In early October, the global port operator company, International Container Terminal Services Inc. (ICTSI), took over the operations of a number of ports in Papua New Guinea (PNG). The workers took industrial actions against this takeover as part of global...
This week, a 27 year old worker picking watermelons in the region of Townsville, in the northern state of Queensland, collapsed and died while working from suspected heat stroke. A government enquiry currently underway has found that workers in the...
On October 28, security forces once again targeted labour activist Mahmoud Salehi. Mahmoud was leaving the dialysis unit of a hospital in Saqez, in north western Iran, when he was arrested and immediately sentenced to another year in prison. Mahmoud...
The Glencore campaign comes on the back of a successful campaign against mining giant Rio Tinto.“Glencore has no corporate soul”, said Tony Maher, national president of Australian affiliate the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Engineering Union (CFMEU).“This is a Frankenstein company,...
On 3 November 2017, at a meeting at the Ministry for Social Affairs in Tunisia, the employers' federation of the foundries and mechanical engineering sector signed a sectoral agreement with metalworkers' union FGME-UGTT and the government that will give workers a...
More than a hundred representatives of IndustriALL affiliates, together with workers from Sri Lankan trade unions, took to the streets of the capital Colombo to demand that the government implements amendments to Article 59A of the Wages Boards Ordinance.The amendments...
Education International will represent teachers and stress their unions’ active role in ensuring quality education for all at the 4th Global Conference on Child Labour. Education International will be actively raising teachers’ concerns and views at the United Nations’ 4th...
Violence against women in the workplace is real, and happens every day. It takes many forms – from verbal harassment to physical and sexual abuse. All forms of violence are unacceptable, and IndustriALL is campaigning to combat violence against women...
Yemen’s education crisis deepens as unpaid teachers continue to strike With more than 1,700 schools already closed due to damage from armed conflict, the country’s teachers have gone on strike, desperate to be paid after one year, only adding to...
Prominent jailed Iranian anti-capitalist labour activist, Mahmoud Salehi, has been transferred to a hospital in Saqez. His heart does not pump blood properly, and he has also lost both his kidneys during previous incarceration. He might die if he is...
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.