Activists push for release of jailed trade unionist Shahrokh Zamani
He was arrested in June 2011 and sentenced to 11 years in prison on charges widely levelled against trade unionists.
Colombian court turns down political prisoner Liliany Obando's appeal
Obando is a sociologist and documentary filmmaker. A week before her arrest, she issued a report documenting the murders of 1500 FENSUAGRO union members. FENSUAGRO is Colombia's largest agricultural workers' union.
Greek unions hold 24-hour general strike against austerity
Transport grinds to a halt and schools close as thousands march through Athens in protest.
Unions, small farmers mobilize in Paraguay under U.S. eye
Paraguayan labor federations and small farmer organizations launched a general strike on March 26. Some 90 percent of workers in Asuncion honored the strike.
Mexico after 20 years of NAFTA: poor and getting poorer
20 years after the North American Free Trade Agreement came into force, farmers and workers in Mexico, the U.S., and Canada suffer from corporate profiteering.
Iraq: The struggle for new labor and trade union laws
Progress on enacting a new trade union law in Iraq is still stalled.
South African unions stage huge marches against road tolls
South Africans marched across the country in support of a trade union campaign against electronic tolling on motorways and privatizing roads.
New Canadian "super union" aims for different kind of unionism
TORONTO - Canada's progressive movement just gained a giant new ally as thousands of delegates, representing more than 300,000 workers, founded Unifor, a new union aimed at transforming the labor scene in this country.
Egyptian unions in throes of democracy fight
The Egyptian army arrested and temporarily detained two Egyptian steel union leaders in Suez, Egypt, two days before its violent crackdown on supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi, seven Egyptian unions and a human rights center reported.
Puerto Rican phone workers join forces with OPEIU
SAN JUAN, P.R. (PAI)-Members of a union representing 2,000 Puerto Rican telephone workers voted by a 10-1 margin to merge into the Office and Professional Employees (OPEIU), the two unions announced on August 14.
