Resources

Trade and the Labour movement in the post-pandemic environment

The “free trade” regime has long been seen as an obstacle to the development of countries in the Global South. The benefits of free trade in the Global North too have come under scrutiny.

Parliamentary Briefing: A Corporate Duty to Prevent Negative Human Rights and Environmental Impacts

We urgently need a new law to hold companies to account when they fail to prevent human rights abuses and environmental harms

UN Binding Treaty Briefing – UK Working Group

UN Binding Treaty on Business and Human Rights briefing

ISDS files: Lydian v Armenia

Mining company threatened to sue when protestors blockaded a gold mine and government allowed the protest to go ahead

ISDS files: Chevron v Ecuador

CASE NAME: CHEVRON V ECUADOR SUMMARY: US oil firm sued Ecuador after compensation ordered for devastating Amazon oil spill STATUS: Chevron won AT STAKE: Undisclosed

ISDS files: Agro EcoEnergy v Tanzania

Sugar plantation investor accused of a land grab is suing after the Tanzanian government took back the land title

ISDS files: Anglian Water v Argentina

Water company sued when Argentina froze water prices during a financial crisis

Briefing: The case against corporate courts

ISDS is an unjust mechanism that should have no place in the UK’s trade and investment policy.

ISDS files: Philip Morris v Australia

Tobacco giant sues Australia over plain packaging for cigarettes

ISDS files: Lone Pine V Canada

Oil and gas company suing the Canadian government over a moratorium on fracking in Quebec

Trading up for health

How to prevent trade deals from undermining health

BFAWU leaflet #FFS410

"Workers at JD Wetherspoons will take part in strike action on the 4th of October alongside McDonald’s, TGI Fridays and Uber Eats workers. Wetherspoons and McDonald’s workers are striking for £10 an hour, union recognition and respect on the job."