The toll of violence against rural workers, peasants and all those defending human rights, the struggle for land and the rights of indigenous peoples in Brazil continues to rise. On January 9, rural worker and land reform militant Valdemir Resplandes...
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Costa Rica makes two years of pre-primary education compulsory Topics in this post: Education International has welcomed the move by Costa Rica to make two years of pre-primary education mandatory before primary school in an effort to achieve the United...
Submitted on Wed, 01/17/2018 - 8:14pm By Julia Conley - Common Dreams, January 14, 2018 Inmates in Florida's prisons launched a month-long strike on Monday in protest of the state's use of "modern day slavery" within its correctional facilities. In...
It is regrettable that earlier today Unifor announced it will disaffiliate from the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC). CUPE firmly believes a united house of labour is much stronger than a divided one. Trade unionists have always been stronger when we work...
Costa Rica makes pre-primary education compulsory for two years Topics in this post: Education International has welcomed the move by Costa Rica to make two years of pre-primary education mandatory before primary school in an effort to achieve the United...
The metal industry in Turkey is characterized by low wages, long working hours, high job accident rates, excessive profits and very high productivity rates. And according to the research conducted by Birlesik Metal-Is, because of the industry’s low wages, 85...
On Wednesday 10 January, the Legislative Yuan in Taiwan approved changes to the Labour Standards Act that will give employers the power to force workers to work 12 days in a row, with a break of only 8 hours between...
17.01.2018 Trinidad and Tobago’s government recently announced a restructuring of state-owned oil company Petrotrin, which is in debt due to the fall in oil prices and unpaid taxes. In response, IndustriALL affiliate OWTU is organizing protests at Petrotrin’s Trinmar offshore...
On 8 January, representatives of the trade union, management of Full Gold Mining and Kyrgyz state committee for industry, energy and subsoil use, overseeing the sector, met at a round table to resolve the labour dispute. At the end of last...
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.