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

The acceleration of electrical vehicles (EV) production is crucial for the transition to a low-carbon economy, yet it appears to be...

The small Southern African state of eSwatini has been rocked by a great crisis since June, when decades of anger and frustration against...

Trade ministers from the G7 countries - Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States - have committed...

We hereby invite unions all over the world to nominate candidates for next year's award of the Arthur Svensson international prize for...

Where unions establish collective bargaining, they initiate the strongest mechanism for protecting agricultural workers’ rights, health...

The pressure on independent trade unions and discrimination against their members has never been as strong as it is now. Earlier in...

When the question of trade unions in China would come up, some of us were fond of saying that there is an independent, democratic trade...

The Council of Global Unions holds today a Global Day of Action to support the recognition of the National Unity Government (NUG) as the...

250 of the world’s largest fashion brands and retailers were reviewed and ranked according to what information they disclose about their...

Global trade unions and international apparel retailers who were signatories to the former Accord on Fire and Building Safety in...

Some governments have taken the COVID-19 pandemic as an excuse to limit people’s rights, including workers’ right to organize. Across the...

Abuses of the right to strike, the right to establish and join a trade union, the right to trade union activities and civil liberties and...

The ILO Committee on the Application of Standards call on the Belarusian government to “immediately restore full respect for the rights...

On June 7, an online meeting of the ILO Committee on Standards took place, which considered the issue of violation of the norms of the...

The unprecedented economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, together with school closures and inadequate government assistance, is...

The COVID-19 crisis has highlighted how governments’ approaches to workers’ health and safety have fallen short in preventing the spread...

The Belarusian authorities are ruthlessly targeting independent trade unions which received this year's Arthur Svensson Prize. The...

Trade unions can only fully and freely function in democracies. It is also true that democracy cannot be complete without trade unions....

The «Arthur Svensson International Prize for Trade Union Rights» for 2021 is awarded to the independent trade union movement in Belarus,...