Ghassan Slaiby’s Developing Arab Trade Unions: A Testimony from Inside the International Trade Union Movement

A Reading of Dr. Ghassan Slaiby’s "Developing Arab Trade Unions" and What the Algerian Experience Reveals About the Crisis of Independent Trade Unions in the Arab Region. At first glance, this book appears to be the professional memoir of a Lebanese trade unionist who spent many years working within Public Services International (PSI). A closer reading, however, reveals something far more profound. It is the testimony of a man who witnessed, from the inside, the complexities of international trade union solidarity and its relationship with independent trade unions across the Arab region […]