The Australian Education Union has questioned the government’s decision to considerably increase spending for private schools based on their enrolment numbers of disabled students, deploring that public schools are set to receive much less. The AEU has received information of...
Jenny Marcos, a leader of the Peninsula Employees Union at the Manila Peninsula Hotel in the Philippines, has been reinstated at her job with full back pay and is back at work after being terminated in 2016 for union activities...
21.10.2017 Conditions on enforcement and capacity have been agreed to prepare for the handover of the Bangladesh Accord to a national regulatory body. This was announced following a high-level in meeting in Bangladesh, between IndustriALL, Uni Global Union, brand representatives...
Submitted on Mon, 09/04/2017 - 8:54pm By Staff - It's Going Down, September 4, 2017 Members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) launched a strike in Portland, Oregon at fast food chain Burgerville. The strike is the latest...
“Liberals, Bring Back Our Home Delivery for the Holidays,” Union UrgesFor Immediate Release - Judy Foote, the Minister of Public Services and Procurement, told the Journal de Montréal today that she cannot confirm that those who have lost their home...
What are Repetitive Strain Injuries? Repetitive strain injuries (RSI) are a family of injuries affecting tendons, tendon sheaths, muscles, nerves and joints. They cause persistent or recurring pains most commonly in the neck, shoulders, forearms, hands, wrists, elbows and lower limbs.The...
Every year, millions of workers either die, get injured or suffer major illnesses because of unsafe workplaces. Unions fight for safety at work. At the end of this month in Melbourne, Australia, a major conference will be held by trade...
The erosion of Australia’s vocational training system, partly because of privatisation, is now impacting on society and on the futures of young people. After severe budget cuts over the past decade in Australia, the country’s vocational training programme, TAFE (technical...
The IUF and its affiliates NUWHRAIN and SENTRO Food & Beverage Workers Council joined a protest rally on September 21 organized by a coalition of human rights and labour organizations to denounce the Duterte government's human rights violations and demand...
23.10.2017 IndustriALL’s World Conference on Industry 4.0 taking place in Geneva, Switzerland, this week will be streamed live on Facebook. The Conference on Thursday 26 October and Friday 27 October will debate the implications of Industry 4.0 on trade unions...
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.