Gamma Pi

Donia Human Rights Lecture | Labor and Human Rights

Date: Feb 11, 2025 at 4:00pm to 5:30pm
IMPORTANT: To receive your point you must fill out this form within 1 week after attending. Late submissions will not be accepted. https://forms.gle/T3m3iTBZhrY377Df6 More information about the event at https://events.umich.edu/event/128563 Summary: Migration is a critical battleground in the struggle to shape the economic future. In the contemporary economy, the exploitation of labor operates through global networks of migration, mobilization, and forced labor. Capital leverages regional legal restrictions on mobility, the threat of deportation and the violence of immigration enforcement, gendered violence, and supply-chain specific strategies of control in order to keep workers contingent, vulnerable, and compliant. At the same time, the workers of the world have developed new strategies and raised new demands to fight for dignity and collective power against this exploitation. Global Labor Justice (GLJ) is a strategy partner with transnational worker groups and works to support campaigns for labor rights, collective bargaining, and worker dignity across the world. Some of GLJ’s specific current campaigns include work on gender-based violence and harassment in the garment supply chain, wage theft and work conditions in the seafood industry, and the financing of hospitality industry development. In her lecture, GLJ Executive Director JJ Rosenbaum will discuss campaigns, strategies, and tactics for holding employers and governments accountable. Specific strategies include transnational advocacy approaches, enforceable supply chain agreements (EBAs), and legal strategies that GLJ is currently deploying.