Martin Smith, National Organiser GMB
The globalization of capital implies an increased mobility of labour. It challenges how workers identify themselves, but also provides new opportunities for building solidarity within workplaces and across continents. The GMB position is to think globally but organise locally, giving priority to solidarity in action in the workplace above refining union structures. The first victims of low pay and casualisation can often be found in the workplaces where migrant workers are employed and our response to the globalization of capital is focused within these workplaces.
 
Discussion questions:
• How do we build a sustainable movement among migrant workers for rights, respect and justice?
• How do we tackle the issues of integration of migrant workers into the union and the workplace?
• What are the limits of community organising?
• How do global union structures help us tackle low pay and casualisation?

UIN Conference - 17th May 2007

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