Colombia: AB InBev workers begin voting on strike action
Guest Editorial: Save our soils!
Women workers on banana plantations assert their autonomy
UNITE HERE calls for strict measures to protect workers and guests as U.S. casinos set to reopen
As casinos across the U.S. closed since March prepare to reopen, the IUF-affiliated UNITE HERE is calling for strict measures to protect workers, guests and public health. “Hundreds of thousands...
Yes, it is possible to protect agricultural workers and mitigate risk in a pandemic – SINTRAINAGRO shows how it’s done
...shows the procedures on sanitation and physical distancing applied in transport, the distribution of work materials, and at the various work stations, with specific procedures for each role. Video 2...
Colombia: SINTRAINAGRO demands and wins COVID-19 support and protection for banana workers
...The detailed agreement (available HERE in Spanish) includes: provisions for providing all workers with the necessary personal hygiene tools (face masks, disinfectant etc.); distribution points at the various work stations...
Tunisia: UGTT to set up support centers to defend migrant workers’ rights
...agriculture, tourism, restaurants, petrol stations and other sectors, including domestic workers, who are the weakest and most vulnerable target groups” targeted by unscrupulous employers. The UGTT “is dedicated to defending...
Morocco: Temporary workers at Danone Centrale protest job losses due to consumer boycott
...political elite, or foreign brands was directed at Centrale Danone, Afriquia fuel stations, owned by the Akwa group of billionaire agriculture minister Aziz Akhanouch, and the Sidi Ali water brand....
UNITE HERE! concludes negotiations for 44.000 Las Vegas hotel workers
...contract,” said Monica Munguia, a housekeeper at Paris. “We are now ready to support the Cosmopolitan workers, and the workers at Station Casinos to win their fights, too.” The 5-year...
Fiji: sugar workers ballot on strike action despite military and police intimidation
...ballot was on-going, FSC management held meetings in all work stations to intimidate union members. On July 23, 2013 police and military officers turned up to add to the intimidation....
Hotel workers block Las Vegas Strip in fight for union contract
...Deutsche Bank, which also has 25% ownership of Station Casinos (read about the Station Casinos campaign here), where the union continues its long fight for trade union rights. More information...