The protests started on 15 November, after the government tripled the fuel price overnight. What began as an economic protest soon turned into a broader series of protests against government corruption and mismanagement.The government responded with brutal repression, shooting and...
CUPE 951 President Kirk Mercer, is urging other union locals to consider donating to the United Way on December 3, Giving Tuesday. Mercer is the Labour Committee Chair and a Director of United Way. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3wWfjI95EU He explains his reasons for donating...
EI condemns the temporary closure of the Jerusalem office of the Palestinian Authority Ministry of Education by Israeli authorities In a letter to the Israeli embassy in Brussels, Education International (EI) expressed concern regarding the decision of the Public Security...
Bangladesh, China, India, Pakistan and Turkey are world’s the top five shipbreaking countries, accounting for more than 98 per cent of the global shipbreaking by gross tonnage.On 28 November, the largest one, India, ratified the International Maritime Organization-IMO’s the Hong...
CUPE Ontario is thrilled to announce that Janice Folk-Dawson, Chair of CUPE Ontario’s University Workers’ Coordinating Committee (OUWCC), has been elected as the Executive Vice President of the Ontario Federation of Labour (OFL). Having served on the CUPE Ontario Executive...
What does IndustriALL Global Union hope will be achieved there?COP21, held in Paris in 2015, achieved the Paris Agreement on climate change. The mechanism by which the world agreed to try to limit global warming to less than 1.5 Celsius...
Kingston patients’ access to hospital care and services will be further diminished if the Doug Ford Conservatives move forward with future funding cuts to health care that, in 2023, will climb to $66.9 million for Kingston Health Sciences Centre (KHSC). These cuts...
The K-12 Presidents Council in British Columbia announced today that all locals have now reached agreements with their respective districts, and that K-12 province-wide bargaining has been completed for support staff. K-12 Presidents Council President Warren Williams thanked everyone involved in bargaining...
One of the first priorities of the newly re-elected federal Liberal government is a $6 billion personal income tax cut. The Liberals and Conservatives campaigned on similar promises, but the Liberals claimed their cut was more progressive. No matter how you slice it, cutting taxes reduces the amount of...
There are around 160 companies in the automotive and parts supplier industrial cluster in Baden-Württemberg, which is a major centre for the industry. Around 468,500 workers are employed across the sector.Many companies have announced austerity programmes, relocations, job cuts and...
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.