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Dec 6, 20213 min read
Clothing brands allegedly complicit in forced labour in Xinjiang
Human rights organisation ECCHR and Dutch law firm Prakken d’Oliveira have petitioned the Dutch Public Prosecutor to launch a criminal...
Dec 1, 20212 min read
COVID-19: Global Unions call for universal access to vaccines and healthcare products
The Council of Global Unions (CGU)*, which represents about 200 million workers, has called for urgent collective action to provide...
Nov 17, 20214 min read
Union busting in USA
American companies have been very successful at preventing their workers from organizing into unions in recent decades, one of the...
Nov 8, 20214 min read
Exploitation of Workers in DR Congo Taints Electric Vehicles
The acceleration of electrical vehicles (EV) production is crucial for the transition to a low-carbon economy, yet it appears to be...
Nov 3, 20213 min read
Strike wave in eSwatini can topple the king
The small Southern African state of eSwatini has been rocked by a great crisis since June, when decades of anger and frustration against...
Nov 1, 20212 min read
G7 take major steps on workers’ rights
Trade ministers from the G7 countries - Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States - have committed...
Oct 20, 20211 min read
Nominations are open
We hereby invite unions all over the world to nominate candidates for next year's award of the Arthur Svensson international prize for...
Oct 5, 20213 min read
Unions protect agricultural workers' rights
Where unions establish collective bargaining, they initiate the strongest mechanism for protecting agricultural workers’ rights, health...
Sep 23, 20213 min read
Intensified attacks on Belarus trade unions
The pressure on independent trade unions and discrimination against their members has never been as strong as it is now. Earlier in...
Sep 22, 20213 min read
Hong Kong: Silence is not an option
When the question of trade unions in China would come up, some of us were fond of saying that there is an independent, democratic trade...
Sep 15, 20213 min read
International day of action - reject the Burmese military junta
The Council of Global Unions holds today a Global Day of Action to support the recognition of the National Unity Government (NUG) as the...
Aug 30, 20214 min read
The Fashion Transparency Index 2021
250 of the world’s largest fashion brands and retailers were reviewed and ranked according to what information they disclose about their...
Aug 26, 20212 min read
New International Accord for Health and Safety in the Textile and Garment Industry
Global trade unions and international apparel retailers who were signatories to the former Accord on Fire and Building Safety in...
Aug 16, 20214 min read
Health workers’ right to strike under threat
Some governments have taken the COVID-19 pandemic as an excuse to limit people’s rights, including workers’ right to organize. Across the...
Jun 30, 20212 min read
2021 ITUC Global Rights Index: The world’s worst countries for workers
Abuses of the right to strike, the right to establish and join a trade union, the right to trade union activities and civil liberties and...
Jun 21, 20212 min read
ILO: Belarus systematically violate the rights of workers and trade unions
The ILO Committee on the Application of Standards call on the Belarusian government to “immediately restore full respect for the rights...
Jun 10, 20214 min read
Decision on violation of workers' rights in Belarus in a few days
On June 7, an online meeting of the ILO Committee on Standards took place, which considered the issue of violation of the norms of the...
May 27, 20213 min read
Covid-19 Pandemic Fueling Child Labour
The unprecedented economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, together with school closures and inadequate government assistance, is...
May 5, 20219 min read
COVID-19 has ignited new struggles over workers’ health and safety
The COVID-19 crisis has highlighted how governments’ approaches to workers’ health and safety have fallen short in preventing the spread...
Apr 29, 202110 min read
Belarus: Authorities target independent trade unions
The Belarusian authorities are ruthlessly targeting independent trade unions which received this year's Arthur Svensson Prize. The...
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