The impact of globalization and economic liberalization on African labor

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African trade unions seek to protect workers from the ill effects of globalisation
ICFTU ONLINE..., 31 March 1998. Trade union leaders from 42 African countries denounce the ill effects of globalisation and call for measures to promote basic labour rights in the process of globalisation and international trade. Meeting in Nairobi for a three-day conference organised by the ICFTU.
African trade unions call for checks and balances in foreign investment
ICFTU OnLine, 2 April 1998. Trade unions from 42 African countries call on the UN's International Labour Organisation (ILO) to establish a Workers' rights charter applicable world-wide to protect labour from unbridled globalisation.
Trade unionists seek protection from globalization
Workers World. 16 April 1998. Trade unionists denounc globalization in Africa and call for protection of basic labor rights. The increased penetration of local economies by giant corporations based in Western Europe, the U.S., and Japan, as big banks demand removal of subsidies and social measures that protect the poor.
African Trade Unionists Angered By Globalisation, Speak Out
African Church Information Service, 10 June 2002. Economic globalisation plays havoc on the lives of millions of Africans; they are displaced as the so-called free market encourages dumping of cheap goods. Concerned African trade unionists gathered in Nairobi to workout a continental survival startegy.