Uruguayan trade unions have completed a strengthening project and evaluated the work done during 2016. They decided to continue organising activities in 2017 using their own resources.

15,000 steelworkers marched through Brussels on Wednesday 9 November to demand action to protect the steel industry in Europe.

Day three of the twenty-second Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP22), 9 November in Marrakesh, Morocco.

LafargeHolcim management in British Columbia, Canada, has locked out approximately 70 members of the United Steelworkers, USW Local 816, since 17 October at the Texada Quarrying Ltd. limestone mine.

Members of IndustriALL affiliate Interregional Trade Union Workers Association (ITUWA) at the Volkswagen plant in Kaluga, Russia, are fighting for a new collective agreement.

Day two of the twenty-second Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP22), 11 November in Marrakesh, Morocco.

Miners at the state-owned mine № 10 Novovolynska in Ukraine has been on a hunger strike since 7 November. Miners are demanding payment of three months’ salaries owed.

On Friday, November 4, the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative (OGCI), a coalition of ten of the world’s major oil companies, announced their commitment of a billion dollars over 10 years to fund low emissions technologies, as part of their commitment to fighting climate change.

Trade unions from the energy sector, including IndustriALL Global Union affiliates, met in Rosebank, South Africa from 13 to 14 October for the Southern African Energy Network’s (SAEN) annual conference. 

When the IndustriALL East Africa Union Building project met in Uganda on 27 – 28 October, three unions were awarded for their major organizing achievements.

The twenty-second Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP22) opened on 10 November in Marrakesh, Morocco.

Unions around the world are organizing a global day of action at LafargeHolcim on 9 December to demand that management respect workers’ rights.

There is a struggle for a new collective agreement at the plant Volkswagen in Kaluga in Russia. The current agreement expires on 31 December, so far neither the employer nor the employees have taken the initiative of signing a new one.

On 5 November, over 800 people, including a delegation from IndustriALL, BHP unions from Australia, Brazil, Chile and Colombia, gathered along with representatives from social movements in the ghost town of Bento Rodriguez to demand justice for those affected by and punishment for those responsible for the dam collapse in 2015.

Thousands of steel workers will take to the streets of Brussels on Wednesday 9 November to demand action from the European Union to stop the decline of their industry.

The adoption of a new labour law in Iraq last year has created more space for IndustriALL and its Iraqi affiliates to deepen the programme of work and campaign for legislation that meets international standards.

The death toll from the fire in the Gadani shipbreaking yard has risen to 21, with as many as 150 still trapped in the burning ship.

As the anniversary of one of Brazil’s worst environmental disasters looms, unions are demanding that mine owners BHP Billiton and Vale take responsibility for the dam tragedy and ensure that similar accidents can never be repeated. 

A round table discussion to ensure shipbreaking workers’ safety and rights jointly organized by IndustriALL and BILS in Chittagong underlined the need for collective efforts to improve working conditions and to protect workers’ rights.

16 workers killed and 47 injured in a horrific blast in Gadani shipbreaking yard in Pakistan this morning.