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CANADA: Protecting the right to strike in Canada rabble.ca/podcast/protecting…

Protecting the right to strike in Canada

This is the second half of RadioLabour's two-part series on union opposition to Bill C-39.

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GLOBAL: ITUC announces 2026 Corporate Underminers of Democracy 2026 - including Palantir epsu.org/article/ituc-announ…

ITUC announces 2026 Corporate Underminers of Democracy 2026 - including Palantir

The ITUC report is part of its Fight for Democracy campaign. Unions and civil society on every continent are fighting back by organising, striking, litigating and mobilising to confront this billio...

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GLOBAL: IndustriALL women’s committee sets pay equity priorities industriall-union.org/pay-eq…

Pay Equity Policy: Tackling Gender Wage Gaps - industriall-union

Explore the importance of a pay equity policy in tackling gender pay inequalities and strengthening equal pay actions.

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USA: As More Unions Oppose ICE and Israel, the Right Is Cracking Down truthout.org/articles/as-mor…

As More Unions Oppose ICE and Israel, the Right Is Cracking Down

The right is trying to gain access to labor unions’ minutes, membership lists, and Zoom chats.

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GLOBAL / THAILAND: From plantation to factory floor: rubber and tire unions unite in Bangkok industriall-union.org/from-p…

Rubber and tire unions unite in Bangkok, Thailand

Rubber and tire unions from eight countries met to share their struggles and agree common goals on organizing, safety and women in unions.

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ALBANIA: IFJ and 44 others organisations call for urgent accountability and protection of fundamental rights ifj.org/media-centre/news/de…

Albania: IFJ and 44 others organisations call for urgent accountability and protection of fundame...

On 22 October, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), together with 44 other international, European, regional and Albanian organisations, issued a joint statement raising serious...

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SWITZERLAND: IFJ passes motion in support of Tamedia Journalists ifj.org/media-centre/news/de…

Switzerland: IFJ passes motion in support of Tamedia Journalists / IFJ

At its online meeting on 19 and 20 October 2026, the Executive Committee of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) unanimously passed a motion expressing solidarity with Tamedia journali...

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PACIFIC: Pacific Islands Frontline Workers Demand a Voice in Just Transition publicservices.international…

Pacific Islands Frontline Workers Demand a Voice in Just Transition

Public service workers from across the Pacific gathered in Nadi, Fiji, for the Pre-COP31 meeting, bringing attention to workers who are already bearing the brunt of the climate crisis. For workers...

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UK: UNI backs Unite as Barclays cuts 5,000 jobs and hands shareholders £500 million uniglobalunion.org/news/uni-…

UNI backs Unite as Barclays cuts 5,000 jobs and hands shareholders £500 million

UNI Global Union’s UK affiliate Unite is demanding that Barclays upskill its workers instead of cutting them, after the bank announced on 22 October that it will shed 5,000 jobs worldwide, citing...

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IRELAND: Public sector pay talks may end next week, but senior union negotiator unsure if deal ‘will be possible’ independent.ie/irish-news/po…

Public sector pay talks may end next week, but senior union negotiator unsure if deal ‘will be...

While planned strikes have been suspended, work-to-rule action continues

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EGYPT: Sign the petition to free Matsada2sh journalists now ifj.org/media-centre/news/de…

Egypt: Sign the petition to free Matsada2sh journalists now / IFJ

Between September 28 and 30, Egyptian security forces arrested six journalists working for Matsada2sh, an Egyptian fact-checking and news verification outlet. The International Federation of Journa...

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LITHUANIA: ILO Director-General Visits Lithuania, Meets Government and Unions thelabourpulse.com/news/irec…

ILO Director-General Visits Lithuania, Meets Government and Unions

ILO Director-General's rare visit to Lithuania discussed social justice, labour migration and platform work as the agency faces unpaid dues and a leadership election this November.

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KENYA: Labour ministry summons unions and varsity councils to Monday talks to end strike educationnews.co.ke/news/lab…

Labour ministry summons unions and varsity councils to Monday talks to end strike

Labour Ministry summons UASU, KUSU, KUDHEIHA and university councils to a Monday, October 26 meeting in Nairobi to end the strike over the 2025-2029 CBAs

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NIGERIA: Police occupy BEDC headquarters amid union leaders’ arrest blueprint.ng/police-occupy-b…

BEDC Headquarters Occupied by Police Amid Union Leaders’ Arrest

BEDC headquarters in Benin City was occupied by armed policemen following the arrest of electricity union leaders amid an ongoing strike over workers’ demands.

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NETHERLANDS: All Work is Women’s Work recovers the forgotten history of Amsterdam’s seamstresses itsnicethat.com/articles/han…

All Work is Women’s Work recovers the forgotten history of Amsterdam’s seamstresses

Through radical publishing, archival research and printed garments, Hanka van der Voet brings the overlooked labour and political organising of early 20th-century seamstresses back into view.

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24-10-1980 POLAND: The government of Poland legalizes the Solidarity trade union.
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24-10-1960 KASAKHSTAN: Nedelin disaster: the accidental explosion of an R-16 intercontinental ballistic missile in Baikonur killing more than 100 workers.
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21-10-1920 FRANCE: 24-hour strike by Le Havre sailors against the conviction of the Black Sea mutineers.
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24-10-1913 NEW ZEALAND: Dockworkers stop work and occupy several ships. No truck driver or miner at work in Huntly. The union refuses the employers' offer to extend the 1912 collective agreement.
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24-10-1913 IRELAND: Members of the ITGWU clash with the Ancient Order of Hibernians, who are trying to prevent strikers' children being taken to foster families in England and Belfast.
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