The 26 participants from 14 countries representing HeidelbergCement workers across the world came to the Steinbach union training centre of the German construction union IG BAU at the invitation of IndustriALL Global Union and Building and Wood Workers’ International (BWI),...
Unionists are facing increasing repression in the Philippines. IndustriALL’s ten Philippine affiliates have expressed solidarity with the struggle of PEPMACO workers, who are challenging dismissals and fighting back harassment from hired thugs and police.Contract workers at PEPMACO are objecting to...
After more than 40 sessions at the bargaining table since the beginning of May, talks between CUPE 7000 and the BC Rapid Transit Company (SkyTrain) have reached impasse. Negotiations broke down on Tuesday when the two sides were unable to reach...
On 28 October, around 140 participants from trade unions, employers' associations, the government, civil society and academics, met to address how to implement ILO’s convention 176 on safety and health in mines, at a conference hosted by IndustriALL’s affiliate Federation...
Inclusion and mobility in higher education: a long road ahead EI urged ministers to take action to make higher education more inclusive at the UNESCO general conference today. From 12-27 November 2019, UNESCO’s General Conference is hosting delegations from 193 countries to decide on...
IndustriALL general secretary, Valter Sanches, and Inditex executive chairman, Pablo Isla, today renewed the global framework agreement (GFA) at the International Labour Organisation in Geneva, Switzerland. The signing ceremony was attended by the ILO's deputy director-general for field operations &...
Since the presidential elections in October, Bolivia's opposition forces have committed numerous acts of violence: they have looted and set fire to homes, humiliated democratically elected government officials, kidnapped and threatened those individuals’ families, set the house of the president's...
Under the theme, Our Future, Our Union, the Women’s Conference programme is designed to challenge the status quo, to challenge the way we see unions today, and to propose strategies to accelerate progress by tackling the systemic barriers to women’s equality. IndustriALL’s assistant...
Speaking at the opening, IndustriALL’s general secretary, Valter Sanches, said:“We decided to hold this conference here in Berlin because Germany, which has the fourth largest economy in the world, is successful due to its system of codetermination and respect for...
Union delegates questioned covered the poor treatment of Operations Services (OS) workers and the very high turnover and staff shortages on OS crews at coal mines in NSW and Queensland, affecting production.CFMEU are receiving reports about very high turnover and...