Jim Baker

Jim Baker is an experienced trade union activist and official, coming originally from the United Automobile Workers union (UAW). He worked for the AFL-CIO, serving in the US and abroad. Baker was a member of the ILO Governing Body and, later, an ILO official. He was the Coordinator of the Council of Global Unions (CGU) and currently does work for the Global Union Federations Education International (EI) and Building and Wood Workers’ International. (BWI).
Sustainable development is a sensible framework for looking at the system. It represents a fundamental shift in analysis from the “Washington Consensus”. The idea of examining economic, social, and environmental issues together as three, interdependent pillars of development was a sharp break with the idea that the market was king...
Short Termism vs. sustainable developmentOne of the earliest priorities of the trade union movement, dating back to the 19th century in many countries, was free public education. This demand was made in order to provide opportunities for the children of workers. It was part of a fight for equality, a fight that is not...
Turning the crisis around: Hope for change from global trade unionism