In 2017, the conservative Congress passed a labor reform bill that gutted workers’ rights, ended mandatory union contributions, opened...

Countries across Europe are struggling to comply with their international legal obligations concerning rights for workers, according to...

Accounts of Southeast Asian domestic workers in the Middle East being tortured, forced to work for hours on end and even sexually abused...

Last winner of the Arthur Svensson International Prize for Trade Union Rights was the independent trade unions in Kazakhstan that was...

Sen. Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign has become the first major party presidential campaign in USA to unionize. The campaign...

A coalition of human rights groups, football fans, players and trade unions has urged FIFA president Gianni Infantino to confirm that any...

On 5 March, unions representing ten national trade union confederations and other independent unions adopted a Workers’ Charter of...

Over a hundred workers were imprisoned, over 12,000 were retrenched and cases were filed against over 5, 000 workers in the aftermath of...

A third round of nationwide teachers’ strikes in Iran entered its third day March 5, with teachers across the country holding sit-ins in...

Mexican maquiladora workers in 70 factories have won big wage increases and bonuses in a strike wave that began in January. The strikes...

There were some positive developments at a legislative level in Morocco, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) with respect to migrant...

The same story is heard over and over: the minimum salary is not paid, the workers’ national insurance contribution is not paid for all...

Thousands of workers marched in Yangon, Myanmar, to demand fair labor laws as parliament appeared ready to pass legislation that would...

An International Confederation of Workers (CIT), which gathers 10 workers' federations and more than 150 trade unions from Mexico, was...

With the failure of the traditional, corporate-led initiatives to address labor violations, new models have emerged to hold brands and...

Factory workers across China are staging sit-ins, demanding unpaid wages for "blood and sweat", the Straits Times says. Taxi drivers are...

In the story of "the Norwegian oil adventure", which NRKs TV drama Lykkeland describes, and which the development aid program Oil for...

There’s never been a more important time to join a union according to IndustriALL Global Union. As 26 billionaires own as many assets as...

Education International has launched an urgent action appeal encouraging the global community of educators and activists to express...

Two labour rights activists who were rearrested after speaking out about beatings and other abuse they suffered in detention last year...