Key education unions in the UK have warned that a majority of teachers have already considered leaving the profession due to pay concerns. National Education Union: General lack of satisfaction over pay levels Around two-thirds (63 per cent) of...
With 96% of votes in favour, workers at the Marriott Sheraton Grand Conakry, Guinea, have voted to form a union and elected their leaders at the country's largest hotel. Workers at the 5-star establishment began organizing in response to low...
The RMI Report 2020 is a an evidence based assessment of 38 large-scale mining companies across 780 operating mine sites around the world accounting for 28 percent of the world’s mining activity by value of production. Major global mining companies...
Last summer, CUPE 4728 members embarked on a water main development project, the scope of which was the largest in recent memory for Grand Forks, BC. With 13 of the local’s 18 members putting in 10-hour days and four-day weeks,...
Workers have faced anti-union behaviour from the steel producer since the union was founded in 2012. In response, they launched a campaign to protect their rights, supported by IndustriALL Global Union and other organizations.The agreement signed last month is a...
The twenty or so blue and white-collar employees of the Municipality of Saint-Côme in the Lanaudière region signed their new collective agreement yesterday. The previous agreement expired on December 31, 2018. The five-year contract calls for wage hikes of 2.5% in...
On 3 February, a stampede in the Kakamega Primary School in Kenya's western region left 14 students dead and 40 severely injured. Kenyan education unions have reacted angrily to the factors that led to the tragedy. The unions condemned the...
UK food safety standards are at high risk as the Tory government of Boris Johnson prepares for post-Brexit deregulation. In a speech on February 3, just days after the UK left the EU, PM Boris Johnson said "There are other...
The Education International Asia-Pacific Regional Committee meeting focused on union responses to threats to human and trade union rights, the impact of climate change, and growing privatisation in education. Public education is being threatened in many countries in the Asia-Pacific...
CUPE 4163 Components 1 and 2 reached a tentative agreement with the University of Victoria on February 10. The local began bargaining on November 13 and met for a total of 11 sessions. CUPE 4163 President Greg Melnechuk thanked the bargaining...
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.