The IUF Congress in 2017, responding to the widely felt need expressed by affiliates to systematically and seriously organize and recruit young workers, decided to establish a young workers' committee and to ensure that workers 35 and under are represented...
08.01.2019 Some 1,250 workers at National Grid in Massachusetts, USA, will be returning to work under a new 6-year contract, ending a lockout lasting more than six months. Members of IndustriALL Global Union affiliate, the United Steelworkers (USW), voted to...
08.01.2019 At least thirty people were killed, and several injured, when a mine collapsed in the northern parts of Afghanistan on 6 January. Heavy snowfall caused a landslide which resulted in the mine caving in. 50 people were inside the...
Germany: Staff shortages limits access to and quality of early childhood education Topics in this post: Little support and recognition of the profession of early childhood educators is leading to a dangerous lack of staff, according to a German union....
Police seized over 15 trade unionists including Abdelkader Kawafi general secretary of IndustriALL Global Union affiliate, the electricity and gas workers’ union, SNATEG; as well as Zakaria Ben Haddad, general secretary of energy workers’ union, SNT ÉNERGIE; and Mezayani Moussa from...
Esmaeil Bakhshi, Iran’s prominent labour activist: “I was tortured, kicked and beaten to the brink of death without reason or any words to the extent that I could not move for 72 hours in my cell”. An open letter...
Covering around 200 workers, the CBA will be valid for a two-year period in 2019-2020 in the operations ok, belonging to a multi-sector conglomerate Nurol Holding. The company is one of the first locally-owned private investors to start up a...
“People are buzzing with enthusiasm – you can feel it in the air,” says Luisa María Alcalde cheerfully. It is truly the start of a new era for the people of Mexico: Andrés Manuel López Obrador was recently elected president,...
03.01.2019 The IndustriALL Global Union Diamond Network meeting 19-21 December in Johannesburg, South Africa, attended by 25 delegates from Belgium, Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, India, South Africa and Zimbabwe resolved to improve working conditions in the diamond supply chain. The supply...
As we welcome new opportunities to advance worldwide achievement of free quality public education for all in 2019, Education International wishes you and your families a happy new year! The highlight of 2019 for Education International (EI) will be the...