On February 18, fourteen labour organisations held a one day meeting in New Delhi to discuss the state of the workers movement in India and possible ways forward. While in the last few years there have been incredible struggles like...
In mid-February, General Motors (GM) announced that they would close their Gusan assembly plant in South Korea. Around 2,000 workers will lose their jobs. The GM representative, Barry Engle, then proceeded to state that they would also evaluate the remaining...
In response to Ahvaz Steel workers protests in the past few days, last night security agents raided the houses of protesting workers late Thursday night (March 1, 2018) and arrested about 10 workers. Arrested workers include: Farhad Akbarian; Morteza Akbarian;...
After yet another high performing year, the OMERS pension plan is well ahead of schedule to be fully funded by 2025, keeping it in a strong position to maintain core benefits like guaranteed indexing, says CUPE Ontario President Fred Hahn. OMERS’s...
EI: new podcast looks back at 25 years of Education International’s history Topics in this post: To mark the quarter century of Education International, founding General Secretary Fred van Leeuwen recounts in his own words how the organisation came to...
Workers on the slaughter line at the HKScan meat factory in Rakvere, Estonia have been on strike since February 6 for their right to union recognition and a wage increase through collective bargaining. In November last year, HKScan management rejected...
This week, CUPE and allies in the Canadian Health Coalition (CHC) went to Parliament Hill to lobby MPs on the merits of public solutions to improve our health care system. The theme of this year’s lobby day was “Health care based...
Roy Robson is a German clothing company known for its sharp suits, and is a major sponsor of well-known German soccer league Bundesliga football teams FC St Pauli, Werder Bremen and VfL Wolfsburg. Players dress in suits supplied by the...
Automative and aerospace company GKN – which traces its roots to 1759, at the dawn of the industrial revolution - faces a hostile, debt-fuelled takeover by Melrose, a “turnaround” specialist. The bid will leave GKN with over £1.3 billion of...
Workers at the AMS Sexual Assault Support Centre (SASC) at UBC voted to become members of CUPE 1936 in a BC Labour Relations Board vote conducted on February 22. “We are very pleased to welcome this group of workers into our local,” said...
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.