The platform or “gig” economy has an ambitious goal: the restructuring of work for tens of millions of workers throughout the world. These platforms entice workers with claims about being your own boss (Uber: “You decide when and how often you drive.”[i]), giving you the flexibility to focus on the things that are important to […]
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AFL-CIO: US Labor and International Campaigns
The global organizing efforts of the AFL-CIO provide many interesting examples of international solidarity. In order to adapt to a changing economic environment, affiliates have adopted transnational organizing strategies that help workers from different countries realize their shared interests in achieving better social and economic outcomes. Additionally, the AFL-CIO’s efforts to influence global economic and […]
International Solidarity in the Formation of South Korea’s Migrant Worker Labor Movement
In the face of the rapidly changing, volatile and at times ineffectual labor movement, looking back can provide useful insight in understanding current challenges faced by both migrant and domestic workers. This case focuses on the establishment of a grassroots migrant workers movement in South Korea. This case is unique both in the history of […]
Regulate, Agitate, Organize: How the CWA and its coalition partners are taking on finance capital in the US
By Chad Rosenbloom When the now infamous Wells Fargo scandal was brought to public attention back in October 2016, it wasn’t entirely clear that the groundwork for the revelations had been laid three years before with the creation of the Committee for Better Banks (CBA) under the initiative of the Communications Workers of America (CWA). […]
The Jungle: Rainforest Café workers fighting for fair wages, safe workplace in Niagara Falls
By Chris Fielder In March 2018, workers at the Rainforest Café in Niagara, Ontario, Canada voted overwhelmingly to unionize. The 77-person bargaining unit chose Workers United as their exclusive bargaining representative by a vote of 44 to 7. Almost a year later, the workers still lack a contract with the owners of the Niagara Rainforest […]
In it for the long haul—Two decades of global union solidarity at Bridgestone-Firestone
By Patrick Young Throughout the second half of the twentieth century as corporations globalized, buying and building facilities all over the world, workers and their unions struggled to keep pace by building an interconnected global labor movement. It wasn’t until the 1990s that unions in the United States began dedicating resources to building global solidarity. […]
Solidarity and Campaigns 