Members of USW Local 13-1 voted to ratify the new deal, which covers around 235 workers at Dow Chemical’s facility at Deer Park, on 8 October.It ends months of conflict at the site in Texas, USA, which started when bargaining on...
Iraq: education union promotes internal democracy and gender equity and fights climate change In preparation for next year’s conference of the Kurdistan Teachers’ Union (KTU), an extended meeting of the KTU Executive Committee was convened, underlining the issues of democracy,...
Major themes of the conference included beneficiation, artisanal and small scale mining, safety and ILO Convention 176, and illicit financial flows.The meeting was opened by IndustriALL assistant general secretary Kemal Özkan, who explained that there is a crisis of inequality...
35 union leaders, including six women, from Japan, South Korea, Mongolia, Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia and Nepal met in Tokyo on 1-2 October to discuss the impact of the economic slowdown and technology revolution on workers.The network’s chairperson Kaoru Kishimoto said...
At the Asia-Pacific regional consultative meeting of Education International affiliates, education union leaders adopted recommendations to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 4 and implement professional teaching standards. Thirty education union leaders from 13 Education International (EI) member organisations participated in the...
The 44 delegates from 11 countries were joined by guests from a number of organizations, including the ILO, BWI, UNI Global Union, SASK and the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, which sponsored the event.The delegates displayed spirit and enthusiasm, frequently breaking into...
In Jordan, an ongoing strike by the Jordan Teachers Association continues, with the union calling on the government to deliver on the 50 per cent salary increase agreed in 2014. The Jordan Teachers Association (JTA) last week declared its fourth...
World Teachers’ Day: EI takes the stage at UNESCO Conference and proposes five measures to make teaching a more attractive profession During the conference celebrating World Teachers’ Day at UNESCO headquarters, Education International proposed five key measures that should be...
The IUF and the dairy transnational Arla Foods have concluded an agreement on measures to protect workers against sexual harassment in the workplace.This is the first such agreement with a global dairy company. In 2013, the IUF signed an agreement...
After an intensive weekend of negotiations, a tentative deal has been reached for a new central agreement, following talks between CUPE, the provincial government and the Council of Trustees’ Associations (CTA). The new deal secures services for Ontario students and...