When it comes to hospital funding, Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservative (PC) government is “worse than Mike Harris” new data reports released in Oshawa today by the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (OHCU) show. For Doug Ford’s government to keep its proposed...
The Bahamas: Educators express solidarity with all those affected by Hurricane Dorian Education International stands in solidarity with our colleagues, students and all communities impacted by Hurricane Dorian in the Bahamas. Hurricane Dorian has caused massive flooding in the Bahamas,...
Crowning a global development cooperation initiative, the 4th Congress of the Organizaçao Nacional dos Professores modified the organisation’s constitution to become a trade union able to engage in social dialogue and improve teachers’ working and living conditions. The main objective...
Today representatives of Education International and other trade unions staged a protest in front of the Hong Kong Economic and Trade office in Brussels to stand against recent police brutality and human rights abuses perpetrated against the people of Hong...
India’s mining industry has seen frequent accidents, some with fatal outcomes. According to a report published by Coal India Limited, from 2010 to March 2019, a total of 498 coal miners were killed at work. A staggering 1,660 coal miners...
Representatives of the ITUC and all the Global Union Federations based in the Geneva region marched to the Geneva Permanent Mission of the Government of China on August 30 in response to the IUF call to show solidarity with the...
To mark 500 days of their ongoing struggle, the Cargill 14 gathered with other trade unionists and supporters in front of Cargill's Turkish headquarters in Istanbul on August 30. This demonstration follows a court ruling in July 2019 that they...
4,000 workers in the Hlaing Thar Yar district and 600 workers in the Kyauk Tan district voiced their protests over the lack of implementation of the amended law, which was passed in June this year. Many of the demonstrators wore...
Iraq: education union reaffirms commitment to quality public education for all in Kurdistan At its 30th Executive Council meeting, the Kurdistan Teachers’ Union emphasised the need for the Iraqi region’s public authorities to ensure quality teacher training, a quality education...
Trade unions are demanding that free trade agreements should benefit all and that unions are consulted in the negotiations. The action is timed to coincide with the L20 or Labour 20 - a meeting of trade union leaders from the...
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.