At its meeting in Geneva on May 15-16, the IUF Executive Committee unanimously accepted the International Domestic Workers' Federation's (IDWF) request to become a special group within the IUF.

The campaign against land grabs escalated across Myanmar following the resolution of the First Congress of the Agriculture and Farmers' Federation of Myanmar (AFFM-IUF) giving priority to land rights and access to land as integral to winning food rights and a sustainable food system. 

Fast food workers around the world face the same issues of precarious work, low wages, and fierce opposition to union organization. A handful of giant transnationals dominate the business, so it is only natural that workers and their unions are organizing internationally to change conditions for the millions of fast food workers around the world.

IUF affiliates in Pakistan, Korea, Indonesia and the Philippines showed their solidarity with the ongoing struggle of PepsiCo warehouse workers in India during May Day marches and actions.

Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC) President Baldemar Velasquez appeared before British American Tobacco's shareholders' meeting in London on April 30 to urge BAT to take responsibility for working conditions along its supply chain.

The latest UK Government figures put the number of workers on zero-hours employment contracts at 1.4 million, a steep increase over previous estimates. One fourth of all employees in the food, catering and tourism sector are employed on these contracts, and 50% of the employers in these sectors make use of them.

The First Congress of the IUF-affiliated Agriculture and Farmers’ Federation of Myanmar (AFFM) denounced the serious threat to the livelihoods of small farmers and agricultural workers caused by land grabs by government authorities, the military and corporations. Several farmers, including AFFM members, are imprisoned for attempting to return to their land.

A new IUF publication, Trade Deals That Threaten Democracy, exposes the corporate power grab at the core of these two mega-treaties, how they build and expand upon the toxic web of the thousands of investment treaties which have been layered on to the WTO rules and why the labour movement should throw its full support behind the growing movement in outright opposition to these deals.

Global unions the ITF (International Transport Workers' Federation) and IUF (International Union of Food, Agricultural and Hospitality Workers) today applauded the steps forward made in preventing often shocking abuse of crews on fishing vessels in New Zealand waters.