Melbourne Airport delays rail construction, accused of corporate greed, charging workers $12 a day to park up to 30 minutes away

Argentina: government targeting rights, such as collective bargaining, that support greater fairness and equality, while threatening those who protest with repression and criminalisation

Unionizing video game makers - workers struggle with "passion tax", writers for Red Dead Redemption 2 worked a hundred hours a week for three weeks

University of Pennsylvania: grad students vote to join UAW, 1807 for and 96 against

Bank of America employee dies after working 120 hour weeks, associates organizing strike

Cambodia Supreme Court approves conviction of 9 union members for strike against billionaire's company

Finland threatens right to strike: "The Orpo Government is now dragging Finland into the group of countries that have to be held accountable internationally for their human rights violations."

Cascadia Liquor strike: management fails to stop employees in different stores from bargaining together, "Pumping money into union-busting is no way forward."

Canada: rail workers may strike for safety, against windows in which workers on-call and expected to operate train for 12 hours

Mercedes management claims they are family, "the family the company is talking about is a patriarchal one where the father takes in all the money and gives as little as possible to his subjects."

Lithuania: unions fighting for right to strike - once a union decides to do it, it takes a year before workers can begin the action

Israel: 45 workers from Malawi arrested for "escaping" from farms

Trinidad and Tobago: if trade unions divided, they could easily be exploited by employers - it cannot be an elite minority benefitting from country's wealth while rest of population "sucking salt."

Indonesia, May 1st: demonstrators march against anti-worker law, "All of us workers are just covering the expenses of the top 1 per cent"

May 1st strike a shot across the bow for logistics company serving Apple, PlayStation, Fitbit and Xbox

After contract, Southwest flight attendants now highest paid in industry

Korea: “I’ll pay you soon. Don’t worry,” her boss kept telling her. Having been forced to take out a loan of 3 million won to pay for her daily expenses, Mei had no choice but to leave the farm.

"The day will come when our silence will be more powerful than the voices you are throttling today"

"For one day, workers ruled the world’s biggest streets."

Photo: Workers march in Jakarta, Indonesia, May 1, 2024

Ghana: workers walk out on regional minister during speech, "Since the minister has decided not to fulfil whatever we have asked him to do, we don’t even want to listen to him."

“We work to live, not to die” - Labour Day photos in Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, Philippines, Indonesia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Turkey

Korea: unions to hold Labor Day rallies, call for President to step down

Kenya: unions to protest in solidarity with doctors still waiting for implementation of 2017 agreement, government threatening union leaders

Ireland: Inaugural Trade Union Week sees union activists at events throughout Dublin - “Every worker is better in a trade union.”

So you get to vote on who your boss is right?

App delivery companies exploit workers, customers to drive money into hands of executives and Wall Street, part of larger pattern of corporations buying control of workers and their communities.

Argentina: Milei government's anti-labour laws ruled unconstitutional, privatisation halted

Orlando unionization: "JetBlue is in the process of trying to intimidate the living daylights out of every single worker not to sign a card"

"Workers in Benin are suffering. Everything is expensive and human rights are violated on a daily basis." Protesters tear gassed; union members arrested in Benin.

VW: A lot of workers like myself are working for multi-billion dollar corporations and are barely able to afford groceries... I can't afford to live in Chattanooga, I have to live 40 minutes away

UAW charges Mercedes, in Germany, with violation of German law and human rights. Every Mercedes plant in the world is unionized except the two in the US

New Zealand solidarity: junior doctors to strike not for themselves, but to prevent pay cut for colleagues, did not want to see anyone left behind

UAW victory at Volkswagen an inspiration to create more democratic workplaces across the world... the workplace is the forge for democracy, from where it spreads to enrich society

India: heatwave regulation limits allowed hours of work, ignored by employers forcing employees to continue, workers also unable to afford working less hours a day

Argentina: Union condemns IMF austerity, Milei government, Senators voting themselves 170% raise while half of population in poverty

Volkswagen employees vote 2628 in favor of UAW, 985 against, ignoring governors of Tennessee, Texas, South Carolina, Mississippi, Georgia, Alabama

Costco Korea strike: management consistently refuses contract negotiations despite control of one of the most profitable Costco stores in the world