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Replantar un Campo: Derecho Internacional del Trabajo para el Siglo XXI
No full textThis is a Spanish translation of the Inaugural Lecture by Lance Compa on the acceptance of the Paul van der Heijden Chair in Social Justice at Leiden Law School, Universiteit Leiden, The Netherlands.Compa183_Una_renovada_mirada.pdf: 228 downloads, before Oct. 1, 2020
Justice for All: The Struggle for Worker Rights in Sri Lanka
No full text[Excerpt] In this second report of the series, renowned worker rights researcher Lance Compa assesses the damage that nearly two decades of civil war have wrought on Sri Lanka’s fragile democracy, economy, and social justice framework. Compa puts Sri Lanka’s labor law and practice to the test against international worker rights standards enshrined in International Labor Organization conventions and the ILO’s 1998 Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work
Justice for All: The Struggle for Worker Rights in Mexico
No full text[Excerpt] The Solidarity Center is launching a new series, Justice for All: The Struggle for Worker Rights. This series follows the May 2003 publication of the Solidarity Center’s groundbreaking Justice for All: A Guide to Worker Rights in the Global Economy. Through powerful first-person narratives, the reports thoroughly examine worker rights, country by country, in today’s global economy.
This first report, by renowned worker rights researcher Lance Compa, takes a hard look at Mexico’s century-long fight for independent, democratic trade unions and social justice. Compa puts Mexico’s labor law and practice to the test against international worker rights standards reflected in International Labor Organization conventions and the ILO’s 1998 Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work
Labor Rights in Haiti
No full text[Excerpt] This study of labor rights in Haiti was conducted on behalf of the International Labor Rights Education and Research Fund by Lance Compa, Washington Representative of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE), who is the principal author of this report. It includes findings from a field investigation in Haiti in July 1988, and from interviews and further information supplied by Haitian trade unionists throughout 1988 and early 1989. This report also draws on information developed by a delegation of U.S. unionists and labor educators who visited Haiti July 24-31, 1988, under the sponsorship of the Washington Office on Haiti
Is There an Emerging Transnational Regime for Labor Standards? Remarks
No full text[Excerpt] In concluding his remarks, Professor Compa outlined what he sees as the major benefits of the NAALC. First, the submission process under the NAALC is open, allowing anyone to file. Second, the NAALC impels cross-border partnerships between labor activists who must work together in order to file a submission. Third, the NAALC offers a range of targets, including corporations, unions, governments and retailers. Finally, the NAALC mobilizes the regional arena to force action within the national arena
Comparing the NAALC and the European Union Social Charter (Transcript)
No full textThis is a transcript of Professor Lance Compa’s presentation to the North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation Conference held in Washington, DC on November 12, 1996 and published in the American University Journal of International Law and Policy.
[Excerpt] After all of the excellent comments this morning and so far this afternoon, both from the panelists and from the floor, I am not sure that I can say anything new about the NAALC. So, what I want to do in this intervention is add some comparative discussion with respect to the European Union and the social charter of the European Union. It has always been a key point of reference for people analyzing the NAALC and, particularly, for critics of the North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation
Joseph McCartin Responds to Lance Compa, Gay Seidman, and Richard McIntyre
No full textFirst, I would like to offer my thanks to Lance Compa, Richard McIntyre, and Gay Seidman for their thoughtful responses to my essay. One could not find three more accomplished scholars with whom to engage in this discussion. Each in their own way has sharpened our thinking about the relationship of labor rights to human rights—Compa through a lifetime of inspiring organizing and writing, Seidman through her eloquent defense of human rights-based labor activism, Beyond the Boycott: Labor Rights, Human Rights and Transnational Activism, and McIntyre through his sharp interrogation of this activism in Are Worker Rights Human Rights? Not only do they bring well-honed critiques to bear in discussing my argument, they are generous and fair-minded. I'm grateful to them for prodding me to clarify my thinking.</jats:p
Solidarity and Rights: Two to Tango: A Response to Joseph A. McCartin
No full text[Excerpt] Thanks to Joseph McCartin for advancing this debate with an insightful critique of the workers’-rights-as-human-rights framework and for his generous treatment of the series of Human Rights Watch reports in which I had a hand. McCartin so fairly presents the human rights case, even while disagreeing with it, that it’s hard to respond without simply borrowing from his framing of my own views. But I’ll try
Pursuing International Labour Rights in U.S. Courts: New Uses for Old Tools
No full textFiling lawsuits in U.S. federal and state courts for workers’ rights violations suffered by workers employed by American corporations abroad is one of several strategies for promoting labour rights. Other strategies include use of labour rights mechanisms in GSP laws, in regional trade agreements like NAFTA and Mercosur, in corporate codes of conduct, in the ILO and other venues. To succeed, such suits must first overcome the strong presumption against extraterritorial effect of U.S. law. Other jurisdictional hurdles like “inconvenient forum” also require caution in bringing suits. However, several cases using common law tort and contract theories as well as international human rights law have recovered substantial actual and punitive damages for workers of U.S. multinational companies in several developing countries. With the right strategic choices, labour rights litigation can be an effective means of advancing workers’ rights in the global economy
International Trade and Social Welfare: The New Agenda (Remarks)
No full textThis document is a transcript of Professor Lance Compa’s remarks at the January 7, 1995 meeting of the Section on International Law of the American Association of Law Schools. [Excerpt] The fact that the International Law Section put this topic on its agenda at this annual meeting is an indication that the "linkage" between labor rights and international trade is an idea whose time has come. I don't want to overstate its novelty. There's a certain cycle to this dynamic, and in fact the post-World War II period and the early years of the GATT saw a flurry of interest and activity on the "social clause" issue, but it fell away under pressures of the Cold War, the decolonization movement, and simply because it was less of an issue during the three post-war decades of sustained economic growth of the United States and the rest of the industrialized world. Now, with international competitiveness such a paramount concern, issues of labor rights and trade have again come to the front burner of policy concerns. Indeed, if you do a database search under international labor rights, labor standards, trade and worker rights, and so on, you'll find many excellent contributions to the literature on this subject, most of it just in the past couple of years.Compa17_International_trade.pdf: 326 downloads, before Oct. 1, 2020
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