Garment Worker Pay at 45% Gap from Living Wage
Workers in key garment- and footwear-producing countries are, on average, receiving just half of the pay they need to achieve a decent...
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Feb 15, 20224 min
Unions ask the international community to tighten sanctions against the Myanmar junta
The Burmese people ask the international community to stand up, to tighten sanctions, and to strangle the military junta and the...
Feb 3, 20224 min
Businesses operating in Myanmar have a responsibility to stand up for workers
One year into the attempted military coup, it is clear the private sector has failed to meet their human rights obligations. Businesses...
Feb 1, 20222 min
ILO launches database on labour provisions in trade agreements
The International Labour Organization (ILO) has launched a new global database on trade agreements containing labour provisions, paving...
Jan 17, 20224 min
Kazakhstan must respect democracy and fundamental rights
Kazakhstan is known for a systematic violation of core human and workers’ rights, as well as general lack of democracy in the country....
Jan 13, 20224 min
Migrant domestic workers in highly abusive conditions in Lebanon
Lebanon’s restrictive and exploitative kafala (sponsorship) system traps tens of thousands of migrant domestic workers in highly abusive...
Jan 4, 20227 min
2022: 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 min
Need for transparency in tea supply chains
Thirteen million workers who toil on tea plantations have suffered from endemic human rights abuses while the tea companies they pick for...
Dec 9, 20214 min
Stand for Filipino workers’ rights on 10 December
The international trade union movement will mobilise to stand with Filipino workers on 10 December. For the third consecutive year, the...
Dec 6, 20213 min
Clothing brands allegedly complicit in forced labour in Xinjiang
Human rights organisation ECCHR and Dutch law firm Prakken d’Oliveira have petitioned the Dutch Public Prosecutor to launch a criminal...
Dec 1, 20212 min
COVID-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 min
Union busting in USA
American companies have been very successful at preventing their workers from organizing into unions in recent decades, one of the...
Nov 8, 20214 min
Exploitation of Workers in DR Congo Taints Electric Vehicles
The acceleration of electrical vehicles (EV) production is crucial for the transition to a low-carbon economy, yet it appears to be...
Nov 3, 20213 min
Strike wave in eSwatini can topple the king
The 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 min
G7 take major steps on workers’ rights
Trade ministers from the G7 countries - Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States - have committed...
Oct 20, 20211 min
Nominations are open
We 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 min
Unions protect agricultural workers' rights
Where unions establish collective bargaining, they initiate the strongest mechanism for protecting agricultural workers’ rights, health...
Sep 23, 20213 min
Intensified attacks on Belarus trade unions
The pressure on independent trade unions and discrimination against their members has never been as strong as it is now. Earlier in...
Sep 22, 20213 min
Hong Kong: Silence is not an option
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...
Sep 15, 20213 min
International day of action - reject the Burmese military junta
The Council of Global Unions holds today a Global Day of Action to support the recognition of the National Unity Government (NUG) as the...
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