While some segments of ICT EE industry, like consumer electronics, aviation and automotive have seen massive dismissals of workers, the demand for semiconductors and devices related to data centres and next generation of high-speed communication network system like 5G, is...
CUPE is urging the Ontario government to use school reopenings as an opportunity to set province-wide standards for a range of measures that will promote safer classrooms for students and staff, and help stop the spread of COVID-19 in schools. “Come September,...
Zimbabwe: Trade unions win court battle on school re-opening The Government of Zimbabwe announced that schools would reopen, already for examinations in late June and move forward in steps in the following weeks to re-open schools despite risks of an...
New coronavirus hotspots have erupted in Germany's meat processing plants, spotlighting again the massive abuse of subcontracted migrant labour on which the industry depends. More than 1,500 workers have been infected with COVID-19 at the giant Tönnies plant (over 6,500...
“Workers must be part of creating a solution to end gender-based violence in the world of work by creating a space to end unacceptable behaviours and a culture of silence to create change in the workplace. We need to create...
The following letter to the editor by CUPE NS President Nan McFadgen was published by the Chronicle Herald on June 19, 2020. The Nova Scotia government announced to the citizens of this province that it would ensure child care centres and family day...
The 2020 Global Education Monitoring Report (GEM Report) Inclusion and Education: All Means All was launched today. The report comes at a crucial moment, with the global Covid-19 outbreak causing a major education crisis, particularly for the most vulnerable. The...
Branch 106 of the Arak Criminal Court has sentenced 42 AzarAb Industries workers in Arak each to one year in prison, 74 lashes, and one month of forced labour under the guise of “community service”. The "crime" of these workers...
The IUF-affiliated TEAM (Tourism Association of Maldives) has been actively mobilizing to defeat proposed changes to employment law which would weaken the country's few existing worker protections at a time of crisis and set back the fight for basic rights...
India has recently witnessed a number of industrial accidents, a toxic gas leak at LG polymers, an explosion in a chemical factory at Dahej, a boiler explosion in Tamil Nadu, a toxic gas leak in a paper mill Chhattisgarh, a...
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.