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TUED Bulletin 150 – Mexican energy unions welcome shutdown of key neoliberal institutions
The Mexican government has proposed a package of 20 reforms, including the dissolution of two energy sector autonomous bodies (the focus of this bulletin) from the power and hydrocarbons sector. In doing so, the government has taken another significant step to roll back the neoliberal reforms that sought to hand…
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TUED Bulletin 149 – South unions launch Asia Pacific effort to build a Public Pathway in the region
Over 50 union leaders from Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Pakistan, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, and South Korea gathered in Bali, Indonesia to share analysis on their respective countries’ energy transition, exchange experiences, and build strategies towards building the Public Pathway approach in the Asia-Pacific region. The meeting’s organisational goals, political…
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GLU Conference And Alumni Workshop
Conference 2024 Global Labour University (GLU) organises yearly conferences on topics of common interest in the network. The conferences rotate among GLU campuses, and allow network members to present research, share ideas, and strengthen connections. This year, the conference will be 25th-27th September at the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in…
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‘Beyond Borders, Beyond Barriers: Young Workers Rise’
From 8th-11th May 2024, GLI Manchester attended the Building & Woodworkers International (BWI) Global Youth Festival in Türkiye. The event marked 10 years of the BWI’s ongoing effort to mobilise young workers amid escalating economic, political and social challenges. 113 delegates came together from over 40 countries and 49 unions across 4 continents.…
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Joint GLI-ITF Initiative on Integrating Labour Impact Assessments into Transport Planning
The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) and Global Labour Institute (GLI) have announced a new initiative that will see the application of labour impact assessments in transport planning around the world. The initiative, announced at the Transforming Transportation conference organised by the World Bank and the WRI Ross Center for…
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International School 2023
The ninth GLI International School took place from 27th – 29th November 2023 near Paris, France, and brought together over 100 trade unionists, researchers and activists from 30 countries. Over three days, conferences, seminars and discussions were held, with the project culminating in the writing of a school manifesto. To…
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Women workers in export processing zones during Covid: the case of Electrolux in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico
– Edme Dominguez In April 2020, a spontaneous uprising of more than 100 workers from the Electrolux factory in Ciudad Juarez led to their dismissal, to their ‘voluntary resignation’. The spontaneous protest was a reaction to the lack of protection measures against Covid that had already started to spread among…
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Transport workers uniting along the Belt & Road
Series: Labour Perspectives on China #6 – Sean Sayer Transport workers move the world. Trade and travel cannot function without us. This means that transport workers are some of the first to be impacted when governments or companies invest in and change the way the world moves and trades. Waves…
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Global Unions respond to ICJ ruling on Gaza Genocide case
GLI Manchester supports the statement from Global Unions. The Global Unions signatory below note the International Court of Justice (ICJ) Order issued in the case filed by South Africa against Israel regarding the application of the Genocide Convention in the Gaza Strip, which demonstrates the vital importance of the international…
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TUED Bulletin 141 – Indonesia: TUED Supports Unions in Constitutional Court Battle to Stop “JETP” Energy Privatisation
Broad coalition organises to defend public energy clause in Indonesian Constitution, oppose pro-privatisation electricity reforms. Following yesterday’s elections in Indonesia, we turn to the country’s energy sector and the Indonesian labor movement’s fight to defend public energy against the threat posed by the “privatise to decarbonise” agenda reflected in the Just Energy…