Labor’s Soft Means and Hard Challenges: Fundamental Discrepancies and the Promise of Non-Binding Arbitration for International Framework Agreements

Marzan describes Global Framework Agreements and explores some obstacles, including disagreements between parties. He explores one solution, non-binding arbitration based on ILO rules. Non-binding arbitration can be one step to …

Mongolia: Research on Implementation of Labour Law

This report conducted by the Research Institute of Labour and Social Protection reviews labour law implementation on a wide range of issues, including individual and collective rights. It also provides …

Migrant Workers’ Access to Justice at Home: Indonesia

Migrant Workers’ Access to Justice Series (Open Society Foundations), UNSW Law Research Paper No. 2013-75 This comprehensive study analyzes the mechanisms through which Indonesian migrant workers can seek justice in …

La afiliación sindical de la población inmigrante. El caso de CCOO de Cataluña

“La movilización de la población trabajadora inmigrante y su vinculación con las organizaciones sindicales de los países de destino continúa siendo un tema central para las ciencias sociales del trabajo. …

Varieties of Power in Transnational Labor Alliances: An Analysis of Workers’ Structural, Institutional, and Coalitional Power in the Global Economy

This article (in 38 Lab. Stud. J. 181 (2013)) Brookes identifies three kinds of power (structural, institutional, and coalitional) that workers exercise in transnational campaigns. Brookes weighs the strengths of …

Dealing with Employment Termination in China

An article dealing with the issue of employment termination in China for the education of multinational companies. The purpose of this article is to provide a framework to multinational companies …

Japan: Equal Employment Opportunity Act, Having Passed the Quarter- Century Milestone

This article explains the enactment and transformation of the Act on Securing, Etc. of Equal Opportunity and Treatment between Men and Women in Employment (Equal Employment Opportunity Act) in Japan. …

Japan: Equal Employment Opportunity Act, Having Passed the Quarter- Century Milestone

This article explains the enactment and transformation of the Act on Securing, Etc. of Equal Opportunity and Treatment between Men and Women in Employment (Equal Employment Opportunity Act) in Japan. …

Swedish trade unions and European Union migrant workers

The article shows that intra-national variation can be explained by sectoral-based issues: that is, variation at both a country and sectoral level influences unions’ strategic choices towards migrant workers. The …

A Distorted “Semi-liberal Market of Migrant Workers” in Taiwan

Abstract: “Under the waves of globalization, the poor do not have safe, secure and fair opportunities or means to migrate freely for work. Migrant workers in Taiwan are oppressed and …