Research, Innovation, and Strategic Engagement (RISE)
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The RISE project works with governments, workers, and employers to respect, promote, and realize workers’ freedom of association and collective bargaining rights globally.
The Problem
The 2023 Global Rights Index reported that more than 100 countries restricted freedom of association and the effective recognition of the right to collective bargaining. These restrictions include a lack of laws that protect these rights, legal impediments to forming and registering worker organizations, refusal from employers to negotiate wages and working conditions, legal bans on government institutions from engaging with worker organizations and providing labor protections to workers, violations of social dialogue by governments and employers, and violence against trade union leaders.
Our Strategy
To support workers to realize their labor rights, the project will:
- Help governments improve labor laws and policies;
- Increase knowledge of collective bargaining and freedom of association;
- Support innovative strategies to improve respect for labor rights; and
- Promote the recognition of freedom of association and collective bargaining rights in specific sectors, including in supply chains.
- Grantee:
- International Labor Organization (ILO)
- Contact Information:
- (202) 693-4900 / Office of Trade and Labor Affairs (OTLA)
- Tags:
- Trade
- Capacity Building
- Collective Bargaining
- Compliance
- Data Collection
- Freedom of Association
- Labor Rights
- Organizing
- Remediation
- Research
- Worker Voice
- Workers Organizations
