Women’s Labor Migration from Asia and the Pacific: Opportunities and Challenges

This report by MPI and the International Organization for Migration examines the factors impacting women migrants in the Asia-Pacific region and details key policy challenges faced by women migrants in the …

Teachers Service Commission vs Kenya National Union of Teachers, Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers & Attorney General as interested party

This case is about strike rights. The case raises several issues. First, the right to strike is a constitutional right. In this case, Section 76 of the Labour Relations Act …

Makwickana v Ethekwini Municipality and Others

11662/13) [2015] ZAKZDHC 7; 2015 (3) SA 165 (KZD) (17 February 2015)  

From kin to contract: labour, work and the production of authority in rural Mongolia

A study on pastoral labour, which is common in Mongolia but largely governed by local customs rather than labour law. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03066150.2014.974569?scroll=top&needAccess=true

Saskatchewan Federation of Labour v. Saskatchewan

The Supreme Court of Canada declared the right to strike to be fundamental and protected by the Constitution. https://scc-csc.lexum.com/scc-csc/scc-csc/en/item/14610/index.do

Example of a Global Framework Agreement between Total and IndustriALL.

Example of a Global Framework Agreement between Total, the large French oil and gas company, and the IndustriALL Global Union. IndustriALL website, http://www.industriall-union.org/sites/default/files/uploads/documents/GFAs/Total/accord_monde_csr_total_-_industriall_global_union_-_22_janvier_2015_-_finale_-_english.pdf

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An Analysis of the Labor Market for Uber’s Driver-Partners in the United States

This paper provides the first comprehensive analysis of Uber’s driver-partners, based on both survey data and anonymized, aggregated administrative data. Uber has grown at an exponential rate over the last …

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Trade Union Responses to Labour Immigrants: Selective Solidarity

This article is related to the migrant workers’ situation in Finland. This qualitative case study analyses the outcomes of the union’s strategies in questions related to immigration. The outcomes affect …

Sexual orientation–based wage gaps in Australia: The potential role of discrimination and personality

This article describes the wage-gaps between workers engaged in same-sex relationships.  Particularly, this article identifies a negative wage-gap between gay men, indicating discrimination based on sexual orientation. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1035304615570806  

Trade Unions, immigration and immigrants in Europe revisited: Unions’ attitudes and actions under new conditions

This paper is a follow-up report of the authors’ comparative approach used in their book “Trade Unions, Immigration and Immigrants in Europe, 1960-1993. New York: Berghahn Books.”  The report examines trade …

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