Showing posts with label oslo project. Show all posts
Showing posts with label oslo project. Show all posts
Thursday, 3 December 2015

Is migration from Central and Eastern Europe really an opportunity for trade unions to demand higher wages? Evidence from the Romanian health sector.

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The social failures of the eastward enlargement of the European Union can hardly be ignored anymore. Instead of becoming part of wel...
Thursday, 12 November 2015

Why has the European labor movement largely failed to politicize the EU’s new economic governance regime?

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The creation of the new European governance regime requires an explanation. In contrast to the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC)...
Tuesday, 27 October 2015

“Sic Vos Non Vobis” (For You, But Not Yours): The Struggle for Public Water in Italy.

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Resistance against water privatisation is one of the success stories in the struggle against neo-liberal globalisation. And where priva...
Monday, 31 August 2015

Labour and Transnational Action in Times of Crisis

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From August 2013 to June 2014, the trasnational labour project group came together in Oslo to work on the project Globalization and the p...
Monday, 27 October 2014

Transnational solidarity? The European working class in the Eurozone crisis.

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European labour movements are under severe pressure as a result of the global financial and Eurozone crises, which have been used by capi...
Thursday, 5 June 2014

Analysing exploitation and resistance: the centrality of class struggle.

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In my recent article ‘Transnational Labour Solidarity in (the) Crisis’, published in the Global LabourJournal and freely downloadable ...
Wednesday, 7 May 2014

The perpetuum mobile of privatisation

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Privatisation is a truly fantastic thing. Privatising public services would result in four benign consequences, we are told: (1) the produc...
Sunday, 4 May 2014

Fighting against water privatisation in Italy: La lotta continua!

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Victory in the 2011 referendum against water privatisation had been emphatic. More than 57 per cent of the Italian electorate cas...
Thursday, 1 May 2014

Fighting against water privatisation in Italy: Road to Victory!

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Against the background of the global and Eurozone financial crises as well as austerity sweeping across Europe, the pressure on privatisi...
Thursday, 24 April 2014

Marxism, Social Movements and resistance to capitalist exploitation!

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In the Theses On Feuerbach , Marx famously wrote that ‘the philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to c...
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Sunday, 23 March 2014

Renzi’s Reforms, Italian Trade Unions and the EU!

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In a previous post in December 2013 (see The Election of Matteo Renzi and the Future of Italian Trade Unions ) Darragh Golden discussed t...
Thursday, 20 March 2014

Unions across borders

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The global wage earning class today may be estimated to 2.5 to 3 billion. Among these 5 to 7.6 per cent are unionized. In a core capitali...
Saturday, 8 March 2014

How to explain the Swiss vote against the Free Movement of Workers

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On 8 February 2009, almost 60 percent of Swiss voters supported the extension of the bilateral EU-Switzerland agreement on the free movem...
Wednesday, 5 March 2014

Labour and transnational action in times of crisis!

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With the repercussions of the economic crisis still reverberating through the global system, what are the possibilities of labour movements...
Tuesday, 21 January 2014

Amazon workers' long-running war on wages and working conditions!

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Workers in Germany are currently locked into a bitter struggle with the online retailer Amazon. In this guest post, Halvor Fjermeros repor...
Thursday, 16 January 2014

Exploitation in the Global South and North: lessons from the aluminium industry.

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The production of aluminium is based on the destruction of the environment and exploitation of workers in the Global South and North alik...
Monday, 13 January 2014

NUMSA asserting its independence: showing the way for unions in Europe?

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When I attended the Futures Commission of SIGTUR in Johannesburg/South Africa, Nelson Mandela was already seriously ill in hospital (see ...
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Friday, 27 December 2013

Crucible of Resistance: Class struggle over ways out of the crisis.

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Many commentators make Greece and other peripheral EU members responsible for the sovereign debt crisis. People in these countries would ...
Monday, 16 December 2013

The Election of Matteo Renzi and the Future of Italian Trade Unions

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Matteo Renzi, mayor of Florence, was recently elected leader of the Italian Partito Democratico (Democratic Party). All Italians could vot...
Monday, 9 December 2013

Confronting Neo-liberal Capitalism: SIGTUR’s tenth Congress in Perth/Australia, 2 to 6 December 2013.

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Last week, I attended the tenth Congress of the Southern Initiative on Globalisation and Trade Union Rights (SIGTUR) in Perth/Australia, 2...
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