The International Trade Union Confederation is the global voice of working people, representing the rights & interests of millions of workers in 167 countries.
🌇
@expo2020dubai
is currently being held to enhance the UAE’s international business reputation—but it’s also exposing the modern-day slavery conditions of migrant workers in
#UAE
🇦🇪
How bad is it? 🤔You've gotta see it to believe it!
So watch & RT our
#DubaiExposed
video 👇👇
“I believe it’s up to us as workers to actively change the landscape we operate in.”
💯 A strong message of
#solidarity
from
#Sydney
-based maritime workers ahead of the September 20-27 Global Week of
#ClimateAction
! 🌏🌍🌎
🚫Los gobiernos antidemocráticos silencian a los trabajadores abusando de las leyes. El 87% de los países violaron el derecho de huelga en 2024. 📢¡Solidarízate con los trabajadores por unas condiciones justas y
#PorLaDemocracia
!
#RightsIndex24
👉
📌World Day for Decent Work
#WDDW23
: 7 Oct
In the last 2yrs, inflation rose to over 10% worldwide📈 Unions are calling for higher wages to help workers meet the rising costs of daily life – 💡🍚🏠🚗
📢It’s Time for a
#PayRise
!
What’s the best job you’ve ever had?🤔
What's your dream job?🦸♀️🦸♂️
We want to hear YOUR story! ⬇️⬇️⬇️
Together we can build a recovery for everyone.
#JustJobs
¿Cómo han impulsado los trabajadores la democracia en todo el mundo?🤔
¡A través de la
#huelga
!✊🏾
⚠️Pero el derecho de huelga está siendo atacado.
⛔️Cuando atacan nuestro derecho de huelga, atacan la
#democracia
.
📢¡Defiende la democracia, defiende tu
#DerechoDeHuelga
!
💪 Los trabajadores y las trabajadoras son el corazón latente de la democracia. En 2024, el 87% de los países violaron el
#DerechoDeHuelga
. ¡Apoya a los sindicatos y aboga
#PorLaDemocracia
! 🗳️✊
#RightsIndex24
👉
En los últimos años, la inflación aumentó de 10% a nivel mundial. Los sindicatos reclaman salarios más altos para ayudar a los trabajadores a cubrir los gastos de la vida diaria - 💡🍚🏠🚗
📢¡Es hora de un
#AumentoSalarial
!
#JMTD23
#WDDW23
How have working people powered democracy around the world?🤔
By going on STRIKE!✊🏾
⚠️But the right to strike is under attack!
🚫When they attack our right to strike, they attack
#democracy
!
📢On
#HumanRightsDay
, defend democracy, defend your
#RightToStrike
!
🏁In the race against
#COVID19
, none of us cross the finish line until we all do.
📢Join us to DEMAND that leaders at
@g20org
:
✅Lift vaccine patents
✅Share the technology
✅Let ALL countries make their own vaccines
✅Equitably redistribute existing vaccines
#PeoplesVaccine
⭐️Vote for the
#WorstBoss
in the world - we have nominated 6 CEOs🧐
👤
@JeffBezos
@amazon
is exploiting workers with low wages & indecent working conditions, and discarding them when they are injured or too exhausted to work.
🗳️VOTE:
#Bolivia
🇧🇴 "Ningún presidente electo debería verse obligado a dimitir del cargo por órdenes militares. La democracia no funciona así." -
@SharanBurrow
Llamamos a la comunidad internacional 📣 que apoye a elecciones pacíficas 🗳️✌️🏾
Today, the UN Treaty on the Prohibitions of Nuclear Weapons enters into force, making these horrific weapons illegal under international law. 🙅♀️☢️🚀☮️
Join the celebrations all around the world 👉
#nuclearban
@nuclearban
@IntlPeaceBureau
🚫 Anti-democratic governments are silencing essential workers by misusing laws. 87% of countries violated the right to strike in 2024. 📢Stand with workers for fair conditions and
#ForDemocracy
! 🧑⚕️👩🏫👨🚒
#RightsIndex24
👉
✊🏾On
#MayDay2023
, working people across the world celebrate more than 150 years of collective action through their trade unions building secure, sustainable lives and delivering social justice.
