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Updated: Wednesday 5 November 2025, 19:24:04
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Canada / Quebec The invisible cost of austerity [FIQ] 2025-11-05

Ukraine Ukraine Strengthens Efforts to Close the Gender Pay Gap [ILO] 2025-11-05

Australia Big Sister Mentor Lead – Welcome Gaynor [ETU] 2025-11-05

South Africa COSATU honours its women leaders ahead of its 40th anniversary [COSATU] 2025-11-04

USA ‘Record-Breaking’ Women’s Leadership Class ‘Marks Milestone’ For The IAM [WNY Labor Today] 2025-11-04

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UK / Scotland 'Toxic culture' dispute at Glasgow Rape Crisis Centre [The Herald] 2025-11-04

Senegal Stop the Digital War on Women Journalists: FAJ Urges Action to End Impunity in Africa [IFJ] 2025-11-03

Global We are all in for equality: women’s power at the heart of IndustriALL’s global movement [IndustriALL] 2025-11-03

UK / Scotland A manifesto for change: trade union women lead the fight for fairness [The Herald] 2025-11-03

Jordan 'Made to work like machines': Migrant workers speak out on abuse, exploitation, and oppression in Jordan's textiles industry [The New Arab] 2025-11-03

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Cyprus Women face higher in-work poverty risk, Eurostat data shows [MAIL] 2025-11-03

UK Headteachers’ union considers strikes after judge rejects case against Ofsted [The Guardian] 2025-11-03

Australia A decade after the Matildas’ stand, women’s football faces its next opportunity [PFA] 2025-11-02

Australia / South Australia Historic wage deal for 6000 public sector workers [UWU] 2025-11-02

Nepal Capacity-Building Training for Women Workers in the Garbage Cleaning Sector [GEFONT] 2025-11-02

Nepal HUN Celebrates International Domestic Workers’ Day [GEFONT] 2025-11-02

Nepal HUN Honors Its Founding President [GEFONT] 2025-11-02

USA SNAP Axe Could Fall on Grocery Shoppers and Workers Alike [Labour Notes] 2025-11-01

Kenya Women trade unionists urged to push for end of child-labour in Kenya’s tea, coffee sectors [Sacco Review] 2025-11-01

UK / Scotland STUC Women’s Conference 2025: Usdaw seeks improved flexible working, parental leave and pay rights [IER] 2025-11-01

India / Kerala Women’s alliance condemns brutality against ASHA workers, calls for fair action [Counterview] 2025-11-01

Bangladesh The hidden workforce: Inside Dhaka’s domestic work economy [The Daily Star] 2025-11-01

New Zealand Nurses, midwives and health care assistants to take further industrial action over safe staffing [RNZ] 2025-10-31

Nepal Celebrating Care: Recognizing and honouring support and care providers [ILO] 2025-10-31

Global Día Internacional de los Cuidados y el Apoyo: el cuidado es un derecho humano [CSI] 2025-10-31

Australia / Victoria Women paid thousands less per year than men in Victoria's forest firefighting ranks [ABC] 2025-10-31

Australia Sex workers condemn raids, deportations of migrant workers [Green Left Weekly] 2025-10-31

UK NHS pay figure is an insult to staff [UNISON] 2025-10-31

Tunisia A trade union to defend the rights of Tunisia’s women farm labourers [Equal Times] 2025-10-31

Kenya Atwoli: Cotu committed to combating child labour, empowering women in union leadership [The Star] 2025-10-31

Bangladesh Bleeding in silence: Unheard struggles of Bangladesh's women tea workers [The Daily Star] 2025-10-31

UK ‘Heroes in Prison’ – Activists imprison Westminster statues as ‘terrorists’ to highlight crackdown on protest [Greenpeace] 2025-10-30

Australia Coalition must stop playing politics with women’s grief [ACTU] 2025-10-30

Australia Catley wins back-to-back Austraffic PFA Women’s Footballer of the Year [PFA] 2025-10-30

Canada / Nova Scotia NS Federation of Labour elects first female president and treasurer [The Hawk] 2025-10-30

UK / Scotland West Dunbartonshire Council 'failing women workers'- union [The Post] 2025-10-30

USA / Missouri CBTU honors Missouri AFL-CIO’s Merri Berry, AFGE’s Everett Kelley at 37th Annual Ernest and De Verne Calloway Awards [The Labor Tribune] 2025-10-30

India / Haryana University staff force women to show period proof, photograph pads for evidence [Today] 2025-10-30

Australia / Victoria Bold move to end Non-Disclosure Agreements that silence survivor [Women's Agenda] 2025-10-30

Australia / New South Wales 'All-consuming': Woonona nurse resigns as the head of state's biggest union [The Mercury] 2025-10-30

Canada / Ontario Union report highlights lack of childcare as a major barrier to entering Ontario’s skilled trades [OCN] 2025-10-30

Finland Health Care Assistants - The Invisible Pillars of Social and Welfare Sectors [PSI] 2025-10-29

Canada Violence against health care workers is a crisis that can’t go on unchecked [CFNU] 2025-10-29

Canada / Nova Scotia Historic Moment For The Nova Scotia Federation of Labour [NSFL] 2025-10-29

Australia ‘Truly sickening’: Union, advocates demand action on childcare governance failures [HR Leader] 2025-10-29

Australia Mary Fowler voted by peers as Austraffic PFA Young Women’s Footballer of the Year for record third time [PFA] 2025-10-29

Australia / Victoria Push for better forest firefighter pay, vehicles [Farmer News] 2025-10-28

New Zealand Health workers 'need pay parity' as union talks due to resume [BBC] 2025-10-28

Australia / New South Wales State government investing millions in bathroom and break facilities for bus drivers after horror working conditions exposed [7 News] 2025-10-28

