Featured image for - Marriott’s Moxy UK workers win through unions’ coordinated pressure

Marriott’s Moxy UK workers win through unions’ coordinated pressure

07/07/2020

Thanks to coordinated union struggle, workers at UK Moxy hotels, one of the many Marriott brands, will benefit from the...

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Maldives: TEAM leads fight to stop new attacks on employment and workplace rights

26/06/2020

The IUF-affiliated TEAM (Tourism Association of Maldives) has been actively mobilizing to defeat proposed changes to employment law which would...

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World Committee on Tourism Ethics: Safe return to work needs guaranteed safe and healthy workplaces

18/06/2020

The World Committee on Tourism Ethics calls for guaranteed safe and healthy workplaces at special session on COVID-19 and tourism. 

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International union coalition demands action to combat sexual harassment at McDonald’s restaurants

19/05/2020

The IUF and our regional European organization EFFAT-IUF have joined with the IUF-affiliated SEIU in the USA and Canada and...

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Unite hails victory as Marriott casual hotel workers win job retention under COVID-19

30/04/2020

Despite UK government guidelines released on 26th March stating that casual workers can be furloughed and paid 80% of average...

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IUF calls on G20 tourism ministers to take immediate measures to protect workers in the COVID-19 crisis

28/04/2020

The IUF has warned G20 tourism ministers that it may take many years to rebuild the tourism sector to pre-COVID-19...

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Norberto Latorre: we need to rethink the world and trade union action

20/04/2020

We are learning to deal with a situation that nobody was prepared for, fighting an invisible enemy that is no...

Featured image for - France: Workers at Marseilles McDonald’s take over restaurant for local food distribution

France: Workers at Marseilles McDonald’s take over restaurant for local food distribution

15/04/2020

McDonald's workers in Marseilles Saint-Barthélemy have responded to widespread distress and food shortages in their poor neighborhood by taking over...

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Maldives: Resort capitalizes on pandemic to victimize union officer

13/04/2020

The government of Maldives has been issuing contradictory regulations in a scramble to keep the resorts operating. Management of the...

Featured image for - IUF demands G20 action to protect tourism workers

IUF demands G20 action to protect tourism workers

10/04/2020

The IUF has called on the G20 to take immediate action to protect tourism workers being laid-off in their millions...

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IUF Document on “extraordinary events”

20/03/2020

Recently the IUF has been involved in different meetings with the ILO, WHO and UNTWO about the COVID-19 outbreak. We...

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Guinea: Organización sindical y reconocimiento conquistados en el Sheraton Grand Conakry

17/02/2020

Con el voto favorable del 96%, las trabajadoras y los trabajadores del Marriott Sheraton Grand Conakry, Guinea, votaron a favor...