As part of the push for more and better jobs for women workers on banana plantations in Ghana, the IUF and Banana Link recently facilitated workshops involving the IUF-affiliated General Agricultural Workers Union of Ghana (GAWU) and the Industrial and...
Over the past years, the Iraqi government has increased its use of temporary and wage workers, and there are now more than 30,000 in the electricity sector. They do the same jobs as permanent workers but in some cases earn half...
Education unions mobilised for democracy in Brazil Topics in this post: In the light of the current violent climate, and with the judicial and media persecution of former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, an Education International's delegation has participated...
Co-sponsored by Spanish-based global retailer, Inditex, the meeting on 30 March 2018 was also attended by other GFA partners Swedish H&M and British ASOS, together with their main suppliers in Bulgaria. IndustriALL Global Union and its Bulgarian affiliates, FOSIL/CITUB and...
This commitment was announced in a meeting in Istanbul where corporate signatories of ACT met with IndustriALL and its Turkish affiliates – Teksif, Öz İplik İş, Disk/Tekstil and Deriteks – to discuss the implementation of ACT in the Turkish garment...
11.04.2018 As banana exporter Winfresh has announced a move from carboard cartons produced in St Lucia to plastic crates imported from the US, the National Workers’ Union of St Lucia is fighting to save 150 jobs. The threat to jobs...
Striking academic workers at York University have sent a clear message to their employer by overwhelmingly rejecting a contract offer they were forced to vote on. All three striking units of CUPE 3903, representing teaching assistants, contract faculty and graduate assistants who...
Education International urges Brazil to revert to ‘beacon of democracy’ Topics in this post: In the light of violence that culminated in the murder of Brazilian politician and city councilor Marielle Franco in Rio de Janeiro on 14 March, and...
Growing child poverty is affecting children’s learning in the UK, according to a recent National Education Union survey. However, schools and education staff are doing their utmost to provide the services and essentials of daily life to help disadvantaged families....
The strategic planning meeting saw the participation of representatives from IndustriALL affiliates the Indian National Cement Workers’ Federation and Pragatisheel Cement Shramik Sangh, whose members work in cement manufacturing units across India.The Indian cement unions stressed that recent fatal accidents...
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.