📢We need collective action for a
#NewSocialContract
, which includes:
🦺Jobs
💵Wages
On the 2y anniversary of the military coup in
#Myanmar
🇲🇲, activists & trade unions around the world are calling for a
#SilentStrike
to restore the democratically elected govt deposed by the military.
Stand with
#Workers4Myanmar
Support the strike fund👉
Depuis 2 ans, l’inflation dépasse les 10% dans le monde📈 Les syndicats réclament des salaires plus élevés pour aider les travailleurs face à la hausse des coûts de la vie -💡🍚🏠🚗
📢 L’heure est venue d’augmenter les salaires!
#WDDW23
#JMTD23
💪 Les travailleurs sont le cœur battant de la
#d
émocratie. En 2024, 87 % des pays n’ont pas respecté le
#DroitDeGr
ève. Soutenez les syndicats et défendez la démocratie
#PourLaD
émocratie! 🗳️✊
#RightsIndex24
👉
🚨 Workers' rights under siege! 🚨
The 2⃣0⃣2⃣4⃣ Global Rights Index is out, rating 151 countries for working people.
🌍Find the rating for your country and take action
👉
#RightsIndex24
🚫 Les gouvernements non démocratiques réduisent les travailleurs au silence. En 2024, 87 % des pays n’ont pas respecté le droit de grève. 📢Soutenez des conditions de travail équitables et la démocratie
#PourLaD
émocratie! 🧑⚕️👩🏫👨🚒
#RightsIndex24
👉
🌇
@expo2020dubai
tenue actuellement conforte la renommée commerciale internationale des
#EAU
– mais révèle les conditions d’esclavage moderne des migrants.
Comment est-ce possible ?🤔Il faut le voir pour le croire👀
Regardez et diffusez notre vidéo
#DubaiEnVrai
👇👇
#Expo2020
🪶🌎On
#IndigenousPeoplesDay
, 9 August 2023, Indigenous peoples’ organisations and trade unions, highlight the extreme forms of discrimination faced by native groups.
👉
📢Be the first to know – sign up to our breaking news❗️
👷🏾♀️workers’ rights
⚖️social justice
🙌🏿equality and non-discrimination
♀️ women's rights
🌳
#climate
and
#JustTransition
👉
#Iran
🇮🇷:
@ITUC
condemns the brutal suppression of nationwide protests by the authorities, which has cost more than 250 lives. Instead, governments should support and respect their people by tackling the root causes of popular anger.
#iranprotest
⚠️
#ClimateEmergency
⚠️
⌛️We are running out of time! Without ambitious action on
#ClimateChange
by 2021, we will pass the tipping points for irreversible damage to our planet.
📌Sept 22, join
#CEPOW
Day of Action 👉
⚖️International labour standards say all workers have the right to freedom of association.
🦺However, the
#RightsIndex23
shows that 77% of countries excluded workers from the right to set up or join a trade union.
Find out more 👉
Comment les travailleurs ont-ils fait progresser la démocratie dans le monde?🤔
En faisant la
#gr
ève !✊🏾
⚠️Mais le droit de grève est menacé.
⛔️Lorsqu’ils s’attaquent au droit de grève, ils s’attaquent à la
#d
émocratie.
📢Défendez la démocratie, défendez votre
#DroitDeGr
ève !
🌍 ¿Sabías que 2024 va a ser el año electoral más importante de la Historia?
No te quedes al margen: participa en el movimiento mundial de la CSI
#PorLaDemocracia
.
Averigua cómo👉
This year, Black Friday is
#MakeAmazonPay
day.
