The Global Labour Institute (GLI Network Ltd) in the UK, is part of an international network of not-for-profit organisations with the stated aim of promoting international solidarity among trade union organisations and affiliated groups in order to achieve a democratic and sustainable world society.

The Global Labour Institute works with global union federations, national trade unions, workers' associations, development agencies, research institutions, workers' education organisations and NGOs such as LabourStart, WIEGO and Oxfam,[1] and it states an ideological commitment to democratic socialism.

[2] The first Global Labour Institute was established in Geneva in 1997 and is chaired by Dan Gallin, a former General Secretary of the International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers' Association (IUF)[3][4] who has published widely on the history and future of the international trade union movement.

As well as the International Summer School, the GLI offers a wide range of courses and education programmes to the trade union movement.

Currently GLI undertakes courses as part of the national education programme for Unite the Union.