To mark Workers Memorial Day, the IUF has produced with Pesticides Action Network (PAN) and the Swiss-based NGO, Berne Declaration, a report on the use of paraquat in India.  While this highly toxic pesticide is banned in Europe, it continues to be widely used on many crops and in many parts of the world.  The report confirms that paraquat is used under high-risk conditions and that users don't have the information or the means to protect themselves from exposure. As a result, users suffer from headaches, vomiting, breathing difficulty, muscle pain and abdominal discomfort.

The IUF, International Transport Workers' Federation and Belgian unions CSC Alimentation et Services, FGTB Horval, and CSC Transcom raised the growing pressure on the Citra Mina Group at the Brussels Seafood Expo - the world's largest seafood trade fair -by demonstrating on April 23 outside the venue, where Citra Mina's Philfresh Corporation was one of the companies exhibiting and seeking contracts with buyers.

On April 15, 2015 the Madrid Supreme Court announced its final verdict on the closure of four Coca-Cola factories in Spain and confirmed the previous ruling of the National Court which declared the Coca-Cola Iberian Partners' (CCIP) restructuring plan announced in January 2014 invalid.

IUF affiliates in over 40 countries in 5 continents took action on April 15, IUF International Fast Food Workers' Day, to challenge the poor wages, precarious jobs, absence of benefits and social security and systematic denial of trade union rights which form the industry pattern. Around the world, fast food workers are standing up for their rights, fighting for increased wages, union recognition and decent working conditions.

Members of the Pearl Continental Hotel Karachi Workers Union, the Sind Club Employees Union and the Karachi Club Employees Union gathered together to show solidarity with dismissed workers from Sheraton Maldives and Ethiopia.

The IUF New Zealand affiliate Unite, active in the global Fast Food campaign, has negotiated an important agreement with Restaurant Brands, which owns the KFC, Pizza Hut, Carl's Jr and Starbucks chains in NZ, to end 'zero-hour contracts'. Read more here

The IUF's UK affiliate Unite the Union organized an action in London on April 2 to show support for the IUF's Shame on Sheraton campaign.

On April 1 workers at Bumi Menara Internusa (BMI), one of Indonesia's largest fish processing companies picketed the factory gates in Lampung protesting intimidation, dismissals and abusive precarious employment.

Tunisia's national trade union center UGTT, together with a wide range of civil society organizations, was among the organizers of the national march which brought tens of thousands of citizens on to the streets of Tunis on March 29.

On March 28, the Korean Arbeit Workers' Union, the organization which has been fighting widespread abuses at McDonald's Korea, protested in front of 3 McDonald's outlets across Seoul to demand a wage increase for part-time workers, reinstatement of dismissed activist Gahyun Lee and talks with the union.

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On March 26 the IUF's French affiliate CGT Hôtels de Prestige et Economiques leafletted in front of the Starwood Le Méridien Etoile and W Paris Opera hotels in Paris.

Five young Chinese women activists arrested in the run-up to International Women's Day planning for planning actions to highlight sexual harassment on public transport are now in criminal detention facing charges of 'picking quarrels and provoking troubles', which can carry a five-year prison sentence.