THAILAND: OECD bid: trade unions tell governments the labour rights gap must close tuac.org/news/thailands-oecd…
PALESTINE: International trade union solidarity with Palestinian agricultural workers and farmers iuf.org/news/international-t…
LATIN AMERICA: PSI Inter-America and Organizing for Power announce regional organizing partnership publicservices.international…
GERMANY / POLAND: EU lawmakers to visit Amazon warehouses in Germany and Poland after years-long standoff uni-europa.org/news/eu-lawma…
EUROPE: Commission’s Vision leaves EU fisheries and aquaculture at a dead end etf-europe.org/news/commissi…
BRAZIL: Big Techs are interfering with Brazilian elections. Authorities must act epsu.org/article/big-techs-a…
NEW ZEALAND: Ikea staff in Auckland to strike for first time over lack of weekend rates rnz.co.nz/news/business/2096…
INDIA: Tamil novel Mercury Pookal: the human stories behind Chennai’s trade union movement thehindu.com/news/national/t…
CANADA: Bill C-39 won’t “modernize” labour relations in Canada: The law is about strikebreaking, not modernization policyalternatives.ca/news-r…
PAKISTAN: Home-based workers earn as little as Rs50 an hour brecorder.com/news/amp/40445…
UK: ‘Social care was so badly failed’: RCN responds to COVID Inquiry report rcn.org.uk/news-and-events/n…
BRAZIL: Meta must reinstate Brazilian bank workers’ union on WhatsApp, says UNI uniglobalunion.org/news/meta…
23-10-1958 CANADA: At Springhill, Nova Scotia, 75 are killed in a mine disaster and 81 miners are rescued the next day. A group of twelve miners are rescued on 30 October and a final group of seven are located and brought to the surface on 1 November. disastersongs.ca/1958-spring…
23-10-1936 MADAGASCAR: A strike that will last two years is called for union rights and better wages in a large canning company in Antananarivo called "Société Industrielle et Commerciale de l'Emyrne" SICE.
23-10-1913 SOUTH AFRICA: With 5,000 Indian workers on strike in North Natal, Gandhi publicly declares his intention to pull strikers out of the mines and seek a mass arrest, if necessary by illegally crossing the Transvaal border.
USA: Labor Goes on Election Defense labornotes.org/blogs/2026/10…
SRI LANKA: Postal solidarity opens doors for Sri Lanka’s next generation uniglobalunion.org/news/12th…
BULGARIA: Teachers’ unions unite behind call to fund public education and strengthen the teaching profession ei-ie.org/en/item/33177:bulg…
CZECHIA: Škoda Auto wage freeze: unions threaten strike at three Czech plants aroundprague.cz/en/news/econ…
LIBERIA: Fighting for Tomorrow: How Liberian Workers Won a Game-Changing Victory for Their Families solidaritycenter.org/fightin…
