Presumed Guilty
Seafarers fight criminalisation
Bus Driver Blues
Driving buses and coaches in France is not the job is used to be
Picket note book
Front line reports from the UK's longest bus strike
Cargo in the wrong hands
How ship's crews and casual dock workers are forced or seduced into cargo handling
Keeping Going
What do liberalisation and under-investment mean for the average rail employee?
COVER STORY
Getting Away
How economics is skewing the race against HIV/AIDS
by Kemal Ulker
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Comment US Workers are on union rights' front line.
Working life
Our struggles with Maersk
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Briefing
The Global Reporting Initiave (GRI)
The Global Reporting Initiative is one of a plethora of corporate social responsibility initiatives which have sprung up in the last few years. There are some things which mark the GRI out, however. One is that it has the stamp of approval of the United Nations, since it was jointly launched in 1997 by the UN Environment Programme and the NGO Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies. It became a permanent independent institution in 2002. Another is that it has a structure which builds in a multi-stakeholder dialogue, including trade unions. The GRI’s reporting standards are now adopted, in whole or in part, by a rapidly growing number of the world’s top companies and by a number of national governments. more >>
Regulars
Commentary: Let Them Ashore
Branko Krznaric relates his campaign to overturn discrimination against seafarers visiting Slovenia
Commentary: Low Cost at any price
The Development of the so called low cost sector in Argentina has cost workers dearly, says Ricardo Frecia.
Commentary: Reflections
Thoughts on members' attitudes to HIV/AIDS
