WE ARE GLOBALIZING ECONOMICALLY –WE ARE ORGANIZING GLOBALLY

Abstract

In a global economy, the tasks of trade unions acquire a new meaning; require greater consolidation of the organizing forces, and eventually coherent, strategically verified activity of trade unions association at the international and regional levels. On the example of the International Transport Workers Federation and railway trade unions the authors show trends of cooperation and confrontation between governments, employers, trade unions, forms of cooperation in the struggle for workers’ rights and their interests in the labor market.