Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
I’ve just come back from an international conference that could not have happened thirty years ago. And it’s a conference that might also prove impossible to hold in just a few short years.
LabourStart’s Global Solidarity Conference on the theme of “trade union internationalism today” was held on (...)
Ukrainian and Polish trade unions are calling on delegates to the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) world congress to expel the pro-war Russian Federation of Trade Unions (FNPR) from its ranks.
The ITUC — the world’s largest global trade union confederation, with 331 affiliated (...)
The day of action includes strikes and protests from garment manufacturers in Bangladesh to call center workers in the Philippines to warehouse workers in the U.S., Europe, and Mexico.
On Friday, Amazon warehouse workers and social and environmental justice activists around the world will (...)
Dozens of leaked documents from Amazon’s Global Security Operations Center reveal the company’s reliance on Pinkerton operatives to spy on warehouse workers and the extensive monitoring of labor unions, environmental activists, and other social movements.
A trove of more than two dozen internal (...)
The open letter from the Amazon Workers International network to Amazon’s world management is attached in English, French, German and Polish.
It is a means for the network to introduce itself and highlight its demands.
At the same time, the Amazon Workers International network has just opened (...)
On 13 March 2020, in what now seems another world, and following reports of mass infection in Eastern France by a gathering of 2500 people, the French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe banned by decree gatherings of more than 100 people except on public transport. On 16 March 2020, President (...)
For a social, ecological, safe railway, let’s take the right path out of the crisis: let’s choose the right switches now!
We are currently witnessing a global health crisis linked to Covid-19 that is unfortunately causing more and more victims every day. We have been saying it for several weeks (...)
Governments and bosses claim to be at war with coronavirus. In reality, it is a war against our social class that they are waging. A war against us for their profits!
The global health crisis is largely a consequence of the capitalist system
Of course, we do not mean by this that the virus (...)
Our organisations belonging to the International Labour Network of Solidarity and Struggle, based on the information transmitted by the comrades working in call-centres, denounce the lack of protection that prevails in these places.
In several countries, our activists made proposals so as not (...)
Covid 19 : Amazon Workers International Common Statement
https://amworkers.wordpress.com/2020/03/24/amazon-workers-international-common-statement/
While the Corona pandemic has already killed thousands of people and will kill many more, Amazon warehouses continue to operate 24/7.
Governments (...)
In all countries throughout the world, the governments are taking action against the current coronavirus pandemic. They are doing so inconsistently, mainly because of their concern to protect the interests of the employers. In many countries, this arrives after years of attacks against (...)
This statement is also available in French, Castillan ad Italian
As workers and union activists in the airline and airport sectors, first of all, we want to send our internationalist support and solidarity to all our colleagues who, despite the emergence of the coronavirus (Covid-19), are (...)
Employers are finding it increasingly difficult to promote un- or low-paid internships. Not because of a fall in unemployment, but because young workers are more likely to know their rights.
It’s job search season for students and fresh graduates, which means a bump in media interest in (...)
The Commonwealth Trade Union Group (CTUG) represents 30 million workers from the Commonwealth of Nations, an intergovernmental organisation of 53 member states that are mostly former territories of the British Empire. This week, a delegation of 10 to 15 trade unionists, hosted by the UK’s Trades (...)
Ghana StreetNet Alliance march for rights and social security on International Street Vendors Day. StreetNet International has over 600,000 members in 54 affiliated membership-based organisations in 49 countries in Africa, Asia, the Americas and (mainly Eastern) Europe.
Workers in the informal (...)
This is a case study of the processes that have put the transnational cooperation of the German IG Metall and the UAW in the U.S. on a new trajectory. It is a template for the challenges unions face in adapting their self-interest toward building transnational solidarity and being able to (...)
Editorial posted on the website of the The International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers’ Associations (IUF).
A spectre is haunting Europe - the spectre of a democratic alternative to austerity. The Syriza government of Greece incarnates (...)
This is Dan Gallin speech at a conference co-organized by the Global Labour Institute (GLI), Fighting Austerity: Rebuilding Unions from Below, and held in Athens on June 18-19, 2013.
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Comrades, I want to open a discussion on our crisis, the crisis of the (...)
The labor campaign confronting Walmart in the United States is planning an international escalation for tomorrow. In partnership with the global union federation UNI, the union-affiliated group Making Change at Walmart is supporting a “Global Day of Action,” with participation expected from (...)
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