Archive
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Sean Sweeney and Stuart Basefsky Present at European Foundation Conference - December 5, 2006
Sean Sweeney and Stuart Basefsky were invited presenters at a workshop entitled "Industrial Relations in the EU, USA and Japan and Other Global Economies." Read More »
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The Sixth Dusseldorf Forum for Labor Relations - October 23-24, 2006
Representing the Cornell Global Labor Institute, Gene Carroll attended the Sixth Dusseldorf Forum for Labor Relations in Dusseldorf, Germany. Read More »
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North-South Perspectives on Reinventing the Public Sector - October 6, 2006
On Friday, October 6, 2006, the Cornell Global Labor Institute convened a meeting of trade union leaders and labor-based researchers from several countries to discuss trends and developments pertaining to the public sector. Read More »
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International Roundtable of Food Sector Trade Unions and Farmers Organizations - June 14, 2006
This international roundtable brought together leaders of U.S–based food sector trade unions and peasant farmer organizations from Mexico, India, Brazil, France, Canada and the US. Read More »
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A Sustainable World is Possible 2 - May 8, 2006
International trade union solidarity got a healthy boost on May 8, 2006 when an international delegation of trade unionists attending the Fourteenth Session of the Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) in New York met with American brothers and sisters to discuss mutual problems and share solutions relating to their struggle for sustainable development. Read More »
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Global Unions, Global Justice: Time to Create a New Development Agenda for International Labor? - February 9, 2006
The GLI convened a meeting that attracted 130 trade unionists from around the world to discuss international labor's development agenda. Read More »
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Perspectives on Chinese Labor - July 27, 2005
24 union officials from Wuhan, China (8 million) addressed key questions facing labor in China and the relationship between Chinese Unions and those in the US and Canada. Speakers included: Cathy Wilson, Canadian Auto Workers, Mark Levinson, UNITE HERE!, and Vice Chairman Hu Wieding from the Hubei Province.
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A Sustainable World is Possible - April 18, 2005
According to Joaquín Nieto Sáinz, member of the Madrid Comissiones Oberas in Spain, "The reality of climate change and the exhaustion of fossil fuels mean that we must radically change our patterns of production and consumption. Unions must be a critical part of this historical transition." Read More »
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AFL-CIO President John Sweeney on the 'Social Dimension' of Globalization - March 14, 2005
"Decent work for all must be a global goal, one that will require serious reform of the international rules and institutions that shape today's globalization," said John Sweeney at the Broken System Conference at Cornell ILR. Read More »
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Towards Gender Justice and Peace in Colombia - February 28, 2005
Patricia Buritica Cespedes, Central Unitaria de Trabajadores Colombianos (CUT), and Rosa Flerez, Confederacion de Trabajadores Colombianos (CTC) led a round table discussion on the importance of international solidarity for women trade unionist in Colombia.
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Reception for Michele Bachelet, Chile's Recently Elected President - January 13, 2005
Co-sponsored by the AFL-CIO and UNITE HERE!, at the reception Dr. Bachelet addressed 100 trade union well-wishers from the New York area. Dr. Bachelet became Chile’s first woman president in January 2006.
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Indian Union Leaders Discuss Outsourcing and Organizing - November 30, 2004
In this conference, leaders of the newly formed New Trade Union Initiative traveled from India to deliver an inspiring message of new organizing. The group also met with leaders of Communication Workers of America and UNITE HERE!. Co-sponsored by Jobs with Justice.
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Challenges to Global Unionism - September 23-24, 2004
In this conference, Zwelinzima Vavi, Secretary General of the Congress of South African Trade Unions joined US labor leaders Richard Trumka, Secretary-Treasurer, AFL-CIO; Bruce Raynor, General President, UNITE HERE!; Tom Woodruff, Vice-President, SEIU; and James P. Hoffa, President, Teamsters for a two day conference discussing workers rights, outsourcing and cross border organizing. Read More »
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Brazil's President is Hosted by Cornell ILR - September 2003
Former ILR Dean Ed Lawler welcomed President of Brazil, Lula da Silva to the Cornell Club September 24th. Brazil’s President, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who was in the U.S. to address the General Assembly of the United Nations, was the guest of honor at a special reception at the Cornell Club in New York City co-sponsored by the School of Industrial and Labor Relations, the AFL-CIO, and the New York Central Labor Council. Read More »