In a brutal display of anti-union action, Amertron Electronics, a semiconductor and optoelectronics producer, has recently sacked 532 labour activists. The workers had begun to take action in September over a number of health and safety issues, as well as...
German education unionists are calling for a comprehensive set of measures to improve the situation at primary schools in response to a new report on education in the sector. A recent report critical of educational outcomes in North Rhine-Westphalia –...
Nearly twenty years after Indonesia freed itself from an oppressive military dictatorship, workers at the Indonesian operations of The Coca-Cola Company's Australian-based bottler Coca-Cola Amatil (CCA) are still waiting for democratic rights at the workplace. Workers at Coca-Cola Amatil Indonesia...
27.10.2017 “We want genuine change” was a sentence that was heard many times during the meeting of the working group on gender, in Bota, Colombia, on 16-17 October. Members of the Regional Women’s Committee, delegates from Colombia and observers drafted...
Open letter from CNT’s International Secretary Our position on Catalonia Dear comrades, First of all, thanks for the support that so many of you have provided with translations, putting statements up on social media, planning actions, etc. CNT, as a...
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Aspects of a pilot project announced by the Ministry of Education today for students with autism are raising alarm bells about the future of fully accessible, public education in the province, say CUPE Ontario education workers. “We represent 13,000 Educational Assistants...
The offensive that the Myanmar government instigated against the Rohingya population a few months ago in western Myanmar shows no sign of slowing down. In what can only be seen as an orchestrated attempt to arrive at a ‘final solution’...
Higher education teaching personnel to be celebrated in Paris To mark the 20th anniversary of the UNESCO Recommendation on Higher Education Teaching Personnel, Education International is throwing the spotlight on tenure, academic freedom, self-governance and collegiality, which are being challenged...
The IUF-affiliated union E tu has worked tirelessly with community leaders to save quality jobs at Mondelez and is highly critical of the final decision by the company to move all production of Cadbury products at its Dunedin, New Zealand...
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.