November 30, 2018, Thompson Reuters Foundation Tom Hunt is deputy director of the Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute (SPERI) at the University of Sheffield. Genevieve LeBaron is professor of politics and co-director of the Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute (SPERI) at the University of Sheffield. Jennifer (JJ) Rosenbaum is the U.S. director for Global Labor Justice…

October 7, 2021 Today, Global Labor Justice- International Labor Rights Forum joins the International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers’ Associations (IUF) in standing with a new trade union coalition in Guinea that includes the hotel workers, mining workers, teachers, bankers, and other members of…

ILO Convention 11’s Role in Promoting Rights for Agricultural Workers July 27, 2021 (Read the full report here.) The wording of ILO Convention 11 is short and to the point: International Labour Organisation (ILO) member states undertake “to secure to all those engaged in agriculture the same rights of association and combination as to industrial workers, and to repeal any…

July 21, 2021 Forced labor on global supply chains is not an aberration or the choices of a few badly behaved contractors or supervisors. Forced Labor is a predictable consequence of business models that profit from exploitation, governance gaps that rely on multinational corporations to police their own behavior through…

July 1, 2020 Today, I am excited to announce the merger of two allied organizations — the International Labor Rights Forum and Global Labor Justice. Developed over many months with the strong support of our allies, board, and staff, our new partnership is coming together at a critical time. As…

Jennifer Gordon and Jennifer (JJ) Rosenbaum “The difference between staying in Honduras and leaving for the United States is not whether you have a job or not. It’s whether you have decent work,” states Tomás Membreño, President of STAS, the Honduran industrial agricultural workers’ union. He would know. …