Lesotho: enhancing safety and inclusiveness at work27 June, 2024Unions in Lesotho are supporting a project on safe and inclusive work environments which will focus on occupational health and safety and ending gender-based violence and harassment (GBVH).
Trabajadores del petróleo y el gas iraníes hacen huelga por mejores condiciones27 June, 2024El 20 de junio, trabajadores iraníes empleados en proyectos del sector del petróleo y el gas, en más de 90 lugares de trabajo, incluidas refinerías, centrales eléctricas e instalaciones de petróleo y gas en todo Irán, iniciaron una huelga para exigir cambios en la rotación de turnos, la eliminación de las agencias de empleo y aumentos salariales.
Iran: oil and gas workers striking for better conditions27 June, 2024Iranian workers employed at oil and gas sector projects, at more than 90 worksites including refineries, oil and gas installations and power plants throughout Iran, started striking on 20 June, demanding shift changes, elimination of employment agencies and wage increases.
Union input needed on labour standards26 June, 2024The Global Reporting Initiative is currently drafting a new set of labour standards to ensure that labour issues are addressed comprehensively and ethically. The new draft is developed by a technical committee including the ILO, the ITUC and the IOE, but more input from unions is needed to safeguard workers’ rights.
Another explosion at Indonesian nickel plant injures workers26 June, 2024An explosion at PT Indonesia Tsingshan Stainless Steel (ITSS) on 13 June left two workers with burns. It is the second explosion in six months at the same factory - the first killed 21 workers - and the union is calling for improved health and safety provisions.
Sino-Uganda Mbale Industrial Park must comply with labour laws21 June, 2024On 19 June, a tripartite meeting at Sino-Uganda Mbale Industrial Park strategized how to initiate social dialogue to make employers comply with national labour laws and decent working conditions.
Sur la voie d’une transition juste dans le secteur du textile et de la confection20 June, 2024L’industrie du textile et de la confection, un secteur important qui emploie plus de 400 millions de personnes dans le monde, est confrontée à des changements significatifs dus au changement climatique et à la double transition verte et numérique. Les défis auxquels sont confrontés les travailleurs et travailleuses du textile et ce qui est nécessaire pour assurer une transition juste au milieu de ces changements ont fait l’objet le 18 juin dernier d’un webinaire organisé par IndustriALL, le Centre pour la transition juste de la CSI et industriAll Europe.
On the path for a just transition for textile and garment workers20 June, 2024The textile and garment industry, an important sector employing more than 400 million people globally, faces significant changes due to climate change and the twin green and digital transitions. The challenges facing textile workers and what is needed to ensure a just transition amid these shifts was the topic of a webinar hosted by IndustriALL Global Union, the ITUC Just Transition Centre and IndustriAll Europe on 18 June.
Les syndicats du Sri Lanka appellent au dialogue social à propos d’un projet de loi controversé19 June, 2024Alors que le Sri Lanka traverse sa pire crise économique depuis 2022, le gouvernement a présenté un projet de loi sur la transformation économique afin de “favoriser la croissance économique”. Toutefois, ce projet de loi, qui prévoit un nouveau mécanisme ayant le pouvoir d’assouplir les restrictions légales à la privatisation des entreprises publiques et de céder des ressources publiques aux investisseurs, devrait avoir un impact négatif sur plus de douze millions de personnes dans le pays et rendre le ministère du travail inefficace.
Unions in Sri Lanka call for social dialogue on controversial bill19 June, 2024Amid Sri Lanka’s worst economic crisis since 2022, the government has introduced an economic transformation bill to ‘foster economic growth’. However, the bill, which provides for a new mechanism with power to relax legal restrictions on privatizing public-owned companies and hand over public resources to investors, is expected to adversely impact more than twelve million people in the country and render the Department of Labour ineffective.
