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Re-framing trade: Union mobilisation against GATS
Network member Mike Waghorne has written in to recommend Donna McGuire’s new book, ‘Re-framing Trade: union mobilisation against the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS)‘. Mike says: Donna is...
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Collective industrial relations: Development economics for the global north
This week sees yet another make or break conference for the interminable Doha Round of World Trade Organization talks, writes network member Conor Cradden. This time it’s in Bali, and on the agenda...
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Fair Work / Union Made – A new global standard?
This article proposes the creation of a new international sustainability standard certifying that wages and working conditions are set in ongoing processes of good faith collective bargaining....
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Global Unionism: The Occupational Citizenship Model
This is the final in our series on how global unions might be built. In it, the author argues for a rejuvenated form of solidarity built around occupation. Industrial unions began to replace guilds...
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Meet UnionWiki
The global union database project – UNIONWIKI – was launched today (25/5/14). In true Wiki tradition, the project has soaked up thousands of hours of collaborative work from volunteers within the New...
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Recent trends in union membership – don’t believe everything you think!
The usual story begins sometime in the late ’70s. Cue violins. Besotto voce: The rise of neoliberalism — as personified by Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher — signalled the beginning of the end for...
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Fair Work: Union Made
Following on from discussions with network members last year, we’ve been talking with the good folk at LabourStart about the creation of a new organisation: provisionally named The Fair Work...
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safeSpace – anonymous email and meeting rooms
Bestu oskir from Iceland — the Switzerland of data! That’s where you’ll find safeSpace, an anonymized communication tool created by volunteers from the New Unionism Network. It’s an online facility...
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Solidarity and the Gig Economy – by Peter Hall-Jones
Solidarity and the gig economy by Peter Hall-Jones for the New Unionism Network It’s a credit to the tireless efforts of Professor Guy Standing that the word ‘precariat’ has made its way into most...
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ILO and the Future of Work
The paper below has been submitted for open discussion by members and friends of the New Unionism Network1. Our conclusions will be presented to the International Labour Organisation (ILO) on or before...
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