November 20, 2007 China’s new Labor Contract Law will become effective on January 1, 2008. At that time companies will be required to provide a written contract to each employee and to provide a handbook of company policies and procedures developed in consultation with worker representatives. The new law gives new rights to employees… Read More »
LABOR AND THE GREEN JOBS OF THE FUTURE
October 31, 2007 American auto workers and the UAW have been struggling – and even striking – to try to save their members’ jobs. In the last round of negotiations with GM and Chrysler the union won job guarantees for a segment of its shrinking membership. But tragically, most of the jobs it saved… Read More »
OBSTACLES TO GLOBALIZING THE LABOR
September 24, 2007 Once employers were mostly local; so were unions. When local companies became national corporations, unions too had to go national. Now capital has gone global. Today, there is little disagreement in the labor movement that unions now have enter the global arena. But this is easier said than done. In order… Read More »
A NEW GLOBAL WARMING POLICY FOR LABOR
July 5, 2007 This is the seventh piece in GLS’s series on Labor and Global Warming. By campaigning against the Kyoto agreement, and until recently remaining silent on the corporate strategy to bamboozle the American people into allowing carbon pollution to burgeon unabated, the U.S. labor movement will be widely seen as complicit… Read More »
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