India: Agricultural workers in Bihar respond to climate change impact with employment and livelihood rights

In Bihar, one of the most impoverished states in India, the IUF-affiliated Hind Khet Mazdoor Panchayat (HKMP), a union of...

Trade union interference by Nestlé in Brazil

Following changes to the labour code in Brazil in 2017 which removed the mandatory deduction of union dues, workers at...

TNC Updates

Settlement reached at Nestlé-Froneri Germany

After 8 months of negotiations - punctuated by strikes and demonstrations - a settlement was reached and ratified by a...

“Room quotas kill!”,says GHC team in the Philippines on International Workers’ Memorial Day 2018

On the event of International Memorial Day for Dead & Injured Workers, April 28, 2018 the Global Housekeeping Campaign (GHC)...

Hotel workers in Hong Kong take action on International Workers’ Memorial Day

On April 27, the day before International Workers' Memorial Day, the IUF-affiliated Catering and Hotel Industries Employees' General Union (CHIEGU)...

Georgia: sustained union protest wins government action to secure sugar workers’ jobs

IUF members at the Agara Sugar Company in Georgia have won an agreement to end the threatened closure of the...

The Coca-Cola Company’s ‘milestone’ human rights report is a study in evasion

The Coca-Cola Company's recently published human rights report comes at a time of substantial slippage by TCCC in addressing human...

India: SEWA calls on government to recognize the rights of informal sector workers in new wage legislation

The vast majority of India's waged workforce fall outside the coverage of the government's proposed new Code on Wages. The...

Subsidizing Mondelez in Canada: the Ontario government’s 22 million dollar cash gift

Canada's Ontario government is rewarding Mondelez a cash gift of 22.6 million Canadian dollars for `skills development and capital investment'...

International union support for independent unions in Belarus

An international union delegation of representatives of the IUF, IndustriAll, PSI and the ITUC held a demonstration in support of...

Peru: 2-day national strike against attacks on trade union rights at AB InBev’s Backus

Peru's brewery giant Backus has been aggressively attacking its workers and their rights since being acquired by AB InBev in...