Textile, garment, shoes, leather and textile services11 March, 2019Textile, garment, shoes, leather and textile servicesHighly globalized with millions of employees worldwide, the textile and garment sectors are a large source of precarious employment in the developing world. The sector is composed predominantly of low paid workers who are mostly young women and internal migrants working on short-term contracts.
Global Framework Agreements1 June, 2023Global Framework Agreements (GFAs) serve to protect the interests of workers across a multinational company’s operations.GFAs are negotiated on a global level between trade unions and a multinational company. They put in place the very best standards of trade union rights, health, safety and environmental practices, and quality of work principles across a company's global operations, regardless of whether those standards exist in an individual country.
Sub-Saharan Africa8 March, 2019Sub-Saharan Africa officePhysical address:28 Melle Street8th FloorNzunza HouseBraamfonteinJHB2001Email: aro
IndustriALL-LabourStart-Amnesty International-PRODESC join forces for Mexican miners8 November, 2012Under a joint banner of IndustriALL, LabourStart, Amnesty International, and Mexican NGO PRODESC, an online petition was launched yesterday decrying the forceful demolition of a workers’ protest camp at Excellon’s La Platosa mine, Mexico.
Chilean workers discuss new trade union structure8 November, 2012A further step is made towards building a new unifying trade union structure for stronger collective bargaining in Chile.
2010 Pike River tragedy “accident waiting to happen”8 November, 2012Almost two years after the tragic mine accident at Pike River, New Zealand that killed 29 miners, the Royal Commission of Inquiry published its damning report this week illustrating an “unrelenting picture of failure at virtually every level”.
CFMEU strikes at Rio Tinto mine 14 November, 2012Mining giant Rio Tinto is showing its anti-union character once again. In closing its Australian Blair Athol mine the company is paying lower redundancy packages to CFMEU union members than to other workers.
Labour rights are human rights: UN report20 October, 2016A powerful new UN report on freedom of assembly criticizes the “artificial distinction” between labour and human rights.
IndustriALL demands agreement on fire safety in textiles in Bangladesh26 November, 2012More than 100 workers died and as many were injured in a horrific fire at the Tazreen Fashion garment factory near Dhaka on 24 November. IndustriALL Global Union calls for a government and union agreement on fire and building safety in Bangladesh.
