...to import product from Thailand and Vietnam and to hire new workers on fixed term temporary contracts. The workers marched to a Lotte Mart after denouncing the company’s anti-union policy...
...organized by the “It’s our Future” coalition and sponsored by the New Zealand national trade union center NZCTU and its affiliates. New Zealand unions were among the first to adopt...
...workers is a women and another 12 women are employed on a precarious basis. During their shift housekeepers are only allowed a 30 minute “free lunch”. It is the only...
Yale Law School has conducted a study for UNITE HERE on if and how health and safety legislation is applied to hotel housekeepers . The study covers Argentina, India and...
...release technical information and organizing public meetings in rural and urban areas in the face of the government’s refusal to concede increases given other government workers since 2008. The housing,...
...seriously injured that they can no longer do any job. The new forms of organization of work and the abandonment by governments of essential controls have led to a general...
...6 percent in Year Two (2014). House allowance of 15 percent of the new basic pay. Leave allowance KES 4,000.00, which will be reviewed as soon as the company’s financial...
...took pain medication just to get through their daily work quota A 2009 study in the American Journal of Industrial Medicine studied the difference in hotel workers’ injury rates by...
... FIAN and IUF representatives present Hilal Elver, the new special rapporteur on the right to food and ILO representative El’vis Beytullayev with a copy of Harvesting Hunger during the...
...for strengthening transnational capital at the expense of democratic government and social and environmental standards. Click here to download the IUF’s Trade Deals That Threaten Democracy. StopTTIP.jpg TTIPVienna.jpg TTIPLondon.jpg TTIPMadrid.jpg...
...by a notorious paramilitary group have been distributed in the department of Magdelena, where 9 union leaders have been murdered so far this year. Tomás Rodríguez, a leader of the...
The Dairy Division Coordinating Group met in San Francisco, California, on October 3&4 to discuss strategies to defend rights and organize more workers under the Fair Deal For Dairy Workers...