The first IndustriALL Global Union workshop on gender issues took place on 30 November - 1 December in Chernigov, Ukraine. The participants of the workshop were Ukrainian activists responsible for their respective unions’ structures promoting gender equality issues.Participants articulated how...
19.12.2017 IndustriALL Global Union affiliate in the Ivory Coast, SYNTEPCI, is continuing to fight violations against workers’ rights at Klenzi Distribution SA, Libya Oil, and Petroci, giving a strike notice on 3 November. Klenzi dismissed eight workers for refusing to...
Progressive candidates take all seven seats as CUPE-led campaign nets massive voter turnout A massive turnout by Pacific Blue Cross primary plan holders at the benefit provider’s annual general meeting on Wednesday night has resulted in half of the company’s board of...
Simon Fraser University (SFU) student residence workers voted in favour of joining CUPE Local 3338 last week in a vote administered by the BC Labour Relations Board (LRB). This group of workers includes 55 employees who work throughout SFU’s residences as community...
Workers on contract – and other precarious workers – won an important victory this past Friday. The Supreme Court of Canada’s ruled on a BC case and found that one’s workplace – not one’s status as a worker – is what...
The government’s labour reform proposals were apparently drafted in secret by two senators who are better known as pseudo-trade union leaders of the main “yellow” trade unions that represent the interests of employers rather than workers: Tereso Medina Ramírez of...
2017 began with massive worker repression in the Bangladesh export industry that resulted in 35 union leaders jailed, union offices shut down, and over 1,000 workers illegally terminated for raising their collective voices for higher wages and better working conditions....
“All types of asbestos cause lung cancer, mesothelioma, cancer of the larynx and ovary, and asbestosis (fibrosis of the lungs)”, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).The WHO says that exposure to asbestos occurs through inhalation of fibres in air...
Education International calls on governments, the United Nations and other intergovernmental organisations and stakeholders to defend and promote the rights of all migrants and refugees. Education International (EI) particularly urges governments to ensure full respect for the human, trade union...
Original text: http://vahedsyndica.com/archive/3052 Open letter from “Tehran bus workers’ syndicate” to workers and labour organizations in Iran and around the world. Reza Shahabi’s life endangered by his continued confinement! Tehran bus workers’ syndicate is urging all workers and labour organizations...
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.