IndustriALL Global Union
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We stand united in the fight for better working conditions and trade union rights globally. 🌟 From defending workers' rights to shape a better future for all, our mission is clear: solidarity without borders.
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IndustriALL gender director Armelle Seby 👩 said:
“IndustriALL’s new roadmap for gender equality (2025–2029) 🗂️ and feminist resolution 💪♀️ will strengthen global efforts to end gender-based violence, raise women’s leadership, and keep equality central to the labour movement 🌍✊.”
“IndustriALL’s new roadmap for gender equality (2025–2029) 🗂️ and feminist resolution 💪♀️ will strengthen global efforts to end gender-based violence, raise women’s leadership, and keep equality central to the labour movement 🌍✊.”
Pushing for gender transformative agenda in South East Asia
Women union leaders in South East Asia are advancing a gender-transformative agenda through legislative advocacy, social dialogue, and awareness campaigns. This commitment was further strengthened at ...
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December 8, 2025 at 1:58 PM
IndustriALL gender director Armelle Seby 👩 said:
“IndustriALL’s new roadmap for gender equality (2025–2029) 🗂️ and feminist resolution 💪♀️ will strengthen global efforts to end gender-based violence, raise women’s leadership, and keep equality central to the labour movement 🌍✊.”
“IndustriALL’s new roadmap for gender equality (2025–2029) 🗂️ and feminist resolution 💪♀️ will strengthen global efforts to end gender-based violence, raise women’s leadership, and keep equality central to the labour movement 🌍✊.”
“The HKC has its critics 🚫, but those who support it must make it work 🤝. If it fails to protect workers 👷♀️👷♂️ and the environment 🌱, it fails entirely 🔁,” says Walton Pantland, IndustriALL shipbuilding & shipbreaking director.
Six months after entry into force, the HKC still is not being implemented
Shipbreaking has often been described as the most dangerous job in the world and IndustriALL has long campaigned for the ratification of the Hong Kong Convention (HKC) as the most practical first step...
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December 8, 2025 at 9:23 AM
“The HKC has its critics 🚫, but those who support it must make it work 🤝. If it fails to protect workers 👷♀️👷♂️ and the environment 🌱, it fails entirely 🔁,” says Walton Pantland, IndustriALL shipbuilding & shipbreaking director.
Under a bright outlook for the future 🌤️, 46 unionists from nine Asia-Pacific countries 🌏 in the chemical ⚗️ and pharmaceutical 💊 sectors met in Colombo 🇱🇰 on 18–19 November 📅 to discuss workplace safety 🛡️, supply chain challenges 🔄, and gender-inclusive unions ⚧.
Uniting Asia-Pacific MNC unions across chemicals and pharmaceuticals
Occupational safety and health, supply chain disruptions and gender-inclusive union practices were the central focus when 46 unionists from nine Asia-Pacific countries in the chemical and pharmaceutic...
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December 4, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Under a bright outlook for the future 🌤️, 46 unionists from nine Asia-Pacific countries 🌏 in the chemical ⚗️ and pharmaceutical 💊 sectors met in Colombo 🇱🇰 on 18–19 November 📅 to discuss workplace safety 🛡️, supply chain challenges 🔄, and gender-inclusive unions ⚧.
Trade unions from Latin America, the US, Canada and Mexico are joining forces 🤝🌎 to build a shared strategy for local, regional and global challenges.
Rubber and tyre workers discuss the future of the sector in the Americas
Trade unions from Latin America, the United States, Canada and Mexico are working on a joint strategy in response to local, regional and global challenges. From 24 to 26 November, the International Tr...
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December 3, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Trade unions from Latin America, the US, Canada and Mexico are joining forces 🤝🌎 to build a shared strategy for local, regional and global challenges.
On 1 December, trade unions representing millions of workers in Africa’s mining ⛏️, energy ⚡ and manufacturing 🏭 sectors met in Addis Ababa 🇪🇹.
African trade unions want critical minerals revenues to fund development
On 1 December, trade unions representing millions of African workers in mining, energy and manufacturing industries gathered in Addis Ababa, declared that unless the new African green minerals strateg...
