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Europe: Interview with Mark Bergfeld, Director of Property Services at UNI Europa
We chatted today with Mark about the two groups of workers represented by UNI Europa's Property Services department -- security guards and cleaners. …
1 day, 10 hours ago
South Korea: Interview with Chanyoung Heo, Kuehne+Nagel Korea Labour Union
Chanyoung is leader of a small union in Korea that represents workers at Kuehne+Nagel, a German-owned logistics company. For 20 years, industrial re…
5 days, 12 hours ago
Interview with Sean Sweeney, coordinator of Trade Unions for Energy Democracy (TUED)
Sean Sweeney is the founder and coordinator of a global network of trade unionists who are trying change the way we deal with the global climate cris…
1 week, 5 days ago
Kenya: Interview with Joseph Ndiritu Karobia, General Secretary of the Public Transport Operators Union (PUTON)
Joe's union has managed to win a couple of legal battles ensuring that drivers working in Kenya's informal sector have rights. But employers are resi…
1 week, 6 days ago
Turkey: Interview with Kivanc Eliacik
According to the International Trade Union Confederation, Turkey is one of the worst countries in the world for workers' rights. Union leaders conti…
1 month ago
Australia: Interview with Sally McManus, Secretary of the Australian Council of Trade Unions
The lowest gender pay gap ever recorded. Food delivery workers winning new workplace protections and a new minimum hourly rate of pay, above the min…
1 month ago
Taiwan: Interview with Lennon Wang, from the Taidoc Technology Labor Union (TTLU).
Filipino women migrant workers at TaiDoc Technology Corporation, a medical equipment company based in Taiwan, R.O.C., have faced discrimination, forc…
1 month, 1 week ago
"The stronger the union, the cooler the workplace." Interview with union educator Stirling Smith
The International Labour Organisation estimate that 70% of the world's workforce is now vulnerable to extreme heat. How is this affecting workers? …
4 months, 4 weeks ago
International trade union delegations blocked from entering Palestine
In the last three weeks, two high-level delegations of trade union leaders from around the world were blocked by Israeli authorities from entering th…
7 months ago
USA: Interview with Chelsie Glaubitz Gabiou, President of the Minneapolis Regional Labor Federation AFL-CIO
Tomorrow (23 January) will see trade unionists and other citizens of Minneapolis shutting the city down in protest at the actions of Donald Trump's I…
7 months, 3 weeks ago