Tehran bus workers’ syndicate condemns the Ministry of Labour’s and security forces’ brutal assault In a statement issued in the evening of December 26, 2017, Tehran bus workers’ syndicate exposed active collaboration of the agents of the Ministry of...
Update 2: as of the afternoon of December 26, 2017, all arrestees have been released. More updates to be issued soon. Iran: Breaking news: Robabeh Rezaee, Hassan Saeidi, Mohammad Aslaghi & Gholamreza Gomar among the arrestees. A protest rally was...
CCOO (Confederación Sindical de Comisiones Obreras) supports the Iranian trade unionist Réza Shahabi As of today, December 21, 2017, CCOO has joined an urgent statement on the case of the Iranian trade unionist Réza Shahabi. The LO Norway, LO Sweden and the...
Teva has been in a crisis with a huge debt after its unsuccessful US$40 billion acquisition of rival company Allergan.The restructuring will negatively impact around 1,700 jobs in different locations in Israel, meaning that more or less one-quarter of the...
Just 15 days before the beginning of the Christmas and New Year break workers of the Malagasy company CLASSIC KNITWEAR represented by the IndustriALL Global Union affiliate Syndicalisme et Vie des Sociétés (SVS), received notice of technical unemployment. The company...
Ferries and flights were suspended, public transport was limited and hospitals treated emergency cases only as doctors joined workers across the country in the strike. Around 50 anti-austerity demonstrations took place across Greece.Unions are calling on the government to stop...
CUPE has vehemently denounced the tactics TVA have used to reduce the number of employees of TVA Interactif in two videos posted on social media recently. “Since they’ve been unionized, the Employer has made several organizational changes and restructurings to take...
As the holiday season approaches, and as 2017 comes to a close, we want to send our warmest holiday greetings and our most sincere thanks to all CUPE members, activists and staff. The past year has been full of challenges, as...
On 15 December more than two thousand workers and supporters joined the strike in Parma called by the provincial organizations of FLAI-CGIL and UILA-UIL in support of the Nestlé-Froneri workers and their struggle for jobs and a decent future. Food...
Tenaris TuboCaribe is continuing its efforts to weaken the trade union during the current round of collective bargaining. It recently dismissed Walberto Marrugo, Jairo del Rio and Jorge Buenos as part of its attempt to break the union.Walberto Marrugo and...
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.