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• Labor & TUs

  StreetNet International: Nothing For Us Without Us! New forms of self-organisation by workers in the informal economy

  29 June 2017, by HORN Pat

  Ghana StreetNet Alliance march for rights and social security on International Street Vendors Day. StreetNet International has over 600,000 members in 54 affiliated membership-based organisations in 49 countries in Africa, Asia, the Americas and (mainly Eastern) Europe.
  Workers in the informal (...)

• Labor & TUs

  What is really at stake in the Greek crisis – “Solidarity is crucial, now more than ever, for Syriza to continue fighting. Unions should be organizing that solidarity”

  1 July 2015, by IUF

  Editorial posted on the website of the The International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers’ Associations (IUF).
  A spectre is haunting Europe - the spectre of a democratic alternative to austerity. The Syriza government of Greece incarnates that (...)

• Labor & TUs

  Fighting Austerity: Our Crisis and Rebuilding Unions from Below

  19 June 2013, by GALLIN Dan

  This is Dan Gallin speech at a conference co-organized by the Global Labour Institute (GLI), Fighting Austerity: Rebuilding Unions from Below, and held in Athens on June 18-19, 2013. Comrades, I want to open a discussion on our crisis, the crisis of the labour movement, because I believe that (...)

• Labor & TUs

  Walmart Workers Will Rally in Ten Countries December 14, 2012

  13 December 2012, by EIDELSON Josh

  The labor campaign confronting Walmart in the United States is planning an international escalation for tomorrow. In partnership with the global union federation UNI, the union-affiliated group Making Change at Walmart is supporting a “Global Day of Action,” with participation expected from (...)