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. John Sweeney, President of the AFL-CIO discussed his work on the International Labor Organization's World Commission on the Social Dimension of Globalization. Published in 2004, the commissions report A Fair Globalization points to "ethically unacceptable and politically unsustainable imbalances in the current workings of the global economy." Other speakers included Hamish Jenkins, ILO Geneva; Inez McCormack, former President of Irish Council of Trade Unions; and Carol Barton, Women's International Coalition for Economic Justice. For more details, please see the 'Broken System' Conference program agenda, text from John Sweeney's speech on the Social Dimension of Globalization and the ILO's A Fair Globalization report. 
