<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Peter Hall-Jones</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:phj@newunionism.net">phj@newunionism.net</a>></span><br>
Date: Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 5:50 PM<br>Subject: Work in progress: Towards global unionism<br>To: <a href="mailto:newunionism@gmail.com">newunionism@gmail.com</a><br><br><br><em>National systems
of employment law cannot deal with a capitalism that is
globally-integrated. Nor can locally-based worker organizations. The
Supply Chain model argues for a global industrial relations based on
the negotiation of global collective contracts within supply
chains. Key to this is the operating principle of
‘<strong>cascaded contractual obligation</strong>’. In this, a
corporation that is signatory to a global contract must
include in each of their supply contracts a clause by which the
contractor itself becomes a party to the contract. The author
explains how this system might be introduced, funded and
enforced, before setting out five things that will need to
change, and five that will need to stay the same. <br></em>More
here: <a href="http://goo.gl/jpIWx" target="_blank"><strong>http://goo.gl/jpIWx</strong></a>.<br></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>P2P Foundation: <a href="http://p2pfoundation.net" target="_blank">http://p2pfoundation.net</a> - <a href="http://blog.p2pfoundation.net" target="_blank">http://blog.p2pfoundation.net</a> <br>
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