Challenges include global overcapacity, digitalization, and repression of unions by governments and companies. Presently, the share of the CIS region in global steel production is 6,3 per cent.Participants noted that the U.S. government’s recent decisions on tariffs on steel and...
The ILO contact mission, which was due to take place at the end of February 2018, was called off after the government failed to confirm that the mission would be able to meet with independent unions in Algeria.The mission was...
IndustriALL Global Union and the International Confederation of Trade Unions (ITUC) organized a joint mission to Belarus to express solidarity with affiliates and meet with Government representatives. The mission met with representatives of the ministries of Labour and Foreign Affairs on...
Canada's Ontario government is rewarding Mondelez a cash gift of 22.6 million Canadian dollars for skills development and capital investment at its non-union East York (Ontario) facility. Over 5+ years, the East York facility has received production from the company's...
Ghana Gold Fields is retrenching and rehiring the same workers on contract.According to IndustriALL affiliate Ghana Mine Workers Union (GMWU) the retrenchments were not done according to the law, prompting the union to go to court. The union organized a...
18.04.2018 With a vote looming in the Mexican Senate on labour reform proposals, the next two weeks will be crucial in the decades-long struggle to secure labour justice for Mexican workers. Affiliates in Latin America and the Caribbean have been...
19.04.2018 12,000 members of IndustriALL affiliate Nuclear Power and Industry Workers Union of Ukraine (Atomprofspilka) protested in eight different cities on 12 April to protest a state policy of low energy tariffs, which result in low pay for workers. The...
The Global Education Monitoring Report has launched #MakeitPublic, a new advocacy campaign calling on governments and regional organisations to report on education progress to their citizens. The #MakeitPublic campaign encourages countries to take steps towards producing a regular education monitoring...
An international union delegation of representatives of the IUF, IndustriAll, PSI and the ITUC held a demonstration in support of the independent trade union movement at the Geneva diplomatic mission of the Republic of Belarus on April 18. The government...
Peru's brewery giant Backus has been aggressively attacking its workers and their rights since being acquired by AB InBev in late 2016, dismissing some 1,500 workers and replacing them with casual employees. AB InBev has unilaterally discarded parts of the...
The International Alliance in Support of Workers in Iran (IASWI) was formed in 1999 in Toronto-Canada and formally announced its formation in January 2000. In nearly two decades of continuous activism, we have played an impactful role in securing international support for Iranian workers’ struggles against the Islamic Republic of Iran, employers, and the inhumane conditions the capitalist order has imposed on working-class lives in Iran. During these years, our politics and the foundational basis guiding our activism have been predicated on working-class traditions with an uncompromising emphasis on working-class independence and autonomy.