{"id":701,"date":"2011-05-01T22:26:54","date_gmt":"2011-05-02T03:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/?p=701"},"modified":"2011-11-07T15:20:37","modified_gmt":"2011-11-07T20:20:37","slug":"global-corporations-global-unions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/2011\/05\/01\/global-corporations-global-unions\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Corporations, Global Unions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"img-link\" title=\"Creative Commons licensed photo by quinn.anya on flickr.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/53326337@N00\/5662167733\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5105\/5662167733_75de6b1aa5_m.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Workers\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nCheck out this article from the Summer 2007 issue of <em>Contexts<\/em>: <strong>&#8220;Global Corporations, Global Unions&#8221; <\/strong>by Stephen Lerner and use the following questions and activity to easily integrate it into your class.<\/p>\n<p>1) \u00a0 What benefits do unions bring to workers and employers? Can you think of any drawbacks?<\/p>\n<p>2)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 How does globalization represent both a threat and an opportunity for low-income workers?<\/p>\n<p>3)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 What does \u201cthe race to the bottom\u201d refer to? How does it affect economic stability and working conditions at local, national, and international levels?<\/p>\n<p><!--StartFragment-->Check out \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seiu.org\/\">www.seiu.org<\/a>. How does this union impact your<br \/>\nunderstanding of the potential benefits and challenges of global unionizing?<\/p>\n<p><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out this article from the Summer 2007 issue of Contexts: &#8220;Global Corporations, Global Unions&#8221; by Stephen Lerner and use the following questions and activity to easily integrate it into your class. 1) \u00a0 What benefits do unions bring to workers and employers? Can you think of any drawbacks? 2)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 How does globalization represent both [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127403],"tags":[29,64,76],"class_list":["post-701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching-resources","tag-class","tag-globalization","tag-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=701"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":916,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701\/revisions\/916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}