Guatemala: FESTRAS union leader brutally beaten
...union leaders were present to welcome back a group of workers unfairly dismissed two years ago and reinstated through a court ruling. However, the company had already spread scare stories...
Algeria: IUF affiliates join call to UN to end rights abuses and support democracy
...After an 8-day march from Chambery, France participants delivered a letter to Michelle Bachelet, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, calling on her and the UN Working Group on...
Honduras: LGBTI community mourns again
Lactalis workers in Germany strike for a collective agreement
...strikes the following week if the company continues to avoid collective bargaining. Neuburger Milchwerke is part of the Omira Group and when it was acquired by Lactalis in 2017, the...
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...
International Domestic Workers Day 2020: Domestic workers demand essential rights and protection!
International Domestic Workers Day 2020: Domestic workers demand essential rights and protection!
...grown dramatically since its founding congress in 2013, with the full support of the IUF, in which it forms a special group. To mark the day, IDWF organised a webinar...
UN Human Rights experts: every worker must be protected!
A group of UN human rights experts have called on governments “to ensure preventative and precautionary measures are in place to protect every worker” as restrictions are eased and work...
UNITE HERE calls for strict measures to protect workers and guests as U.S. casinos set to reopen
...as rats in a lab – like some politicians are trying to put us in.” Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman had suggested that Las Vegas could be a ‘control group’...
Unite hails victory as Marriott casual hotel workers win job retention under COVID-19
...Simpson said: “As the world’s biggest and richest hotel group, it was inconceivably unfair for Marriott to discriminate between permanent and casual staff in this way and then to claim...
IUF demands G20 action to protect tourism workers
...the industry, which directly and indirectly employs more than one in ten workers worldwide. IUF General Secretary Sue Longley, addressing the April 7 G20 Tourism Working Group virtual meeting, called...
IUF Document on “extraordinary events”
Recently the IUF has been involved in meetings with the ILO and WHO about the COVID-19 outbreak. We have also participated in a working group with UNWTO. In these meetings...