Trade Unions and Globalisation: Enlarging Agendas

Trends, challenges and responses

Improved alliance-building, international collaboration and the promotion of the adoption of international labour standards are strategies the trade union movement has developed against the backdrop of globalisation. A new book (see reference) examines some of the crucial issues facing the trade union movement. Verena Schmidt, the editor of the book and coordinator of ILO’s Global Union Research Network, explains in an interview how the new policies are being shaped.


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Posted: 22 November 2007





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