Date: 

Monday, November 8, 2021 - 12:00pm

 

GLJ-ILRF's 2021 Labor Rights Defenders Roundtable 

Women Leading Change: From Forced Labor to Freedom of Association

Join us for our annual event where GLJ-ILRF lifts up the voices, experiences, and visions of labor rights defenders on the frontlines of the fight for decent work and social justice. Speakers include U.S. Department Secretary of Labor Julie Su along with women union leaders from around the world who are creating innovative models to defend labor rights and build worker power in food processing, manufacturing and agriculture. Their work shows how workers are organizing around the world even in sectors that have historically relied on forced labor with women's leadership at the front!

To watch the event live stream click here. 

Registration for this event has closed, if you have any questions about registering for the event or do not receive a registration confirmation email, please contact patricia [at] ilrf.org to help you participate in the event. 

2020

Read more about the 2020 awardees.

2019

 

Read more about the 2019 awardees.

2018

2017

+ Playwright Eve Ensler

+ El Sindicato de Trabajadores de la Agroindustria y Similares (STAS) and La Federación de Sindicatos de Trabajadores de la Agroindustria (FESTAGRO)

+ Familias Unidas por la Justicia

 

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2016

+ Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur

+ The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers

+ Human Rights Defenders in Uzbekistan, including Elena Urlaeva, Dmitry Tihonov, and Uktam Pardaev

 

 

2015

+ Senator Sherrod Brown

+ Farm Labor Organizing Committee

+ Tobacco and Allied Workers Union of Malawi

 

 

2014

+ Congressman George Miller

+ Communications Workers of America

+ Maquila Worker Organizing Project (CGT, Honduras)

 

 

 

2013

+ Senator Tom Harkin

+ State Enterprises Workers’ Relations Confederation (SERC) and the Migrant Workers Rights Network (MWRN)

+ United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, Warehouse Workers United, Warehouse Workers for Justice, and the National Guestworker Alliance

 

 

2011

+ U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis

+ United Steelworkers

+ American Federation of Teachers

+ Bangladesh Center for Worker Solidarity

 

 

2009

+ U.S. Representative Jan Schakowsky

+ Francisco Ramirez Cuellar, Colombian Mineworkers’ Union (Sintraminercol)

+ International Brotherhood of Teamsters

GLJ - ILRF ONLINE LABOR RIGHTS DEFENDERS AWARDS CEREMONY 

PLEASE CLICK HERE TO JOIN US LIVE AT 6PM ET

For the last eleven years, the Labor Rights Defenders Awards Ceremony has brought together leaders and activists from the labor movement along with allies from the women's, migrant, human rights and social movements. Together and stronger than ever as Global Labor Justice - International Labor Rights Forum (GLJ-ILRF), we are looking forward to the 2020 GLJ-ILRF Labor Rights Defenders Awards Ceremony where we will honor and uplift those on the front lines of transforming the global economy and fight for labor justice globally. 

Our four honorees in 2020 are: 

  • Sharan Burrow, General Secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), for her visionary leadership of the ITUC including the passage of groundbreaking ILO Convention on the elimination of gender-based violence and harassment and the advancement of a social contract for all workers.
  • Dr. Lorretta Johnson, Secretary-Treasurer of the American Federation of Teachers, for her leadership of the American Federation of Teachers and her lifetime dedication to advancing the rights of educators and children in the U.S. and globally.
  • The Chicago Teachers Union for leading a movement of students, families, and workers in our school communities to create change across our city and guide the future and for showing us how to fight and win.
  • The General Agricultural Workers Union of Ghana (GAWU) for their work to end child labor and organize and advocate for decent work in the cocoa sector.

 

We can't for you to join us in celebrating these incredible leaders and organizations!

You can register to attend the event and support if you are able to here.

 

 

Thanks to the 2020 Sponsors:

LEADERSHIP CIRCLE
International Brotherhood of Teamsters

VISIONARY
American Federation of Teachers
Arca Foundation

GUARDIAN
Anonymous Supporter
International Association of Machinists
Laborer’s International Union of North America
Service Employees International Union

ADVOCATE
Cameron Duncan 
Daniel Henkle
Globalworks Foundation
Joe Eldridge and Maria Otero

DEFENDER
AFL-CIO
Bank of America
Caroline Merriam Ramsey
Education International
Fontheim International
Judy Gearhart and Rainer Braun 
Joseph Eldridge and Maria Otero
Julie Burton and Roger Hickey
National Consumers League
Steven C. Hill
Solidarity Center