Myanmar: Under cover of COVID, management at Bagan Hotel River View launches new attack on trade union rights
...complaint to the ILO’s Committee on Freedom of Association, lodged in 2015 in response to the earlier anti-union dismissals, highlighted these obstacles and remains ongoing. The IUF has submitted new...
Lactalis workers in Germany strike for a collective agreement
Workers at the Lactalis owned Neuburger Milchwerke dairy factory in Bavaria held a warning strike on July 6 after the company refused to set dates to enter into collective bargaining....
Marriott’s Moxy UK workers win through unions’ coordinated pressure
...wages totalling thousands of pounds. Managers of the Maribel Group, which operates the Moxy branded hotels under franchise agreements, initially refused to furlough their workers. However, pressure from Unite the...
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 uncovers the multiple chains of subcontracted labour which have enabled...
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 disastrous trade agreement now being promoted for signature (after twenty...
Ukraine: Unions take to the streets to contest renewed legislative attack on trade union rights and worker protections
...has called on the government to withdraw the legislation and enter into negotiations with the unions on any new proposals to amend the country’s labour law. The union protests also...
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 weaken the country’s few existing worker protections at a time...
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 which the industry depends. More than 1,500 workers have been...
Germany: NGG says voluntarism has failed, demands strict regulation and enforcement to tackle abusive conditions behind coronavirus outbreaks in meat processing
Panama AB InBev : Illegal suspensions and violation of the collective agreement
...forced to escalate the protests, involving more agencies nationwide,” he said. “In my own way”, by AB InBev The current management action is not new to the AB InBev-owned brewing...