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/ Global Free Lee Cheuk-yan now! Support the online campaign [LabourStart]  ActNOW!  11-09-2026


/ Global Strengthening international trade union cooperation [IUF] 09-09-2026


/ Global Global unions unite on KONE-TK Elevator: workers demand guarantees [IndustriALL] 09-09-2026


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/ Global This deal has cut violence against women on factory floors, but many clothing brands won’t sign on. [IJB] 04-09-2026



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Global Free Lee Cheuk-yan now! Support the online campaign  ActNOW!  2026-09-11 [LabourStart]

Get to know EI's Deputy General Secretary, Cassandra Hallett 2026-09-10 [Education International]

Global ILO Japan Director Highlights Worker Cooperative Model in Elderly Care Visit For more info 2026-09-10 [The Labour Pulse]

Global National Mental Well-being Programme by AIRF, INDIA Strengthens Support for Indian Railway Workers For more info 2026-09-09 [AIRF, INDIA]

Global Global unions unite on KONE-TK Elevator: workers demand guarantees 2026-09-09 [IndustriALL]

New PISA report reveals decline in student performance amid chronic teacher shortage and shrinking attention spans 2026-09-09 [Education International]

Global Strengthening international trade union cooperation 2026-09-09 [IUF]

Global UN Renews Call to End Retaliation Against Workers and Unions For more info 2026-09-08 [The Labour Pulse]

This is why LabourStart exists 2026-09-08 [Labour News Network]

MFRR Monitoring Briefing: 736 press freedom violations in the first six months of 2026 2026-09-07 [EFJ]

Pacific ILO: Air Pollution Kills Up to 860,000 Outdoor Workers Yearly For more info 2026-09-07 [The Labour Pulse]

Tesla and the Labor Union Battles: The UAW Organizing Drive, Nordic Strike Actions, and IG Metall Clashes 2026-09-04 [Streamline]

Global This deal has cut violence against women on factory floors, but many clothing brands won’t sign on. 2026-09-04 [IJB]

Global ITUC Places US on Workers' Rights Watchlist for First Time For more info 2026-09-04 [The Labour pulse ]

Newsletter: The Utøya Global Young Workers’ Forum 2026-09-04 [BWI]

Interview with Sean Sweeney, coordinator of Trade Unions for Energy Democracy (TUED) 2026-09-03 [LabourStart Podcasts]

Global Union leaders sharpen research skills to fight privatisation and plan local Fightbacks 2026-09-03 [PSI]

  JOB   We’re hiring: PSI’s new vacancies call for changemakers to join a global movement that’s growing 2026-09-03 [PSI]

Shipbuilding and shipbreaking unions unite on global strategy 2026-09-03 [IndustriALL]

I-BEST 2026: the education world comes together on 20 November 2026-09-03 [Education International]

IUF LGBTI Workers and Allies stand in global solidarity for LGBTI rights 2026-09-03 [IUF]

Diamonds are forever, what about the jobs? 2026-09-02 [IndustriALL]

Global Statement on the conviction of Lee Cheuk-yan 2026-09-02 [ITUC]

Almost half of the world’s farmers are poisoned by pesticides every year 2026-09-02 [Pesticides Action Network]

Global YKK workers denied fundamental rights 2026-08-27 [IndustriALL]

Global ILO Chief Urges Investment in People, Skills at ASEAN Labour Meeting For more info 2026-08-26 [The Labour Pulse]

Global ILO Warns Youth Unemployment Rising as AI Risk Grows For more info 2026-08-26 [The Labour Pulse]

Faber-Castell-Goa: Social dialogue protects jobs and production 2026-08-26 [BWI]

Global The solidarity that supports school communities in the aftermath of extreme climate events 2026-08-26 [Education International]

Global Steelworkers Humanity Fund Annual Report 2025 2026-08-25 [USW]

UNI and SDA in conversation on AI, part 3: Regulation, and who speaks for workers 2026-08-25 [UNI Global Union]

UNI and SDA in conversation on AI, part 2: Who gets the gains? 2026-08-25 [UNI Global Union]

Out in Front #1 2026-08-22 [PSI]

Fifteen Years of the UN Guiding Principles: Reflections From a Global Trade Unionist - BWI's Ambet Yuson 2026-08-22 [Shift]

Global Gas Shortage Forces Leave at 20 Factories in Mymensingh For more info 2026-08-21 [The Labour Pulse]

Making AI work for working people: UNI’s Christy Hoffman and SDA’s Gerard Dwyer in conversation, Part 1 2026-08-20 [UNI Global Union]

Europe New due diligence guidelines must put workers and trade unions at the heart 2026-08-20 [IndustriALL]

Public service unions demand radical reform of global tax rules at the UN 2026-08-20 [PSI]

Global Global Trade Unions Rally to Demand Release of Hong Kong Activist Lee Cheuk-yan 2026-08-20 [HKLRM]

  JOB   Marketing & Partnerships Coordinator 2026-08-19 [FIFPRO]

Measuring the impact: How FIFPRO research is examining heading and brain health 2026-08-19 [FIFPRO]

Global Dhaka Rally Demands Justice for Sitakunda Gas Deaths For more info 2026-08-19 [The Labour Pulse]

Global ILO, Mongolia Ministry Present Digital Employment Findings For more info 2026-08-17 [The Labour Pulse]

EPSU joins global fight for LGBT+ rights at WorldPride march 2026-08-13 [EPSU]

Global Peace is an active project: Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki 81 years on 2026-08-12 [UNI Global Union]

International Youth Day 2026: ITF Youth Call for Empowerment of Young Transport Workers 2026-08-12 [ITF]

We don’t stay young forever: why I keep making space for young workers 2026-08-12 [IndustriALL]

Palantir’s tiny 1.4% tax rate exposed: governments must stop awarding contracts to tax avoiders 2026-08-12 [PSI]

International Youth Day 2026: Shared challenges, global solidarity 2026-08-10 [ITUC]

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This month in labour history

13-09-1868 Closure of the 3rd IWA Congress in Brussels. Delegates say it "is not the daughter of a cult or a theory. It is the spontaneous product of the proletarian movement ”(text written by Karl Marx). [more]

14-09-1867 Volume 1 of Kapital is published. The product of a decade of research and redrafting, the book applies class analysis to capitalism focusing upon production processes, making the capitalist mode of production historically specific. [more]

17-09-1871 International Workingmen’s Association begins conference in London, though attendance disrupted by Franco-Prussian war. [more]

20-09-1910 International conference on unemployment at the Sorbonne in Paris. Specialists propose the creation of unemployment insurance in each industrial country. [more]

28-09-1864 First meeting between British unions and 5 French union representatives in London to discuss the creation of the International Workingmen’s Association. [more]

29-09-1863 At a meeting in Saint-Martin's Hall, the IWA adopted the French project which provided for the creation of European sections, under the direction of a Central Committee in London. [more]