C190 and R206: tools for reshaping the world of work
...in cases of sexual harassment on tea plantations. Thanks to awareness-raising training programmes on gender-based violence organised by the affiliates, women workers have been able to denounce such incidents and,...
FAO: New Report on Global Food Markets and the impact of COVID-19
Read the new Biannual Report on Global Food Markets Read the full FAO Food Outlook report available in English...
C190 y R206: herramientas para repensar el mundo del trabajo
El 21 de junio de 2020 se cumple un año de que la Conferencia Internacional del Trabajo aprobó el Convenio 190 (C190) y la Recomendación 206 (R206) sobre violencia y...
It’s time to ratify and implement the Migrant Workers Convention!
...them by reason of any irregularity with regard to stay or employment.” The Convention creates no new rights in international law, but brings together recognized rights set out in earlier...
Milking the planet: big dairy’s contribution to the climate crisis and the destruction of rural communities
...for a dismantling of the subsidies to big dairy which encourage overproduction, pollution and environmental degradation. New trade and agriculture policies are needed to reduce emissions, rebuild soils, encourage agroecology...
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...
Philippines: SENTRO condemns government’s sweeping new police powers, reaffirms commitment to defending democratic rights
SENTRO, the trade union center affiliated to the IUF through its food, beverage and HRCT membership, has denounced new legislation which grants the government sweeping new police powers and vowed...
Plant closure in Rosenheim Germany: Danone workers stage a warning strike
...offered by the company – and in addition improved training opportunities. Company offers social plan “We are also ready to talk to the union, but the priority for us is...
New York Times article on cleanliness in the hotel industry in the US featuring UNITE HERE President D. Taylor
Click here to read here the New York Times article on cleanliness in the hotel industry in the US featuring UNITE HERE President D. Taylor...
Coca-Cola Indonesia exploits COVID-19 lock-down to impose secret collective agreement, undercutting the rights and benefits of 6,000 workers
As Indonesia moved into lock-down in late March, Coca-Cola management secretly signed a new national collective agreement with the pro-management national union structure created decades ago during the Suharto military...