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21. Canadian Labour Solidarity: Palestine and the World Author : peter waterman
Whilst confronting Israeli apartheid and urging union solidarity with Palestine, a Canadian union veteran also raises questions about the low level of labour internationalism and the areas and issues necessary to raise this. (Peter Waterman).
Tuesday, 24 April 2007 | Read more...

22. Unions in the Doldrums Author : Angus Sibley
Today, the need for effective trade unionism is strong and urgent. For many years now, the position of workers (and I mean not just the traditional "working class", but most people who work for their living) has been growing more difficult.
Tuesday, 24 April 2007 | Read more...

23. Labour at the World Social Forum 2007 in Nairobi/Kenya Author : Andreas Bieler
Labour was well presented at the World Social Forum in Nairobi in January 2007. Many trade unions had sent representatives and a whole range of themes related to labour were discussed. The representatives and activities can roughly be sub-divided int...
Thursday, 01 March 2007 | Read more...

24. A Global Labour Charter Movement Author : peter waterman
There have recently been a number of movement manifestos, some from the union, labour and socialist movement. This one attempts to re-invent the union organisations and labour movement as 'a sword of justice'. Unlike existing manfestos or dec...
Thursday, 01 March 2007 | Read more...

25. Labour at the World Social Forum, Nairobi, January 20-25, 2007 Author : peter waterman
The increasing participation of the ‘old, institutionalised, inter/national trade union organisations’ within the ‘new, networked, World Social Forum’ raises problems for the latter as well as the former. This report and refle...
Thursday, 01 March 2007 | Read more...

26. Trade Union Development in Indonesia Author : Riani Rachmawati and Alex de Ruyter
This paper uses strategic choice theory to present a critical analysis of the factors shaping trade union growth and development in Indonesia, focusing on the recent period of democratization following the downfall of the Suharto regime. Trade unions...
Saturday, 23 December 2006 | Read more...

27. From Global Union Federations to Global Unions? Playing to the strengths of democracy Author : Steve Davies
When companies are local, unions can be local; when companies are national, unions must be national; when companies are global, unions must be global. (UNI, 2006) “Global-” has become an almost ubiquitous prefix for organisations...
Tuesday, 25 April 2006 | Read more...

28. International Framework Agreements (Hammer05) Author : Union Ideas Network (UIN)
This article was published in Transfer 2005, vol 11, issue 4, 511-530.  This paper examines the emergence and the main features of International Framework Agreements (IFAs). IFAs originated in the 1980s and proliferated after 2000. They...
Wednesday, 29 March 2006 | Read more...

29. Lubricating Globalisation Research Project Author : Paula Hamilton
Lubricating Globalisation: Logistics Service Providers, Transnational Production Networks and Prospects for Labour Organisation Based at the Department of Geography, Queen Mary, University of London , this research is a three-year funded CAS...
Sunday, 19 March 2006 | Read more...

30. Structuring The Transnational Space: Can Europe Resist Multinational Capital? Author : Richard Hyman
In this contribution I focus on some tensions between ‘globalisation’ (as we all know, an imprecise and contested concept) and established mechanisms of employment regulation at national level. To this end I draw on a number of recent e...
Wednesday, 08 March 2006 | Read more...

  
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