SRI LANKA: CEB trade unions hint at stringent industrial action after talks fail island.lk/ceb-trade-un...

SOUTH AFRICA: Trade unions press for worker safety at Cape Town mining talks www.healthandsafetyinternational.com/article/1949...

Solidarity with Argentina and the strike against regressive labour reforms [UNI] uniglobalunion.org/news/solidar...

20-02-1926 FRANCE: Jules Durand, trade unionist from Le Havre, dies in the insane asylum. Arrested and falsely accused of murder on 6/6/1918, his crime is to have launched a strike for wages and compensation for mechanization

20-02-1919 ITALY: Parliament passes a law establishing the 8-hour working day in industry. Despite the wage increases obtained and the reduction in working hours, the cost of living continues to climb.

20-02-1919 USA: The Elaine massacre took place in Arkansas. After black farm workers tried to organise for better pay, hundreds of African-Americans were murdered and tortured by white racists and security forces

20-02-1906 FRANCE: At the Mines de la Bellière, a strike ends in failure after several days of revolt against the actions of the foreman and the head of the mines. 14 workers are dismissed with compensation and ordered to leave the region.

20-02-1810 FRANCE: The penal code regulates any association of more than twenty people and qualifies participation in a workers' coalition as an offence.

“I was not a prisoner, I was hostage of the system”: Gennady Fedynich after his release from Belarusian jail [IndustriALL] bit.ly/Fedynich

VIC: Concerns turn to celebration at health workers strike timesnewsgroup.com.au/uncategorize...

USA: Union membership soared to 16-year high in 2025 despite Trump assault www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

MEXICO: Workers To Take Over Matamoros Maquiladora mexicosolidarity.com/workers-to-t...

GERMANY: IG Metall Accuses Tesla of Union Interference, Sues Berlin Plant Manager eletric-vehicles.com/tesla/ig-met...

CANADA: AI scanners at Health Sciences Centre detected more than 1,500 weapons last year www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

USA: Trump’s immigration siege is rattling hospitality industry, workers say www.theguardian.com/business/202...

NORTH AMERICA: Steelworkers Plan Parallel Trip to Mexico During Labour-Excluded “Team Canada” Trade Mission mexicosolidarity.com/steelworkers...

19-02-2017 CANADA: Labour leader Bob White dies at 81 years of age. He is remembered as a founder of the Canadian Auto Workers and a popular president of the Canadian Labour Congress. socialistproject.ca/2017/02/b1373/

19-02-2006 MEXICO: An explosion at the Pasta de Conchos mine in Sabinas kills 65 workers. Grupo Mexico, the mine’s owner, ends rescue efforts after 5 days even though only 2 bodies had been recovered.

19-021920 FRANCE: Responding to the dismissal of a trade unionist from the Villeneuve-Saint-Georges workshop, 1,500 railway workers went on strike, the start of a movement that lasted 5 months.

19-02-1866 USA: The first union in Mississippi was created by African-American washerwomen.

UKRAINE: Athletes, Miners, Energy Workers and Trade Unionists Express Support for Ukrainian Skeleton pilot Heraskevych kvpu.org.ua/en/trade-uni...

KENYA: Strike Called Off: Major Win for Aviation Workers www.k47.co.ke/strike-calle...

NORTH MACEDONIA: General strike and protest in March www.gazetaexpress.com/en/ne-mars-g...

MEXICO: Trolleybus Workers Could Bring Mexico City to a Grinding Halt labornotes.org/2026/02/mexi...

SOUTH AFRICA: Cosatu, NUM concerned over mine killings sundayindependent.co.za/news/2013-08...

TUNISIA: Women Lead the Struggle Against Industrial Pollution in Gabes nawaat.org/2026/02/17/w...

INDIA: Standing Together: How Unorganised Nurses in Nagpur Built a Winning Union publicservices.international/resources/vi...

GLOBAL: Binding agreements deliver: Unions push wages and accountability in global supply chains www.industriall-union.org/binding-agre...

GLOBAL: Trade union manifesto for a Just Transition in textile and garment supply chains www.ituc-csi.org/Trade-union-...

UK: Plans to equalise minimum wage for older and younger workers could be delayed ca.news.yahoo.com/plans-equali...

AUSTRALIA / CHINA: Transnational Union-busting? HungryPanda riders say Chinese police intimidating families in China over Sydney protests www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

USA: Writers Guild West’s Own Staff Calls a Strike Against the Union www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

CANADA: Following a million-dollar ruling against Amazon, Unifor will seek mediation to expedite first contract www.unifor.org/news/all-new...

CANADA: ‘We Don’t Think They’re Serious’: Amazon Union Wants Mediation thetyee.ca/News/2026/02...

18-02-2010 Ghana: Sex workers in Accra, Ghana in the Commercial Workers' Union were fighting to collectively raise their prices in response to high inflation.

18-02-1935 USA: Tens of thousands of New Yorkers were stranded by a wildcat strike of elevator operators in the city.

18-02-1925 PERU: Maritime and railway workers in Mollendo, Peru, launched a general strike against the unjustified sacking of three workers at the British-owned Peruvian Corporation. A week later, the workers were reinstated.

18-02-1924 FRANCE: Madame Sorgue, French revolutionary & feminist died in London. A fierce advocate for the working class, she supported many strikes, including several by women workers in France against sexual harassment from male bosses

Four years of war: Workers still paying the price in Ukraine [IndustriALL] bit.ly/4yearsofwar

Argentina's Labour Reform: The Fight Is Not Over Yet [PSI] bit.ly/not-over-yet

NORTH MACEDONIA: Unions warn of 24-hour strike: "If there is no decision!" www.gazetaexpress.com/en/sindikata...

AUSTRALIA: Thousands of early education workers get big win in push for 30 per cent pay rise au.finance.yahoo.com/news/thousan...

CANADA / MEXICO: Steelworkers plan parallel trip to Mexico during labour-excluded “Team Canada” trade mission usw.ca/labour-trade...

17-02-2006 UK: Royal Mail workers in Belfast return to work after a successful wildcat strike against victimisation. libcom.org/article/belf...

17-02-1993 UK: Over 300 workers sacked at Timex factory, Dundee after official strike over a pay freeze & redundancies.

17-02-1944 CANADA: Wartime unrest convinces the federal government to bring in an emergency order, P.C. 1003, which requires employers to recognize unions supported by the majority of employees. This sets a standard for postwar labour relations. digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/scholarly_wo...

17-02-1918 RUSSIA; Lenin orders the execution, deportation and imprisonment of sex workers.

17-02-1864 FRANCE: The "Manifesto of the sixty", signed and published by sixty workers from the Seine, called for workers' representation in Parliament.

USA: Unions face a fight for survival under Trump globallabourcolumn.org/2026/02/11/u...

POLAND: uniglobalunion.org/news/carrefo...