Sunday 18 November 2012

Union Bashing Brought to you by the World Bank

It is interesting that our next workshop brings together the twin themes of neo-liberalism, with Sian Moore's session on Friday, and union bashing with Pete Martin's guest speaker slot on Saturday evening.

The evidence of the World Bank's anti-union stance in its own neo-liberal policy has been evident for years. The latest means by which their anti-unionism is starkly evident is via an analysis of its most recent Doing Business report.

There is a fascinating analysis of the report from a trade union perspective by Michelle Chen in a recent article for In These Times (subscribe to this, it's free and excellent in range and content). Although Michelle is a regular writer for In These Times she principally writes for CultureStrike (if migration interests you read this) and the Asia Pacific Forum. Links for both sites are at the bottom her article.

The article can be read here, and if your an MA student I  encourage you to read it in preparation for the the second workshop


Link to article here. 

Ian Manborde

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