Workers Rights are Human Rights

Angelino Garzon, Colombian Ambassador to the UN in Geneva, wrote to the Financial Times on 16 June to defend the Colombian Government’s record on violence against trade unionists (“ Colombia protects trade unionists ”). It was an...

The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) has strongly protested against the continuing detention of Juvénal Rududura, vice president of the union of non-judicial staff of the justice ministry, SPMJB, affiliated to the...

Everyone is watching what's going on in Iran, and trade unionists have a special concern. We'd already called a Global Solidarity Action Day for justice for Iranian workers before the Presidential election, and the day has special...

The International Metalworkers Federation (IMF) is mourning the death of labour and human rights defender, Dr Manuel Arroyo Galvan, and calls for an immediate and transparent investigation. Dr Arroyo was a professor of sociology at the...

I've worked almost all my adult life as a trade unionist. Under Mrs Thatcher, we were the enemy within, and over the years I've spent a lot of nights trying to bring a union and their employer together to avoid a strike. But my lot is...

On 28 May, the Turkish police invaded headquarters of KESK (the public sector trade union confederation) in Ankara as well as their local offices in Izmir, Istanbul, Van and Manisa. More than 30 Egitim Sem members (teaching union...