Power in a Union

By Richard Trumka and Michael Carrigan Most people in Illinois don’t even know that the National Labor Relations Board is. Well, why should they? Here’s why. For decades, American labour law helped...

Support Unite’s fight against Molson Coors’ destruction of jobs and hard won rights in UK!! ACT NOW! Click here to help Unite to achieve justice in this dispute! Send a message to CEO...

Next Tuesday (May 21st) Robert Reich, Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley and former Secretary of Labour in the Clinton administration, will be...

Tomorrow in Chicago there is a rally to commemorate the Republic Steel Memorial Day Massacre of 1937 when ten striking members of the Steel Workers Organising Committee (SWOC) were murdered by the...

Four hours to deadline and US retailer Gap Inc’s are still refusing to sign the agreement designed to improve safety conditions in Bangladesh’s garment factories. They are rightly being condemned by...

Germany’s giant IG Metall union has agreed to a staged wage deal in Bavaria which will see wages in the metalworking and electrical engineering industries rise 5.6% over the next 20 months. The...

By Adrian Weir – Assistant Chief of Staff, Unite the Union Although a reasonably frequent visitor to Cuba, this trip, as part of the Acompañamiento Internacional team of election monitors, was...

by Richard Trumka, Bob King, Leo Gerard and Larry Cohen As President Barack Obama holds meetings in Mexico this week with President Enrique Peña Nieto economic growth, immigration and security...

IndustriALL, the global manufacturing union federation and international clothing brands have agreed a deadline of 15th May deadline to finalise an agreement on fire and building safety that will...

The global union federations, IndustriALL and UNI Global Union has contributed to the creation of a union in one of paper and packaging giant Kimberly Clark’s plants in Colombia. This union forms...

By Michael Burke The British economy is becoming more dependent on the state. This is revealed in the latest preliminary data for GDP in the 1st quarter of 2013. The preliminary data for GDP only...

In the past year hundreds of workers in the textile and garment industry in Bangladesh have been killed, working in unsafe conditions in factories which supply western countries and High Street...

Excellent article by CSEU General Secretary Hugh Scullion putting the case for the renewal of Vanguard submarines. Published this week in Tribune (who’s website is currently out of...

By Lee Brown Campaigner and researcher on Latin America and its Socialism of the 21st Century Nicolas Maduro’s victory in the Venezuelan presidential election was narrower...

By Ben Davis, USW International Affairs Director Fresh from a series of resounding legal victories, Mexican mine workers leader Napoleón Gómez has written a book that exposes the Mexican government’s...

News from Mexico is that the Jalisco Honda plant is completely paralysed,  as over 2000 workers have gone on strike. The workers at the plant began an indefinite work stoppage on 16th April after the...

In 2012 the global mining and metals corporation Rio Tinto locked out 750 of its employees in Alma, Quebec – members of the United Steelworkers and Workers Uniting, the global union created by...