Bangladesh Workers Win Ratification of Three Crucial ILO Conventions in Bangladesh [PSI] 2025-10-28

Denmark Menopause should not cost women their jobs [Nordia Labour Journal] 2025-10-28

Global International Day for Care and Support: Care is a human right [ITUC] 2025-10-28

Iceland One in three Icelandic women has experienced sexual harassment at work [Nordia Labour Journal] 2025-10-28

USA Over 70 Legislators Demand League Bargain 'In Good Faith' with Players Union [BET] 2025-10-28

Europe What is unpaid care work and how does it power the economy? [EPSU] 2025-10-28

UK 'Out of touch' peers warned against blocking workers rights for millions [Mirror] 2025-10-27

UK Ministers must return to core Labour principles of equality, improving lives and boosting public services [UNISON] 2025-10-27

UK Remembering the heroes of the Women’s Trade Union League [The Morning Star] 2025-10-27

Bangladesh Labour law overhauled: 20 workers can now form trade union, workers can't be blacklisted [The Standard] 2025-10-27

India / Karnataka CITU victory: Monthly menstrual leave for women workers announced [IBC] 2025-10-27

Pakistan Tolerated inequality [The News] 2025-10-26

Global A Seat at the United Nations Table: Shirley Pryce Brings Domestic Workers’ Voices to UN-Habitat [IDWF] 2025-10-26

Canada / USA New USW leaders prepare to take office [USW] 2025-10-25

Indonesia Does Indonesia’s National Roadmap and Strategy for care workers offer a fast track to decent work or will it lead to a dead end? [Equal Times] 2025-10-24

UK Iron Ladies review – inspiring account of the women on the miners’ strike picket lines [The Guardian] 2025-10-24

UK / England Reviving the Lions in Coventry: Louise Townsend on bringing the Grunwick Strike back to the stage [The World] 2025-10-24

USA As heat gets more extreme, pregnant farmworkers are increasingly at risk [The Union-Bulletin] 2025-10-24

Georgia / Belarus Sakharov Prize awarded to jailed journalists in Belarus and Georgia [IFJ] 2025-10-23

Australia $930 per week pay cut warning for Aussie workers amid Fair Work gender-based review [Yahoo] 2025-10-23

Australia ASU to rally over proposal that would see pay ‘slashed’ by up to $930 per week [News.com.au] 2025-10-23

Bangladesh Key ILO Conventions on safety and gender equality ratified following long union campaign [IndustriALL] 2025-10-23

UK / Ireland / Northern Ireland ‘Belfast at night isn’t exactly the safest’ – Late night buses could put bar staff in danger, warns hospitality union [The Irish News] 2025-10-23

Canada / Nova Scotia Shelburne long term care workers vote to strike [CUPE] 2025-10-22

Australia / New South Wales ‘Paves the way for workers’: Ruling against major Aussie bank that banned mum WFH hailed by Finance Sector Union [Sky] 2025-10-22

India We need a law to protect domestic workers [The Hindu] 2025-10-22

Nigeria Raising the Bar: How Lagos DSVA is Redefining the Fight Against Gender-based Violence [This Day] 2025-10-22

Global ITF General Secretary Stephen Cotton Accused of Sexual Harassment [Ships and Ports] 2025-10-22

Europe EU Roadmap for Women’s Rights: unions push for actions, not words [ETUC] 2025-10-20

UK Sainsbury's accused of hypocrisy: Failing menopausal workers while cynically promoting menopause products [Unite] 2025-10-20

UK Cardiff council facing epidemic of workplace sexual harassment [Unite] 2025-10-20

Canada / New Brunswick Pay equity legislation covering private sector, care sector coming next year: Holt [The NB Media Co-op] 2025-10-19

Colombia The women looking after the elderly in Colombia also need care [Equal Times] 2025-10-19

South Africa FEDUSA congratulates UASA on its new all-female leadership [FEDUSA] 2025-10-18

North Macedonia Women trade union leaders call for concrete action on ILO C190 implementation [BWI] 2025-10-18

New Zealand Paid firefighters set to go on strike on Friday [RNZ] 2025-10-17

UK Union Leader Accused of Harassment and Heading Up ‘Sexist Boys Club’ [Novara] 2025-10-16

India / Karnataka Behind Bengaluru’s seams: Women power city’s global garment hubs [The Mirror] 2025-10-16

UK Sex Workers Unite and Take Over [The Tribune] 2025-10-16

UK / Global RMT calls for immediate suspension of ITF general secretary [RMT] 2025-10-16

New Zealand New report finds broken aged care sector harming our elderly [NZNO] 2025-10-15

USA / Louisiana Tensions flare at Baton Rouge bus agency as ex-driver raises sexual harassment allegations [The Advocate] 2025-10-15

Georgia Domestic workers form first-ever union to fight for labour rights [Georgia Today] 2025-10-15

Bangladesh Textile factories turn to smart tech to monitor worker output [Context] 2025-10-15

Bangladesh Textile factories turn to smart tech to monitor worker output [Context] 2025-10-15

New Zealand Pasifika 'working for free' due to unfair pay gap: Calls for action amid legal changes [RNZ] 2025-10-15

India AIDWA demands disbursal of MGNREGP wages arrears [The Hindu] 2025-10-15

Australia Reforms urgently needed to boost women’s super balances [IEU] 2025-10-14

UK / England City's equal pay dispute with female staff settled [BBC] 2025-10-14

UK / England Equal pay victory for women at Birmingham City Council [UNISON] 2025-10-14

Croatia / Slovenia Sexual harassment still perceived as “normal and socially acceptable” behaviour [IFJ] 2025-10-14