Aug 30, 20214 minThe Fashion Transparency Index 2021250 of the world’s largest fashion brands and retailers were reviewed and ranked according to what information they disclose about their...
Aug 26, 20212 minNew International Accord for Health and Safety in the Textile and Garment IndustryGlobal trade unions and international apparel retailers who were signatories to the former Accord on Fire and Building Safety in...
Aug 16, 20214 minHealth workers’ right to strike under threatSome governments have taken the COVID-19 pandemic as an excuse to limit people’s rights, including workers’ right to organize. Across the...
Jun 30, 20212 min2021 ITUC Global Rights Index: The world’s worst countries for workersAbuses of the right to strike, the right to establish and join a trade union, the right to trade union activities and civil liberties and...
Jun 21, 20212 minILO: Belarus systematically violate the rights of workers and trade unionsThe ILO Committee on the Application of Standards call on the Belarusian government to “immediately restore full respect for the rights...
Jun 10, 20214 minDecision on violation of workers' rights in Belarus in a few daysOn June 7, an online meeting of the ILO Committee on Standards took place, which considered the issue of violation of the norms of the...
May 27, 20213 minCovid-19 Pandemic Fueling Child LabourThe unprecedented economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, together with school closures and inadequate government assistance, is...
May 5, 20219 minCOVID-19 has ignited new struggles over workers’ health and safetyThe COVID-19 crisis has highlighted how governments’ approaches to workers’ health and safety have fallen short in preventing the spread...
Apr 29, 202110 minBelarus: Authorities target independent trade unionsThe Belarusian authorities are ruthlessly targeting independent trade unions which received this year's Arthur Svensson Prize. The...
Apr 22, 20214 minA Call for Urgent Action on MyanmarTrade unions can only fully and freely function in democracies. It is also true that democracy cannot be complete without trade unions....
Apr 9, 20212 minThe independent trade unions in Belarus is awarded the Arthur Svensson PrizeThe «Arthur Svensson International Prize for Trade Union Rights» for 2021 is awarded to the independent trade union movement in Belarus,...
Mar 19, 20212 minRacism is a trade union issueOver the past year, the COVID-19 pandemic has thrown into sharp relief the need to urgently uproot and dismantle systemic inequalities...
Feb 24, 20213 minWorkers' rights under threat as online work surgesDigital labour platforms have increased five-fold worldwide in the last decade according to the ILO’s latest World Employment and Social...
Feb 12, 20214 minTrade Unions and the Struggle for DemocracyUnless assuming power and relinquishing it are based on the will of the people, government cannot be legitimate. Although they have...
Feb 3, 20212 minIncreased repression in Belarus - prison sentences for strikesTens of thousands of people have taken part in strikes and demonstrations in the country since Alexander Lukashenko claimed victory in...
Feb 1, 20212 minThousands of slaves in BrazilForced labour, an exhausting working routine, degrading conditions, and debt servitude are some of the characteristics of what is termed...
Jan 13, 20213 minPandemic wage theftAs employment sectors became impacted by COVID-19, many migrant workers were forced to accept poorer terms and conditions of employment,...
Jan 4, 20219 minThe unions kept us strong through 2020Amid the devastation and misery brought by the pandemic, workers across the world was the core of the resistance, calling to account...
Dec 8, 20203 minNew digital platform shines light on labour rights issues in fashion supply chainsBased on cheap prices, speed, and maximising profits, the fashion industry has long been built on poverty wages, exploitation and...
Nov 30, 20203 minSolidarity with Filipino workers' fightIn the darkest time since the end of the dictatorship of President Marcos in 1986, the trade union movement in the Philippines has come...