The Global Labour Institute is a labour service organisation established in 1997 in Geneva, Switzerland. Its purpose is to support the efforts of the labour movement to deal with the globalization of the world economy and its social and political consequences and, to this end, to strengthen links and networks between trade unions and other civil society organizations with similar or converging interests, particularly in the defense of human and democratic rights and social justice in all its aspects. It is guided by the principles and values of democratic socialism.
The GLI is chaired by Dan Gallin, former general secretary of the IUF (the international federation of food, agriculture, hotel and catering and tobacco workers’ unions).
This page presents a list of all the posts on the English language site, ordered by category and date (oldest to latest).
- GLI Network Statement on Ukraine
- Let’s Rebuild a Democratic Global Trade Union Movement (Zwelinzima Vavi, 2017)
- Paris is Burning (James P. Hare, 2017)
- Socialist Project: E-bulletin (no:1430,10 June 2017)
- Social Democracy Can Only Tame Capitalism. We Need to Overcome It (Joseph M. Schwartz & Bashar Sankara, 2017)
- Inside the British McStrike (Gregor Gall, 2017)
- The Norwegian elections (Asbjoern Wahl, 2017)
- The power of informal transport workers (ITF, 2017)
- Spain’s crisis is Europe’s opportunity (Yanis Varoufakis, 9 October 2017)
- What the Revival of Socialism in the US Means for the Labor Movement (Shaun Richman and Bill Fletcher, October 2017)
- No more crises as opportunities: An answer to Yanis Varoufakis (Kostas Botopoulos, 19 October 2017)
- Jeremy Corbyn could be the next British prime minister. Now comes the hard part (Gary Younge, 6 November 2017)
- No casting couch for low-wage women but lots of sexual harassment (Jane Slaughter, 21 October 2017)
- Eric Lee: “The Experiment” (Dan Gallin, 24 October 2017)
- How Trump’s anti-immigrant hate is galvanizing hotel workers to fight back (Bruce Vail, 1 November 2017)
- The (false) promises of digitalization (Birgit Mahnkopf, 8 November 2017)
- #MeToo in the Fields: Farmworkers Show Us How to Organize Against Sexual Violence (Sarah Lazare, 25 December 2017)
- Elizabeth Anderson: “Private Government” (J.C.Pan, 30 December 2017)
- My Man Martov (Harold Meyerson, 2017)
- What #MeToo Can Teach the Labor Movement (Jane McAlevey, 27 December 2017)
- Activity report (2014-15)
- Activity report (2016)
- Activity report (2017)
- Brazil: Democracy under assault (Peter Rossman, 2018)
- The Dirty War Against George Soros (Dan Gallin, August 2018)
- HARWU: The aborted attempt to build a national South African catering union, 1984 – 1990 (Allan Horwitz, 2018)
- India General Strike 2019 (Jamie Woodcock, 2019)
- Resisting the Weaponization of Ignorance in the Age of Trump (Henry A. Giroux, 2019)
- Contact centre workers launch new Albanian labour union (UNI, 2019)
- For the University, For the Society (Edlira Xhafa, 2019)
- The migrants’ genocide: the banality of democracy (Irene Caratelli, 2019)
- Photo Essay: Marriott Workers Celebrate Victory on the Picket Line (David Bacon, 2019)
- Workers Ran Their Own Strike and Beat Marriott (David Bacon, 2019)
- Finland’s Revolution (Eric Blanc, 2017)
- Why Unions Must Bargain Over Climate Change (Nato Green, 2019)
- What next in Algeria? (IUF Editorial, 2019)
- Against the GrayZone Slanders (Dan La Botz, 2019)
- ‘Decent work for sex workers’ as ILO’s centenary treat (Karin Astrid Siegmann, 2019)
- American Labour’s Cold War Abroad: From Deep Freeze to Détente 1945 – 1970 (Dan Gallin, 2019)