Amazon workers paid for Jeff Bezos to go space. On 26 November, they are demanding justice – and asking you to join them:
In Feb2020 a
@UNHumanRights
database named 112 companies operating in illegal Israeli settlements & critical to the settlements’ continued existence. But 2 years on, no further action has been taken.
Help expose illegal corporate operations in Palestine
Ever wondered what
#strikes
have won for working people?🤔
📅The 2day weekend
🦺Collective bargaining rights
😷Sick leave
🤰Maternity leave
🧑🦳Retirement age
💼Pensions
⚖️Equality laws & equal pay
💰Living wages
⏳Working hours
📢This
#MayDay2024
, secure your rights at work,
¿Alguna vez se ha preguntado qué han logrado los trabajadores gracias a las huelgas?🤔
📅El fin de semana de dos días
🦺El derecho de negociación colectiva
😷La licencia por enfermedad
🤰La licencia por maternidad
🧑🦳La edad de jubilación
💼Las pensiones
⚖️Las leyes de igualdad y
🤔Quels sont les 10 pires pays pour les travailleurs ? Regardez cette vidéo pour le savoir👇👇
🌍Pour connaître le classement de votre pays et passer à l’action👉
#RightsIndex24
What is
#CEPOW
? 🤔
💡It's a global day of action with workers around the world inviting their employers to discuss plans for
#climate
resilience and sustainable business.
Join us on 22 Sept, sign up to be part of
#CEPOW
now👉
⚠️
#CambioClim
ático⚠️
#CEPOW
🌴Declive de selva amazónica
🌧️Escasez de agua afecta a la agricultura/salud pública
🩺+ infecciones por dengue, chikunguña y zika
🚜Impactos en medios de vida rurales/seguridad alimentaria
🛂+ migración relacionada con el clima
Lula has been released from prison.
For over a year working people in
#Brazil
🇧🇷, their unions and unions across the world 🌎 have been campaigning for his freedom.
#LulaLivre
#FreeLula
✊🏿✊🏻✊🏽
🗣️" Today, we stand in solidarity with all the people of
#Myanmar
. We call on govs & institutions to not recognise the military leadership. No investment, no business with military & their enterprises"
@SharanBurrow
👉
#Workers4Myanmar
#SaveMyanmar
.
@AlboMP
: Today, I announce that the Labor Government I lead will table in the Parliament of Australia, ILO Convention 190: preventing harassment and violence in the workplace... affirming the right of every person to a work culture based on ‘mutual respect and dignity’.
#ITUC22
“Military coups can never be the answer”
@SharanBurrow
blasts the undemocratic nature of what is happening in
#Bolivia
🇧🇴
🗳️ we call on the international community to support peaceful elections to allow the Bolivian people to make their choice.
🌍 Saviez-vous que l'année 2024 sera l’année électorale la plus importante de l’Histoire?
Ne restez pas en retrait: participez au mouvement mondial de la CSI
#PourLaD
émocratie.
Découvrez comment👉
🗣️"As we commemorate the first anniversary of the attacks on protesters last November, when +300 people were killed, we stand with the people of
#Iran
🇮🇷 against an authoritarian government that denies their fundamental rights"
@SharanBurrow
@ArabTradeUnion
#IranProtests
This week all 👀 are on 📍
#Abuja
🇳🇬 as
#TradeUnions
from across the African continent gather for the
@ITUC_Africa
🌍 Congress. The theme: "Unite & make a difference"
Pre-congress: 18-19/11/2019
Congress: 20-21/11/2019
Follow the action 🎬
#ITUCAbuja19
💻👉🏿
⚠️
#ClimateChange
in
#Australasia
⚠️
#cepow
🌊Ocean warming = coral bleaching
🌧️Sea-level rise = coastal flooding
🏙️Damage to infrastructure, services & supply chains
🩺Extreme heat has led to excess deaths
🚜Decline in agricultural production
👉
.
