Foundation for Enterprise Development

http://www.fed.org/

• The Foundation for Enterprise Development is a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing the use of entrepreneurial employee ownership nationally and internationally, in both the public and private sectors, as a way to build high performing enterprises and improve corporate performance. Go to the international section to find the current status of the regulations governing the implementation of employee share ownership plans in many different countries.

AFL-CIO

http://www.aflcio.org/

• The American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) is the voluntary federation of America’s unions, representing more than 13 million working women and men nationwide. Their website has information on activities both in the U.S. and around the world.

International Labour Organization

http://www.ilo.org/

• The International Labour Organization is the UN specialized agency that seeks the promotion of social justice and internationally recognized human and labor rights. It was founded in 1919 and is the only surviving major creation of the Treaty of Versailles, which brought the League of Nations into being, and it became the first specialized agency of the UN in 1946.

International Law Links at Georgetown

http://www.ll.georgetown.edu/intl/intl.html

• An excellent source of links related to international law, including labor by the International & Foreign Law Department at Georgetown University.

U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics—FLS

http://www.bls.gov/fls/home.htm

• The Foreign Labor Statistics (FLS) program provides international comparisons of hourly compensation costs; productivity and unit labor costs; labor force, employment and unemployment rates; and consumer prices. The comparisons relate primarily to the major industrial countries, but other countries are included in certain measures.

Cyber Picket Line

http://www.cf.ac.uk/socsi/union/index.html

• The purpose of this website is to assist direct communications between union activists around the world, signpost shortcuts to the huge amount of useful resources available on the net to union activists. It has a comprehensive world trade union directory with links to unions around the world

International Conference of Free Trade Unions

http://www.icftu.org/

• The International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) was set up in 1949 and has 225 affiliated organizations in 148 countries and territories on all five continents, with a membership of 157 million. It has a considerable amount of information on union activities around the world.