ICLRLL 2024. We look forward to receiving your abstract and/or full paper in response to the call, and happy to respond to inquiries from interested parties. Sincerely, Dinh Hoa Nguyen, PhD. Chair of ICLRLL 2024 Dean of Faculty of Labour Relations and Trade Unions Ton Duc Thang University, Vietnam Feel free to contact me, Helena Worthen, or Joe Berry at joeberry@igc.org <mailto:joeberry@igc.org> for more information. They are also looking for more people to come and teach directly at TDT the way Joe and I did; speak up if you aren interested in talking about that. They have not had US faculty there since COVID but have now re-upped their programs. Yours in solidarity, Helena hworthen@illinois.edu <mailto:hworthen@illinois.edu> helenaworthen@gmail.com helenaworthen@gmail.com https://www.laborsbookstore.com/collections/all/products/power-despite-precarity-strategies-for-the-contingent-faculty-movement