August 13, 2020
The ACTU stands in solidarity with workers on strike at Le Meridien Angkor hotel in Cambodia, who are protesting the termination of trade union activists for conducting legitimate trade union activities.
August 7, 2020
The Australian union movement stands in solidarity with the thousands of workers on strike across Iran at the Haft Tappeh Sugarcane Industrial Complex and at refineries and industrial projects in the South Pars gas fields.
July 24, 2020
The Australian union movement has written to Foreign Minister Marise Payne to call on the Australian Government to strongly condemn Israel’s plan to annex Palestinian land in the West Bank.
July 23, 2020
ACTU joins a coalition of trade union and civil society organisations from around the world calling on apparel brands and retailers to stop using forced labour in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and end their complicity in the Chinese government’s human rights abuses.
July 22, 2020
The Council of Global Unions (CGU) – representing more than 200 million workers from across the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) and Global Union Federations including the Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD -join Philippine trade unions in condemning the Philippine government’s continued attacks on democratic institutions and its relentless suppression of the democratic rights of Filipino workers.
July 10, 2020
The ACTU has written to Treasurer Josh Frydenberg ahead of the G20 Finance Ministers meeting calling on G20 Governments to undertake sustained fiscal support in response to COVID-19, with a focus on the real economy, shared prosperity, and full, quality employment with a framework of sustainability and resilience. People and planet need to be at the centre of COVID-19 recovery plans.
July 2, 2020
The Council of Global Unions (CGU) – representing more than 200 million workers from across the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), the Global Union Federations and the Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD (TUAC) – wholeheartedly condemns the unlawful arrests of trade union and prodemocracy leaders and activists by the Hong Kong police, attacks on working people in Hong Kong, and proposals for a new National Security Law.
June 21, 2020
The International Labour Organisation’s ground-breaking new Convention on Violence and Harassment (C190), recognises every worker’s fundamental right to be free from all forms of violence and harassment at work, including gender-based violence and harassment.
The Australian Government must now step up and support ratification of the Convention so it can become law in Australia. Please sign out petition to call on the Attorney-General and Minister for Women to urgently commit to ratify C.190 to make workplaces healthy, safe and respectful for all of us.
June 12, 2020
Welcome to the June 2020 edition of the ACTU’s international solidarity update
June 4, 2020
With 305 million full-time equivalent jobs lost worldwide due to the pandemic, Australia and other leading economies need to act now to protect the rights and livelihoods of working people around the world.
