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USA Education unions denounce Trump's attacks on students, teachers, schools, academic freedom, civil rights, public education, democracy, and even school lunches for vulnerable children [Education International] 13-02-2025
Turkey / Canada Telus – reinstate workers in Turkey, stop union busting [UNI Global Union] ActNOW! 13-02-2025
Turkey Interview with Kıvanç Eliaçık, Director of International Relations Department for DISK [LabourStart Podcasts] 11-02-2025
Bangladesh Police intervene to protect PepsiCo in rights violations in Bangladesh: getting product to market more important than workers’ human rights [IUF Asia/Pacific] 10-02-2025
Africa FIFPRO Africa launches pilot study mapping African football workload [FIFPRO] 09-02-2025
Global Garment Workers Share What It's Really Like to Make Your Clothes: ‘My Monthly Salary Is $114’ [Teen Vogue] 07-02-2025
USA 'It’s fascism, OK?' Federal worker union boss reveals why he’s suing agencies Musk took over [Alternet] 06-02-2025
Belarus / Myanmar Webinar next week: Trade union struggles in authoritarian regimes [Salidarnast] 06-02-2025
Morocco Workers strike nationwide against tycoon PM Akhennouch 'anti-worker' bill [The New Arab] 05-02-2025
USA / Global Migration is not a crime: BWI on the persecution of migrant workers and inhumane deportations at U.S. borders [BWI] 04-02-2025
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1913 United States of America 82-year-old labour activist Mother Jones was arrested in West Virginia for supporting a coal miners strike. Convicted in a military court she was sentenced to 20 years in prison. Pardoned after serving 85 days.
1939 Guyana Sugar workers on Plantation Leonora strike for half a day in a protest against the 11.5-hour work day and demand an extra hour's pay per day. The walkout spreads and within 2 days almost the workforce, 30% women, is out.[more]
1974 Martinique Groups of strikers force stores to respect the strike, they clash with the police. Many strikers are wounded. wounded.
1998 Sri Lanka After 10 days on strike 600,000 plantation workers win a wage increase and return to work.
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