Global Labor Justice believes individuals have the right to interact and organize among themselves to collectively express, promote, pursue and defend common interests. This includes the right to form trade unions, collectively bargain, and enforce contracts.
Global Labor Justice believes individuals have the right to interact and organize among themselves to collectively express, promote, pursue and defend common interests. This includes the right to form trade unions, collectively bargain, and enforce contracts.
Where workers can exercise full freedom of association, they are more likely to have fairer wages, a world of work free of violence and harassment, and safe and healthy working conditions and be free from forced labor.
Freedom of association and collective bargaining also support democracy, resilient supply chains, and fairer trade policy. These fundamental labor rights are a foundation of responsible business conduct and their absence is a major risk factor for investors and supply chain actors.
As the global economy increasingly involves transnational supply chains and value chains, Global Labor Justice works with national, regional, and global partners to innovate enforceable supply chain agreement models that draw from the history of successful worker and union agreements and are adapted to new business models in the global economy.
Our history
Global Labor Justice is an independent nonprofit, founded in 1986 as the International Labor Rights Forum, and including the merger of several related efforts through its history. Global Labor Justice has consistently advocated for inclusion and enforcement of labor rights protections in trade agreements which support workers around the world and in the United States.