18 September, 2023General Electric (GE) workers in America ratified a four-year labour agreement in late June that now sets a pattern for 15,200 unionised GE workers in the US.
18 September, 2023Industrial unions called for recovery of the bodies of 29 miners killed inside Pike River Coal Ltd.'s colliery. The unions want the miners' remains returned to families before the mine is sold and reopened.
18 September, 2023Activists of the Interregional Trade Union of Autoworkers (ITUA) local at Gestamp in Kaluga, Russia, prepared an appeal to the employer calling for the strict adherence to the national Labour Code.
18 September, 2023The 55-week lockout by US manufacturing and technology company Honeywell Inc. on 228 unionized workers appears to be over. The United Steelworkers (USW) Local 7-669 in Metropolis, Illinois, and the US company came to tentative terms for a new three year contract on July 20, which likely sets in motion a return to work for USW members beginning on August 15 if union members ratify the tentative accord next week.
18 September, 2023The International Metalworkers Federation condemns the violence that the Malawi government unleashed during civil society demonstrations, which has left 19 people dead and scores more injured.
18 September, 2023A tentative collective four year agreement was reached on 19 June in New York City for 15,000 General Electric (GE) workers in the US.
18 September, 2023Dramatic developments take place in Korea at Hanjin Heavy Industries shipyard and Yuseong Piston Ring. Private security forces and riot police forced out protesters from the shipyard and the police issued arrest warrants for Yuseong Piston Ring union leaders who in sign of protest have started a hunger strike in the Buddhist Jogye Temple in Seoul.
18 September, 2023The twenty percent wage increase that has been awarded to workers in the engineering, iron and steel industry has been welcomed with mixed feelings. Some union members think the twenty percent is a job well done as it meet the mandate given to the National Engineering Workers Union (NEWU), that the negotiators may not accept anything less than a twenty percent increase. For others, a much higher increase was needed as the new wage minimum still means that workers of the lowest grade get half of what is required to earn at the level of the poverty datum line.
18 September, 2023The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) has reached an agreement with employers ending the two week strike in the metal and engineering sector involving 170, 000 workers, the vast majority of whom are NUMSA members.
18 September, 2023The National Engineering Workers Union (NEWU) held its 7th special congress under the theme 27 Years of Uniting, Educating and Fighting for Workers Rights on 24 and 25 June 2011 in Kwe Kwe. The special congress called for unity within the union as well as nationally and internationally to further strengthen the struggle of workers.
