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Worldwide Inspectors unite in Cyprus to defend seafarers’ rights 2025-09-26 [ITF]

UNI Post & Logistics World Conference shows fighting spirit in Bangkok 2025-09-25 [UNI Global Union]

IUF Agricultural Workers’ Trade Group held annual meeting in Rome 2025-09-25 [IUF]

Trade unions welcome OECD inequality report, but highlight missing link on collective bargaining 2025-09-25 [TUAC]

International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons: Real peace can never exist under the threat of annihilation 2025-09-25 [ITUC]

Fast Fashion Exploits Garment Workers—Here’s How 2025-09-25 [Good on You]

We are not targets! Postal workers demand protections during war 2025-09-24 [UNI Global Union]

OECD’s Fiscal Restraint Recommendations Threaten Worker-Centred Recovery 2025-09-24 [TUAC]

Human-centred AI: EI's global conference charts the future of education 2025-09-23 [EI]

The Worker Rights Consortium: Fighting for Garment Workers Worldwide 2025-09-23 [Ford Foundation]

ITUC insists trade unions are key to closing gender gap 2025-09-23 [The Guardian]

Young dockers and seafarers unite in Cyprus to build skills and solidarity 2025-09-23 [ITF]

International trade union movement demands migration rights and decent work 2025-09-23 [BWI]

Enzo Friso (1927-2025): A lifelong advocate for workers’ rights 2025-09-23 [ITUC]

Agentic AI and the future of work: navigating technological promise and the risk of increased automation 2025-09-23 [Equal Times]

ITUC insists trade unions are key to closing gender gap 2025-09-23 [The Guardian]

World Teachers’ Day (5 October 2025): Together for teachers, together for tomorrow 2025-09-22 [Education International]

Unions and Unionism: The double-edged sword shaping society, business 2025-09-20 [The Guardian]

Gloves on! How new protections for hairdressers help shine a light on the importance of increased trade union participation in standard-setting 2025-09-19 [Equal Times]

Education unions celebrate Democracy Day by mobilising and organising to defend it 2025-09-18 [Education International]

Health Workers Are Crucial for “Safe Care to Every Newborn and Every Child” 2025-09-18 [PSI]

International Equal Pay Day 2025: Trade unions are key to closing the gender pay gap 2025-09-17 [ITUC]

Corporate Underminers of Democracy 2025 2025-09-17 [ITUC]

The corporations fuelling militarism, far-right politics and the assault on democracy 2025-09-17 [ITUC]

Women lead for learning - Insights from the 2025 Gender Report 2025-09-16 [Education International]

Democracy Day: No democracy without a free press 2025-09-16 [IFJ]

OECD Tax Policy Reforms 2025: Revenue Erosion Threatens Public Investment 2025-09-16 [TUAC]

Global crisis for workers and unions: How do we respond? 2025-09-16 [Workers' Liberty]

Advancing Pay Justice: Moving Beyond the Halfway Point 2025-09-11 [PSI]

IndustriALL women lead push for equality ahead of Congress 2025-09-10 [IndustriALL]

ASOS signs workers' rights deal in partnership with ITF union 2025-09-10 [Fashion Network]

Education at a Glance 2025: Trade Unions Call for Investment and Workforce Protection 2025-09-10 [TUAC]

ILO to release new global report on social justice 2025-09-10 [ILO]

‘My colleagues are killed on live TV. The world does nothing’: Inside Al Jazeera’s Wael al-Dahdouh’s reporting from Gaza 2025-09-10 [Independent]

Washington cuts sow confusion at International Labour Organization 2025-09-09 [Geneva Solutions]

ILO Technical Meeting on Decent Work in the Railways Sector: First since 1994 2025-09-09 [ITF]

ASOS and ITF team up to protect workers’ rights with new transport supply chain agreement 2025-09-09 [ITF]

Trade unions challenge investors over human rights at Starbucks 2025-09-09 [IUF]

Defending democracy, peace and equal pay 2025-09-08 [ITUC]

Aviation workers set agenda ahead of ICAO Assembly 2025-09-05 [ITF]

Manila Declaration charts new course for seafarers’ rights amid rising global risks 2025-09-04 [Maritime Fairtrade]

From Turkey to the Philippines, this is what solidarity looks like 2025-09-02 [LabourStart]

PSI-ITUC delegation puts labour issues high on the plastic treaty negotiations despite oil states and corporations blockage 2025-09-02 [PSI]

An era-defining opportunity to deliver rights for all platform workers 2025-09-01 [GLC]

Unsafe railways put workers and passengers at risk, new ITF research warns 2025-09-01 [ITF]

Historic Santiago Consensus puts teachers at heart of education transformation 2025-09-01 [Education International]

The deadly toll on journalists in the Gaza war 2025-09-01 [The Guardian]

ICJ and IACtHR Advisory Opinions: labour rights must not be left behind 2025-08-29 [ITF]

Heat stress and climate change: New report a call to action for workers’ safety 2025-08-29 [ITUC]

UN report backs union call for mandatory heat risk assessments 2025-08-26 [ETUC]

This month in labour history

This month in labour history

13-09-1868 Closure of the 3rd IWA Congress in Brussels. Delegates say it "is not the daughter of a cult or a theory. It is the spontaneous product of the proletarian movement ”(text written by Karl Marx). [more]

14-09-1867 Volume 1 of Kapital is published. The product of a decade of research and redrafting, the book applies class analysis to capitalism focusing upon production processes, making the capitalist mode of production historically specific. [more]

17-09-1871 International Workingmen’s Association begins conference in London, though attendance disrupted by Franco-Prussian war. [more]

20-09-1910 International conference on unemployment at the Sorbonne in Paris. Specialists propose the creation of unemployment insurance in each industrial country. [more]

28-09-1864 First meeting between British unions and 5 French union representatives in London to discuss the creation of the International Workingmen’s Association. [more]

29-09-1863 At a meeting in Saint-Martin's Hall, the IWA adopted the French project which provided for the creation of European sections, under the direction of a Central Committee in London. [more]