IndustriALL Global Union represents 50 million workers in 140 countries in the mining, energy and manufacturing sectors and is a force in global solidarity taking up the fight for better working conditions and trade union rights around the world.
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Union win for Turkish workers producing Xiaomi smartphones
When Salcomp Turkey, which produces smartphones for Chinese Xiaomi, the second largest smartphone maker in the world, fired 170 workers for joining a union, the union members took action. At the end of September 2021,…
IndustriAll webinar on trade and industrial policy
On January 28, 2021, listen to the debate on trade and industrial policy and its implications for development and international labour standards with researchers and union representatives from Africa, Latin America and Asia Pacific. Attempts…
Energy companies failing to invest in Just Transition
A new report commissioned by IndustriALL Global Union demonstrates the gap between rhetoric and reality as major energy companies fail to back climate commitments with investment. The report, Energy transition perspectives and trends: patterns, scenarios…
Sustainability and Just Transition key to the future of mining in Africa
GoodElectronics member IndustriALL Global Union reports that efforts are underway in Cape Town, South Africa to make progress on sustainable mining and Just Transition. Reporting on its participation in two concurrent events that took place…
New ILO Convention on Violence and Harassment at work
The adoption of the Convention and Recommendation is a huge victory for workers and the trade union movement, which has been fighting for years to get an international labour instrument to address gender-based violence (GBV) in the…
IndustriALL files complaint against Tokyo 2020 Olympic partner, Mitsubishi Electric
IndustriALL Global Union is lodging a complaint against Mitsubishi Electric with the Organising Committee of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games to stop rights abuses at the company’s Thai operations. Mitsubishi Electric, an official partner…
Global unions target safety at work
Workers in the pulp, paper, graphical and packaging sectors, represented globally by IndustriALL Global Union and UNI, are using this 2019 Workers Memorial Day to kick off a yearlong campaign around the three fundamental worker…
IndustriALL calls for a strong ILO convention addressing gender-based violence
Violence and harassment affect the lives of millions women workers on a daily basis. Yet there is still no law at the international level that sets a baseline for taking action to eradicate violence and…
Expanded maternity leave becomes law in the Philippines
After more than six years of intense campaigning and lobbying by IndustriALL affiliated unions, women workers’ in the Philippines will now benefit from increased paid maternity leave, as a new law comes into force. Women…
Samsung must engage with unions to improve safety
Samsung Electronics must engage with unions to make safer workplaces, says IndustriALL Global Union after the company recently agreed to pay compensation to hundreds of workers who have contracted life-threatening diseases at its factories in…