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✊ASHA workers in Mumbai on strike!
Braving the rains, thousands of ASHA workers and CHVs protested in Azad Maidan on June 16. What began as a one-day protest, turned into a strike in which workers have stopped the work.

PSI stands in solidarity.
#ASHAStrike #TradeUnionRights
June 24, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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Predatory finance is taking over Asia Pacific—labours, farmworkers & public services are at risk.
📢Join us on May 22, 12h30 Delhi/14h Jakarta/17h Sydney, to expose how private equity, pension & wealth funds exploit communities—and how we fight back. Register here: world-psi.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
May 9, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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On #LabourDay, we honour women whose vital #CareWork remains invisible & underpaid.

📢 Join the webinar to hear workers' voices from India, Lebanon & Uganda.

🎙️ Speakers incl. PSI's @kate-psi.bsky.social & Kerala's protesting workers.
🌍 Interpretation: EN, FR, ES, ML
✍️ Register: bit.ly/3Gxex4l
May 6, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Exciting news! I will be holding a Melbourne launch for my new history of the Australian union movement "No Power Greater: A History of Union Action" on Thursday 29 May, 6.30pm at Trades Hall, Carlton. RSVPs essential: lnkd.in/giZ2_Rrm
April 27, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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From Myanmar to Belarus, Vietnam to Hong Kong — authoritarian regimes are silencing workers & crushing unions.
This #MayDay, exiled unionists call for global solidarity against authoritarianism.✊🌍
Let’s rise together.
International declaration on May Day by trade unionists in exile: bit.ly/4jzdpvs
May 1, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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A statement from Julian Assange.

#Assange #PardonAssange #Albo #Albanese #AusPol
May 2, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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✊On this May Day, support Kerala ASHA Workers’ demands for fair wages and labour rights. Sign the Petition!

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#MayDay2025 #InternationalWorkersDay #ASHAworkers #CommunityHealthWorkers
Sign the Petition
Support Kerala ASHA Workers’ Demands for Fair Wages and Labour Rights
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April 30, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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(1/2) As the climate crisis harms marginalized communities, we turn to the art of zine-making as our medium of resistance.
April 15, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Join health workers and unions around the world protesting the criminal, targeted executions of Palestinian health and emergency service workers in Gaza. publicservices.international/resources/ne...
Health workers are not targets: Israel must stop the killings now
Following the most deadly attack on Red Cross or Red Crescent workers in almost ten years, unions around the world are taking action to push Israel to end the targeting and killing of health workers a...
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April 3, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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NEW: Data centers powering AI like ChatGPT could triple their electricity use by 2028.

The Trump administration is investing over $1 trillion into new data centers in the next five years.

But what's the true cost of the AI revolution? We went to rural Georgia to find out.
How Big Tech Is Stealing America’s Power Grid
YouTube video by More Perfect Union
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March 27, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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PSI's Asia Pacific Regional Secretary @kate-psi.bsky.social appeals to the Government of Kerala to “provide global leadership in support of women health workers” and to recognise ASHA workers as public health workers.

#DecentWork #fairpay #ASHAWorkersprotest

www.thehindu.com/news/nationa...
International workers’ union writes to CM on ASHA issue
The support for the agitation led by Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs) in the State, demanding fair remuneration and retirement benefits, has been growing, with the struggle assuming larger d...
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March 27, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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In a world where public utilities are rapidly being privatised, how are unions pushing back, and winning?

🎥 Watch our new video where Angus McFarland of
Australian Services Union explains how they fought to keep Sydney Water public and triumphed! #UnionPower #Privatisation

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Australian Services Union’s Successful Campaign to Keep Sydney Water Public
Watch Angus McFarland, Secretary of the Australian Services Union, explain how the ASU fought privatisation and achieved a major victory in keeping Sydney's water in the public sector.
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December 11, 2024 at 7:48 AM
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New Zealand’s parliament was interrupted by Maori politicians who performed a haka to protest against a vote on a contentious new bill affecting Indigenous Maori rights.
November 14, 2024 at 12:49 PM