ILO puts decent work at the centre of AI in manufacturing23 April, 2026From 13 to 17 April 2026, the ILO technical meeting on the challenges and opportunities for promoting decent work, productivity and a just transition arising from artificial intelligence in the manufacturing industry , took place in Geneva.
Thirteen years on: the Accord that changed an industry23 April, 2026On 24 April 2013, garment workers in Dhaka arrived for another shift at Rana Plaza. The cracks in the walls had been visible the day before. Workers raised the alarm and were told the building was safe. Within hours, all eight floors had collapsed, killing 1,134 people, most of them women, and injuring thousands more.
Class action lawsuit for South African coal miners22 April, 2026A landmark class action lawsuit seeks redress for tens of thousands of former coal miners and community members whose lives have been affected by exposure to coal dust and polluted environments in South Africa’s coal mines. The case, filed in the Gauteng High Court, targets South32, BHP Billiton PLC, and Seriti Power.
Unions fight for Ekapa workers as mud rush mine faces liquidation22 April, 2026The Kimberley diamond mine where five miners died in a mud rush in February is now facing liquidation. The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa is challenging the process in court, arguing that workers who have already lost colleagues, and in many cases their wages, must not be abandoned.
“For some people, we are the last hope”: Christiane Benner on unions, the far right and IndustriALL’s mandate22 April, 2026When IndustriALL president Christiane Benner visited the Geneva headquarters on 25 March 2026, she spoke to staff openly about the state of the movement and what it will take to win. We put the big questions to her afterwards.
AI won’t wait — so neither should workers8 April, 2025“Artificial Intelligence is not in the distant future; it is already shaping the present. The question is whether workers will have a say in how it shapes their future,” says Kan Matsuzaki, assistant general secretary, IndustriALL Global Union.
Korean unions welcome decision to uphold impeachment of President Yoon4 April, 2025Accompanied by a cheering crowd including trade unionists, the Korean constitutional court has upheld the decision of the national assembly to impeach President Yoon Suk Yeol.
Humanitarian aid must reach Myanmar’s people, not the military junta3 April, 2025Stop the military attacks and the weaponisation of earthquake disaster relief! We, members of the Council of Global Unions (CGU), stand in solidarity with the people of Myanmar following the devastating recent earthquake. We have been outraged by the Myanmar military junta’s continued attacks, exploitation of a humanitarian crisis, and deliberate obstruction of life-saving assistance through indiscriminate aerial bombings and systematic human rights violations that continued in the most affected areas in the immediate aftermath. We acknowledge the recent announcement by the military government of a temporary ceasefire in operations against armed opposition groups, but this does not go far enough.
Coal is dead, long live coal: strategies from Global South unions1 April, 2025An online seminar on the future of coal on March 20 took place at a time when there is an intricate interplay of factors that include the opening of new coal mines, technological innovation, and geopolitical dynamics in the mining of coal. For countries in the Global South, coal accounts for about 70 per cent of energy generation capacity. Participants in the online seminar said Indonesia, and South Africa, get most of their energy from coal while Zimbabwe uses coal in its energy mix.
A call for a gender-transformative social contract at Beijing+307 March, 2025Ahead of next week’s 69th session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW69/Beijing+30) global unions are calling for a gender-transformative new social contract, stressing the urgent need for action to protect gender equality and workers' rights worldwide.
