Educational Services
Knowledge of the global economy, immigration issues and trends, and policy alternatives is an indispensable tool for organizers, stewards and leaders.
Announcement
Monitoring Freedom of Association
The next Monitoring Freedom of Association training will be held in 2010.
Global Labor Institute Trainings
We offer 90 minute, 1/2 day, 1 day and 3 day workshop trainings on the following topics:
- Labor and Climate Change
- US Legislation on Climate Change
- The International Climate Change Negotiations
- Labor and Sustainable Transportation
- Green Jobs in the US Context
- Green Jobs in a Low Carbon World
- Globalization Basics for Unions
- The Global Economy and a Program for Change
- Immigration trends, policies, and union approaches
- Understanding the World Trade Organization and other institutions of global governance
- Working with the international labor movement
- Workers Rights, Anti-Sweatshop Campaigns, Corporate Codes of Conduct, and Framework Agreements
- International Labor and the Environmental Crisis
- Fighting for Global Justice in City and State Politics
Cornell University College Credit Courses
Union leaders, staff and activists can also sign up for 12-week college credit courses offered through the Cornell Labor Studies Certificate Program. These courses are:
- Labor and Globalization
- The International Labor Movement: Past, Present, and Future
- Unions, Climate Change and Sustainability**
- Labor and Immigration: A Global Perspective*
* presently being developed
** this 7 week course is being taught on the main campus in Ithaca starting 8/27.