The Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educación, in an extraordinary Congress, modified its statutes, including adopting a provision that 50 per cent of its leadership positions must be held by women. They elected their leadership and strengthened their commitment...
07.03.2018 The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade unions (ZCTU), the national centre to which IndustriALL Global Union affiliates belong, says President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration “met everyone” for consultations, but snubbed labour during its first 100 days in office. As no attempts...
Rivael Marcos Batista, president; Denilson Ramalho da Silva, treasurer; and Orlando Monegato, substitute director of the Union of Rural Employees of Boa Esperança do Sul, (affiliated to IndustriALL through FERAESP), were dismissed at Raízen’s Araraquara Production Unit in the state...
Supporting south-south cooperation development Topics in this post: South-south solidarity is a cooperation mode that EI has been helping to happen for many years now. At each annual development cooperation meeting, as well as in other activities, EI supports union-to-union...
Women, feminists and gender justice activists are ramping up the battle against gender-based violence and oppression. Women and survivors of gender-based violence continue to come forward and name the harm done. And they continue to confront and transform the systems...
In a fight to protect their pension rights, administrative, technical and library staff at Carleton University began job action on Monday at 6 a.m. After negotiations with Carleton University broke off in the early hours of this morning, the union that represents...
On March, 5, CUPE Nova Scotia President Nan McFadgen presented to the Law Amendments Committee on Bill 72, the most significant restructuring of Nova Scotia’s public education system in decades. In her presentation, she highlighted the need for meaningful consultation,...
The following remarks were made by CUPE Nova Scotia President Nan McFadgen before the Law Amendments Committee on Bill 72, the Education Reform Act, in the Nova Scotia Legislature on March 5. Good morning. My name is Nan McFadgen and I am the President...
After six months of fruitless bargaining, 3,000 academic workers at York University, members of CUPE 3903 are on strike for less. Less precarious employment and less of a university system that is far too reliant on short-term, precarious work with little...
The ten workers were reportedly seized by police at their homes on the night of 1 and 2 March on arrest warrants issued by Ahvaz prosecutor’s office. The reason for their arrest has not been given.Workers at the steel plant have...
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.