CUPE 5007 is denouncing the untenable situation that patients and personnel have been enduring since the mergers that resulted in the creation of the Centre intégré de santé et services sociaux du Bas-Saint-Laurent (CISSS-BSL). The union has noted that the...
An Ontario arbitrator has ruled that Sue McIntyre, a North Bay Regional Health Centre (NBRHC) nurse fired by the hospital after she spoke about workplace violence at a nursing conference and was quoted in a union media release, should get...
The Council of Global Unions held its 12th meeting with a clear message in support of its members and against the attacks on trade union rights. During its annual meeting on 13 February in Paris, the Council of Global Unions...
As of today, 101 brands have signed the 2018 Transition Accord, which goes into effect when the 2013 Bangladesh Accord expires in May. The 2018 agreement currently covers more than 1,200 factories and at least 2 million workers. With new...
On February 2 and 3, sixteen independent unions came together in Yogyakarta to form the first ever independent union federation of food workers in Indonesia, FSBMM. Representing 20 years of organizing, fighting and winning together, the creation of this federation...
For over 15 years, the four largest public-sector unions in Canada (CUPE, PSAC, CUPW and NUPGE) have been organizing worker-to-worker solidarity exchanges with Colombian popular organizations and trade unions. We have worked hard to establish what we call the Frontlines Initiative...
Nearly 200 workers from the Nestlé-Galderma research centre near Nice in the south of France travelled overnight by bus to demonstrate in front of Nestlé headquarters in Vevey, Switzerland, on 9 February. They came to protest the announced closure of...
Latin America Project against child labour in Nicaragua A mission on child labour was organised in Léon and La Dalia, Nicaragua, from 2-10 November, following up on the “Out of work and into school” project. In La Dalia, the Confederación...
Family and friends traveled to Leksand; Sweden, to reflect on the life of Lars-Erik Klasson, a champion of public education and trade unionism in both Sweden and around the world. A memorial on the 9th of February gave those who...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvVy7n5NRiw ABOUT THIS MUST SEE VIDEO: Esmail Bakhshi's speech, on January 15, 2018, during the strike of the workers from Haft Tapeh Sugarcane Complex. Haft Tapeh Sugarcane Workers’ Syndicate has been an epicenter of independent Iranian labor movement in...
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.