The beating heart of the Shein empire is a workforce sitting behind sewing machines for around 75 hours a week in contravention of...

Twenty years ago, some the largest unions in the United States broke away from the AFL-CIO claiming that it was not doing enough to...

Saudi Arabia’s treatment of migrant workers continues to draw global concern with systemic exploitation and alarming rates of fatalities...

Disgruntled with the long hours and low rates of pay, not to mention what they saw as the dreadful exploitation of children’s fantasies...

Gig work is highly individualised, and algorithmic management fragments the labour process, diminishing workers’ structural power....

Leaders of the G20 countries met last week in Brazil.  Among other things, they expressed their full support for workers' rights,...

The International Labor Organization (ILO) is to begin action against the Myanmar military government amid concerns that has failed to...

In Mexico City, growing numbers of female delivery workers have taken to gig work to make a living. As women bear the burden of care...

Tearfund, in collaboration with Baptist World Aid, reviewed the latest 2024 Ethical Fashion Report to see how companies like Temu and...

Saudi Arabia is embarking on the "Neom City project", which aims to create an innovative urban area in the country. Workers are forced to...

The AI industry employs large numbers of data labellers in countries in the Global South such as the Philippines, Venezuela, Kenya and...

Recent years have seen authorities increasingly clamp down on unions and their leaders who are defending workers’ rights, with jail...

The government of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. of the  Philippines has harassed and threatened union leaders and their members by...

Corporate underminers of democracy is the ITUC’s list of companies that benefit financially by continuing to violate trade union and...

After a brief decline, labour exploitation in the Western Balkans is on the rise again, threatening the already fragile economic and...

The World Benchmarking Alliance (WBA) has today published its first Social Benchmark , assessing the world’s 2,000 most influential...

The ITUC Global Rights Index is a comprehensive review of workers’ rights in law ranking 151 countries against a list of 97 indicators...

Democratic forces in Myanmar have been fighting for more than three years against a brutal military junta. Trade unions are a crucial...

A strong and broad alliance has taken up the fight against the military junta in Myanmar. At the forefront are female textile workers...

According to a new report by the International  Labour Organization ( ILO) and UNICEF,  the number of children in child labour in the...