Jun 222 minPrioritize ratification of the ILO Violence and Harassment Convention!The groundbreaking treaty, adopted June 21, 2019 by government, employer, and worker members of the ILO, sets international legal standar...
Jun 164 minCovid-19 And Migrant Workers: The great robberyGulf countries are highly dependent on migrant workers in almost every major sector. Yet they have utterly failed to protect migrant work...
Jun 152 minCoronavirus pandemic could push millions more children into workThe coronavirus pandemic has put millions of children at risk of being pushed into underage labor, reversing two decades of work to comba...
Jun 83 minUN report: Widespread human rights violations in the PhilippinesA heavy-handed focus on countering national security threats and illegal drugs has resulted in serious human rights violations in the Phi...
Jun 33 minCall for an Urgent Justice Mechanism for Repatriated Migrant WorkersThe COVID-19 pandemic has severely impacted millions of migrant workers in destination countries, many of whom have experienced job loss ...
May 45 minHealth workers ask for decent work and a strong, public health care system—not applauseBy our guest blogger Camilla Houeland Writing in the UK Guardian in March 2020, the Liberian nurse and union leader George Poe Williams, ...
Apr 132 minBarbara Figueroa is awarded 2020 Arthur Svensson prizeThe Chilean trade union leader Barbara Figueroa is awarded the 2020 "Arthur Svensson International Prize for Trade Union Rights". The Pri...
Mar 211 minErlan Baltabay releasedAccording to ITUC on March 20th, the leader of the Independent Oil and Energy Workers’ Union in Kazakhstan, Erlan Baltabay got out of jai...
Mar 52 minBank Workers Win Historic UnionNew union at privately-owned Beneficial State Bank represents groundbreaking momentum for U.S. financial sector. The bank workers chose t...
Mar 23 minQatar's labour reforms just hot air and broken promisesAhead of the FIFA World Cup 2022 Qatar has promised reforms in the heavily critized migrant workers' rights, especially the dropping of t...
Feb 252 minEnding child labour, forced labour and human trafficking in global supply chainsA significant share of child labour and human trafficking in global supply chains occurs at their lower tiers, in activities such as raw ...
Feb 42 minGrowing strength of pro-democracy unions in Hong KongThousands of Hong Kong medical workers went on strike for a second day on Tuesday to demand that leader Carrie Lam immediately close the ...
Jan 241 minPhilippine police plan to prevent unions from organizingTrade unions slammed the Philippine National Police (PNP) for deploying cops in economic zones as a deterrent against “radical labour inf...
Jan 213 minNotorious union busting firm hired by GoogleGoogle, the Silicon Valley search giant, has hired IRI consultants, a market research firm notorious for aggressive union busting, likely...
Jan 102 minHong Kong Workers join Labour Unions as New Protest TacticAbout 40 pro-democracy unions have formed in recent months or are in the process of registering with the government, with dozens more sta...
Dec 11, 20192 minWe condemn the raids and arrests of trade union leaders in the PhilippinesHon. Rodrigo Duterte President Republic of Philippines and Philippines embassy in Norway Oslo, 10th Decem...
Dec 4, 20193 minBiggest strike in France for decadesFrance is bracing itself for a widespread transport strike starting on Thursday, December 5. This looks set to be the most comprehensive ...
Nov 28, 20192 minAgricultural regions in Europe turning into no-rights zonesAll over Europe, migrants face serious human and labour rights violations in the agricultural sector. Embedded in a system of generalise...
Nov 22, 20192 minNationwide marches and general strike in ColombiaThousands of Colombians were on Thursday taking to the streets to demonstrate against liberal economic policies and armed conflict amid f...
Nov 19, 20193 minRetail workers across China are taking collective action Businesses throughout China’s hyper-competitive retail sector, from traditional supermarkets to new e-commerce platforms, have been cutti...
