The IUF and its affiliates have expressed their solidarity with the Tunisian national trade union center UGTT and the IUF-affiliated FGAT-UGTT following the terrorist attack on two resort hotels in Sousse in which 38 people lost their lives.

Union leaders from seven French-speaking West African countries of West Africa came together in Cotonou, Bénin for an IUF sub-regional seminar to develop common strategies for organizing and bargaining within transnational hotel chains. Participants from Bénin, Burkina Faso, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Mali, Niger and Senegal met from June 25 to 27at the Cotonou Novotel.

Members of the New York City Hotel Trades Council have approved a 7-year extension to their Industry Wide Agreement which provides annual wage increases and guarantees free family health care for 23,000 workers through 2025.

In 2012, the IUF launched a global "Make my Workplace Safe" campaign to demand better working conditions with rights and dignity. In a new video filmed during the IUF Global Week of Action from December 3 to 10, 2014, housekeepers around the world share their experiences, concerns and hopes and express their solidarity

Investigative journalists in the United States have discovered high levels of the toxic chemical diacetyl in coffee roasting facilities, potentially exposing industry workers to the risk of developing the debilitating lung disease bronchiolitis obliterans - 'popcorn workers lung'.

The National Union of Workers (NUW) is holding Australia's largest supermarket chains accountable for human rights abuses in their supply chains. The Fair Food Australia campaign calls for union access to farms and factories to ensure compliance with labour standards and adequate worker protection. The campaign follows the publication of a report by the Fair Work Ombudsman documenting criminal exploitation of migrant workers by labour contractors supplying Baiada, Australia's largest poultry processor.

To mark the World Day Against Child Labour on June 12, members of the International Partnership for Cooperation on Child Labour in Agriculture which includes the IUF, have launched a joint website (only in English so far) to bring together information and news on elimination of child labour in the sector.

"Inequitable labour relations and distribution of benefits… severe socio-economic disadvantage.. insanitary living conditions" are among the problems highlighted in Giving a voice to rural workers, one of the reports currently under discussion at this year's International Labour Conference (ILC).

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in Washington, D.C., has reaffirmed that Kellogg
illegally locked out over 220 BCTGM members at the company’s Memphis cereal
plant from October 22, 2013 to August 11, 2014.

One of Japan's major seafood companies which imports tuna from General Santos, Philippines, has initiated an investigation into human rights violations by the Citra Mina Group, the Philippines' second-largest tuna exporter. This announcement comes as preparations advance for a visit by a trade delegation from the European Commission charged with looking into the country's compliance with the EU's GSP Plus trade program following international union action earlier this year.

The IUF-affiliated Tourism Employees Association of Maldives (TEAM) rallied tourism workers on May 30 in the Maldives capital Male, capping their petition campaign to raise standards in the tourism sector. More than 7,000 workers from 80 resorts signed the petition calling on the government to establish a legal framework for collective bargaining and take measures to improve the situation of the country's resort workers.

There are currently two unionized hotels in Myanmar's capital city Yangon. Management of the very upscale Belmond Governor's Residence is seeking to cut that number in half by eliminating the union through harassment, dismissal and intimidation.

IUF affiliates in Pakistan held a seminar in Karachi May 22-23 to raise awareness on the importance of measures to prevent HIV/AIDS at the workplace and in society, with the participation of more than 70 members from the IUF's food (PFWF), HRCT (PHRCTAWF) and sugar worker federations.