...income equality. Low wage workers were due to strike across 100 cities through the day, including Boston, Detroit, New York City, Oakland, Los Angeles and St Louis (read more here)....
Following the spirited action by IUF affiliates at the New York headquarters of Turkish Airlines, unions in Germany and Canada have organized active public support for the reinstatement of the...
...regional organisation of the UGTT, the rally was in protest against the harassment and victimisation of trade unionists, which has increased in the wake of the election of a new...
...Mohammed Hassan and Hussein Ahmed spoke before a group of activists and trade unionists gathered in Bern on 20 November. The event, organised jointly by the IUF and our Swiss...
The iconic Empire State Building was the scene of a strong and vocal protest against Turkish Airlines rights abuses held in New York November 8. The action was in support...
...two protests a week. Management adamantly refuses to address the abusive status of these workers, which it calls “outsiders”, through negotiation and bargaining. The factory has installed new equipment to...
...new union and new leaders in November 2012.” This nonsensical assertion has been made in Mondelez public statements and, apparently, recycled to the US government’s National Contact Point for the...
...in agriculture showed a 36 percent increased breast cancer risk. The study notes that several pesticides are known mammary carcinogens while others are endocrine disrupters. One of the study’s co-authors...
French food group Danone signed a deal recently to co-fund the construction of dairy farms alongside Russian firm Damate to try to secure long-term milk supplies in the fast-growing Russian...
...Institute, Peru’s Flora Tristan Center, the International Federation of Workers Educational Associations and Human Rights Watch. More information and photos from the Congress are available at www.idwn.info www.rel-uita.org www.wiego.org IDWN.JPG...
...union. The agreement also provides for free family healthcare, free career training programs, retirement security for workers and what the union calls “Ironclad protections” for immigrant workers against intimidation because...
...and substantiated. Mondelez responded to the IUF complaint by denying that it had violated the Guidelines. At that stage in the procedure the NCP invited both parties to enter into...