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Türkiye Interview with Kivanc Eliacik, Turkish trade union activist [LabourStart Podcasts] 17-08-2026

Canada British Columbia The Odyssey: Amazon’s Desperate Fight to Avoid a Collective Agreement Continues [The Law of Work] 16-08-2026

USA Minnesota Federal Spies Hunt Minnesota Unions in Search of Conspiracy, But Find Solidarity [Labour Notes] 16-08-2026

Australia Interview with the ACTU's Sally McManus [LabourStart Podcasts] 14-08-2026

Sweden IF Metall ends industrial action against Tesla after almost three years [IndustriALL] 14-08-2026

Australia From Monday, food delivery workers will get minimum hourly pay. Here’s why it matters [The Conversation] 12-08-2026

Europe 'Reckless' 18,000 reduction in firefighters during worst year for wildfires [ETUC] 11-08-2026

Palestine Negotiating military checkpoints just to get to school: the daily struggle of a Palestinian teacher [EI] 09-08-2026

UK England Amazon workers in coventry: A case study for resisting digital surveillance [The Boar] 07-08-2026

Türkiye 86 Out of Every 100 Workers in Turkey Are Outside Trade Unions... And Women Are the Most Marginalized [Jinha] 07-08-2026

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1872 Belgium A large demonstration marches through the central region, 7,000 steelworkers celebrating the obtaining of the 10-hour day, the first achievement of their new union.

1909 United States of America IWW issues first edition of the “Little Red Song Book”.

1944 France 100% general strike. The National Council of Resistance decrees the national insurrection. Barricades are erected in the capital and many German columns, forced to fight, are crushed.

1989 Poland Solidarnosc activist Tadeusz Mazowiecki becomes the country's first non-Communist prime minister in 42 years.[more]

1998 Canada The McDonald's in Squamish, British Columbia is the first outlet of the fast-food giant in North America to be unionized. The union fails to win a contract and in 1999 workers vote to decertify.[more]

2025 Canada More than 10,000 striking Air Canada flight attendants win a tentative agreement after defying a controversial federal government back to work order declaring their walkout unlawful. Unpaid work before and after flights was a major issue in the bargaining.[more]

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