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Dear John

 

On May 1, International Workers’ Day, we launched a new chapter in our organization’s history. Together with workers, their unions, allies, and labor rights defenders around the world, we are building momentum for a more just global economy. With that momentum, we announce that going forward, we will be known as Global Labor Justice.

 

We have a new look and an updated name, but our dedication to supporting workers who are fighting for a more just global economy remains the same. Under this banner, we will continue to weave together and build on all of our organizational history to deliver bold new strategies that help workers win across the challenges inherent in global value chains and across labor migration corridors. We are thrilled to continue working alongside those who share our vision for a brighter future. 

 

Watch our new Global Labor Justice video to learn more about our shared history and our plans for the future.

Our commitment to advance worker organizing and hold governments, employers, multinationals, and investors accountable to fundamental labor rights is stronger than ever.

 

There has never been a more important time for our work to drive innovative strategies and empower workers. We know that labor rights defenders in many countries organize in the face of immense risks. IUF and ITUC affiliate LRSU President sister Chhim Sithar remains in detention in Cambodia with other union leaders charged and convicted for organizing over wages and mass retrenchments at NagaWorld in Cambodia. Workers at the Sheraton Grand and Onomo hotels in Conakry are fighting job loss, subcontracting, and other retaliatory actions in response to their organizing which the development banks have yet to remedy. Migrant fishers face deportation threats for participating in organizing even in response to egregious occupational safety and health violations. These are just a few examples of our active campaigns, with many more featured in our new video.

 

In countries around the world, workers are coming together. Their agency reminds us how to live into existence the beautiful future that working people and their communities deserve: resistance that is joyful and powerful, actions that are magnificent and fierce, and transformative visions for generations to come.

 

And so, we again ask for your continued solidarity over the next year.

 

In the next year we will challenge the supply chain business model that extracts wealth from developing countries and structurally vulnerable workforces. We will fight migration policies that exacerbate worker vulnerability and deliver them to the bottom of those supply chains. And we will continue to counter the disempowering effects of financialization on the global workforce that have gone unchallenged for decades by building a transnational movement that understands how capital moves and that organizes where workers live and work.

 

Together with labor rights defenders around the world, Global Labor Justice is building momentum for a more just global economy. We thank you for your support, and we ask for your ongoing solidarity in 2024 and beyond.  

 

Jennifer (JJ) Rosenbaum

Executive Director

 
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