Global Labour Institute

The Global Labour Institute (GLI Network Ltd) in the UK, is part of an international network of not-for-profit organisations with the stated aim of promoting international solidarity among trade union organisations and affiliated groups in order to achieve a democratic and sustainable world society. The major activities of the GLI organisations are developing education, capacity-building and research on international labour movement development, gender policy and organising strategies. The Global Labour Institute works with global union federations, national trade unions and NGOs such as WIEGO and Oxfam,[1] and it states an ideological commitment to democratic socialism.[2]

History

The first Global Labour Institute was established in Geneva in 1997 and is chaired by Dan Gallin, a former General Secretary of the International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers' Association (IUF)[3][4] who has published widely on the history and future of the international trade union movement.[5][6][7] The international GLI network is constituted of three further Global Labour Institutes. The Global Labor Institute at Cornell University, New York[8] specialises in labour and the environment[9] coordinating the US Labour Leaders Climate Forum[10] and the Trade Unions for Energy Democracy initiative.[11] The third and fourth GLIs are based in Manchester, UK[12] and at the Praxis Center, Moscow, Russia.[13]

Activities

The Global Labour Institute runs an International Summer School at Northern College, Barnsley, which brings together unionists from across the world to discuss what are, and what should be, the politics of the international trade union movement.[14] The first International Summer School took place in July 2012, and included 86 participants from 26 different countries.[15] The event has received praise in a number of trade union publications [16][17][18] and the 2013 International Summer School took place 8–12 July 2013.[19][20]

References

  1. ↑ Global Labour Institute (GLI Network Ltd), 'Building Better Lives for Working-Poor Women', Research Report to Oxfam GB, (http://www.oxfam.org.uk/~/media/Files/policy_and_practice/food_livelihoods/working_poor_women_report_042011.ashx)
  2. ↑ WIEGO (http://wiego.org/resources/global-labour-institute-gli)
  3. ↑ Eric Lee, Global LabourNet (http://www.labourstart.org/labour46.html)
  4. ↑ Global Labour Institute, Geneva (http://www.globallabour.info/en/)
  5. ↑ Dan Gallin (2001), 'Propositions on Trade Unions and Informal Employment in Times of Globalisation', Antipode 33 (3), (http://www.ifwea.org/@Bin/217840/Gallin2001.pdf)
  6. ↑ Dan Gallin (2000) 'Trade Unions and NGOs: A Necessary Partnership for Social Development', UNRISD, Programme Paper, (http://unpan1.un.org/intradoc/groups/public/documents/un-dpadm/unpan040131.pdf)
  7. ↑ Dan Gallin (2008) 'International Framework agreements: a reassessment', in Konstantinos Papadakis (eds) Cross Border Social Dialogue and Agreements: An emerging global industrial relations framework?, ILO, (http://www.oit.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---dgreports/---dcomm/---publ/documents/publication/wcms_093423.pdf#page=31)
  8. ↑ Global Labor Institute, Cornell University, ILR School (http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/globallaborinstitute/)
  9. ↑ Sean Sweeney, 'How Unions Can Help Secure a Binding Global Climate Agreement in 2011', Labour Network for Sustainability (http://www.labor4sustainability.org/post/the-durban-challenge/#more-1336)
  10. ↑ Philip Pearson, Touchstone, TUC, (http://touchstoneblog.org.uk/2009/07/just-transition-forum-a-place-at-the-table/)
  11. ↑ Trade Unions for Energy Democracy (http://energydemocracyinitiative.org/)
  12. ↑ Global Labour Institute UK http://global-labour.net/)
  13. ↑ Praxis Research and Educational Center (http://www.praxiscenter.ru/about_us/english/)
  14. ↑ Social Network Unionism, 'GLI 2012 International Summer School' (http://snuproject.wordpress.com/2012/05/08/the-gli-2012-international-summer-school-on-the-political-agenda-of-the-international-trade-union-movement/)
  15. ↑ Celia Mather, 'The Political Agenda of the International Trade Union Movement', (http://www.newunionism.net/library/internationalism/GLI%20-%20The%20Political%20Agenda%20of%20the%20Trade%20Union%20Movement%20-%202012.pdf)
  16. ↑ Union Solidarity International, Global Labour Institute Summer School (http://usilive.org/global-labour-institute-summer-school/)
  17. ↑ Josiah Mortimer, UnionBook, (http://www.unionbook.org/profiles/blogs/preliminary-report-on-global-labour-institute-s-2012-summer)
  18. ↑ Romain Felli, 'Syndicats sans Frontieres', Le Courrier, (http://www.lecourrier.ch/100489/syndicats_sans_frontieres)
  19. ↑ Global Labour Institute, 'International Summer School 2013', (http://global-labour.net/2013/03/2013-international-summer-school-the-political-agenda-of-the-international-trade-union-movement/)
  20. ↑ Econospheres, 'International Summer School 2013',(http://www.econospheres.be/spip.php?article343)

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