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Labour Review issue no. 171 - September 2006

industrial relations international

Protecting the Worker and Not the Job?
The real lessons from collective bargaining practice in Denmark and Sweden.

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union rights

Workers’ Human Rights in Australia
This paper is about the legal protection of the human rights of workers in Australia. In particular the focus in on aspects of the protection of freedom of association, and how Australian law acts to eliminate discrimination in employment and occupation.

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union rights - international

Statutory Union Recognition in North America and the UK: Lessons for Australia?
Freedom of association, the right of employees to freely choose union representation and collective bargaining, is a human right under international law.

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Social issues

Time for the World Bank/IMF to Listen to Workers
In a joint statement released by the Global Unions group and the World Confederation of Labour, the trade union movement proposes a major rethinking of the roles that the IMF and World Bank play in the global economy

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union rights - international

Spotlight on Rosa Calle (COB/COMUANDE-Bolivia)
Rosa Calle, the trade union education and social protection secretary for the Bolivian workers’ confederation COB and president of the Bolivian Section of the Andean Women Workers’ Network, COMUANDE gives us an overview of the situation in Bolivia.

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union rights - international

Spotlight on Sofía Ríos (COB/COMUANDE-Bolivia)
“We’re fighting for a long-term strategic approach to universal health care”

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union rights - international

Sri Lanka: Unions Overcome Barriers to Organising in Export Processing Zones
The number of unions recognised in Sri Lanka's zones is still quite low, but the inroads made so far offer a ray of hope. What strategies are trade unions deploying to organise the export processing zones, well-known bastions of anti-unionism in Sri Lanka, as elsewhere in the world?

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