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Jan 13
3 min

Pandemic wage theft

As employment sectors became impacted by COVID-19, many migrant workers were forced to accept poorer terms and conditions of employment, ...

Jan 4
9 min

The unions kept us strong through 2020

Amid the devastation and misery brought by the pandemic, workers across the world was the core of the resistance, calling to account gove...

Dec 8, 2020
3 min

New digital platform shines light on labour rights issues in fashion supply chains

Based on cheap prices, speed, and maximising profits, the fashion industry has long been built on poverty wages, exploitation and violenc...

Nov 30, 2020
3 min

Solidarity with Filipino workers' fight

In the darkest time since the end of the dictatorship of President Marcos in 1986, the trade union movement in the Philippines has come t...

Nov 17, 2020
3 min

India: Brutal attack on workers’ ability to safeguard their rights

BJP-led Central government has actively excluded trade unions from pre-legislative consultations on drafting the new labour codes, repeal...

Nov 11, 2020
2 min

We need a binding treaty to to end corporate impunity

Negotiations on a legally binding instrument were recently held in Geneva. If adopted, the instrument will make companies legally liable ...

Nov 5, 2020
2 min

The situation of trade unions in Myanmar

Trade unions in garment factories in Myanmar are systematically hampered in their work. New trade unions at garment factories in Myanmar ...

Oct 29, 2020
2 min

Nominations are open for the Arthur Svensson International Prize for Trade Union Rights 2021

We hereby invite unions all over the world to nominate candidates for next year's award of the Arthur Svensson international prize for t...

Oct 20, 2020
2 min

Child labor on the rise in the cocoa industry

The world’s chocolate companies depend on cocoa produced with the aid of more than 1 million West African child workers, according to a n...

Oct 13, 2020
2 min

Farmworkers in South Africa take to the streets

The Commercial Stevedoring Agricultural & Allied Workers (CSAAWU) took to the streets of Robertson winery 7th of October. The winner of t...

Oct 8, 2020
3 min

New global index shows catastrophic failure to tackle inequality

Very low spending on public healthcare, weak social safety nets and poor labour rights meant the majority of the world’s countries were w...

Sep 25, 2020
5 min

Labour Rights Defenders are Human Rights Defenders

Labour rights activism makes societies fairer by addressing the imbalance of power between corporations and workers and improving working...

Sep 22, 2020
1 min

Thousands of Colombians protest against economic policies

Nearly five thousand Colombians showed up to protest on Monday, taking a stand against the current economic crisis and recent incidents o...

Sep 16, 2020
2 min

Malaysia: Prisoners may face forced labour on palm oil plantations

Prisoners are expected to be put to work on Malaysia’s giant palm oil plantations to make up for an acute labour shortage heightened by t...

Sep 14, 2020
3 min

End to kafala slavery in Lebanon?

Lebanon has approved a new work contract allowing foreign domestic workers to resign and keep hold of their own passport, but activists s...

Sep 11, 2020
2 min

Ensure ‘full respect’ for workers’ rights during protests, ILO urges President Lukashenko

Voicing deep concern over detention and arrests of trade unionists in Belarus, the head of the UN International Labour Organization (ILO)...

Sep 3, 2020
2 min

Domestic workers in South Africa face a lonely battle against abuse

There are just over one million domestic workers in South Africa, according to Statistics South Africa. The majority of them are women an...

Sep 1, 2020
3 min

Mass-scale, state-sanctioned forced labour - the brands must act

In western China, there is alarming, increasingly irrefutable evidence that mass-scale, state-sanctioned forced labour — particularly of ...

Aug 26, 2020
3 min

The dirty work that keeps US companies and other organizations union-free

American companies have been very successful at preventing their workers from organizing into unions in recent decades, one of the reason...

Aug 18, 2020
4 min

Philippines: Trade union and human rights defender gunned down

The Philippine human rights movement is grieving over the killing of yet another activist in Bacolod City. The 39-year-old human rights d...

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