We are incredibly proud to cheer on our intern, Hadley Husisian, as she competes for the Women's Épée Fencing Team at the Paris 2024 Olympics. Go, Hadley! 🏅 And thanks to Janie CHUANG American University Washington College of Law for connecting us to Olympic-level talent to join our global fight for worker justice.
Global Labor Justice
International Affairs
Washington, District of Columbia 2,920 followers
Promoting dignity and justice for workers in the global economy
About us
Global Labor Justice is a human rights organization that advocates for workers globally. Our core work is three-fold: 1. We hold global corporations accountable for labor rights violations in their supply chains. 2. We advance policies and laws that protect workers. 3. We strengthen workers’ ability to advocate for their rights. Global Labor Justice works with trade unions, faith-based organizations, and community groups to support workers and their families. We lead on initiatives such as making apparel factories safe in Bangladesh; stopping the exploitation of children in the cotton fields of Uzbekistan; increasing the income of farm workers in the cocoa fields of West Africa; developing labor law clinics in China; and supporting threatened union leaders in Latin America’s banana sector.
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http://laborrights.org
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- International Affairs
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- 11-50 employees
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- Washington, District of Columbia
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- 1986
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Employees at Global Labor Justice
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Allison Gill
Legal Director at Global Labor Justice
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Ardra Manasi
Labor Rights, Gender, Migration, Technology & Society
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Alejandra Ancheita
Fundadora y Directora Ejecutiva del Proyecto de Derechos Económicos, Sociales y Culturales, A.C. (ProDESC)
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Raluca Dumitrescu
Senior Coordinator, Cotton Campaign
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Join us in welcoming our second cohort of summer 2024 interns to the team. We are thrilled to have Elizabeth Poulos and Vinze Joshua Valeza join us and are eager to see the impact they will make with their valuable contributions.
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👏🏾 👏 👏🏿 "The truth is that corporations like Nike all too often put Wall Street greed above everything else, including the dignity of the workers who make their products. One common way for large corporations like Nike to reward Wall Street is through stock buybacks, which is when a company buys its own shares... "We must rein in this practice that lets Nike CEO John Donahoe and other executives get richer while the women in South and Southeast Asia who actually make the company’s highly-profitable products toil for low wages that don’t let them live a dignified life and thrive." ⬇ Check out more from Natalia Renta on why Americans for Financial Reform joined our Fight the Heist national day of action to demand Nike lives up to its words about empowering women by signing an agreement with garment workers to transform their supply chains by providing living wages.
Blog: Standing in Solidarity with Garment Workers in Nike’s Supply Chain - Americans for Financial Reform
https://ourfinancialsecurity.org
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Yesterday, women workers from Jakarta to New York linked arms to tell Nike to step up for women garment workers and pay fair wages. 💪 🌏 U.S. women labor leaders and activists in Washington, D.C., Eugene, Portland, NYC, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, and Tucson, called on Nike to make good on its claims to champion racial and gender equality and meet the demands of the garment workers in Asia who make them massive profits. If Nike can afford to pay over a billion dollars for the Olympics, it can ensure that women garment workers in their supply chain earn a living wage. Asia Floor Wage Alliance (AFWA) Communications Workers of America, Model Alliance, UNITE HERE, Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW) Jobs With Justice, RWDSU International Union, Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance, University of Oregon Graduate Teaching Fellows Federation, Democratic Socialists of America Chinese Progressive Association - CPA Boston and many more.
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Join our team—Global Labor Justice is looking for a Staff Attorney/Senior Staff Attorney to work with us and help support worker-led campaigns to win power in the global economy ✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿! Learn more ➡️ https://lnkd.in/eZ-2rq6Q
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We are thrilled to introduce our first group of summer interns! Get to know Marlisa Marquez, Mikhal Kidane, Navya Baradi, Sanyika Maloney, Nida Kadayifci, and Fiona Feingold.
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Join our team—Global Labor Justice is looking for a Staff Attorney/Senior Staff Attorney to work with us and help support worker-led campaigns to win power in the global economy ✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿! Learn more ➡️ https://lnkd.in/eZ-2rq6Q
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Today, GLJ Senior Staff Attorney Sahiba Gill shared powerful insights on the essential role of collective action, enforceable brand agreements, and human rights due diligence in combatting exploitation within global value chains at Labor and Employment Relations Association #Triad2024 #LERA76th
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The U.S. Trafficking in Persons report for 2024 released today argues that freedom of association, collective bargaining, and unions at strong unions are best able to represent workers collective interests and raise working conditions. From the 2024 State Department's Trafficking in Persons Report: "One of the most effective ways to prevent worker exploitation is to guarantee workers’ full rights to freedom of association and collective bargaining. Independent and democratic labor unions, led by workers, are best able to represent workers’ collective interests at multiple levels, including at the national, subnational, regional, and international levels. Collaborating with local workers, regional international organizations, and global union federations, these unions can reach the most vulnerable workers, organize across a labor sector, and advocate for key policy changes, including responsible migration management. As a result, they are well positioned to engage powerful transnational companies to address forced labor in their supply chains." And the 2024 TIP report names supply chain agreements including the Dindigul Agreement with Tamil Nadu Textile and Common Labour Union (TTCU) Asia Floor Wage Alliance (AFWA) and Global Labor Justice and the Fruit of the Loom Agreement in Honduras as "Promising Practices in Improving Labor Conditions." This is a step forward for workers who are organizing and asserting their collective agency from the most difficult parts of the global economy including the bottom of U.S. supply chains. https://lnkd.in/e9i7fuj3
2024 Trafficking in Persons Report - United States Department of State
https://www.state.gov
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Thank you to everyone who participated in our digital town hall today to Celebrate Five Years of C190, Addressing Violence and Harassment in the World of Work. Thanks to all event co-sponsors who joined GLJ to make this event a reality - Solidarity Center, Asia Floor Wage Alliance (AFWA), Bangladesh Center for Workers Solidarity (BCWS), Feminist Alliance for Rights, HumanRights Watch, International Domestic Workers Federation (IDWF), International Trade Union Confederation - ITUC), Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), and UNI Global Union. More than 350 people from around the world joined the digital town hall and committed to working together over the next year and integrating C190 principles and priorities into Beijing's 30+ conversations. C190 continues to be the fastest ratified convention in ILO history- with 44 countries now having ratified. And the momentum for C190 is growing. Today’s digital town hall capped a month of activities to celebrate five years of C190, including a UN convening hosted by Justice for Migrant Women, a session at the ILC held by CNV International, Mondiaal FNV, and WOMEN=MEN, high-level convenings hosted by the U.S. Department of Labor International Labor Affairs Bureau and the Women’s Bureau, and a reception hosted by the ILO U.S. office. The event today was more than just a celebration. It was a recommitment to the unions, women's organizations, and millions of workers worldwide who are using C190's recommendations and norms to bring change to their workplaces and the world of work. Through various means such as law and policy, collective bargaining, supply chain agreements, model contracts, and other creative methods, C190 is laying the groundwork for workers to combat violence and harassment in the world of work. By empowering women workers to address gender-based violence and harassment in the workplace, they can transform their own lives and their communities.
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