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We stand united in the fight for better working conditions and trade union rights globally. 🌟 From defending workers' rights to shape a better future for all, our mission is clear: solidarity without borders.

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November 3, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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Då var @sverigesingenjorer.bsky.social på plats i Sydney 🇦🇺 för att delta på @industriall-union.org congress. Men först women’s conference med 350 fackligt aktiva kvinnor. Generalsekreterare Atle Høie och President Marie Nilsson inleder.
November 2, 2025 at 10:56 PM
IndustriALL & @ifmetall.bsky.social president Marie Nilsson opening last ExCo meeting before IndustriALL's 4th Congress.
"Solidarity can change lives, and every one of you - every colleague, every member, every action - makes a difference. Our strength lies in unity."
#IndustriALLSydney
November 3, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Africa’s rich reserves of cobalt, lithium & copper 🔋 can power a just, green future 🌍⚡ — but Chinese multinationals 🇨🇳 must respect labour & the planet 🌿. HRDD in mining ⛏️ is key to protect workers 🤝, ensure accountability 🏛️ & deliver real remedies.
Curbing violations by Chinese multinationals in African critical minerals boom
As the world races towards net zero, Africa’s vast reserves of cobalt, lithium and copper, which are vital for electric-vehicle batteries and renewable-energy technologies, have huge potential to indu...
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October 30, 2025 at 9:06 PM
1,000 unionists from across the world are soon meeting in Sydney🇦🇺 for IndustriALL's 4th Congress, themed Organizing for a just future.
“We can't wait for change to happen to us. We must organize, unite and lead the way," says IndustriALL GS Atle Høie.
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Organizing for a just future: workers must shape the change
In a few days, more than a thousand trade union delegates from every corner of the world will gather in Sydney for IndustriALL Global Union’s 4th Congress. Together, we will set our direction for the ...
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October 30, 2025 at 1:14 AM
This wasn’t about technical disputes — it was about the future of public safety 🛡️, good jobs 👷‍♀️👨‍🔧, and national technology 💡 built over decades by skilled workers 👥.
Trade unions from Spain and France show solidarity with Argentina’s nuclear workers
In an online meeting, organized by IndustriALL Global Union, trade union representatives from Spain and France met with their counterparts in Argentina to express solidarity amid concerns over proposa...
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October 28, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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☮️ Trade unions are mobilising for #peace.

🙌From 24–31 October, the global labour movement is taking action to mark the 80th anniversary of the UN and Disarmament Week.

🌍 Join us in calling for a world where we invest in people, not weapons.

