UK: Unions call for increased dialogue with new Education Secretary Topics in this post: Following the reshuffle of the UK government by Prime Minister Theresa May, educators have welcomed the nomination of Damian Hinds as Education Secretary, and anticipate an...
Sister Lee had been staying at the KCTU office for two years since an arrest warrant was issued for her activities as general secretary of the organization, and particularly her role in organizing the People’s Mass Mobilization on 14 November...
At least 20 people have been killed and hundreds more have been arrested over the past 10 days. All 20 of the top most populated cities of Iran participated in the protests. The total population of the cities where protests...
Click the link below for the protest letter by CUB: CUB, freedom for Reza Shahabi and all other iranian trade unionists detained [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Cc: [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] ROMA, Sunday, January 7, 2018...
Bus workers’ syndicate of Tehran and sugarcane workers’ syndicate of Haft Tapeh have issued a joint statement on the recent protest movement in Iran, stating that protesting masses have poured into streets because they are fed up with poverty, injustice...
Australian educators have protested against deteriorating work conditions in the technical and further education sector in Victoria, a direct threat to quality education. Technical and Further Education (TAFE) teachers and supporters rallied on 12 December outside the office of Gayle...
CUPE is pleased to welcome Flight Medics/Nurses at Vanguard Air Care Inc. as the newest members of our union. Paramedics and Nurses at Vanguard Air provide 24-hour service in Manitoba with locations in Norway House, Thompson, Island Lake, and Winnipeg. “All workers...
Thousands of Iranians across the country took to the streets as 2017 came to a close to vent their frustration and anger over the poverty, brutality and corruption which blight their lives. At least twenty demonstrators have been killed and...
A total of 22 people have been killed, and up to a thousand have been detained, accused of terrorism, espionage and “enmity against God”, a crime that carries the death penalty. The regime has claimed that the protests are led...
Education in Scotland is undervalued, according to a recent study undertaken for Education International, which also stresses that public authorities and education policy makers must work with teachers and their unions on professional and national identity. Over half of Scotland’s...
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.