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Mar 28, 2019
2 min

Labour rights under pressure across Europe

Countries across Europe are struggling to comply with their international legal obligations concerning rights for workers, according to...

Mar 25, 2019
3 min

Domestic workers are the slaves of modern Asia

Accounts of Southeast Asian domestic workers in the Middle East being tortured, forced to work for hours on end and even sexually abused...

Mar 20, 2019
2 min

Kazakhstan’s Leader Resigns - Now Is a Chance to Guarantee the Citizens Their Rights

Last winner of the Arthur Svensson International Prize for Trade Union Rights was the independent trade unions in Kazakhstan that was...

Mar 18, 2019
2 min

Sanders Campaign Becomes First Presidential Campaign to Formally Unionize

Sen. Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign has become the first major party presidential campaign in USA to unionize. The campaign...

Mar 14, 2019
2 min

FIFA told to consider workers' rights in World Cup expansion plan

A coalition of human rights groups, football fans, players and trade unions has urged FIFA president Gianni Infantino to confirm that any...

Mar 12, 2019
2 min

Indian workers unite for a government that puts workers first

On 5 March, unions representing ten national trade union confederations and other independent unions adopted a Workers’ Charter of...

Mar 11, 2019
2 min

Cases filed against over 5000 workers after protests in Bangladesh

Over a hundred workers were imprisoned, over 12,000 were retrenched and cases were filed against over 5, 000 workers in the aftermath of...

Mar 6, 2019
2 min

Fresh Teachers' Strike In Iran Enters Third Day

A third round of nationwide teachers’ strikes in Iran entered its third day March 5, with teachers across the country holding sit-ins in...

Mar 4, 2019
3 min

Strike Wave Wins Raises for Mexican Factory Workers

Mexican maquiladora workers in 70 factories have won big wage increases and bonuses in a strike wave that began in January. The strikes...

Feb 26, 2019
2 min

Workers in the Middle East and North Aftrica continue to face exploitation

There were some positive developments at a legislative level in Morocco, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) with respect to migrant...

Feb 21, 2019
3 min

Agricultural workers’ rights abuses in Spain

The same story is heard over and over: the minimum salary is not paid, the workers’ national insurance contribution is not paid for all...

Feb 19, 2019
1 min

Myanmar workers rally for fair labour laws

Thousands of workers marched in Yangon, Myanmar, to demand fair labor laws as parliament appeared ready to pass legislation that would...

Feb 15, 2019
2 min

New trade union confederation in Mexico?

An International Confederation of Workers (CIT), which gathers 10 workers' federations and more than 150 trade unions from Mexico, was...

Feb 13, 2019
1 min

Worker-led strategies in the garment industries

With the failure of the traditional, corporate-led initiatives to address labor violations, new models have emerged to hold brands and...

Feb 11, 2019
2 min

Rising workers' activism in China

Factory workers across China are staging sit-ins, demanding unpaid wages for "blood and sweat", the Straits Times says. Taxi drivers are...

Feb 7, 2019
6 min

"The fairy tale of oil"

In the story of "the Norwegian oil adventure", which NRKs TV drama Lykkeland describes, and which the development aid program Oil for...

Feb 1, 2019
2 min

5 reasons to join a union

There’s never been a more important time to join a union according to IndustriALL Global Union. As 26 billionaires own as many assets as...

Jan 28, 2019
1 min

Philippines: Teacher unionists threatened

Education International has launched an urgent action appeal encouraging the global community of educators and activists to express...

Jan 24, 2019
1 min

Iranian labour rights activists risk further torture

Two labour rights activists who were rearrested after speaking out about beatings and other abuse they suffered in detention last year...

Jan 23, 2019
2 min

Pakistan Garment Workers’ Rights at Risk

Pakistan’s government is failing to enforce laws that could protect millions of garment workers from serious labor rights abuses, Human...

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