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According to the International Trade Union Confederation, Turkey is one of the worst countries in the world for workers' rights.  Union leaders continue to be arrested and jailed.  But recently, a number have been released, thanks in part to global online campaigns on LabourStart.

In o...


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The lowest gender pay gap ever recorded.  Food delivery workers winning new workplace protections and a new minimum hourly rate of pay, above the minimum wage.  Workers winning a 'right to disconnect' -- meaning that their employers cannot force them to be available after working hours. New paid leave in cases of domestic abuse. And the union movement beginning to grow agai...


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Filipino women migrant workers at TaiDoc Technology Corporation, a medical equipment company based in Taiwan, R.O.C., have faced discrimination, forced labour conditions and union busting. In response, they organised a union. 

Listen to Lennon Wang describe what happened next -- how the company engaged in a form of forced labour and union busting, and how the mig...


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The International Labour Organisation estimate that 70% of the world's workforce is now vulnerable to extreme heat.  How is this affecting workers?  What can unions do?

We interviewed Stirling Smith, a trade union educator who has worked in many countries, and especially south Asia. He lived in India for four years where he worked for the ILO. He is active now in the ...


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In the last three weeks, two high-level delegations of trade union leaders from around the world were blocked by Israeli authorities from entering the Occupied Palestinian Territories (West Bank).  The general secretaries of two global union federations -- Ambet Yuson from Building and Wood Workers' International (BWI) and David Edwards from the Education International (EI) -...


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