Clean Slate for Worker Power: Building a Just Economy and Democracy

A year-long Harvard University project drawing on input from U.S. and global practitioners and academics issued a report offering a package of reforms that promise to help stop the self-reinforcing …

EU will not force statutory minimum wage on Nordic countries

The EU will not force a statutory minimum wage on countries such as Denmark following an outcry by Nordic member states over a threat to their century-old systems of collective bargaining. A …

Collective bargaining in Europe: towards an endgame. Volume I, II, III and IV

This collection of four volumes charts the development of collective bargaining since the year 2000 in the 28 EU Member States. These four volumes document how the institutions of collective …

Gobierno aprobó decreto de urgencia para la negociación colectiva en el sector público

En la sesión de ayer del Consejo de Ministros, se aprobó un decreto de urgencia referido a la negociación colectiva en el sector público. Esta norma abarcará a los gobiernos locales y …

A year after crackdown on wage protests in Bangladesh, hundreds of workers still face retaliatory charges

A year ago, tens of thousands of workers in Bangladesh went on strike against the poverty wages that are pervasive in the country’s export-oriented garment industry. On 13 January 2019, …

Costa Rica: proyecto aprobado – asi se regularan las huelgas en el pais

El proyecto de ley que regulara el derecho de huelga en el país fue aprobado este martes por una mayoría parlamentaria. La iniciativa, que paso por un largo camino en …

Ukrainian workers battle controversial new labour code

The government in Kyiv plans to introduce a new labour code in order to “simplify” employment practices. The initiative, which was drafted without prior consultation with trade unions, has left lawyers and workers …

ILAW Network sends letter to Government of Ukraine

The ILAW Network sent a letter to the Government of Ukraine to protest its decision to introduce highly regressive amendments to the Trade Union Law and Labour Law on 27 …

Phnom Penh Municipal Court orders investigation into Naga union leader

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday ordered an investigation into NagaWorld’s union leaders and several other union members for breaching a court order which ruled a strike organised by the …

India: Why Trade Unions Are Opposing Labour Law Reforms

As 10 central trade unions prepare for a nationwide strike on January 8, the proposed Industrial Relations Code is in their line of fire. While the government says the code will simplify old and …

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