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National organising campaign adds nearly 3,000 new members in the health sector

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National organising campaign adds nearly 3,000 new members in the health sector [PSI] 08-05-2026


Complaint filed with the OECD highlights labour abuses by Falabella and Ripley [UNI Global Union] 17-03-2026


Travel disruptions expected nationwide in Peru on March 12 due to transport union strike. [SafeAbroad] 12-03-2026


Women workers’ leadership: the story of SineSantanderbank in Peru [UNI Global Union] 11-03-2026


Artesco–Staedtler Peru: Union Demands Respect and Social Dialogue [BWI] 03-03-2026



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National organising campaign adds nearly 3,000 new members in the health sector 2026-05-08 [PSI]

Complaint filed with the OECD highlights labour abuses by Falabella and Ripley 2026-03-17 [UNI Global Union]

Travel disruptions expected nationwide in Peru on March 12 due to transport union strike. 2026-03-12 [SafeAbroad]

Women workers’ leadership: the story of SineSantanderbank in Peru 2026-03-11 [UNI Global Union]

Artesco–Staedtler Peru: Union Demands Respect and Social Dialogue 2026-03-03 [BWI]

Historic Agreement: Six democratic conditions to break with continuity 2026-02-06 [Pressenza]

State oil firm workers kick off three-day strike over privatization plan 2026-01-20 [Reuters]

Petroperu: Workers Launch 72-Hour Strike Against Privatization 2026-01-20 [Energy News Bulletin]

Transport workers announce strike to protest violence 2026-01-14 [UPI]

Transport unions in Peru lead strike over rising cases of extortion 2025-10-07 [CP]

SUTEP’s Hunger strike For more info 2025-07-31 [CoDev]

PSI affiliate in Peru calls national strike in defense of public health and labor rights 2025-07-21 [PSI]

UNI Americas supports the indefinite national strike called by Fed-Cut 2025-07-16 [UNI Global Union]

'This is seriously affecting us and our families' – Peruvian Liga 2 players speak out 2025-06-29 [FIFPRO]

UNI Global Union deeply concerned over sale of Peru’s Telefonica operation 2025-04-17 [UNI Global Union]

Lima grinds to a halt as Peru's transit workers demand action against crime surge 2025-04-11 [Reuters]

Eight Years Without Profit Sharing: Casino Fiesta Workers Demand Labour Justice with Protest 2025-04-08 [UNI Global Union]

More protection, less inequality: The urgent need for a gender perspective in occupational safety and health 2025-03-25 [ilo.org]

Switzerland Holcim workers on strike for over 70 days in Peru 2025-02-24 [IndustriALL]

Victory for H&M workers 2025-02-20 [UNI Global Union]

New Spotlight podcast: Thorsten Raue interviews Fedor Romero, an air traffic controller from Peru 2025-01-19 [IFATCA]

Peru TUAC welcomes new affiliates from Costa Rica and Peru at 155th Plenary 2024-12-23 [TUAC]

New study: More than half of service workers in Peru faced violence from customers 2024-11-07 [UNI Global Union]

National strike rejects coup regime, demands action against organised crime 2024-10-29 [GLW]

Peru joining OECD must lead to improvements for workers 2024-10-17 [TUAC]

Smurfit Kappa workers in Peru strike for a living wage 2024-09-16 [IndustriALL]

Forte Assa Abloy workers demand union rights 2024-08-18 [IndustriALL]

Another Domestic Worker Victim of Trafficking and Forced Labor in Peru It’s Time to Say ENOUGH! 2024-08-02 [IDWF]

Solidarity with National Strike for Democracy and Labour Rights 2024-07-20 [ITUC]

Peru Indonesia and Peru among countries that must strengthen and enforce workers’ rights 2024-07-01 [TUAC]

SAFAP introduces Red Button app for more than 900 footballers 2024-01-28 [FIFPRO]

Attempts to Discredit Air Traffic Controllers in Lima, Peru is Unjust and Unsafe 2024-01-10 [IFATCA]

Union strike underway at MMG’s major Peruvian copper mine 2023-11-29 [Mgglehead]

Union set to strike at Peru's Las Bambas copper mine next week -leader 2023-11-21 [Saltwire]

Health workers announce indefinite national strike starting Oct. 10 2023-10-08 [PSI]

Hialpesa workers celebrate reinstatement of union leaders 2023-09-13 [IndustriALL]

Peru-based Laboratorios SMA SAC signs first collective bargaining agreement with union 2023-08-25 [IndustriALL]

India CITU extends solidarity to CGTP in their struggle to reinstatement former President Pedro Castillo 2023-08-19 [CITU]

UNI presents Peruvian Congress with its groundbreaking survey of cleaners 2023-07-23 [UNI]

Workers Call a Strike Against Boluarte in Puno 2023-05-31 [teleSUR]

Union at Peru�s Antapaccay Mining Company rejects change to shift system 2023-05-23 [IndustriALL]

Fire deep in gold mine in southern Peru kills 27 workers 2023-05-08 [The Union-Tribune]

Laboratorios SMA SAC in Peru intensifies union busting 2023-03-23 [IndustriALL]

'Women leadership starts with families encouraging girls to become leaders' 2023-03-09 [IFJ]

Workers’ protests continue to rage 2023-03-02 [BWI]

Unions take part in national strike against Peru’s government 2023-02-21 [IndustriALL]

Unions demand an end to lethal repression against protesters 2023-02-02 [ITUC]

PSI expresses its rejection of the excessive violence in the protests in Peru 2023-01-18 [PSI]

The WFTU condemns the authoritarian and anti-democratic attack Peruvian regime against civil and trade union freedoms 2023-01-17 [WFTU]

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This month in labour history

27-05-1919 Students and workers join in a general strike in the city of San Marcos, for modernisation of the university system. [more]

27-05-1919 Workers in Lima declared a general strike, against the high cost of living. The government eventually crushed the strike by killing at least 100 and wounding and jailing hundreds more. [more]