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December 2, 2025 at 2:01 PM
On 1 December, trade unions representing millions of workers in Africa’s mining ⛏️, energy ⚡ and manufacturing 🏭 sectors met in Addis Ababa 🇪🇹.
South Africa 🇿🇦 has officially declared gender-based violence and femicide a national disaster ⚠️. This follows years of activism and protests ✊🏽. A crucial step toward real accountability and implementing ILO Convention 190 and Recommendation 206 📜💪 www.industriall-union.org/south-africa...
South Africa declares gender-based violence and femicide a national disaster
South Africa has formally declared gender-based violence and femicide (GBVF) a national disaster, invoking the Disaster Management Act of 2002. The decision, announced in the wake of widespread protes...
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November 27, 2025 at 2:47 PM
South Africa 🇿🇦 has officially declared gender-based violence and femicide a national disaster ⚠️. This follows years of activism and protests ✊🏽. A crucial step toward real accountability and implementing ILO Convention 190 and Recommendation 206 📜💪 www.industriall-union.org/south-africa...
🇮🇹⚙️ A major win for Italy’s metalworkers. Fim, Fiom and Uilm have signed a renewed national agreement after intense negotiations. The deal covers 1.5 million workers and includes a €205 wage increase to help protect incomes as living costs continue to rise. 💶📈✊
Historic win for Italy’s metal workers
Last week Italy’s metal workers secured a major victory as the unions Fim, Fiom and Uilm, all affiliated to IndustriALL Global Union, signed the renewed National Collective Labour Agreement (NCLA) wit...
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November 26, 2025 at 2:48 PM
🇮🇹⚙️ A major win for Italy’s metalworkers. Fim, Fiom and Uilm have signed a renewed national agreement after intense negotiations. The deal covers 1.5 million workers and includes a €205 wage increase to help protect incomes as living costs continue to rise. 💶📈✊
On 14 November 📅 NUMSA 🇿🇦, affiliated to IndustriALL Global Union 🌍 and the country’s largest manufacturing union 🏭, concluded a three-year wage settlement 💼💰 with the Automobile Manufacturers Employers’ Organisation (AMEO) 🚗, averting a looming strike ✊ after months of deadlock ⏳.
NUMSA signs wage deal, calls for policy response to protect auto sector
On 14 November, the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA), affiliated to IndustriALL Global Union and the country’s largest manufacturing union, concluded a three-year wage settlement...
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November 21, 2025 at 12:31 PM
On 14 November 📅 NUMSA 🇿🇦, affiliated to IndustriALL Global Union 🌍 and the country’s largest manufacturing union 🏭, concluded a three-year wage settlement 💼💰 with the Automobile Manufacturers Employers’ Organisation (AMEO) 🚗, averting a looming strike ✊ after months of deadlock ⏳.
RWUT 🇹🇭 held its annual meeting 📅 on 15–16 November, committing ✊ to defend labour rights ⚖️ and workers’ welfare 🧑🏭 as technological change 🤖 reshapes the global tyre industry 🛞🌍.
Rubber tyre unions in Thailand prepare for just future
Rubber Workers’ Union in Thailand (RWUT) in its annual meeting, 15-16 November, took a strong commitment to fight for labour rights and defend workers' welfare amidst technological transformation in t...
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November 21, 2025 at 8:38 AM
RWUT 🇹🇭 held its annual meeting 📅 on 15–16 November, committing ✊ to defend labour rights ⚖️ and workers’ welfare 🧑🏭 as technological change 🤖 reshapes the global tyre industry 🛞🌍.
A tragic bridge collapse 🏗️ at the Kalando mine ⛏️ in the DRC 🇨🇩 has claimed at least 50 lives 🕯️ and left many injured 🚑. This heartbreaking event 😔 underscores the urgent need for safer conditions ⚠️ for artisanal miners.
At least 50 miners killed in Congo bridge collapse; unions demand action
The tragic bridge collapse at the Kalando artisanal copper and cobalt mine in Mulondo, Lualaba province, on 15November 2025, which claimed at least 50 lives and left dozens injured or missing, is a he...
