LGBTI workers are no less human
...issues around LGBTI. The 10th IUF Regional conference decision commands us to develop a training programme that will ensure that issues on sexual orientation and/or sexuality are well understood so...
The UN denounces epidemic of murders of LGBTI people in Mexico
...the hands of a group of taxi drivers and the same night, in Culiacán, Sinaloa, the homicide of Joseph García in his home was reported. IUF Latin American Regional office...
Workers strike Spanish luxury hotel over outsourcing and precarious jobs
...‘reforms’ http://www.iuf.org/w/?q=node/5630 of the governing Partido Popular paved the way for an epedimic of mass outsourcing in the hospitality and service sectors; workers were dismissed and rehired as employees of...
New law brings paid leave for victims of domestic violence in New Zealand
New legislation adopted by New Zealand’s Parliament provides victims of domestic violence 10 days paid leave to allow them to ensure their personal safety. Under the law, which comes into...
IUF Young Workers celebrate International Youth Day 2018
...jobs, discrimination on and off the job, access to education and job training, and the precarious state of young workers’ rights and freedoms, which are under attack everywhere. See here...
Marriott workers in Italy win a new CBA
IUF-affiliated Filcams Cgil, Fisascat Cisl and Uiltucs have renewed the CBA for nine Marriott hotels in Italy, involving some 3.000 workers. Key points for the new agreement are the company’s...
Rise in deadly violence against land and environment rights defenders
...only killings and exclude harassment and criminalization, undoubtedly underestimate the scale of the deadly violence, a point emphasized by the authors. Click here to learn more and download the report....
AMR, Superbugs and the workplace
...workplace issue – where it comes from, how it spreads, and what must be done to fight it. CLICK HERE to download Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) – A Workplace Hazard AMRBrochureEnglish.pdf...
Swiss union investigation into housekeeping in Marriott ZĂŒrich hotels reveals exploitative, dangerous and unsanitary conditions
...only be achieved by directly employing the housekeeping and other staff who are the victims of outsourcing’s relentless race to the bottom. CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE REPORT Broschuere_Marriot_E_Internet.pdf Broschuere_Marriot_E_Druck.pdf...
New Zealand Court of Appeal confirms protection of agency workers’ rights
IUF New Zealand affiliate E tƫ and LSG Skychefs The company is now required to pay agency workers their proper entitlements. E t...
Thailand: KFC Yum! Brands defies ruling ordering company to reinstate fast food union president
...The two unions won their first collective agreements earlier this year. Apantree was arbitrarily declared redundant by Yum! Brands Thailand on December 1, 2017, while other workers were transferred to the new...
Argentina: Good Practices Manual for the HRCT sector
...Insurers Association, and the Federal Government in a quadripartite discussion. On the agency’s website there are videos produced by UTHGRA to reduce injuries and promote a safe work environment: https://www.srt.gob.ar/index.php/micrositio-prevencion/micrositio-videos/...