Of the 600,000 registered textile, garment and footwear workers in South-East Europe, few are unionized and working conditions are poor. Building trade union power to secure a living wage and safer and healthier workplaces for these workers is therefore urgent.This...
Late in the day on Friday, February 14th, before the long-weekend, the Ford Conservatives announced their next steps for their Employment Services System Managers pilot project that will impact three regions of the province: Hamilton-Niagara, Peel, and Muskoka-Kawartha. It’s part of a...
The meeting of the Development Cooperation Network is taking place in Belgium from 2-4 March and brings together 50 union representatives from 25 countries across the world. Participants are joining forces to identify opportunities to work together and effect change...
Workers on North Carolina tobacco, sweet potato and cucumber farms have been doubly victimized. Last year, members of the IUF-affiliated Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC) working on tobacco, sweet potato and cucumber farms stood up to a labor contractor, denouncing...
South African transport workers face many challenges including violence against women workers, unsafe working conditions, failing infrastructure and a chronic lack of investmentThe purpose of the symposium was to see if there was a desire to build unity among unions...
Talks have broken off between outside workers at the Halifax Regional Municipality and their employer. After 18 days of bargaining, including two days of conciliation, the members of the CUPE 108 voted overwhelmingly in favour of job action on Friday,...
At least 20 civilians, including children and teachers, were killed in the Idlib region of Syria in airstrikes. Many more were wounded. The attack took place on 25 February and targeted eight school facilities. Six schools and two nurseries were...
Four years ago, on March 3, 2016, activist and rights defender Berta Cáceres was murdered for her role in mobilizing opposition to a proposed dam on the Gualcarque River which threatened the land and livelihoods of the indigenous Lenca people....
During the #HandsOffUkraineUnions day of action, unionists across the world delivered protest letters to Ukrainian embassies, demanding that the President withdraw the draft labour law undermining workers’ rights and freedom of association. The action coincided with a high level ITUC-ETUC mission...
Nova Scotians should be upset at what ISN’T in the Liberal government’s budget, says the President of CUPE Nova Scotia, Nan McFadgen. “What we didn’t see is money to improve the resident-staff ratio in nursing homes or for new long-term-care beds,”...
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.