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Norway Abid Raja vil begrave stridsøksen med LO [VG] 2025-11-20

Norway / Global Is this the Nobel Prize for the international trade union movement? [LabourStart Podcasts] 2025-11-20

USA Starbucks workers on national strike [IUF] 2025-11-20

Norway Fellesforbundet forsvarer omstridt praksis for innmelding av innleide [VG] 2025-11-20

Norway Uber-sjåfører streiker: En taxi-kreft hvor det er umulig å overleve [NRK Vestland] 2025-11-20

Netherlands / Guatemala Pawel and Lesbia, sacked for their activism, need our solidarity [Solidarity - Eric Lee] ActNOW! 2025-11-19

Global Defending Trans People in the Workplace [PSI] 2025-11-19

Mexico / USA We Can’t Bridge the U.S.-Mexico Wage Gap Without Supporting Organizing in Mexico [Labour Notes] 2025-11-19

Norway / Europe Tollsjokk fra EU på jernlegeringer [NRK] 2025-11-18

Norway Regjeringen vil samle lønnsavtalene i staten. En part sier nei [Fri fagbevegelse] 2025-11-18

Today's news: 20.11.2025

Africa Workers risk being sidelined in AfCFTA, ITUC-Africa warns as 9-Nation review begins [Nigerian Tribune] 2025-11-19 1 more labour news stories from Africa today

Australia Forced to work public holidays? Check again [Australian Unions] 2025-11-20 13 more labour news stories from Australia today

Bangladesh Ctg Port transport workers block road protesting at extortion, assault [The New Age] 2025-11-20 3 more labour news stories from Bangladesh today

Belgium Everything we know about the three-day strike hitting Belgium next week [The Times] 2025-11-20

Botswana BOPEU ready to engage Govt over minimum wage [The Monitor] 2025-11-19

Canada / Alberta AFL stands in solidarity with AUPE [AFL] 2025-11-20 44 more labour news stories from Canada today

China Courts upholds seven-year sentence for journalist [IFJ] 2025-11-19

Europe Pay inequality means women 'work for free' until year's end, European Commission says [Euronews] 2025-11-20 14 more labour news stories from Europe today

Georgia Appeal confirms two-year sentence for Sakharov Prize Laureate [IFJ] 2025-11-20 1 more labour news stories from Georgia today

Ghana Crisis at Prestea: Ex-mine workers demand immediate exit of Heath Goldfields, citing ‘financial incompetence’ [My Joy] 2025-11-20

Global TUAC challenges regulatory policy bias that favours business costs over worker protections [TUAC] 2025-11-20 2 more labour news stories from Global today

Greece 40,000 Greek workers & youth march to commemorate Athens Polytechnic Uprising [The News Line] 2025-11-20

India / Karnataka Resident welfare associations, activists raise red flags over draft domestic workers Bill in Karnataka [The Times] 2025-11-19 1 more labour news stories from India today

Iran Key oil workers’ protests over the past 20 days • [Free Them Now (FTN)] 2025-11-20

Ireland Moves to protect the integrity of pension auto-enrolment welcome [ICTU] 2025-11-19 1 more labour news stories from Ireland today

Israel A clean break: New order secures better pay for contracted cleaning and security workers [Histadrut] 2025-11-19

Italy Former Ilva, occupied plant and procession in Genoa. Trade unions: 'One thousand jobs at risk' [Il Sole] 2025-11-19 1 more labour news stories from Italy today

Jamaica Call to solidarity with Jamaican teachers impacted by Hurricane Melissa [Education International] 2025-11-20

Kenya Over 2,000 EPZ workers return to work after union dispute [The Standard] 2025-11-19

Korea (South) Nonregular school workers launch relay strike nationwide [JoongAng Daily] 2025-11-20 5 more labour news stories from Korea (South) today

Kosovo Still without salaries, SPERTK: General strike at RTK begins on Monday [Telegrafi] 2025-11-19

Lesotho Textile jobs bloodbath looms [Lesotho Times] 2025-11-20

Luxembourg Portuguese women in this country have been working ‘for free’ since this day: find out what happened [Life in Northern BC] 2025-11-19

Malaysia PM raises concerns for journalists’ welfare and wages [IFJ] 2025-11-20

New Zealand Fast track legislation puts a bulldozer through education [NZEI-te Riu Roa] 2025-11-20 8 more labour news stories from New Zealand today

Nigeria Health workers’ strike won’t end until FG reviews CONHESS — Ogbuani [The Guardian] 2025-11-20 4 more labour news stories from Nigeria today

Pacific / Samoa PINA statement on the Government of Samoa's ban of the Samoa Observer [PNG Post Courier] 2025-11-19

Palestine Dozens of Gaza medical workers are still disappeared in Israeli detention [The Intercept] 2025-11-20

Papua New Guinea Workers plead for help [The National] 2025-11-20

Portugal There is a lot of “hard rock” to overcome between the Government and UGT – which has more time to analyze proposals [LNG] 2025-11-20 8 more labour news stories from Portugal today

Samoa Prime Minister bans Samoa Observer for “unfair reporting” [IFJ] 2025-11-20 1 more labour news stories from Samoa today

South Africa / Western Cape 'I felt humiliated': officer resigns after 'shameful' period incident on duty [The Weekend Argus] 2025-11-20 9 more labour news stories from South Africa today

Togo Togo Set to Adopt New Labour Agreement After Employers, Unions Strike Deal [Togo First] 2025-11-19

Trinidad and Tobago PSA agitated ahead of CPO meeting: Ten per cent or nothing [Newsday] 2025-11-20

UK / England Hundreds of women launch equal pay claim against Barnet Council [IER] 2025-11-20 14 more labour news stories from UK today

USA Workers at 30 more stores join nationwide Starbucks workers' strike [AP] 2025-11-20 17 more labour news stories from USA today