On September 14, the ICEM held an education and awareness-raising event on ILO Convention 176, the Health and Safety in Mines Convention, at XIX World Congress on Safety and Health at Work (WCSHW), an important global occupational health and safety gathering. It took place at the Haliç Congress Center in Istanbul. The ICEM forum had [...]

Women trade unionists from across the region participated in the ITF Arab regional seminar in Amman, Jordan. The seminar provided 35 women trade unionists from nine countries with a unique opportunity to share common challenges and to build on their experiences as effective leaders of men and women unionists. The seminar, organised by the ITF, [...]

More than 5,000 policemen will be deployed in Metro Manila on the day to prevent violence and keep traffic flowing as some 50,000 jeepney drivers go on strike against rising oil prices, government officials said Sunday. One of the country’s largest transport groups, Pagkakaisa ng mga Samahan ng Tsuper at Operators Nationwide or Piston, is [...]

China’s state-run All China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU) plans to unionise 65% of the country’s foreign-invested enterprises by the end of this year. The union aims to organise 78% of firms by 2012 and 90% by 2013, it announced today (Sept 20), several days after Beijing’s city administration said it will follow other municipal [...]

Turkish labour unionist Kemal Ozkan is poised to become one of the deputy secretary-generals of a new international trade union that could encompass 60 million workers in 140 countries. in an interview with the Hurriyet Daily News, Ozkan said the new labour union federation aimed to become an international platform for manufacturing workers of the [...]

One of the CAW’s member groups from Sri Lanka, the Women’s Centre, celebrated the International Women’s Day in a festive manner on 6th March 2011 in Katunayake.  A march and a rally were held under the themes “Let Us protect the rights of women workers” and “Let us rally to get a pay hike” on [...]

International Women’s Day, 8th March While much achievement has been made in the past decades, women workers across Asia still struggle for more rights and equality. They need to find more ways to make their voices heard, such as engaging in politics, speakers at a seminar in Bangkok said in the run up to International [...]

Trade unions around the world will join a Day of Action for Democracy in Egypt on 8 February, following a decision by the ITUC General Council meeting in Brussels today. Unions will organise demonstrations at Egyptian embassies, and continue to press their governments to demand democratic transition in Egypt and to ensure that those responsible [...]

Jayaben Desai, the Asian trade unionist whose bold leadership of the Grunwick dispute in the late 1970s produced a landmark in industrial relations, has died aged 77. Desai led a walkout of the Grunwick Film Processing Laboratories in the summer of 1976 in an attempt to convince managers to recognise a unionised workforce. One of [...]

SEOUL, South Korea — Tens of thousands of protesters held a peaceful, almost festive, rally in Seoul, South Korea, on Sunday to protest the Group of 20 summit meeting that begins on Thursday Nov 11, 2010. Organizers said that 40,000 union members, social activists and students turned out for the rally, but police officials put [...]