Workers Of the World Uniting - Meyerson

[Cassandra]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/26/AR2005082601480.html

"These far-flung unions envision a day when unions from every continent can sit across the table from a global employer and negotiate a common code of conduct and worker rights. Absent that kind of union pressure, a model employer in Europe that abuses its workers in the United States is more likely to bring its European standards down than its U.S. standards up. "It's much easier to change the behavior of a company that's unionized at an 80 percent level globally than it is when it's unionized at 10 percent," says SEIU President Andy Stern."

Very good editorial with more labor history and analysis than most of us ever see.

[BayCityProgressive]

1. Great

Globaliztion is a good thing when rules and regulation go along with it. The ILO needs to be given more authority globally (international Labor Organization).

[niallmac]

2. This is great news

I understand the devil is in the details but to have an actual sit down meeting of labor leaders about globalizing the battered unions is comforting to hear. This topic will never be big enough to replace missing blondes from the headlines but good news for the undeground.