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November 21, 2025 at 8:05 AM
A tragic bridge collapse 🏗️ at the Kalando mine ⛏️ in the DRC 🇨🇩 has claimed at least 50 lives 🕯️ and left many injured 🚑. This heartbreaking event 😔 underscores the urgent need for safer conditions ⚠️ for artisanal miners.
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The Clark County Education Association seeks a Communications Specialist to be based in Las Vegas, NV. Details can be found at: unionjobs.com/listing.php?... #1u #UnionStrong @cceanv.bsky.social
November 3, 2025 at 11:20 PM
The Clark County Education Association seeks a Communications Specialist to be based in Las Vegas, NV. Details can be found at: unionjobs.com/listing.php?... #1u #UnionStrong @cceanv.bsky.social
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Då var @sverigesingenjorer.bsky.social på plats i Sydney 🇦🇺 för att delta på @industriall-union.org congress. Men först women’s conference med 350 fackligt aktiva kvinnor. Generalsekreterare Atle Høie och President Marie Nilsson inleder.
November 2, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Då var @sverigesingenjorer.bsky.social på plats i Sydney 🇦🇺 för att delta på @industriall-union.org congress. Men först women’s conference med 350 fackligt aktiva kvinnor. Generalsekreterare Atle Høie och President Marie Nilsson inleder.
IndustriALL & @ifmetall.bsky.social president Marie Nilsson opening last ExCo meeting before IndustriALL's 4th Congress.
"Solidarity can change lives, and every one of you - every colleague, every member, every action - makes a difference. Our strength lies in unity."
#IndustriALLSydney
"Solidarity can change lives, and every one of you - every colleague, every member, every action - makes a difference. Our strength lies in unity."
#IndustriALLSydney
November 3, 2025 at 11:22 PM
IndustriALL & @ifmetall.bsky.social president Marie Nilsson opening last ExCo meeting before IndustriALL's 4th Congress.
"Solidarity can change lives, and every one of you - every colleague, every member, every action - makes a difference. Our strength lies in unity."
#IndustriALLSydney
"Solidarity can change lives, and every one of you - every colleague, every member, every action - makes a difference. Our strength lies in unity."
#IndustriALLSydney
Africa’s rich reserves of cobalt, lithium & copper 🔋 can power a just, green future 🌍⚡ — but Chinese multinationals 🇨🇳 must respect labour & the planet 🌿. HRDD in mining ⛏️ is key to protect workers 🤝, ensure accountability 🏛️ & deliver real remedies.
Curbing violations by Chinese multinationals in African critical minerals boom
As the world races towards net zero, Africa’s vast reserves of cobalt, lithium and copper, which are vital for electric-vehicle batteries and renewable-energy technologies, have huge potential to indu...
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October 30, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Africa’s rich reserves of cobalt, lithium & copper 🔋 can power a just, green future 🌍⚡ — but Chinese multinationals 🇨🇳 must respect labour & the planet 🌿. HRDD in mining ⛏️ is key to protect workers 🤝, ensure accountability 🏛️ & deliver real remedies.
1,000 unionists from across the world are soon meeting in Sydney🇦🇺 for IndustriALL's 4th Congress, themed Organizing for a just future.
“We can't wait for change to happen to us. We must organize, unite and lead the way," says IndustriALL GS Atle Høie.
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“We can't wait for change to happen to us. We must organize, unite and lead the way," says IndustriALL GS Atle Høie.
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Organizing for a just future: workers must shape the change
In a few days, more than a thousand trade union delegates from every corner of the world will gather in Sydney for IndustriALL Global Union’s 4th Congress. Together, we will set our direction for the ...
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October 30, 2025 at 1:14 AM
1,000 unionists from across the world are soon meeting in Sydney🇦🇺 for IndustriALL's 4th Congress, themed Organizing for a just future.
“We can't wait for change to happen to us. We must organize, unite and lead the way," says IndustriALL GS Atle Høie.
www.industriall-union.org/organizing-f...
“We can't wait for change to happen to us. We must organize, unite and lead the way," says IndustriALL GS Atle Høie.
www.industriall-union.org/organizing-f...
