Labor Markets, Income Inequality, and Globalization

This panel conversation (in 15 Geo. J. on Poverty L. & Pol’y 475 (2008)) confronts how globalization has affected the distribution of wealth, and what policy mechanisms are available to solve …

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United Kingdom: Lewisham LBC v Malcolm, 2008

This case discusses discrimination based on disability. Here, the claimant (a tenant who had schizophrenia) sublet his house and, under law, forfeited his right to buy it. He had not …

Global Framework Agreement for Health and Safety between ArcelorMittal and IndustriALL

Global Framework Agreement specific to health and safety between ArcelorMittal, the steel and mining company, and IndustriALL Global Union. IndustriALL website, http://www.industriall-union.org/sites/default/files/uploads/images/2018/agreementarcelormittalohs.pdf

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 Unions Without Borders: Recent Developments in the Theory, Practice, and Law of Transnational Unionism

Hyde and Ressaissi propose a general strategy for unions confronting multinational corporations and advocating on behalf of migrant workers. This article examines recent union defeats in Europe, as well as …

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Globalization in Collective Bargaining, Baseball, and Matsuzaka: Labor and Antitrust Law on the Diamond

This article (in 28 Comp. Lab. L. & Pol’y J. 283 (2007)) concerns the globalization of baseball, labor and antitrust litigation, and the Major League Players Association. Gould recalls his …

OECD Case: Workers Assistance Center et al vs. Chongwon Fashion Inc.

NCPs involved: Korea NCP COUNTRY OF OPERATIONS: Philippines DATE: 3 September 2007 STATUS: Rejected ISSUE: The complaint alleged that management threatened to close plants after workers tried to unionize. Once …

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كوريا الجنوبية: قرار المحكمة فيما يتعلق بسلطة النقابة العمالية للتنازل عن بعض الحقوق والعملية المطلوبة لتغيير سياسة التوظيف بشكل سلبي على الموظفين (رقم القضية: 2007Do1539)

هذا قرار صادر عن محكمة فيما يتعلق بما إذا كان بإمكان النقابة العمالية التنازل عن الأجور أو حقوق دفع نهاية الخدمة للموظفين الأفراد من خلال اتفاق جماعي وتأثير اتفاقية جماعية على ...

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Transnational Labor Citizenship

Gordon offers “transnational labor citizenship” as a means to break down barriers of national citizenship between domestic and migrant workers. Her article asserts that political participation, in the age of …

United Kingdom: Glasgow City Council v. McNab, 2007

This case discusses discrimination against an atheist teacher in connection with employment by a religious employer, a Roman Catholic school.  The claimant alleged that he was not even considered for …

Transnational Labor Citizenship

Southern California Law Review, Vol. 80, p. 503, 2007 This article discusses a new approach to regulating cross-border labor migration, through what Gordon calls “transnational labor citizenship.” Under this model, …

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