workers rights

Ukrainian soldiers

Federico Fuentes speaks to Independent Trade Union of Miners of Ukraine leader Yuriy Samoilov about how unions are dealing with the twin challenges of foreign occupation and domestic attacks on workers’ rights.

Welder

Almost a month after Ukraine’s parliament adopted two anti-worker bills, President Volodymyr Zelensky finally ratified Draft Law 5371, removing union rights for most of the country’s workers, reports Federico Fuentes.

Lawsuit at Tesla

Tesla is being sued in a class action in the United States over a shocking racist culture and practice, reports Malik Miah.

Health care workers protest. Photo: Daniel O'Donnell/Labor Notes

Thousands of workers are on strike in the United States, in what is being dubbed “Striketober”, reports Malik Miah.

Face mask

How should the working class respond to a pandemic and protect workers’ interests at the same time? Malik Miah reports on the situation in the United States.

Precarious bookshop workers are fighting for better working conditions and rights, reports Isaac Nellist.

The Transport Workers Union is calling on the federal government to regulate the gig economy, after a British court ruling that Uber drivers should be considered workers not contractors, reports Jim McIlroy. 

On May Day 2020, several left parties and labour groups in Southeast Asia have come together to issue a joint statement to call for solidarity and put forward working class demands in the times of coronavirus pandemic.

The Socialist Alliance has released the following plan to combat COVID-19.

The coronavirus pandemic is both a threat to our health and corporate profits. As Alex Bainbridge argues, our health needs must come first, which means meeting health needs without making workers and the unemployed pay for the crisis.

Paul McAleer

To fight for clean air and water is a revolutionary act in a world that rewards the destruction of nature for profit, argues Maritime Union of Australia Sydney Branch Secretary Paul McAleer.

Cambodia International Women's Day 2019

Riot police tried but failed to stop an International Women's Day march in Phnom Penh on March 8.