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Sustainability, Just Transition and Trade Unions ~ Global Labour Column
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Monday, October 6, 2014. Sustainability, Just Transition and Trade Unions. Fear Uncertainty and Doubt. We cannot allow the question to be framed as “jobs versus the environment”. We must strive to have both decent jobs and a healthy environment, or we will ultimately have neither. The fear of change must be reduced; and the way to reduce it is to assure people that the transition to a sustainable future will be a just and fair one for everyone. What a Just Transition is, and What it Requires. A Just Tran...
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May 2015 ~ Global Labour Column
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Thursday, May 21, 2015. Farm Worker Uprising on the Western Cape: From “Flexible Work” to “Moment of Madness”. 8220;We outnumber the farmers eleven to one and they still hoard the economic power and still talk to us with disrespect. We could kill all the farmers in a weekend if we wanted to and this land will be fucked up - it could happen in one day. But until this strike we were never able to get all the farm workers and all of us to come out and fight back”. Thursday, May 14, 2015. Monday, May 4, 2015.
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T-Shirt Economics: Labour in the Imperialist World Economy ~ Global Labour Column
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Tuesday, August 7, 2012. T-Shirt Economics: Labour in the Imperialist World Economy. How can this be? Yet the iPhone was retailing in the US at $600. Is it really the case that the remaining $400 or so is ‘value added’ by Apple? Or might it have more to do with the combination of Apple’s monopoly practices and the ultra-exploitation of Foxconn’s workers? I have not seen any analysis of this question, but an excellent article in. By them. [iii]. 495 euros: after adding 19% VAT, paid to the German state.
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November 2014 ~ Global Labour Column
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Monday, November 10, 2014. The G20 / OECD Base Erosion and Profit Shifting Action Plan. During a meeting held in November 2013 in St Petersburg, the G20 endorsed an Action Plan on Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS [1]. Prepared by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development OECD – the leading forum on international taxation. In line with addressing corporate tax “avoidance” practices, the 15 action points were to be delivered by end-2015. Subscribe to the Mailing List.
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Farm Worker Uprising on the Western Cape: From “Flexible Work” to “Moment of Madness” ~ Global Labour Column
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Thursday, May 21, 2015. Farm Worker Uprising on the Western Cape: From “Flexible Work” to “Moment of Madness”. 8220;We outnumber the farmers eleven to one and they still hoard the economic power and still talk to us with disrespect. We could kill all the farmers in a weekend if we wanted to and this land will be fucked up - it could happen in one day. But until this strike we were never able to get all the farm workers and all of us to come out and fight back”. Which is about building the individual and ...
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October 2014 ~ Global Labour Column
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Thursday, October 30, 2014. The Epoch of Market Based Funding: Shadow Banking. The epoch of Market based funding: Shadow Banking. What’s in the name? Simply-put, shadow banking depicts a market-based funding system (rather than bank-based), or “money market funding of capital market lending” ( Mehrling et al 2012. Monday, October 13, 2014. Switzerland-China Free Trade Agreement and Labour Rights. Monday, October 6, 2014. Sustainability, Just Transition and Trade Unions. Fear Uncertainty and Doubt. Altern...
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Sustentabilidade, transição justa e os sindicatos ~ Global Labour Column Portuguese
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ANTOLOGIAS EDITADAS DA COLUNA DA GLU. Quinta-feira, 16 de outubro de 2014. Sustentabilidade, transição justa e os sindicatos. Em busca da sustentabilidade. Medo, dúvida e incerteza. Não podemos permitir que a questão seja posta dessa maneira. Devemos lutar para ter ambos: empregos decentes e meio ambiente são, ou acabaremos sem nenhum dos dois. O medo da mudança precisa diminuir e a única forma é assegurar às pessoas que a transição para um futuro sustentável será justa para todos. O futuro que queremos ...
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Vendendo o livre comércio com base em uma pseudociência exata: os estudos do ifo ~ Global Labour Column Portuguese
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ANTOLOGIAS EDITADAS DA COLUNA DA GLU. Segunda-feira, 24 de novembro de 2014. Vendendo o livre comércio com base em uma pseudociência exata: os estudos do ifo. Os cenários TTIP dos estudos do ifo. Crítica das estimativas de benefício econômico. Os estudos do ifo aplicam seus próprios métodos na tentativa de evitar três dos pontos fracos que identificaram nos modelos de equilíbrio tipicamente utilizados. Eles procuram basear os parâmetros dos modelos em estimativas econômicas que refletem melhor a real...
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Obrigada, Grécia ~ Global Labour Column Portuguese
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ANTOLOGIAS EDITADAS DA COLUNA DA GLU. Segunda-feira, 23 de fevereiro de 2015. Maria Helena dos Santos André. O povo grego rejeitou os ditames dos tecnocratas europeus e internacionais e disse ‘não’ ao establishment. Embora isso certamente não venha a resolver os problemas da Grécia do dia para a noite, colocará o país em uma trajetória de muito maior crescimento do que continuar com as políticas atuais (vide a linha de base no gráfico abaixo). Fonte: Dimitri Papadimitriou (2014, p. 8). O direito de greve.
