Industriall

Global brands pull together on Bangladesh safety deal

23.05.2013

Major retail companies behind the global Bangladesh Fire and Safety Accord showed their commitment to improving the lives of Bangladeshi garment workers at the kick-off meeting, held at the International Labour Organisation in Geneva today.

Kuwait oil workers win after strike!

24.05.2013

A four-day strike of oil services company workers hit Kuwait with the overwhelming majority of workers at the Oil Sector Services Company taking action to support demands including higher wages.

Energy (oil, gas, electricity and nuclear)

Egyptian Democratic Labour Congress is launched

24.05.2013

On 24 April a new trade union center saw the light in Egypt. The Egyptian Democratic Labour Congress (EDLC) will represent workers’ interests in all the sectors of economy.

A First national strike in Egypt

23.05.2013

This week saw striking workers resume work at state-owned North Cairo Electricity Distribution Company (NCEDC), after detained workers were released and management retracted a plan to remove certain bonuses.

Energy (oil, gas, electricity and nuclear)

Impressive victory at Volkswagen in Kaluga, Russia

23.05.2013

Workers organized by the International Trade Union of Autoworkers (ITUA) won back weekend holidays in Summer.

Automotive

US Utility Workers protest CEO’s pay

23.05.2013

Some 300 angry union members of the Utility Workers Union of America (UWUA) and their allies within the West Virginia AFL-CIO protested outside the Annual General Meeting of FirstEnergy, the US’s third largest electric power company.

Energy (oil, gas, electricity and nuclear)

Anti union practices at Petrobras Nigeria

22.05.2013

Petrobras has improperly used the redundancy clause of the collective bargaining agreement with Pengassan to terminate all ten workers in its exploration division and is refusing to engage the union to resolve the matter.

Energy (oil, gas, electricity and nuclear)

Solidarity with Peruvian textile workers

22.05.2013

IndustriALL Global Union General Secretary Jyrki Raina has visited Lima to lobby for the repeal of legislation which permits the unlimited use of short-term employment contracts in the textile and garment export sector.

STOP Precarious Work

NUM submits its wage demands to the Chamber of Mines

22.05.2013

The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) has on Friday submitted its wage demands to the Chamber of Mines for the 2013 wage negotiations.

After weeks of tough negotiations IndustriALL Global Union together with our sister international UNI Global Union have secured a legally binding agreement an Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh together with the leading brands and retailors of the world.

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JyrkiRaina: Global clothing brands, #IndustriALL and #UNI meet to launch #Bangladesh safety deal | Industriall: http://t.co/SWy16Fb9Q0

JyrkiRaina: #IndustriALL supports #textile workers in #Peru: stop discrimination and 100% temporary contracts in #garment sector http://t.co/5uC84GzKLJ

JyrkiRaina: #IndustriALL and #BWI improve global agreement with #Lafarge with stonger language on suppliers and neutrality: http://t.co/6I4dYMF6cD

March 2013