Category: World News Update

USA: Tesla management illegally fired union members, stifled workers Right to Freedom of Association, finds NLRB 25 March 2021: The National Labour Relations Board has

Myanmar: 12 million participate in countrywide general strike against military rule amidst violent repression by the junta 22 February 2021: Workers from across the country

France: Court orders government to compensate former miners for causing “anxiety” 29 January 2021: The Labour Court in Douai has ordered the government to pay

Spain: Health workers protest against health service cuts 29 November 2020: Around 4,000 doctors and nurses marched on the streets of Madrid chanting “less flags

Gig Workers struggle for recognition as workers across the world 27 October: In Australia, the Competition and Consumer Commission authorised companies with less than $10

Germany: Government mulls over supply chain law to fight labour and environmental abuse abroad 30 September 2020: Government is mulling over promulgating a law proposed

Qatar: Government scraps Kafala system, raises minimum wages for migrant workers 31 August 2020: Qatar’s Ministry of Administrative Development, Labour and Social Affairs has finally

Nigeria: Contract workers employed by Human Rights Commission strike work over violation of minimum wages 12 July 2020: Workers at the National Human Rights Commission

Lesotho: Successful strike yields lockdown wages to garment workers 17 June 2020: Over 50,000 garment workers returned to work on 17 June 2020 after a

Sudan: Government to set up special police force for protection of health workers 24 May 2020: After over two dozen attacks on health workers were