This wasn’t about technical disputes — it was about the future of public safety 🛡️, good jobs 👷♀️👨🔧, and national technology 💡 built over decades by skilled workers 👥.
Trade unions from Spain and France show solidarity with Argentina’s nuclear workers
In an online meeting, organized by IndustriALL Global Union, trade union representatives from Spain and France met with their counterparts in Argentina to express solidarity amid concerns over proposa...
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October 28, 2025 at 11:35 AM
This wasn’t about technical disputes — it was about the future of public safety 🛡️, good jobs 👷♀️👨🔧, and national technology 💡 built over decades by skilled workers 👥.
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☮️ Trade unions are mobilising for #peace.
🙌From 24–31 October, the global labour movement is taking action to mark the 80th anniversary of the UN and Disarmament Week.
🌍 Join us in calling for a world where we invest in people, not weapons.
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#TradeUnionsForPeace #ForDemocracy
🙌From 24–31 October, the global labour movement is taking action to mark the 80th anniversary of the UN and Disarmament Week.
🌍 Join us in calling for a world where we invest in people, not weapons.
🔗 buff.ly/AdAoeSl
#TradeUnionsForPeace #ForDemocracy
October 24, 2025 at 7:02 AM
☮️ Trade unions are mobilising for #peace.
🙌From 24–31 October, the global labour movement is taking action to mark the 80th anniversary of the UN and Disarmament Week.
🌍 Join us in calling for a world where we invest in people, not weapons.
🔗 buff.ly/AdAoeSl
#TradeUnionsForPeace #ForDemocracy
🙌From 24–31 October, the global labour movement is taking action to mark the 80th anniversary of the UN and Disarmament Week.
🌍 Join us in calling for a world where we invest in people, not weapons.
🔗 buff.ly/AdAoeSl
#TradeUnionsForPeace #ForDemocracy
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@sbworkersunited.org members are amassing in front of stores with signs, borrowing the UPS Teamsters' slogan: “Just Practicing for a Just Contract.” 38 stores held practice pickets in early October, and 80 more stores plan to do so now, our editor Jenny Brown reports: labornotes.org/2025/10/stri...
Strike Captains and Practice Pickets: Starbucks Workers Aim to Bring a Contract Home
Unionized Starbucks workers are electing strike captains and getting customers to pledge they won't cross picket lines. They’re amassing in front of stores with picket signs, borrowing a slogan that U...
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October 26, 2025 at 4:00 PM
@sbworkersunited.org members are amassing in front of stores with signs, borrowing the UPS Teamsters' slogan: “Just Practicing for a Just Contract.” 38 stores held practice pickets in early October, and 80 more stores plan to do so now, our editor Jenny Brown reports: labornotes.org/2025/10/stri...
Big win for workers in Bangladesh 🇧🇩 as the country ratifies key @ilo.org Conventions on safety and gender equality following long union campaign 🙌
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#UnionWin
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#UnionWin
Bangladesh ratifies key ILO Conventions on safety and gender equality following long union campaign
Bangladesh has become the first country in South Asia to ratify ILO Conventions 190, 155 and 187, addressing violence and harassment, occupational safety and health (OSH), and the promotional framewor...
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October 23, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Big win for workers in Bangladesh 🇧🇩 as the country ratifies key @ilo.org Conventions on safety and gender equality following long union campaign 🙌
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#UnionWin
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#UnionWin
IndustriALL is proud to be part of the drive for brand-supported collective bargaining agreements in Cambodia. No single brand or actor can address the systemic low wages in the garment industry.
A paradigm shift for higher wages ➡️ shorturl.at/So83v
#GarmentWorkersNeedUnions
A paradigm shift for higher wages ➡️ shorturl.at/So83v
#GarmentWorkersNeedUnions
October 21, 2025 at 11:23 AM
IndustriALL is proud to be part of the drive for brand-supported collective bargaining agreements in Cambodia. No single brand or actor can address the systemic low wages in the garment industry.
A paradigm shift for higher wages ➡️ shorturl.at/So83v
#GarmentWorkersNeedUnions
A paradigm shift for higher wages ➡️ shorturl.at/So83v
#GarmentWorkersNeedUnions
🔥 Two major garment factory fires in Dhaka and Chattogram have once again exposed the urgent need for stronger building and industrial safety in Bangladesh’s RMG sector.
