September 27, 2007 On September 27, 2007, the world experienced its first virtual strike. In response to a wage dispute, IBM workers in Italy organized a picket outside their company’s “corporate campus” based in the 3-D virtual world of Second Life. According to a report in the Guardian, workers “marched and waved banners, gate-crashed… Read More »
CHINA’S NEW LABOR CONTRACT LAW
July 11, 2007 China’s new Labor Contract Law was enacted by the National People’s Congress on June 29th. It will go into effect on January 1, 2008. The law was enacted with an unusual amount of debate and controversy both in China and worldwide. GLS has written extensively about the attempts by foreign corporations… Read More »
CHALLENGING CORPORATE SECRECY IN CHINA
June 22, 2007 It’s hard to get accurate information about what’s really going on in China’s economy or its workplaces. This is a big problem for unions that need information about the companies they bargain with and the industries within which they operate. It’s also a problem for consumers who need to know about… Read More »
GLOBALIZING WORKERS RIGHTS
May 11, 2007 By Tim Costello, Brendan Smith & Jeremy Brecher This post is based on a contribution to the symposium “‘Neither Slavery Nor Involuntary Servitude’: The Thirteenth Amendment and the Contemporary Struggle for Labor’s rights” that appeared in the March, 2007 New Labor Forum. For generations, workers in the United States and… Read More »
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