London BUIRA & ProBE webinar: Global worker organisations & environmental regulation
Wednesday 28 May 2025, 17.00 – 18.30 Via Zoom
Dr Coralie Guedes (University of Westminster) on Global Framework Agreements, labour agency, and environmental regulation
Dr Anastasia Alexeeva (University of Westminster) on Global employee representation in enterprise-based worker bodies
Introduced and facilitated by Professor Dimitris Stevis (Colorado State University)
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This virtual London BUIRA (British Universities Industrial Relations Association) seminar is organised in association with University of Westminster’s Centre for the Study of the Production of the Built Environment (ProBE). It is focused on the role of global unions and worker bodies in environmental regulation, and we are fortunate to have two expert speakers, both of whose PhDs were in this area.
Coralie Guedes will discuss prevalent approaches to environmental regulation in the context of negotiating and implementing Global Framework Agreements. Anastasia Alexeeva will discuss her research on the operation and effectiveness of global enterprise-based worker bodies in large multinational companies, exemplified by the World Union Council, Global Union Network, and World Works Council. We are fortunate to have Dimitris Stevis to introduce, facilitate and enrich the discussion through his extensive expertise in the international political economy of environment and labour, with particular attention to environmental labour studies and just transitions.
About our speakers
Coralie Guedes is an early-career inter-disciplinary researcher. Her work focuses on labour environmentalism, analysing workers’ environmental practices and how these intersect with environmental law and policy making. Her recently completed PhD analyses the relevance of Global Framework Agreements for labour agency in processes of transnational environmental regulation.
Anastasia Alexeeva is Senior Lecturer at the University of Westminster. An early career researcher, her work focuses on employee representation and participation, global industrial relations, and employee voice. This research seeks to understand how enterprise-based worker bodies function within the intricate institutional context of global employee representation, focusing on a specific set of developments: the emergence of voluntary regulation.
Dimitris Stevis is professor of international political economy in the Department of Political Science and founder of the Centre for Environmental Justice at Colorado State University, USA. He focuses on environmental labour studies, ecosocial justice, and just transitions. He currently jointly coordinates the Just Transition and Care Initiative and the Exploring Planetary Justice webinar series. Publications include a special issue of Environmental Politics (2024) on Planetary Justice (with Agni Kalfagianni and Stefan Pedersen), Just Transitions: Promise and Contestation(Cambridge University Press, 2023) and The Palgrave Handbook of Environmental Labour Studies (2021, with Nora Räthzel and David Uzzell).
For further details, please email Linda Clarke (clarkel@wmin.ac.uk) or Fernando Duran-Palma (F.Duranpalma@westminster.ac.uk )
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