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The challenges for unions organising in the context of global capital |
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Written by Frances O'Grady
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Monday, 28 May 2007 |
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Frances O’Grady, TUC Deputy General Secretary
This session will set the scene for the conference. The presentation will introduce the conference focusing on the challenges faced by unions as a consequence of the growth in global capital. How do unions organise faced with the power of transnational corporations? What are the ways in which unions can join forces to build their collective strength?
UIN Conference - 17th May 2007
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Globalisation and the trade union movement |
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Written by Steve Davies
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Monday, 21 May 2007 |
Thompson’s Annual Lecture at the Cardiff Centre for Global Labour Research
Globalisation and the trade union movement
Thurs, 31 May, 2007
Speakers:
Philip Jennings, General Secretary, Union Network International UNI), the Global Union Federation for the service sector.
Paul Mason, BBC Newsnight Industrial Correspondent and author of new book: ‘Live Working or Die Fighting: how the working class went global’
Chair: Ed Heery, Co-Director, Cardiff Centre for Global Labour Research
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Canadian Labour Solidarity: Palestine and the World |
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Written by peter waterman
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Tuesday, 24 April 2007 |
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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).
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Unions in the Doldrums |
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Written by Angus Sibley
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Tuesday, 24 April 2007 |
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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.
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Labour at the World Social Forum 2007 in Nairobi/Kenya |
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Written by Andreas Bieler
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Thursday, 01 March 2007 |
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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 into two groups, established labour and its push of the Decent Work initiative and more radical trade unions and their efforts to establish, together with social movement activists, a Labour Network. This article assesses the possibilities of labour to become an active part in the resistance movement to neo-liberal globalisation.
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