Spain: unions win legal recognition of hotel housekeepers’ injuries and illnesses as occupational diseases
On August 30 the tripartite body on employment quality in the hospitality sector, which brings together employers, unions and governments...
Myanmar: hotel workers protest irresponsible, unethical tourism at Bagan’s historic Tharabar Gate
Protest actions were launched by HLOB, the IUF-affiliated hotel and tourism workers' union federation in the Bagan, Myanmar, to denounce...
Defending decent jobs at Mondelez
Trade union representatives from 18 unions, 13 countries, and 6 continents gathered in Brussels on September 5 and 6 to...
Burger King attacks the right to organize in Spain
In recent weeks Burger King Spain SLU which manages over 380 restaurants, has dismissed two union workplace leaders in response...
UK: Workers at TGI Fridays in holiday walk out
Workers at TGI Fridays restaurants in the UK held a new series of strike actions in their on-going dispute over...
ILO’s corporate partnerships put global standards at risk
The IUF and ITUC have requested an urgent meeting with the ILO Director General to discuss corporate partnerships following the...
The LGBTI community has to unite: “We are part of the working class”
A self-defined transvestite woman, Isabelle, 31, is the coordinator of the Association of Diversity of Limeira (Adlim), Brazil, a movement...
LGBTI workers are no less human
The conference theme of the 10th IUF African Region titled "rights and decent work for all - our common struggle"...
The UN denounces epidemic of murders of LGBTI people in Mexico
The United Nations has denounced the wave of killings of members of the LGBTI community in Mexico, particularly in the...
Unions call for peace, solidarity and the protection of livelihoods as Cameroon sinks deeper into violence
IUF affiliates in West and Central Africa have affirmed their determination to defend workers' livelihoods and work together for a...
Workers strike at Spanish luxury hotel over outsourcing and precarious jobs
The housekeepers and valets of the upscale Hotel Be Live Experience in Lanzarote, in Spain's Canary Islands, are on strike...