• STOP Precarious Work

    Join the global fight against precarious work.

    Living wage campaign

    living wage campaign 

  • Sustainability

    IndustriALL is working with its affiliates to develop and implement sustainable industrial policy.

    Sustainable industrial policy

  • STOP Precarious Work

    Join the global fight against precarious work.

  • Living wage campaign

    living wage campaign 

  • Sustainability

    IndustriALL is working with its affiliates to develop and implement sustainable industrial policy.

  • Sustainable industrial policy

Social justice & globalization

 

IndustriALL challenges the neoliberal policies driven by national governments and global institutions and fights for a new economic and social model that puts people first, based on democracy and social and economic justice within and between countries.

Social Justice and Globalization

Sustainable Industrial Policy launch

17.05.2013 

IndustriALL is launching an ambitious initiative on Sustainable Industrial Policy which aims to stimulate debate and action among affiliates and so promote a union perspective on the key sustainability issues for industry.

USW launches a campaign against precarious work in Canada

16.05.2013 

The United Steelworkers (USW) launches a new campaign entitled « Give everyone a Chance for Canada’s Future”. The campaign denounces how the Harper government, in partnership with corporations, is flooding Canada with low-wage and highly vulnerable temporary workers from abroad recruited through the Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP)

Argentina Tyre Union SUTNA eliminates precarious work

16.05.2013 

On May 17, IndustriALL Argentine affiliates will meet to discuss the fight against precarious work. The Argentinian Pneumatic Workers Union (SUTNA), which has made this struggle a priority, is a model. Today, thanks to SUTNA, precarious workers represent less than 1 per cent of the tyre production workforce, down from 15 per cent in 2008.

The Future of Trade: business as usual

02.05.2013 

On 24 April, the panel convened by WTO Director-General Pascal Lamy to consider the future of trade released its report 'The Future of Trade: The Challenge of Convergence'.

15 May deadline set for Bangladesh safety plan

30.04.2013 

IndustriALL and international clothing brands commit to a 15 May deadline to finalize an agreement on fire and building safety that will make the garment industry of Bangladesh sustainable. Funds will be made available for inspections, training and upgrades of dangerous facilities.

African unions commit to prioritizing sustainable industrial development

30.04.2013 

Meeting in Johannesburg on 23-24 April, 26 IndustriALL affiliates from 16 countries in sub-Saharan Africa developed strategies to pressure their governments for progressive policies to promote industrialization and jobs.

Social justice & globalization

 

IndustriALL challenges the neoliberal policies driven by national governments and global institutions and fights for a new economic and social model that puts people first, based on democracy and social and economic justice within and between countries.

Upcoming events

May 2013

2-3

Alcoa Network Meeting

Pittsburgh, USA

14-15

Coordination of Trade Union Networks and Implementation of Global Framework Agreements in the chemical and related industries in Asia-Pacific

Bangkok, Thailand

14

IndustriALL Regional Women's Conference of Latin America and the Caribbean

Buenos Aires, Argentina

15-16

IndustriALL Regional Conference in Latin America and the Caribbean

Buenos Aires, Argentina

21-22

IndustriALL Regional Mining Conference

Santiago, Chile

22-23

Trade Union Consultative Conference on Developing a Labour Agenda for Socially Sustainable Development in the Global South

Santiago, Chile

27-28

Caterpillar network meeting

Esher, United Kingdom

28-29

IndustriALL Executive Committee Meeting

Frankfurt, Germany

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