Beyond Solidarity: The Need and Promise of International Unionism
Submitted by Caneperic on Tue, 03/01/2011 - 7:33pm
Panel Abstract:
Neoliberal globalization has made it clear that in view of the growing power of global corporations and the declining power of the state, there need to be organizations that can negotiate global agreements with global corporations. The practice of single national contracts for an entire sector is established practice in Italy, and the European governance increasingly suggests Europe-wide labor organization. In the US the need to confront corporations by combining the strength of US with e.g. Latin American workers similarly puts transnational labor organization on the agenda. The panel will compare the situations in the US and Italy and the kinds of solutions generated by the labor movements in both countries.
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- E. Panel Session 2—Saturday 12:00 p.m. – 1:50 p.m.
- Paddy Quick—St. Francis College
- Approved
- Nicola Nicolosi—Italian General Confederation of Labor (CGIL)
- Paddy Quick—St. Francis College
- Sean Sweeney—Global Labor Institute, Cornell
- Stephanie Luce—Murphy Institute/CUNY
- Steve Lerner—SEIU Justice for Janitors
- 31
- W628
Panel Abstract:
Neoliberal globalization has made it clear that in view of the growing power of global corporations and the declining power of the state, there need to be organizations that can negotiate global agreements with global corporations. The practice of single national contracts for an entire sector is established practice in Italy, and the European governance increasingly suggests Europe-wide labor organization. In the US the need to confront corporations by combining the strength of US with e.g. Latin American workers similarly puts transnational labor organization on the agenda. The panel will compare the situations in the US and Italy and the kinds of solutions generated by the labor movements in both countries.
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