In Oaxaca city, protesting teachers set up an encampment in the city’s main squareRead more…
Third strike over unpaid wages at 2018 World Cup stadium
All stakeholders involved in preparations for the 2018 World Cup, including FIFA, should work to ensure labour rights…Read more…
A Letter From London To Our French Comrades
10 June 2016
By John Hendy QC and Professor Keith Ewing
FRENCH workers are now engaged in a historic struggle in defence of their rights. The struggle is international, as workers and trade unions…Read more…
Irish Unions help regain lost ground
10 June 2016
By Dr Eugene Hickland and Professor Tony Dundon
The Celtic tiger is dead … social partnership has collapsed … the Troika have been and gone … a new coalition government struggle to…Read more…
Algerian labour rights defender convicted for Facebook video
The Algerian authorities have jailed many labour activists, in effect, for protesting unemployment…Read more…
Another first for Sisi as press syndicate leaders are detained, interrogated
The crisis surrounding the Journalists Syndicate shows that the Sisi regime will stop at nothing to intimidate the media…Read more…
Stalemate may be the best option
The only battles that you are sure to lose are the ones you don’t fight…Read more…
The chips are down
After a five month strike and an international campaign, the agreement represents a victory for the workers and addresses all of their major concerns…Read more…
Troika-imposed neoliberalism undermines basic employment rights in Romania
23 May 2016
By Dr Aurora Trif, Lecturer in Human Resources Management, Dublin City University
In the second of our series of blogs detailing how the Troika has helped to spread the neoliberalist…Read more…
Human Rights vs. Bill of Rights: What’s in it for the workers?
23 May 2016
By Bob Kelly
With impeccable timing, the Institute of Employment Rights (IER) held a conference on the issue of the Human Rights Act, a day after it was briefly mentioned in the…Read more…
British people on corruption in their own country: it’s far from squeaky clean
19 May 2016
By David Whyte and David Ellis, University of Liverpool
On the eve of a major international anti-corruption summit hosted by the British government, the prime minister, David Cameron,…Read more…
Uber Alles
Uber drivers get unionised or maybe not…Read more…
Leaked treaty texts confirm TTIP threatens democracy
TTIP would undermine the ability of governments to promote health and safety and protect the environment against corporate depredation…Read more…
Hollande forces change to France’s labour laws
On Tuesday, May 10, despite protests that have lasted for weeks outside the French National Assembly and on the Paris streets, France’s socialist president François Hollande forced through a bill…Read more…
Remain or Leave – trade deals still pose major threats to workers
12 May 2016
By Adrian Weir, Assistant Chief of Staff, Unite the Union
The cat is out of the bag – the publication last week of the LSE report on the Investor State Dispute Settlement (ISDS)…Read more…
A nasty Bill turned into a nasty Act
06 May 2016
By Carolyn Jones, Director, Institute of Employment Rights
The Trade Union Bill has now passed through its Parliamentary stages, receiving Royal Assent on Wednesday 04 May –…Read more…
Jailed journalists and a gag order to celebrate press freedom in Egypt
Unconditional support for Egyptian journalists against the flagrant assault on freedom of expression…Read more…
World Press Freedom Day 2016
There must be no hiding place for those who attack journalists or undermine media freedom…Read more…
IFJ condemns Iraqi censorship
The decision to suspend Al Jazeera’s licence to operate is deeply prejudicial in a country that badly needs a free pressRead more…
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