The IUF-affiliated Korean Women's Trade Union (KWTU) has joined with two other Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) affiliates to create the National Council of Irregular Workers at Schools.

On July 23 in Washington DC the IUF-affilited Unite Here held a press conference to build a worldwide boycott of Hyatt Hotels in response to the company's extensive abuse of housekeepers and payment of low wages.

Lax regulations, loose enforcement and employer resistance to union health and safety committees inflict a ghastly toll of illness, injury and death on the job. The grisly death of a contract worker at a US Nestlé plant provides further evidence that agency workers face even greater risks due to their precarious employment status.

Download the new version of the IUF Action Program for Equality, our program for strengthening women's membership and representation in their unions and in the IUF and for workplaces free from gender-related discrimination and violence. The Action Program was revised by the IUF Women' Conference held in Geneva on May 12-13, and endorsed by the 26th IUF Congress.

The Congress of South Africa Trade Unions has said it is “shocked and angered” by the deaths of 21 farm workers in an accident involving a train and a truck.

In the annual general meetings held so far in 2012, New Zealand Dairy Workers' Union (NZDWU) members voted unanimously to demand that Fonterra allow IUF-affiliated Food Industry Employers Union (FEIU) access to the Fonterra Malaysia Plant to talk about union membership with Fonterra's Malaysian workers.

The use of agency labour beyond narrow, verifiable criteria undermines fundamental rights when measured against the criteria established by the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.

The 107-day strike by the IUF-affiliated Tekgida-Is at Tate & Lyle's Amylum Starch Corporation in Adana, Turkey ended on June 20 when agreement was reached on wages and social benefits.

Seventy-one trade unionists, members of unions of the Confederation of Public Sector Trade Unions (KESK), including its head, were detained across the country using the pretext of an operation against the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) on June 25.

In recent years up to 80 million hectares of land have been bought up - often at giveaway prices -- by financial investors, sovereign wealth funds and transnational corporations, a process which has come to be known as 'landgrabbing'.