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• Labor & TUs

  How youth activism is kicking unpaid internships to the curb

  6 June, by COHEN Nicole, DE PEUTER Greig, OAKLEY Kate

  Employers are finding it increasingly difficult to promote un- or low-paid internships. Not because of a fall in unemployment, but because young workers are more likely to know their rights.
  It’s job search season for students and fresh graduates, which means a bump in media interest in (...)

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  What does the Commonwealth mean to its 30 million unionised workers?

  17 April, by MOORE Toni

  The Commonwealth Trade Union Group (CTUG) represents 30 million workers from the Commonwealth of Nations, an intergovernmental organisation of 53 member states that are mostly former territories of the British Empire. This week, a delegation of 10 to 15 trade unionists, hosted by the UK’s Trades (...)

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  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 (...)

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  Transnationalizing Unions: The Case of the UAW and the IG Metall

  1 April 2017, by FICHTER Michael

  This is a case study of the processes that have put the transnational cooperation of the German IG Metall and the UAW in the U.S. on a new trajectory. It is a template for the challenges unions face in adapting their self-interest toward building transnational solidarity and being able to (...)

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  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 (...)

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  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 (...)

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  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 (...)