It is a new approach to strengthening the intellectual and strategic capacity of workers’ organisations and to establish much stronger working relationships between trade/labour unions, the ILO, and the scientific community.
As part of their course, students analyse and discuss, in a multidisciplinary fashion, the challenges of globalisation from a labour and trade/labour union perspective.
More universities from Argentina, the United Kingdom, Portugal, Ghana, Russia, the Philippines and Turkey have expressed their interest in joining or are already participating.
First results have been published in a special edition of the International Journal of Labour Research and in the GLU Working Paper series.
From the GLU network two lines of publications have emerged: Compilations of these columns are regularly published as books, firstly via the ILO itself, and since 2015 with Pluto Press.
Although they are not officially part of the GLU, some scientific journals are closely linked to it via the persons represented in the editorial committees and the authors of the contributions.
Amongst them are: The GLU launched in June 2015 its first Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on "Workers' Rights in a Global Economy"[2] on the platform iversity.