NUW exposes exploitation and rights violations in Australian poultry industry
The union discovered that when Pedro was hired with little knowledge of the English language and even less knowledge of...
The women who clean hotels
Housekeepers' work is essential for the tourist sector, but hotel guests know very little about it. Neither is the general...
The IUF is launching a global campaign on housekeepers’ conditions of work
It will be a global awareness-raising campaign on the health of housekeepers who, in many hotels, are obliged to do...
Industrial and Commercial Workers’ Union in Ghana organize an action in solidarity with struggle in India
The IUF-affiliated Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union (ICU) in Ghana organized a solidarity action in support of unfairly dismissed PepsiCo...
Fatal workplace accident at Indian sugar mill supplying PepsiCo
A worker at the Olam Interntional sugar mill in Kolhapur (Maharashtra) India was killed by falling sugar bags in a...
Kenya: KUSPAW branch reaches collective agreement at Nzoia Sugar Company
On 24 September 2014, an agreement for Nzoia Sugar was concluded at Kisumu during the joint industrial council, covering a...
UNITE HERE – Housekeeping Can Be Dangerous Work
Hotel workers have a 40% higher injury rate than all service sector workers. Of all hotel workers, housekeepers experience the...
World Food Day 2014 – plantation workers still Harvesting Hunger
The IUF together with the NGOs Misereor and FIAN is launching Harvesting Hunger - Plantation Workers and the Right to...
Europe-wide protests say no! to trade deals that threaten democracy
Thousands of European citizens took to the streets in dozens of European cities on October 11 to show their rejection...
New threats to trade unionists in Colombia
Dairy Division to focus on organizing within TNC’s
The Dairy Division Coordinating Group met in San Francisco, California, on October 3&4 to discuss strategies to defend rights and...