Thursday, March 31, 2005
Tweet[IWS] New! MONITORING Freedom of Association TRAINING PROGRAM May 23 through 25, 2005 in New York City
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Institute for Workplace Studies
School of Industrial & Labor Relations
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor
New York, NY 10016
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Monitoring Freedom of Association Training Program
May 23 through 25, 2005 in New York City
http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/international/Programs/seminars/default.html
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What Is the Goal?
This program aims to prepare participants for practical application of freedom of association principles in the field of labor standards monitoring. The overall goal is to build an understanding and knowledge base for Strategic Monitoring in this most difficult area of labor standards monitoring compared with, for example, monitoring for child labor or for health and safety standards.
Strategic monitoring creates a system for instilling best practices on freedom of association to get it right from the start and to correct practices that got it wrong. Strategic monitoring aims to protect and advance workers' freedom of association while maintaining growth, productivity, investment, and employment goals.
Full participants in this path breaking program will receive a certificate of completion and a set of materials for permanent reference. This certificate in international standards on freedom of association will serve as a mark of rigorous training and development in the international labor standards field. It will be an asset to anyone moving in a career trajectory related to labor standards.
Who Should Attend?
- Labor standards monitors who work for independent monitoring organizations
- Corporate social responsibility staff and investment fund screeners involved in corporate codes of conduct
- Trade unionists responsible for international affairs and labor rights
- Advocates from human rights organizations and other non-governmental organizations that deal with workersrights and labor standards
- Government and international organization officials involved in labor standards matters
- Business and labor journalists
What Will the Program Cover?
Key questions: Freedom of association is an abstract concept; how does it relate concretely to workersright to organize and to what the ILOs core labor standards declaration calls the effective recognition of the right to collective bargaining?What are the rules and the institutions that apply them? How do monitors get below surface appearances to discern whether workers are truly free to organize and whether genuine collective bargaining is taking place? Where and how are 'complaints' raised and dealt with?
Critical national and regional features
Key questions: What is the freedom of association 'landscape' in Latin America, Asia and other regions? What are the essential single-country distinctions?
Country and industry-based case studies
Key questions: What are indicators of violations? What are the most common problems? What are unusual problems? How are problems addressed and resolved?
International business strategies, structural and market issues, and best practices related to labor
Key questions: How can respecting workers freedom of association create marketplace advantage for firms and countries? What are potential risks and liabilities?
Case studies of trade union and NGO strategies and campaigns on labor standards in developing countries
Key question: How do these important social actors seek to accomplish their goals?
Contact Us
For more information please email Robin Remick at rjr4@cornell.edu or phone (607) 254-2950.
AND MORE...including REGISTRATION INFORMATION.....
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