TUC Guest bloggers

We were overjoyed to hear that Tehran bus workers’ leader Mansour Osanloo was finally freed on Thursday after nearly four years in the notorious Evin jail. Mansour has been the focus of continuous campaigning by unions in Britain and...

Jamal Abdul-Jabbar is the President of the Kirkuk Oil and Gas Workers Union in northern Iraq. Recently, he led his members out on strike for safer working conditions, and more rights for contract workers. Now his employers, the state...

Amid all the fuss in Britain about whether journalists can report on footballers' sex lives, a reminder that in some parts of the world, superinjunctions are the last thing reporters worry about. The head office of the National Union...

Behind the war of words over Iran's Islamist regime – repressing democracy, developing nuclear weapons capability, interfering in local countries from the Lebanon to Iraq and the Gulf – there is a secret revolution going on...

King Mswati III of Swaziland is the last feudal monarch of an African country, and he presides over a country with the highest rates of HIV/AIDS in the world, where 80% of the population live in absolute poverty and political...

The TUC is supporting a lunchtime vigil on Monday 18 April – the 31st anniversary of Zimbabwe's independence – to protest about the rising level of violence in that country. The vigil will take place outside the Zimbabwean Embassy on...

Amnesty International UK Director Kate Allen will be speaking to a TUC Solidarity Rally with the workers of Wisconsin, Ohio, Indiana and a dozen other states where right-wing corporate politicians are trying to take away their...

TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber has called on the Yemeni authorities to stop the bloodshed immediately and develop a genuine national dialogue to respond to the legitimate demands of the people for democracy and equity. The TUC...

The TUC has joined unions around the world in protesting against martial law and violent repression of peaceful protests in Bahrain. TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber has written to Bahrain's Ambassador. The trade union movement in...

The Republican Governor of Wisconsin, Scott Walker, is attempting to take away one of the fundamental human rights (as recognised by the UN and the International Labour Organisation) of his own workforce: the right to bargain...

The International Trade Union Confederation has demanded that the Bahraini authorities immediately cease their violent repression of peaceful demonstrations, and start talks with the trade union movement and other civil society groups...

Many western media reports haven't covered the leading role of the UGTT, Tunisia's trade union movement – despite the fact that at one stage, they provided three Ministers in the first post-revolutionary government, and their...

The TUC is launching a new international development strategy today (9 December) and human rights will play a key role in the strategy – especially freedom of association. Global solidarity, global justice sets out the TUC's goals for...

The bus workers' union in Tehran is one of the few independent unions in Iran, and it faces continual harassment by the authorities. Union leaders Mansour Osanloo (an Amnesty prisoner of conscience), Ebrahim Madadi and Reza Shahabi...

The TUC has complained to the Kenyan High Commissioner about worrying developments in the Kenyan tea industry. First, multinational companies introduced tea leaf picking machines that have destroyed a staggering 80,000 jobs. Second...

There are 33 million people with HIV/AIDS around the world, nine tenths of whom are of working age, and many more with caring responsibilities for family members with HIV/AIDS. So AIDS is a workplace issue and a union issue. This year...

UPDATE The Cuba Solidarity Campaign reports that Gerardo Hernandez has been returned to the general prison population, as we were demanding. ORIGINAL ARTICLE The TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber has written to US Secretary of State...

FURTHER UPDATE – Monday night Charles was NOT deported today and has been reprieved for the moment, but things could get worse at any time. The NUJ have reported on the latest developments. UPDATE: Channel 4 jumped the gun – Charles...

It's good news for once, but it's not all good news. Saeed Torabian , the Publicity Director of the Vahed Bus Workers' Union in Tehran, has been freed after 42 days in jail on trumped up charges of acting against national security and...

The news from Iraq this week has not been good. After weeks of popular protest against power cuts which led in some cases to deaths and injuries at the hands of the police, Oil Minister Hussain al-Shahristani was given the Electricity...