“Workers’ safety must never fall outside regulation. Binding agreements like the Accord and RSC save lives.” ⚖️👷♀️👷♂️
“Workers’ safety must never fall outside regulation. Binding agreements like the Accord and RSC save lives.” ⚖️👷♀️👷♂️
Fire in Bangladesh’s garment factory claims 16 lives
Last week, Bangladesh witnessed two massive fire incidents in garment factories located in Dhaka and Chattogram, bringing the question of industrial safety, particularly building safety standards in r...
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October 20, 2025 at 1:38 PM
🔥 Two major garment factory fires in Dhaka and Chattogram have once again exposed the urgent need for stronger building and industrial safety in Bangladesh’s RMG sector.
“Workers’ safety must never fall outside regulation. Binding agreements like the Accord and RSC save lives.” ⚖️👷♀️👷♂️
“Workers’ safety must never fall outside regulation. Binding agreements like the Accord and RSC save lives.” ⚖️👷♀️👷♂️
Nominations are open for Arthur Svensson Prize 2026, honouring those who bravely defend workers’ & union rights. Since 2010, the prize has recognized inspiring trade unionists from Khaing Zar Aung from Myanmar to Aliaksandr Yarashuk from Belarus.
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October 20, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Nominations are open for Arthur Svensson Prize 2026, honouring those who bravely defend workers’ & union rights. Since 2010, the prize has recognized inspiring trade unionists from Khaing Zar Aung from Myanmar to Aliaksandr Yarashuk from Belarus.
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Glen Mpufane, IndustriALL director for mining and diamonds, concurred: “Key players must form alliances over the critical raw materials supply chain to safeguard ⚖️ workers’ rights, hold 🏢 multinationals to account, and secure remedies for communities and 🧑🏾🏭 workers when violations occur.”
Taming the Congolese paradox in the battery supply chain
Trade unions and civil society organizations are joining forces to tame the Congolese paradox in the battery supply chain. The paradox is evident in the stark contradiction in the Democratic Republic ...
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October 15, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Glen Mpufane, IndustriALL director for mining and diamonds, concurred: “Key players must form alliances over the critical raw materials supply chain to safeguard ⚖️ workers’ rights, hold 🏢 multinationals to account, and secure remedies for communities and 🧑🏾🏭 workers when violations occur.”
"While the invasion devastates lives 💔, Ukrainian workers give everything in mines ⛏️, energy plants ⚙️ and production facilities 🧰 to keep the country running 🇺🇦. We stand shoulder to shoulder 🤝 with the workers of Ukraine.,” said Kemal Özkan, IndustriALL assistant general secretary.
Ukrainian unions: workers can’t bear full safety burden
Ukrainian workers continue to show extraordinary resilience, keeping key sectors, of the country’s economy, running under full-scale occupation and invasion. Despite constant danger, destroyed workpla...
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October 14, 2025 at 2:43 PM
"While the invasion devastates lives 💔, Ukrainian workers give everything in mines ⛏️, energy plants ⚙️ and production facilities 🧰 to keep the country running 🇺🇦. We stand shoulder to shoulder 🤝 with the workers of Ukraine.,” said Kemal Özkan, IndustriALL assistant general secretary.
The Congress 🏛️ should help us build on this new momentum 🔄 and enable our affiliates to intensify their efforts 💪 to organize these workers, who, in certain countries 🌍, already represent an important minority, if not the majority 👥, of the workforce in the manufacturing industry 🏭
Sydney Congress: white-collar voices
Ahead of the IndustriALL upcoming Sydney Congress, 40 white-collar union delegates met online, 29 September 2025, to strategize on advancing their priorities in the debates.
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October 9, 2025 at 3:02 PM
The Congress 🏛️ should help us build on this new momentum 🔄 and enable our affiliates to intensify their efforts 💪 to organize these workers, who, in certain countries 🌍, already represent an important minority, if not the majority 👥, of the workforce in the manufacturing industry 🏭