• ITF Nairobi Bus Rapid Transit Report

    GLI Manchester is pleased to announce that the Nairobi Bus Rapid Transit Report is now available to view and download. This report of research has been commissioned for GLI Manchester by the International Transport Workers Federation (ITF) as a contribution to the ITF Our Public Transport (OPT) programme. This report assesses the potential impact of the…


  • Joe Holly

    Joe Holly, co-founder and co-Director of GLI Manchester, passed away on 28 November 2018 after a long illness with motor neuron disease. Joe was a life-long socialist, trade unionist and internationalist, dedicated to the international workers’ education and labour movement. He will be sorely missed by friends and comrades throughout…


  • Global Labour University Online Academy

    The new Global Labour University Online Academy website is now online at: https://glu.iversity.org/ The GLU Academy website shows all available GLU Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) at one glance, including the new course on “Fair Wage Strategies in a Global Economy” which will start in October 2017. The GLU Academy website aims…


  • GLI International Summer School to take a break in 2017

    GLI International Summer School 2016 After five years of successful annual GLI International Summer Schools, the GLI Network has decided to take a break in 2017. All being well and with the continuing support of participating unions and federations, the Summer School will return in 2018 with a refreshed programme…


  • Global Labour University (GLU) online course: Decent Work in Global Supply Chains

    Click above to watch the course trailer.  Starting on January 12th 2017, the Global Labour University (GLU) will be running a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on Decent Work in Global Supply Chains. The course is aimed at trade unionists and anybody interested in decent work in global supply chains.…


  • FILM: “The Power of Informal Transport Workers” – exploding the myth that informal workers can’t be organised

    Click above to watch “The Power of Informal Transport Workers“ GLI Manchester is pleased to announce that our new short film, “The Power of Informal Transport Workers“, is now available to watch online. “The Power of Informal Transport Workers” shows how informal transport workers across the world are organising in…


  • International Summer School 2016: online archive now available!

    Video produced by the ISS16 Summer School Commission We’re very pleased to announce that you can now access videos, presentations, blog posts and further reading from the 2016 Summer School at our dedicated ISS 2016 online archive page here: ISS 2016 onlive archive The 2016 Summer School culminated in a…


  • The fifth GLI International Summer School begins!

    The sun in Barnsley is shining and the fifth GLI International Summer School has now begun! Held at Northern College in Barnsley, UK, the School brings together trade union activists from across the world “to debate and question what are, and what should be, the politics of the international trade…


  • Trade Unions for Energy Democracy (TUED): Facing up to the Failure of Carbon Markets

      Trade Unions for Energy Democracy (TUED) has published a new working paper, “Carbon Markets After Paris: Trading in Trouble”, which takes a critical look at carbon markets and emissions trading schemes (ETSs), and concludes that these neoliberal policies have “failed both workers and climate”. The policy of “putting a…


  • Job vacancy at Union Solidarity International (USi)

      Union Solidarity International (USi) is seeking to appoint a new member of staff (USi Coordinator) to develop USi’s digital media, and to help provide advice, support and training to the trade union movement as part of a small team based in Manchester. Union Solidarity International is a not-for-profit organisation,…