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UNCSW68: Good progress for gender equality and workers’ rights 2024-03-28 [ITUC]

UN picks Saudi Arabia to lead women’s rights forum despite ‘abysmal’ record 2024-03-27 [The Guardian]

Black Women Labor Leaders Unite to Address Global Issues 2024-03-27 [Solidarity Centre]

OECD Steel Committee: workers warn of lack of just transition in the industry 2024-03-27 [TUAC]

Charting progress on the global goals and decent work 2024-03-27 [ILO]

350th Session of the ILO Governing Body: ILO Governing Body closes with decisions on living wages, strengthening social justice 2024-03-27 [ILO]

ILO has defined the concept of a living wage 2024-03-27 [BWI]

BWI unveils 2024 Women Workers’ Calendar, celebrates women trade unionists 2024-03-27 [BWI]

OECD Steel Committee: workers warn of lack of just transition in the industry 2024-03-26 [IndustriALL]

ILO agreement on living wage definition “a leap forward for social justice” 2024-03-26 [ITUC]

BWI unveils 2024 Women Workers’ Calendar, celebrates women trade unionists 2024-03-25 [BWI]

ILO sets New Guidelines for Wage Policies and Living Wages 2024-03-25 [PSI]

Unions, business and civil society call for action to strengthen NCPs for responsible business conduct 2024-03-25 [TUAC]

ITUC Condemns Terrorist Attack on Moscow Concert Venue 2024-03-25 [ITUC]

RadioLabour World Report - Equal pay in 168 years! 2024-03-25 [RadioLabour]

A week of well aligned stars: in Rome, Geneva, & Brussels 2024-03-24 [Bananalink]

Union initiative announced at World Bank conference adding labour impact assessments to transport planning 2024-03-24 [ITF]

EU reforms: A step forward for trade union rights in new forms of work 2024-03-24 [ITUC]

ILO agreement takes important step for living wages 2024-03-24 [IndustriALL]

UN Commission on Social Development : trade unions’ demands reflected in final resolution 2024-03-23 [ITUC]

WFTU on the International day of elimination of racial discrimination 2024-03-22 [WFTU]

ILO has defined the concept of a living wage 2024-03-22 [BWI]

Exposed: Collusion and Cover-Up — A World Bank and Bridge International Academies Scandal 2024-03-22 [Education International]

Extreme heat at work can double stillbirth risk, India study finds 2024-03-22 [BBC]

Binding agreements: building worker safety and reducing risk 2024-03-21 [IndustriALL]

The ‘sum total’: Reimagining early childhood care and education through a gender perspective on the profession 2024-03-21 [Education International]

Unions, business and civil society call for action to strengthen NCPs for responsible business conduct 2024-03-21 [TUAC]

The concept of “quid-pro-quo sexual harassment” hides the coercive power of men and the systemic vulnerability women in insecure work 2024-03-20 [IUF Asia/Pacific]

WHO INB9 – PSI Joint Statement with Civil Society Allies 2024-03-20 [PSI]

Racial justice for democracy: International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination 2024-03-20 [ITUC]

Reuters Institute: Research shows women only make 24% of news top editors 2024-03-20 [IFJ]

Workers' voices in migration governance: Trade unions examine Global Compact 2024-03-20 [BWI]

100,000 workers have just pledged to BDS a US oil company complicit in Israel’s genocide 2024-03-20 [The Canary]

Sexual exploitation drives 37% rise in profits from forced labour, ILO says 2024-03-19 [The Guardian]

From Mass Suicides to Labor Exploitation: The Making of Apple’s iPhones in China 2024-03-19 [Dying for an iPhone]

Regional Women’s Networks: Strengthening Solidarity and Equality 2024-03-19 [Education International]

Annual profits from forced labour amount to US$ 236 billion, ILO report finds 2024-03-19 [ILO]

Workers' voices in migration governance: Trade unions examine Global Compact 2024-03-18 [BWI]

Global app-based workers union joins boycott Chevron-branded gas stations in solidarity with Palestine 2024-03-17 [Maktoob Media]

UN CSW68 – Global Feminist Rally For Palestine – Ceasefire Now!!! 2024-03-16 [PSI]

ITF message to Maersk: trade unions must have a seat at the table 2024-03-16 [ITF]

Charging seafarers for accommodation undermines international law 2024-03-16 [ITF]

Teachers: key in keeping boys engaged in school and learning 2024-03-16 [EI]

RadioLabour World Report - Unions celebrated at 2024 Oscars 2024-03-16 [RadioLabour]

Entertainment unions across the globe unite in solidarity with IATSE as contract talks begin with Hollywood producers 2024-03-14 [UNI Global Union]

OECD urged to ensure global long-term needs are not neglected 2024-03-14 [TUAC]

ILO to release new report on the economics of forced labour and illegal profits 2024-03-14 [ILO]

‘A fishing accident blinded me but I was forced to keep working’: abuses faced by workers who catch our fish 2024-03-14 [The Guardian]

Education unionists call for free quality public education to help end poverty for women and girls in all their diversity 2024-03-14 [EI]

Profits are high enough to absorb pay rises says OECD 2024-03-13 [TUAC]

This month in labour history

This month in labour history

14-03-1883 Karl Marx dies in London UK at age 64. [more]