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India: garment workers defy illegal closure

17 June, 2025On 9 June, Celebrity Fashions Limited (CFL), a garment manufacturing company in India, illegally shut down its factory in Avadi, Tamil Nadu, unlawfully terminating 560 workers overnight. After several rounds of negotiations, managements and workers have reached an agreement, but the struggle for closure compensation continues.

Digel workers in Türkiye fight union busting

17 June, 2025For more than 150 days, workers sacked from Digel, a German menswear company operating in the Aegean Free Zone in Gaziemir, Izmir, have picketed against union busting.

Going global to win locally

16 June, 2025IndustriALL US affiliate IUE-CWA has opened the national bargaining round with GE Aerospace, after it was split into a standalone company following General Electric’s (GE) major restructuring. As GE Aerospace expands its global operations and supply chains, the union recognizes the need to build international solidarity to counteract transnational corporate strategies and protect workers’ interests worldwide, and invited IndustriALL to the opening of the negotiations. 

Calls to save jobs as Goodyear Tyres retrenches 907 workers in South Africa

13 June, 2025Over 900 workers and thousands more along supply chains and related industries, including service providers, will lose jobs when tyre manufacturer Goodyear shuts down its 78-year-old plant in Kariega in the Eastern Cape province in December.

Building momentum for IndustriALL’s 4th Congress

12 June, 2025Amid a backdrop of mounting global tensions and continued threats to workers’ rights, IndustriALL’s Executive Committee met in Geneva to reinforce solidarity and chart the path ahead. A key item on the agenda was preparation for IndustriALL’s 4th Congress, taking place in Sydney this November.

ArcelorMittal workers in Quebec win strong five-year deal

12 June, 2025In a significant win for unionized workers, members of United Steelworkers/Syndicat des Métallos, five local unions representing 2,500 employees across ArcelorMittal’s operations in Northern Quebec have ratified a new five-year collective agreement, last month. The deal, which covers workers at the mine, concentrator, railway, port, pellet plant and office, marks one of the most substantial labour agreements in the region’s recent history, securing major advancements in wages, pensions, working conditions and benefits.

New research probes how workers in Southern Africa are reclaiming the Just Transition in critical minerals

12 June, 2025Is the Just Transition in critical minerals industries veering towards greenwashing and how are workers mobilizing to redefine it? These questions anchor a pioneering study by IndustriALL Global Union’s Sub-Saharan Africa research team, in collaboration with the University of the Witwatersrand’s Southern Centre for Inequality Studies (SCIS).

Making human rights due diligence legislation work for unions

10 June, 2025Trade unionists across South East Asia recognized the vital role of human rights due diligence (HRDD) legislations in safeguarding workers’ rights, committing to actively participating in the process, making the legislation work for unions.

Historic step towards justice: ILO adopts Article 33 resolution on Myanmar

9 June, 2025Last week in Geneva, the International Labour Conference (ILC) took a historic step, invoking Article 33 of the ILO Constitution against Myanmar’s military junta. This rare move holds the regime accountable for grave and persistent violations of workers' and human rights.

UGT, CCOO and ELA call for historic strike at Iberdrola tomorrow

5 June, 2025Tomorrow, on 6 June, more than 9,500 Iberdrola employees across Spain are set to join the first-ever strike in 126 years in the company. IndustriALL affiliates UGT, CCOO and ELA have called the strike in response to the stalled collective bargaining negotiations and the company's refusal to guarantee workers' purchasing power.