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Updated: Sunday 22 June 2025, 17:40:33
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UK Mary Higgs: The undercover vagrant who exposed workhouse life [BBC] 2025-06-22

Global From shame to hope: Convention 190 as a shield against the violence and harassment suffered by female athletes [Equal Times] 2025-06-22

Indonesia Unseen, Now Heard - This powerful account by an Indonesian domestic worker and a leading advocate for domestic worker rights is a testament to a methodology rooted in dignity and agency [Asian Labour Review] 2025-06-22

Canada / Ontario 'WSIB went backwards' says union as strike enters second month [The Safety Mag] 2025-06-21

Canada / Alberta ATA urges government to reconsider COVID-19 policy [ATA] 2025-06-21

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Canada / Alberta COVID-19 vaccines must be free for front-line workers [AUPE] 2025-06-21

USA / New York NY Court Ruling Will Force Retired Workers Into Privatized, For-Profit Medicare Advantage Plans [Common Dreams] 2025-06-20

USA Mont. governor vetoes bill providing PTSD workers’ comp coverage for first responders [EMS1] 2025-06-20

USA / New Mexico Gaslit: CWA Members Fight for a Safe Workplace [CWA] 2025-06-20

India ‘Anti-worker move to downsize...’: TCS policy to cap bench time, 225 mandatory billing days slammed by IT union [The Times] 2025-06-20

Australia Pike River and two women's 15-year fight for justice and accountability [Green Left Weekly] 2025-06-20

Australia / New South Wales Unions, parties continue to press NSW Labor over workers’ compensation [Green Left Weekly] 2025-06-20

Canada / Ontario Sudbury Steelworkers call for fair deal for WSIB employees [USW] 2025-06-20

Fiji Women in media (WIM) conference-day 2 'real power brokers urged to break silence on violence [Fiji Times] 2025-06-19

Europe Every day is the longest day for drivers: ETF and ITF mark Drivers’ Fatigue Action Day on 21 June [ETF] 2025-06-19

South Africa Survivor tells how trapped miners ate human flesh and cockroaches to survive [GroundUp] 2025-06-18

UK Labour failed workers on Tory Covid fraud, BFAWU president says [Morning Star] 2025-06-18

USA More employers are sending workers shopping for their own health coverage [AP] 2025-06-18

USA / Massachusetts Hampden County: Chicopee city workers seeking better pay and health benefits [WWLP 22 News] 2025-06-18

Global ILO adopts landmark convention on biological hazards to protect workers worldwide [BWI] 2025-06-17

USA 'No safe spaces': ICE raids will target farms and hotels despite Trump's vow [RawStory] 2025-06-17

USA Will Trump End the First Federal Heat Protections for Workers? [NYTimes] 2025-06-16

Australia / Queensland ITF Launches Fourth Week of Action Across Queensland Ports [MUA] 2025-06-16

UK Bakers' union rejects new nuclear reactors, calls for socialist Green New Deal [Morning Star] 2025-06-16

UK Bakers' union vows to campaign for four-day working week [Morning Star] 2025-06-16

UK Protecting the environment can’t be done on the cheap [UNISON] 2025-06-15

USA Workers Can’t Wait for Protections from Heat [Nat'l Emp Law Project] 2025-06-14

India / Maharashtra Outrage as sugar cane workers in India still being ‘pushed’ into having hysterectomies [The Guardian] 2025-06-14

USA Workers Need Protection from Deadly Heat [NRDC] 2025-06-14

USA Healthcare Workers Speak Out and Demand an Immediate End to NewYork-Presbyterian’s Cuts to Staffing [NYC CLC] 2025-06-14

Canada Miners' Memorial Day: Advocates look back to impact of William Davis' workplace death [The Safety Mag] 2025-06-14

UK Jail negligent bosses and impose unlimited fines on unsafe-cladding firms, report says [The Guardian] 2025-06-14

UK Thousands turn out for firefighter Jennie Logan's funeral procession [BBC] 2025-06-14

UK / Global BALPA response to Air India plane crash [BALPA] 2025-06-13

Canada / Ontario WSIB strike hits three weeks as Management and the Ford Government fail to act on mounting crisis [CUPE] 2025-06-13

Canada Union and environmental non-profit launch lawsuit against Health Canada [rabble] 2025-06-13

Australia Health Union Pushes For 12 Days Of Reproductive Leave To Become Minimum Standard [LiSTNR] 2025-06-13

Australia / Queensland SDA meets with Claudia Watt & Premier Crisafulli [SDA] 2025-06-13

India / Global / Gujarat Global Pilots on Air India Flight 171 [IFALPA] 2025-06-13

USA / Washington ‘IAM Max’: Machinists Rally for Member Detained by ICE [Labor Notes] 2025-06-13

USA / Washington ‘IAM Max’: Machinists Rally for Member Detained by ICE [Labor Notes] 2025-06-13

Turkey At least 177 workers die in workplace accidents in Türkiye in May 2025 [Turkiya Today] 2025-06-13

India / Tamil Nadu Conduct survey on child domestic workers in the State, say rights activists [The Hindu] 2025-06-13

India / Global Outrage as sugar cane workers in India still being ‘pushed’ into having hysterectomies [The Guardian] 2025-06-12

USA / California LA Rally To Free David Huerta & End ICE Raids: Time For Workers Party & Political Strike [LVP] For more info 2025-06-12

India / Andhra Pradesh Two workers died and one is in critical condition after inhaling toxic fumes [Deccan Chronicle] 2025-06-12

India / Odisha Workers protest in front of ESIC [Medicaldialogues] 2025-06-12

USA / California ICE agents chase after farmworkers as they flee fields during raid in Southern CA [ABC] 2025-06-12

