ILO: ILO Global Summit: COVID-19 and the World of Work

The ILO Global Summit gathers online workers, employers and governments to discuss how to address the economic and social impacts...

VNB-ITF-IUF Report: “Pandemic of Exploitation in European Trucking”

Pandemic of Exploitation in European Trucking

EFFAT: EFFAT Report: “COVID-19 outbreaks in slaughterhouses and meat processing plans: State of affairs and proposals for policy action at EU level”

Covid-19 outbreaks in slaughterhouses and meat processing plants

The Counter article featuring the UFCW: “US meat companies warned of shortages and an executive order kept them open. At the same time, they were exporting record amounts of pork to China.”

US meat companies warned of shortages and an executive order kept them open. At the same time, they were exporting...

ProPublica article: “Emails Reveal Chaos as Meatpacking Companies Fought Health Agencies Over COVID-19 Outbreaks in Their Plants”

Emails Reveal Chaos as Meatpacking Companies Fought Health Agencies Over COVID-19 Outbreaks in Their Plants

WIEGO: Social Protection Responses to COVID-19 (in English, French and Spanish)

English: Social Protection Responses to Covid-19Spanish: Respuestas de protección social para el Covid-19French: Réponses de la protection sociale à la...

New report exposes the web of subcontracting behind a pandemic of exploitation in European road transport

A new report prepared by the Dutch trade union foundation FNV-VNB, the International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF) and the IUF...

Unions join campaign to stop EU-Mercosur ‘free trade agreement’

Trade union centers in Italy, Spain and the Netherlands are among the initial endorsers of a campaign to stop the...

Ukraine: Unions take to the streets to contest renewed legislative attack on trade union rights and worker protections

Trade unions in Ukraine, including the IUF-affiliated Agro-Industrial Workers' Union of Ukraine (AIWU Ukraine) held protests in the capital Kyiv...

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

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

Germany: NGG says voluntarism has failed, demands strict regulation and enforcement to tackle abusive conditions behind coronavirus outbreaks in meat processing

New coronavirus hotspots have erupted in Germany's meat processing plants, spotlighting again the massive abuse of subcontracted migrant labour on...

Panama AB InBev : Illegal suspensions and violation of the collective agreement

On June 18, 2020 workers from Cervecería Nacional SA (Anheuser-Busch InBev) affiliated with the Union of Workers of the Beer...