Feb 222 minGarment Worker Pay at 45% Gap from Living WageWorkers in key garment- and footwear-producing countries are, on average, receiving just half of the pay they need to achieve a decent...
Feb 154 minUnions ask the international community to tighten sanctions against the Myanmar juntaThe Burmese people ask the international community to stand up, to tighten sanctions, and to strangle the military junta and the...
Feb 34 minBusinesses operating in Myanmar have a responsibility to stand up for workersOne year into the attempted military coup, it is clear the private sector has failed to meet their human rights obligations. Businesses...
Feb 12 minILO launches database on labour provisions in trade agreementsThe International Labour Organization (ILO) has launched a new global database on trade agreements containing labour provisions, paving...
Jan 174 minKazakhstan must respect democracy and fundamental rightsKazakhstan is known for a systematic violation of core human and workers’ rights, as well as general lack of democracy in the country....
Jan 134 minMigrant domestic workers in highly abusive conditions in LebanonLebanon’s restrictive and exploitative kafala (sponsorship) system traps tens of thousands of migrant domestic workers in highly abusive...
Jan 47 min2022: A revival of U.S. labour movement?2021 was a pretty tough year in a lot of ways. As the pandemic took full effect, devastating job losses hit many workers hard, and the...
Dec 13, 20213 minNeed for transparency in tea supply chainsThirteen million workers who toil on tea plantations have suffered from endemic human rights abuses while the tea companies they pick for...
Dec 9, 20214 minStand for Filipino workers’ rights on 10 DecemberThe international trade union movement will mobilise to stand with Filipino workers on 10 December. For the third consecutive year, the...
Dec 6, 20213 minClothing brands allegedly complicit in forced labour in XinjiangHuman rights organisation ECCHR and Dutch law firm Prakken d’Oliveira have petitioned the Dutch Public Prosecutor to launch a criminal...
Dec 1, 20212 minCOVID-19: Global Unions call for universal access to vaccines and healthcare products The Council of Global Unions (CGU)*, which represents about 200 million workers, has called for urgent collective action to provide...
Nov 17, 20214 minUnion busting in USAAmerican companies have been very successful at preventing their workers from organizing into unions in recent decades, one of the...
Nov 8, 20214 minExploitation of Workers in DR Congo Taints Electric VehiclesThe acceleration of electrical vehicles (EV) production is crucial for the transition to a low-carbon economy, yet it appears to be...
Nov 3, 20213 minStrike wave in eSwatini can topple the kingThe small Southern African state of eSwatini has been rocked by a great crisis since June, when decades of anger and frustration against...
Nov 1, 20212 minG7 take major steps on workers’ rightsTrade ministers from the G7 countries - Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States - have committed...
Oct 20, 20211 minNominations are openWe hereby invite unions all over the world to nominate candidates for next year's award of the Arthur Svensson international prize for...
Oct 5, 20213 minUnions protect agricultural workers' rightsWhere unions establish collective bargaining, they initiate the strongest mechanism for protecting agricultural workers’ rights, health...
Sep 23, 20213 minIntensified attacks on Belarus trade unionsThe pressure on independent trade unions and discrimination against their members has never been as strong as it is now. Earlier in...
Sep 22, 20213 minHong Kong: Silence is not an optionWhen the question of trade unions in China would come up, some of us were fond of saying that there is an independent, democratic trade...
Sep 15, 20213 minInternational day of action - reject the Burmese military juntaThe Council of Global Unions holds today a Global Day of Action to support the recognition of the National Unity Government (NUG) as the...