@sallymcmanus
: "We are in the fight our lives to finally win new rights for working people after years of anti-union governments, and we're lifted by the energy in this room at
#ITUC22
."
Around the 🌎 📣
#FreeLula
.
People are calling out the flagrant perversion of justice.
2018:
@LulaOficial
leads presidential polls, is ruled out of
#Brazil
elections & imprisoned on baseless charges.
2019
#LulaLivre
: starting now what's happening near you?
🗣️"
#May1st
: we want to see a future with jobs, incomes, just wages, collective bargaining rights, occupational health and safety, and universal social protection for every worker on the planet".
@SharanBurrow
#VirtualMayDay
👉
⚠️
#ClimateEmergency
in
#Europe
⚠️
Inclusive, equitable & just adaptation pathways are critical for climate-resilient development. A rapid shift to renewable energy through
#Justransition
makes climate goals attainable
📌22 June, join
#CEPOW
Day of Action👉
.
@VisentiniLuca
: “I feel incredibly proud to have this opportunity to lead the
@ituc
and to represent the voice of working people on the world stage. Thank you for putting your trust in me."
#ITUC22
Full statement:
📌 6th Extraordinary World Congress
#ituc23
Luc Triangle has just been elected as the new General Secretary of the ITUC. Congratulations! 👏🏾👏🏿👏🏽
@luc_triangle
@ituc
#ClimateChange
is a threat to all of us and, if we don’t act now, temperature increases 🌡️ will lead to the loss of 72M jobs! On
#26June
, join the Global Day of Workplace Action to
#ClimateProofOurWork
!
#cPOW
Sign-up here 👉
The ITUC is calling for urgent measures to ensure that workers who show symptoms of
#COVID19
🦠 can take sick leave without fear of losing their jobs or their incomes, and receive free
#healthcare
⚕️.
.
@POTUS
addresses
#ITUC22
delegates via video address, promising to keep labor -- union labor -- at the heart of his presidency and policies. Thanks outgoing Gen Sec
@SharanBurrow
for her strong leadership over many years.
Hace un año la democracia en
#Myanmar
🇲🇲 fue violentamente aplastada por un golpe militar.
📢¡La lucha por la democracia te necesita¡
Efectúa un donativo al fondo de huelga para apoyar a los defensores de la democracia 👉
#WhatsHappeninglnMyanmar
Congratulations to
#Italy
for becoming the second European country to
#RatifyC190
, the
@ilo
Convention to fight violence and harassment in the world of work! 🇮🇹🙌🏾🙌🏿🙌🏽
On the international day of solidarity with
#Palestinian
people, the ITUC calls on the international community to redouble efforts to achieve a two state solution, based on UN Security Council Resolutions 242 & 338 and the pre-1967 borders.
@ArabTradeUnion
On
#BlackFridayAmazon
, Amazon workers and activists in more than 30 countries across the world will rise up in strikes and protests. We stand in solidarity with their fight to
#MakeAmazonPay
workers, communities and for its damage to our planet.
Join the movement👉
The ITUC condemns the death sentence against Sharifeh Mohammadi. We demand an immediate end to the continued repression of trade unionists and labour activists in
#Iran
🇮🇷
The Islamic Republic of Iran must:
✅ Immediately and unconditionally free Sharifeh Mohammadi, all labour
🗣️"This
#MayDay2021
is even more important than ever, we are fighting for a
#NewSocialContract
, for jobs, climate-friendly jobs, universal social protection, equal participation of men & women, and diversity that's inclusive of race"
@SharanBurrow
👉
En la
#COP28
, la CSI exigirá un Programa de trabajo para una
#TransicionJusta
que:
🟢Ponga en el centro las cuestiones relativas al trabajo
🟢Garantice los
#DerechosHumanos
, los derechos sindicales y la participación inclusiva
🟢Provea sistemas de
#ProteccionSocial
🟢Avance en