INDIA: Delivery apps brace for mega strike on New Year’s Eve as unions mobilise 150,000 workers across India www.newindianexpress.com/nation/2025/...

AUSTRALIA: Calls for national strategy to tackle apprentice hazing and protect workers’ mental health www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

INDIA: Gig workers’ strike: Union president calls for removal of 10-minute delivery model economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technol...

BRAZIL: Workers union accepts Petrobras counteroffer to end two-week strike www.bairdmaritime.com/offshore/dri...

NORWAY; Workers with 'salmon asthma' may be entitled to compensation from their employer www.intrafish.com/processing/w...

CANADA: This year in labour: workers fight back despite instability and hardship rabble.ca/labour/this-...

31-12-2011 CANADA: In Alma, Quebec, Rio Tinto Alcan locks out members of Local 9490, United Steelworkers, in an attempt to replace all retiring workers with non-union contract employees. This is followed by a successful six-month global solidarity campaign.

31-12-1969 USA: Rank-and-file UMWA activist Jock Yablonski is murdered along with his family by hitmen acting on the orders of union president.

31-12-1968 AUSTRALIA: John Smith Garden, Australian trade unionist & founding member of Communist Party of Australia, dies.

31-12-1958 CANADA: In Newfoundland, members of the International Woodworkers of America go on strike against the Anglo-Newfoundland Development Company. When Premier Joe Smallwood decertifies the union, the struggle draws international attention. www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/n...

NETHERLANDS: Albert Heijn accused of firing warehouse worker who organized strike for colleagues nltimes.nl/2025/12/29/a...

BOLIVIA: General Strike Led by Miners’ Union Continues orinocotribune.com/bolivia-gene...

UK: Women say ill-fitting PPE leaves them unsafe at work scaffmag.com/scaffolding-...

PAKISTAN: Outgoing year turns out grim for educators tribune.com.pk/story/258453...

INDIA: Workers win 20-year court battle against Nirma Group, still await wages www.thenewsminute.com/karnataka/ka...

BANGLADESH: Echoes of unity: EWCSA's enduring call for collective bargaining among informal women workers www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/3...

VIETNAM: No bonus, no jobs: Thousands of Vietnam garment workers struggle as Korean factory shuts down before Tet e.vnexpress.net/news/news/no...

SINGAPORE: NTUC Budget 2026 wishlist: Mental health, job security top youth concerns www.ntuc.org.sg/uportal/news...

NIGERIA: Labour raises alarm over upsurge in casualisation by shipping companies www.vanguardngr.com/2025/12/labo...

30-12-1936 USA: The most famous of the Depression-era "sit down" strikes in the US begins at GM's Fisher Body plant in Flint, Michigan.[more] www.history.com/this-day-in-...

30-12-1899 USA: In the back room of Behrens’ cigar shop in Sedalia, Missiouri, US, 33 railroad clerks form Local Lodge Number 1 of the Order of the Railroad Clerks of America.

30-12-1862 UK: Manchester textile workers meet and decide to refuse to handle cotton from US slave states. US President Lincoln sends his thanks. Within a year destitute workers and their families receive food and clothing from ex-slaves and abolitionists.

GHANA: PUWU-TUC kicks against ‘hasty’ private sector participation move for ECG www.myjoyonline.com/puwu-tuc-kic...

IRELAND: ‘Make sure you’re enrolled’ – unions advise workers to check they are signed up for My Future Fund pension scheme www.msn.com/en-ie/money/...

SOUTH KOREA: Nonregular Blue House workers stage three-step prostration protest demanding job security biz.chosun.com/en/en-societ...

SRI LANKA: No bonus : Group of Airport workers protest www.newswire.lk/2025/12/29/n...

BOLIVIA: Miners Lead Ongoing Strike: Labor Federation Mobilizes Against Government’s Fuel Price Hike www.elciudadano.com/en/bolivias-...

BRAZIL: Labour court orders 80% of Petrobras workforce to stay in place www.reuters.com/business/wor...

GUYANA: Aurora Gold Mines workers strike and demand 10% salary increase newssourcegy.com/news/aurora-...

INDIA: Gig Workers Strike for Dignity and Protection progressive.international/wire/2025-12...

USA: Unionized hospitality workers in Houston saw ‘historic’ wins in 2025. More could see gains in 2026 www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/new...

CANADA: Air Canada faces turbulence ahead as labour negotiations loom in 2026, could spark biggest disruptions since August strike www.red94.net/news/93294-a...

A new Photo of the Week: UK employers have resisted the implementation of equal-pay-for-equal-work but last week GMB announced that as a result its campaigning, 100s of 1000s of women working in the care, cleaning and catering, have won £1 billion in back pay. (Photo: GMB)

29-12-1983 TUNISIA: “Bread riots”. Bourguiba increases the cost of basic foodstuffs causing riots in particular in Sfax and Tunis. 70 dead.

29-12-1975 UK: Sex Discrimination & Equal Pay Acts enacted in England to prevent women being paid less than men for the same job. Over forty years later women still earn, on average, 9% less than men.

29-12-1958 CANADA: Television screens on the French-language network go blank in Québec with the start of a strike by producers at Radio-Canada that lasts 70 days. With wide public support in the province, the producers win union recognition. www.cbc.ca/history/EPIS...

29-12-1948 INDIA: Hind Mazdoor Sabha (Workers Assembly of India) national trade union centre is founded.

29-12-1912 RUSSIA: Gold miners in Lena, Siberia, go on strike when the canteen serves them rotten meat. The movement grew despite the massacre of 250 strikers and continued until August when the last left the region rather than give in.

29-12-1884 AUSTRALIA: Edward Theodore, founder of Amalgamated Workers’ Assn & forerunner of Australian Workers’ Union (AWU), is born.

29-12-1876 CANADA: Grand Trunk Railway workers in eastern Ontario go on strike in support of fired co-workers. The four-day strike is broken by the use of scabs and militia. www.erudit.org/en/journals/...

UK: Trade unions leader calls on Labour to forge closer relationship with Europe www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

INDONESIA: Unions Ready to Protest and Sue the Government Against the 2026 Minimum Wage www.kompas.id/artikel/en-t...

BRAZIL: Oil workers' strike continues in Northern Rio de Janeiro state: employees rejected Petrobras' proposal, but the state-owned company signals further progress in the collective agreement. en.clickpetroleoegas.com.br/Oil-workers%...

INDIA: HC: All employees can join trade union, take part in its polls timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai...

PORTUGAL: Airport Strikes To Hit Portugal Over The New Year www.travelandleisureasia.com/hk/news/airp...

28-12-1973 FINLAND: Trade Union of Education in Finland (Opetusalan Ammattijärjestö) founded.

28-12-1973 USA: Skylab Mutiny began when one of the crew members killed all communication with NASA's ground control and the men spent the rest of the day relaxing and looking out the window at Earth. Crew said that 16-hr days amounted to being overworked. libcom.org/article/skyl...

28-12-1960 BELGIUM: Spontaneously, workers in union meetings and street demonstrations themselves set the next goal of the general strike: a march on Brussels and a direct confrontation with the state.

28-12-1936 USA: Workers occupy General Motors' body plant in Fisher, Cleveland, in an effort to win recognition of their union by GM.

28-12-1917 FRANCE: Banks in Paris are shut as financial services workers strike.