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Migrant domestic workers in highly abusive conditions in Lebanon
Lebanon’s restrictive and exploitative kafala (sponsorship) system traps tens of thousands of migrant domestic workers in highly abusive...
Jan 13, 20224 min read


2022: A revival of U.S. labour movement?
2021 was a pretty tough year in a lot of ways. As the pandemic took full effect, devastating job losses hit many workers hard, and the...
Jan 4, 20227 min read


Need for transparency in tea supply chains
Thirteen million workers who toil on tea plantations have suffered from endemic human rights abuses while the tea companies they pick for...
Dec 13, 20213 min read

Stand for Filipino workers’ rights on 10 December
The international trade union movement will mobilise to stand with Filipino workers on 10 December. For the third consecutive year, the...
Dec 9, 20214 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 6, 20213 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...
Dec 1, 20212 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 17, 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 8, 20214 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 3, 20213 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...
Nov 1, 20212 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 20, 20211 min read


Unions protect agricultural workers' rights
Where unions establish collective bargaining, they initiate the strongest mechanism for protecting agricultural workers’ rights, health...
Oct 5, 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 23, 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 22, 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...
Sep 15, 20213 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 30, 20214 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 26, 20212 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...
Aug 16, 20214 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 30, 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 21, 20212 min read
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