The three-week strike by the Swaziland Plantation and Agricultural Workers Union (SAPWU) has ended with important gains for workers. Over the course of the strike union members stood up to intimidation by military and security forces and legal action by the company intended to hamper picketing.

Israel's national center Histadrut and the national employer umbrella organization signed a binding agreement on June 26 on the employment of people with disabilities, opening the way for what Histadrut Chairman Avi Nissenkorn called  "800 thousand potential employees that will be able to make a decent living and integrate in the labour market."

Hotel workers in Los Angeles, London, Geneva, Paris, Rome and Milan held protests on June 27 and 30 outside the famous Dorchester hotels over laws enacted by the hotel owner, the Sultan of Brunei, which violate the basic human rights of the citizens of his country.

"As far as I know, no one has died in the United States from eating American products. If that is our fear then we also shouldn't go on holiday in the United States."

The Swiss Parliament voted on June 12 to ratify the Domestic Workers Convention (ILO C189). Switzerland is the third European country to ratify (after Italy and Germany) and the fifteenth on a global level.

The Executive Committee of the International Domestic Workers' Federation, IDWF, held its first meeting following their founding Congress on June 11 at the IUF secretariat in Geneva.

The Philippines national center SENTRO mobilized hundreds of members on June 19 to picket distribution outlets belonging to Citra Mina, the seafood giant which terminated 78 workers last year to prevent them from forming a union.

The IUF joins with the Colombian national center CUT in condemning the attempted assassination of a trade union leader and in calling on the government to take action.

Danone's intention to close 3 European factories producing dairy products - in Italy, Germany and Hungary - will destroy a total of 325 jobs and will seriously threaten the job security of workers at warehouses, logistics and related companies that service those Danone plants.

A new report from Public Services International exposes the threat to public services in the secret negotiations around the proposed Trade in Services Agreement (TISA).