18 September, 2023Again Maruti Suzuki workers at Manesar went on strike from 4 pm on October 7, demanding reinstatement of contract workers. The strike was triggered by the company's continued lock-out, and physical attacks by hired goons on contract workers. October 9 a shot was fired.
18 September, 2023Thanks to their tenacity and to grass-roots mobilization, the negotiators of UNIA, the Swiss IMF affiliate, have succeeded in thwarting the employers' drive toward flexibility and achieved some gains in social benefits.
18 September, 2023IMF and ICEM general secretaries sent a letter to the president of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbaev, demanding that the persecution of striking oil workers in Mangystau Province stops immediately and the cases of violence, threats and murders are fully investigated.
18 September, 2023In a statement the on October 17 the Global Unions urge the government of Bahrain to respect fundamental human and trade union rights, and demand that workers wrongfully dismissed are unconditionally reinstated, criminal charges dropped and legal reforms repealed.
18 September, 2023More than ten thousand workers gathered on October 7 in the busy streets of Bangkok to demand workers' rights and decent work.
18 September, 2023In a statement to the G20 leaders meeting in Cannes on November 3-4 the Global Unions assert that good jobs are the only successful recipe for recovery and sustainable growth, that employment creation must be placed at the centre of macro-economic policies and fiscal policy adjusted to support growth and employment creation.
18 September, 2023By a 61% vote on October15, members of United Steelworkers (USW) Local 1005 in Hamilton, Ontario, ended U.S. Steel's chokehold on the livelihoods of 900 Canadian workers. Union members accepted a three-year labour agreement that ended a 49-week lockout at the steel mill.
18 September, 2023Members of the International Association of Machinists & Aerospace Workers (IAM) began strike action on 10 October at a Honeywell nuclear parts manufacturing facility in Kansas City, Missouri. The 850 members of IAM Lodge 778 begin their third week today on picket lines at a US government-owned site following a 79% contract rejection on 9 October.
18 September, 2023On October 3 the lower house of the Belarus parliament adopted in the two readings the bill 'On Making Addenda and Amendments to Some Laws of the Republic of Belarus'. This bill, among other things, makes foreign financial support and financial aid to NGOs (including unions) completely illegal and further complicates arranging of mass protests and actions.
18 September, 202330,000 Finnish metalworkers began a strike in the metal industry the morning of October 21, after negotiations on a new national collective agreement broke down.
