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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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…
IndustriALL mission finds Glencore gravely mistreating workers in DRC cobalt mines
An IndustriALL Global Union fact-finding mission in Febuary 2018 to Glencore’s copper and cobalt mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has uncovered alarming mistreatment of workers directly contradicting Glencore’s claims. Systemic human and…
IndustriALL’s World Conference on Industry 4.0
More than 100 participants from over 60 affiliated national unions in 40 countries gathered in Geneva, Switzerland, from 26-27 October for the IndustriALL Global Union World Conference on “Industry 4.0: Implications for trade unions and…
IndustriALL signs global framework agreement with ASOS
The GFA (Global Framework Agreement) is a first for an e-commerce brand, and will establish a framework for protecting and strengthening the rights of workers producing ASOS own-brand products in countries around the world. IndustriALL…
What is precarious work?
Bosses all over the world are using precarious work to undermine workers’ conditions and rights. Zero-hours, outsourcing, contracting, casual, agency, short term, indirect, temporary, self-employed: its all part of the same attack on decent work….
The fight against precarious work continues
Recent legislative and political developments around the world illustrate the continuing increase of precarious work. Trade unions are fighting back. A recent study in the UK shows that young people employed on zero-hour contracts are…
Global unions urge world leaders to elevate example of Bangladesh Accord
As the G20 tried to tackle issues such as fair trade and corporate responsibility in Hamburg, global unions were calling on summit participants to look to the recently re-signed Bangladesh Accord as a model for…
IndustriALL resists layoffs of striking workers at Indonesian copper mine
More than 3,000 striking workers have now been fired at PT Freeport’s Grasberg mine in Papua, Indonesia. PT Freeport has broken Indonesian labour law, and its own collective agreement, by unilaterally placing workers on furlough,…
Common Union strategy needed to counter attacks on mineworkers
Mineworkers at IndustriALL Global Union affiliates in three different continents are facing attacks from multinational companies seeking to cut jobs, slash benefits and drive down wages. International solidarity and unity is needed to counter these…
Statement: INFINEON must stop union busting and discrimination against union leaders
A collective of CSOs and trade unions is calling on the German company INFINEON to stop union busting and to reinstate the president of the union for Infineon Technologies Melaka workers. We, the 55 undersigned…
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