International Human Rights Day is observed every year on December 10. On this day in 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This year, International Human Rights Day will kick off a year-long UN...
All IndustriALL affiliates in Zambia and in Tanzania committed to discuss internally the IndustriALL Pledge on violence and harassment against women and to adopt it formally. The pledge commits the union to a policy of zero tolerance with the slogan...
08.12.2017 IndustriALL Global Union’s oil and gas affiliates in Iraq have come together for the first time to establish a trade union network to better protect the rights of workers in the sector, at a meeting in Basra on 24...
#WhosAccountable: a new campaign that calls on young people to speak up for quality education Topics in this post: The new Youth Report on Accountability demonstrates the power of young people to hold governments to account for quality, equitable education....
On this International Human Rights Day, the IUF joins with all those around the world calling for the full recognition of LGBTI rights as human rights. The IUF has always been committed to the universal defense of human rights. The...
As detailed in a new CUPE report entitled Reconciling the Gap, recent census data for Saskatchewan shows the Aboriginal population is growing and will likely make up one-fifth of the Saskatchewan population by 2036, while showing a stark picture of the...
Once again, the Institut de la statistique du Québec (ISQ) has overestimated the compensation of municipal employees in Quebec. This was brought to light by CUPE following an initial analysis of the report entitled Rémunération des salariés, état et évolution comparés 2017...
Please join us and show your support. Our seniors deserve better! Members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Local 2330 will hold an information picket on Saturday, December 16 at the Valley View Villa nursing home in Stellarton. The...
They include four trade unions from Latin America, two from the Middle East, two from Albania and one union from Africa covering sectors including energy, textile, manufacturing and materials.The new unions have already been taking part in IndustriALL activities. Sutraprotisa...
When people in Australia refer to ‘Stolen Wages’, it is usually referred to as a past issue. This refers to the slavery-like system that saw Aboriginal people denied any or equal pay for hard work over decades during the 19th...
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.