Labour at the World Social Forum 2007 in Nairobi/Kenya Print E-mail
Written by Andreas Bieler   
Thursday, 01 March 2007
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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