Fire kills seven and injures three in Italy5 December, 2013At least seven migrant garment workers of Chinese origin died and three were injured in the blaze on 1 December 2013 in an industrial zone of the town of Prato in Tuscany region of Italy.
IndustriALL launches second issue of “Global Worker” 5 December, 2013The second issue of IndustriALL Global Union’s journal, “Global Worker”, was launched this week at the 4-5 December IndustriALL Executive Committee meeting in Geneva. Sign up to receive copies of the journal or view online.
New national industrial union takes shape in Chile3 December, 2013At the eighth national conference of the Chilean metalworkers’ confederation (CONSTRAMET) on 21-23 November, delegates made progress in discussions on the organization of a new national industrial union. This was a significant step forward in the task of creating a union that will negotiate at sector level and cover all manufacturing and extractive industries where Industriall represents workers at the global level.
IndustriALL lodges OECD complaint against Ansell29 November, 2013Ansell’s union busting in Sri Lanka and Malaysia has been condemned by over 8,500 supporters through the IndustriALL-LabourStart campaign. This week IndustriALL lodged an official OECD complaint against the multinational latex rubber producer.
Living wage conference calls for action29 November, 2013Freedom of association and collective bargaining are prerequisites for a living wage. Building the commitment of governments, business, trade unions and other civil society organisations to work jointly towards living wages in international supply chains was discussed at the European Conference on Living Wages in November.
ITUC holds women’s organizing assembly in Dakar28 November, 2013From 19 to 21 November 2013 the ITUC held its second world women’s conference which was actually an organizing assembly. It took place in Dakar, Senegal. The point was to shift the global agenda by organizing women, to make the most of women’s organized power to turn the global situation of inequality around.
JYRKI RAINA: Welcome to Global Worker28 November, 2013In Bangladesh, the Middle East and North Africa, as well as at Rio Tinto, IndustriALL Global Union is leading the struggle of workers for dignity and respect.
Ugandan unions commit to unity28 November, 2013At a ceremony in Kampala on November 28, IndustriALL Global Union's four affiliates signed a memorandum of understanding on unity and cooperation.
FirstEnergy Locks Out Utility Workers in U.S.28 November, 2013FirstEnergy Corp. – one of the largest electric power corporations in the United States – locked out 150 members of the Utility Workers Union of America (UWUA) in the early morning hours of November 25, three days before the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday.
REPORT: IndustriALL leading the struggle for Bangladeshi garment workers28 November, 2013The Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh is a historic breakthrough covering more than 2 million garment workers. Breaking from failed corporate-led social auditing of the past, under the Accord trade unions and multinational companies are working together to improve the precarious situation of garment workers in Bangladesh.