UK Sanitary win welcomed for female seafarers under MLC [Nautilus] 2025-06-12

UK / Global Sanitary win welcomed for female seafarers under MLC [Nautilus] 2025-06-12

UK / Northern Ireland Economy Minister Caoimhe Archibald to address launch of Unite ‘Extreme Weather’ demands at Stormont [Unite] 2025-06-12

Zimbabwe 4,912 injuries, 76 fatalities recorded in workplaces in 2024 [New Zimbabwe] 2025-06-11

South Africa Teacher unions raise alarm over burnout and mental health crisis [The Mercury] 2025-06-11

South Africa NAPTOSA denounces assault against teachers [Voice of the Cape] 2025-06-11

USA Unions Demand ICE Out Of California & Free CA SEIU Press David Huerta! SF Trade Unions Rally In San Francisco [LVPSF] For more info 2025-06-11

USA / California ICE agents chase after farmworkers as they flee fields during latest raid in Ventura County [ABC] 2025-06-11

USA Trump’s crusade against health and safety regulations endangers workers, hobbles the environmental justice movement, and sets the stage for our next public health crisis [EPI] 2025-06-11

Global BWI Report 2025 Edition out now! Adapting to the Heat – Workers’ Protections Against Extreme Temperatures [BWI] 2025-06-10

Canada 'Sounding the alarm' — Farm workers union takes Health Canada to court over pesticide safety [The Star] 2025-06-10

Global Care work is in crisis because workers are denied their rights [Context] 2025-06-10

Morocco / Spain Vulnerable Moroccan Women Exploited in Spain, Then Expelled [Morocco World News] 2025-06-10

Australia / Victoria Yallourn incident a wake-up call for coal plant safety [MEU] 2025-06-10

UK ASLEF at TUC Disabled Workers' Conference 2025 [ASLEF] 2025-06-10

UK 'Momentous' Sizewell C decision vital for UK to hit net zero [GMB] 2025-06-10

UK 85 per cent of private hire drivers fear race riots will reoccur [GMB] 2025-06-10

UK Unite welcomes government announcement on Sizewell C and SMRs [Unite] 2025-06-10

UK Overworked NHS worker tells of becoming suicidal as GMB demands end to privatisation [Morning Star] 2025-06-10

UK Union membership soars in Reform controlled councils [Morning Star] 2025-06-10

UK Give new dads six weeks off work at nearly full pay, MPs say [BBC] 2025-06-10

Malta Guilty verdicts in Daphne Caruana Galizia case mark another step towards full justice [EFJ] 2025-06-09

Canada Union sues Health Canada over alleged failure to protect agriculture workers [CTV] 2025-06-09

USA / California SEIU president injured, arrested during ICE raid in DTLA [ABC] 2025-06-09

USA SEIU CA President David Huerta Injured, Detained at ICE Raid in Los Angeles [SEIU] 2025-06-09

Canada IAFF members recognized as champions of mental health [IAFF] 2025-06-08

Global Football v Homophobia's Jon Holmes: 'We need to recognise the rolling back of people's rights this Pride Month' [FIFPRO] 2025-06-08

Palestine At least 170 journalists and media workers killed in Gaza [IFJ] 2025-06-08

UK People who do one of seven jobs at risk of cancer - and could claim [Wales Online] 2025-06-08

USA / California SEIU says state president was detained, injured at ICE raid in Los Angeles [KCRA] 2025-06-07

India / Andhra Pradesh State government approves 10-hour daily workday; workers' unions protest [The Times] 2025-06-07

South Africa Miner killed at Carletonville mine, says Amcu [SowetanLIVE] 2025-06-06

UK Less than 4% of exploited care workers helped by UK government scheme [The Guardian] 2025-06-06

UK / Wales Ex-2 Sisters workers sue chicken plant over Covid outbreak [BBC] 2025-06-06

UK / Scotland More than two-fifths of Scotland's teachers work the equivalent of an extra day every week for free, says EIS [Morning Star] 2025-06-06

UK / Scotland Teachers demand action to tackle classroom misogyny [Morning Star] 2025-06-06

UK Far-right influencer Tommy Robinson opts for jury trial after denying harassing journalists [Morning Star] 2025-06-06

Europe Preventing and Managing Psychosocial Risks in Education: Highlights from the APRES COVID Training Seminar [ETUCE] 2025-06-06

Australia / New South Wales Controversial NSW Workers’ Compensation Bill Delayed [City Hub] 2025-06-06

India / Tamil Nadu Workers struggle for water and wage in Tamil Nadu’s spinning mills [The News Minute] 2025-06-06

USA / Oregon Garment workers confront Nike over wages [NW Labor Press] 2025-06-06

USA / Indonesia / Oregon Garment workers confront Nike over wages [NW Labor Press] 2025-06-06

UK Man sentenced for harassment of women journalists [NUJ] 2025-06-06

UK Reform attacks on council worker pensions 'cruel nonsense' [GMB] 2025-06-06

UK / Scotland Teachers urged to back strike over soaring workloads [Morning Star] 2025-06-06

UK Reducing working hours is the 'best bet' for workers’ health and increases productivity, says new study [Morning Star] 2025-06-06

Canada / British Columbia Crofton grieves death of mill worker [CHEK] 2025-06-06

USA / Uganda Aid workers say USAID cuts are putting the lives of children with HIV at risk [ABC] 2025-06-06

South Africa Zama zamas need state protection, not persecution [Elitsha] 2025-06-06

UK ‘We wanted to tell the wider story’: play highlights impact of ‘spycops’ scandal [The Guardian] 2025-06-05

South Africa / Western Cape NAPTOSA says report on assaults on teachers'may be the tip of the iceberg' [Eyewitness News] 2025-06-05

Canada Food workers union sues Health Canada over pesticide safety failures [UFCW Canada] 2025-06-05