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Swiss health workers rally in Bern to protest staff shortages

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Swiss health workers rally in Bern to protest staff shortages [UNI Global Union] 28-11-2025


Public broadcaster SBC to cut 900 jobs [EFJ] 26-11-2025


BWI supports thousands of protesting construction workers [BWI] 10-11-2025


/ Europe Nestlé Waters workers demonstrate in Vevey: Our future is not for sale! [IUF] 29-09-2025


Article 47 of the Banking Act must be amended to include strong public interest protections [EFJ] 07-07-2025



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Swiss health workers rally in Bern to protest staff shortages 2025-11-28 [UNI Global Union]

Public broadcaster SBC to cut 900 jobs 2025-11-26 [EFJ]

BWI supports thousands of protesting construction workers 2025-11-10 [BWI]

Europe Nestlé Waters workers demonstrate in Vevey: Our future is not for sale! 2025-09-29 [IUF]

Article 47 of the Banking Act must be amended to include strong public interest protections 2025-07-07 [EFJ]

Switzerland Solidarity rally with Ukrainian trade unions 2025-06-11 [BWI]

Women's pay report: large companies disregard equal pay 2025-06-10 [Blue News]

Switzerland IndustriALL engages investors to hold Glencore accountable for ESG impacts 2025-05-26 [IndustriALL]

Legal challenge against Five Guys for failing to stop sexual harassment 2025-03-07 [IUF]

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

Switzerland No relief for dismissed Rieter India workers yet 2025-02-06 [IndustriALL]

Europe Trade unions unhappy with new Swiss-EU agreement 2025-01-06 [SWI]

Switzerland Thai employer continues to violate workers’ rights under Swiss programme 2024-10-11 [IndustriALL]

Switzerland Besa Mahmuti, the only Albanian working in the Public Transport Union in Switzerland: We must show how hardworking and honest we are 2024-10-10 [Telegrafi]

People of the Union: Joao Paiva 2024-08-18 [FIFPRO]

France French investigative journalist silenced by justice 2024-08-09 [EFJ]

Pensions in Switzerland: how a rise was won 2024-07-03 [Social Europe]

Billionaire family get prison in Switzerland for exploiting domestic workers 2024-06-25 [Stuff]

India Billionaire Hindujas sentenced to jail for exploiting Indian workers 2024-06-24 [TNM]

Switzerland Britain’s richest family Hindujas ‘spent more on dog than they paid servant’ 2024-06-19 [Independent]

Europe Interview with Giorgio Tuti: “Europe Needs to Invest In Its Railway System” 2024-05-17 [ETF]

Giorgio Fonio: a Ticinese trade unionist in the Swiss parliament 2024-03-24 [SwissInfo]

Country accepts historic social solidarity initiative 2024-03-07 [IndustriALL]

Swiss vote to give themselves a bigger pension 2024-03-04 [BBC]

Switzerland Ten years of ‘labour dialogue’ with the Switzerland-China Free Trade Agreement: review and outlook 2024-03-02 [GLC]

Switzerland A Joint Letter From The Swiss Trade Union Federation SGB USS And Solifonds Called The Israeli Government To Allow Palestinian Workers To Go Back To Their Work Places In Israel 2023-12-31 [MAAN Workers Association]

Switzerland ILO refers dispute on the right to strike to the International Court of Justice 2023-11-13 [ILO]

UNIA pushes for decent pensions, better wages and reduced working hours 2023-11-06 [BWI]

Better work conditions demanded to attract more workers for just transition 2023-10-11 [BWI]

Workers hit the streets for climate justice 2023-10-05 [BWI]

When Diplomats Are Traffickers, Migrant Domestic Workers Are Enslaved 2023-09-01 [Pulitzer Centre]

Towards climate justice: Swiss citizens approve net zero climate law 2023-06-24 [BWI]

Switzerland BWI pushes for labour rights, gender equality and democracy inside and outside ILC 2023-06-22 [BWI]

Hundreds of thousands of women strike for gender equality 2023-06-21 [UNI Global Union]

Women take to streets to fight inequality and sexism 2023-06-14 [SwissInfo]

IFJ Gender Council supports feminist strike 2023-06-14 [IFJ]

Women journalists on strike for better working conditions 2023-06-14 [IFJ]

Unions demand hard line with EU over wages 2023-06-03 [SwissInfo]

Switzerland Профсоюзы обеспокоены предложением Glencore о поглощении Teck Resources 2023-05-24 [IndustriALL]

Turkey Journalist Pehiran Kaya’s asylum request must be granted 2023-05-23 [EFJ]

Unions blast low wages for ‘women’s jobs’ 2023-05-16 [SwissInfo]

40% of workers in Switzerland feel exhausted 2023-05-12 [SwissInfo]

Why do the Swiss strike less than other Europeans? 2023-04-13 [The Local]

Credit Suisse workers need a rescue package 2023-03-30 [UNI Global Union]

Google workers stage walkout as job cuts hit Europe 2023-03-16 [O Canada]

BWI close ranks with striking masons 2022-11-09 [BWI]

‘Severely disrupted’: Geneva’s Léman Express hit by strike action 2022-10-18 [The Local]

Women At The Heart Of Swiss Pension Reform Vote 2022-09-22 [Barron's]

Fast food workers unite in Geneva for occupational health and safety 2022-06-11 [IUF]

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This month in labour history

9-11-1932 During a union-organised demonstration by 5,000 people in Geneva against fascism, the troops fired on the crowd, killing 13 people and injuring 65. [more]

12-11-1918 250,000 workers take part in a two-day general strike. 3 strikers were killed in an incident in Granges on November 14, leading to the indictment of 3,500 strikers and supporters and the conviction of 147 of them. [more]