French cosmetics brand Yves Rocher dismisses union members
18.05.2018 UPDATE 18 May: YVES ROCHER DISMISSES 115 UNION MEMBERS. Since the publication of the article on the 16th of May, the situation in Turkey has gravely deteriorated. The local management of Yves Rocher continues to dismiss union members. As of 18 May, the number of dismissed workers has reached 115.
DowDuPont: Don’t Spin Off Worker Rights!
18.05.2018 IndustriALL Global Union and its affiliates throughout the world call for support in demanding chemicals giant DowDuPont to respect workers’ rights through its current spin-off process.
Signatories to the 2018 Accord
16.05.2018 A list of brands and retailers that have signed the 2018 Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh.
IndustriALL's Global Framework Agreements
17.04.2018 Global Framework Agreements are negotiated on a global level between trade unions and a multinational company. To date, IndustriALL has signed 44 GFAs with multinational companies.
Iraqi electricity workers win inclusion for 150,000 precarious workers
18.05.2018 Recent strike action by 30,000 Iraqi electricity workers employed on precarious contracts has lead the government to concede and provide 150,000 public workers from all sectors with the same pension and social security rights as permanent workers.
Belarus: Independent union leaders face long prison sentences
16.05.2018 On 8 May, the criminal investigation against Belarussian trade unionists Gennady Fedynich and Ihar Komlik was concluded. Both union leaders are accused of large-scale tax evasion.
South Africa: Union condemns retrenchment of 1,722 mineworkers at Evander gold mine
16.05.2018 Pan African Resources’ Evander gold mine in Barberton, Mpumalanga Province, has given notice to retrench 95 per cent of its workers – 1722 workers out of 1812 – by the end of May. IndustriALL affiliate the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) is asking that the Department of Mineral Resources intervene to save the jobs, even if it means that the government revokes the mining licence.
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