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#TradeUnionsForPeace #ForDemocracy
October 24, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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@sbworkersunited.org members are amassing in front of stores with signs, borrowing the UPS Teamsters' slogan: “Just Practicing for a Just Contract.” 38 stores held practice pickets in early October, and 80 more stores plan to do so now, our editor Jenny Brown reports: labornotes.org/2025/10/stri...
Strike Captains and Practice Pickets: Starbucks Workers Aim to Bring a Contract Home
Unionized Starbucks workers are electing strike captains and getting customers to pledge they won't cross picket lines. They’re amassing in front of stores with picket signs, borrowing a slogan that U...
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October 26, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Big win for workers in Bangladesh 🇧🇩 as the country ratifies key @ilo.org Conventions on safety and gender equality following long union campaign 🙌
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Bangladesh ratifies key ILO Conventions on safety and gender equality following long union campaign
Bangladesh has become the first country in South Asia to ratify ILO Conventions 190, 155 and 187, addressing violence and harassment, occupational safety and health (OSH), and the promotional framewor...
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October 23, 2025 at 1:59 PM
IndustriALL is proud to be part of the drive for brand-supported collective bargaining agreements in Cambodia. No single brand or actor can address the systemic low wages in the garment industry.
A paradigm shift for higher wages ➡️ shorturl.at/So83v
#GarmentWorkersNeedUnions
October 21, 2025 at 11:23 AM
🔥 Two major garment factory fires in Dhaka and Chattogram have once again exposed the urgent need for stronger building and industrial safety in Bangladesh’s RMG sector.
“Workers’ safety must never fall outside regulation. Binding agreements like the Accord and RSC save lives.” ⚖️👷‍♀️👷‍♂️
Fire in Bangladesh’s garment factory claims 16 lives
Last week, Bangladesh witnessed two massive fire incidents in garment factories located in Dhaka and Chattogram, bringing the question of industrial safety, particularly building safety standards in r...
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October 20, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Nominations are open for Arthur Svensson Prize 2026, honouring those who bravely defend workers’ & union rights. Since 2010, the prize has recognized inspiring trade unionists from Khaing Zar Aung from Myanmar to Aliaksandr Yarashuk from Belarus.
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October 20, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Glen Mpufane, IndustriALL director for mining and diamonds, concurred: “Key players must form alliances over the critical raw materials supply chain to safeguard ⚖️ workers’ rights, hold 🏢 multinationals to account, and secure remedies for communities and 🧑🏾‍🏭 workers when violations occur.”
Taming the Congolese paradox in the battery supply chain
Trade unions and civil society organizations are joining forces to tame the Congolese paradox in the battery supply chain. The paradox is evident in the stark contradiction in the Democratic Republic ...
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October 15, 2025 at 2:39 PM
"While the invasion devastates lives 💔, Ukrainian workers give everything in mines ⛏️, energy plants ⚙️ and production facilities 🧰 to keep the country running 🇺🇦. We stand shoulder to shoulder 🤝 with the workers of Ukraine.,” said Kemal Özkan, IndustriALL assistant general secretary.
Ukrainian unions: workers can’t bear full safety burden
Ukrainian workers continue to show extraordinary resilience, keeping key sectors, of the country’s economy, running under full-scale occupation and invasion. Despite constant danger, destroyed workpla...
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October 14, 2025 at 2:43 PM
The Congress 🏛️ should help us build on this new momentum 🔄 and enable our affiliates to intensify their efforts 💪 to organize these workers, who, in certain countries 🌍, already represent an important minority, if not the majority 👥, of the workforce in the manufacturing industry 🏭
Sydney Congress: white-collar voices
Ahead of the IndustriALL upcoming Sydney Congress, 40 white-collar union delegates met online, 29 September 2025, to strategize on advancing their priorities in the debates.
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October 9, 2025 at 3:02 PM
“As trade unions ✊ we are demanding better health and safety 🦺 and decent working conditions 🛠️ to end the exploitation 🚫 of artisanal workers,” said Glen Mpufane 👔, IndustriALL director for mining and diamonds 💎.
DRC women artisanal miners face exploitation as unions seek better working conditions
On 7 October, in the noon of a blazing sun, women miners stand in nearly knee-high mud pools processing cobalt from nearby pits at Mutoshi, Kolwezi, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)’s Lua...
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October 9, 2025 at 2:02 PM
“There are so many labour rights violations ⚠️✊ in the lithium sector. Supply chain strategies 🔗 provide a major opportunity to improve respect for the rights of the workers 👷👩‍🏭 who mine these critical minerals ⛏️🔋.”
The other side of lithium: strengthening unions in the battery supply chain
Given the central role that lithium plays within the global energy agenda, a seminar was held in Antofagasta, Chile, on how to strengthen unions in the lithium sector. The event, which ran on 30 Septe...
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October 9, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Since its signing in 2015, the global agreement btwn H&M and IndustriALL has provided a platform for action to protect the right to unionize & bargain collectively, resulting in notable improvements in working conditions in the supply chain.
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H&M’s GFA marks decade of progress in workers’ rights: IndustriALL | Bizbd Review
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October 6, 2025 at 9:57 AM
IndustriALL Global Union, @ifmetall.bsky.social & H&M
Group, are celebrating 10 years of their flagship global framework agreement, a pioneering collaboration to strengthen workers’ rights & social dialogue across the supply chain.
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IndustriALL and IF Metall celebrate 10 years of landmark global framework agreement with H&M Group
H&M Group, IndustriALL Global Union and IF Metall are marking ten years of their flagship global framework agreement (GFA), a pioneering collaboration to strengthen workers’ rights and social dialogue...
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October 3, 2025 at 8:03 AM
With the support of IndustriALL Global Union 🌍 and the Confederation of Trade Unions of Armenia (CTUA) ✊, trade union leaders from Armenia’s mining and metallurgical sector gathered in Kapan, Syunik region 📍, for a round table–seminar on: social partnership 🤝 at the republican and sectoral levels.
Building social partnership in Armenia’s mining sector
With the support of IndustriALL Global Union and the Confederation of Trade Unions of Armenia (CTUA), trade union leaders from Armenia’s mining and metallurgical sector gathered in Kapan, Syunik regio...
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October 2, 2025 at 11:55 AM
In a transforming world of work 🔄, organizing and campaigns 📢 are becoming critical strategies for trade union survival. Facing push back from global and national capital 💰, trade unions are developing strategies that respond to local workplaces 🏭 and sectoral dynamics.
Organizing and campaigns to revitalize trade unions in Sub-Saharan Africa
In a transforming world of work, organizing and campaigns are becoming critical strategies for trade union survival. Facing a push back from global and national capital, trade unions are developing st...
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October 2, 2025 at 9:55 AM
IndustriALL Atle Hoie:
🤝 “We stand in full solidarity with NUPENG & PENGASSAN, and condemn Dangote’s attempts to undermine union rights ⚖️ and collective bargaining 📜.”
Strike suspended after conciliation at Dangote Refinery
On 1 October, the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN), suspended a national strike that was sparked by union busting and hostility towards trade unions at Dangote...
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October 2, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Since 2015, the global framework agreement w/ H&M has provided a platform for joint work to safeguard the right to unionize & engage in collective bargaining, improving conditions for workers in the factories in the supply chain.
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#GarmentWorkersNeedUnions
Landmark global framework agreement with H&M marks ten years
Since 2015, the global framework agreement with H&M has provided a platform for joint work to safeguard the right to unionize and engage in collective bargaining – improving conditions for workers in ...
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October 2, 2025 at 8:20 AM
For the past 8 years, the ACT initiative has brought together trade unions, global garment brands and retailers and manufacturers in supply chains to create a pathway to living wages in low-income garment production countries.
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#GarmentWorkersNeedUnions
Shared responsibility, shared benefits: paving the way to living wages in Cambodia - Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
Check out this page via the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre
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October 2, 2025 at 7:59 AM
🚨 125 jobs axed at Lindsey Oil Refinery, despite credible bids to save the site.

@unitetheunion.bsky.social calls it a “transition without workers.”

IndustriALL stands in solidarity: the fight is for jobs, safety & energy security.

👉 #JustTransition

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Lindsey refinery: redundancies begin despite bids to save site
The announcement of 125 redundancies at the Lindsey Oil Refinery marks a devastating escalation in the fight to save one of the UK’s last remaining refineries. Unite the Union has condemned the govern...
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October 1, 2025 at 7:22 AM