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Canada / Palestine PBI-Canada congratulates the Canadian Labour Congress on resolution supporting arms embargo in solidarity with Palestine [PBI] 15-05-2026
Ukraine ILO supports Ukrainian trade unions in strengthening worker resilience amid war [ILO] 14-05-2026
Belgium Unions take to the streets in Brussels for public services emergency [EPSU] 13-05-2026
Global ILO Labor Treaty Should Protect All Gig Workers [Human Rights Watch] 13-05-2026
Bolivia Unions launch indefinite strike as protests escalate [UPI] 13-05-2026
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FECUT, the healthcare trade union in Peru, has been able to recruit almost 3,000 new member since 2024 as a result of a national organising drive following the participation of its leaders in the Organising for Power training programme, developed in partnership with PSI. (Photo: FECUT) Click here to read more labour news from Peru.Got a photo that should be here? Post it to our group on Flickr. To see an archive of all our recent photos, click here.
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Today in Labour History
1890 United Kingdom The biggest rally outside London to date for the 8-hour working day was held in Aberdeen, Scotland with 10,000 in attendance.
1946 United States of America The US govt seized the nation's railroads to stop a nationwide strike. Workers walked out anyway and only the President's threat to draft the strikers and call up the army to run the railroads forced them back to work.
1949 Italy Brick factory worker and former Resistance member, Maria Margotti, was killed by police. She was protesting against police violence against women on a picket line the previous day when she was machine-gunned.
1965 Bolivia In reaction to a general strike, the right-wing Bolivian military dictatorship declared a state of siege and passed laws dismantling labour unions and called up all Bolivians aged 19 to 50 into the service of the military.
1968 France Thousands of students in Paris marched for a second day in a row from the Sorbonne University to the Renault plant occupied by its workers to support them.
2010 China 1,900 workers at a Honda factory in Foshan, China, go on strike for equal pay with assembly plant workers.[more]
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