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All work has dignity, and all workers deserve to be treated with respect by their employers. Trade unions play a decisive role in improving working conditions, safety and wages – yet some governments and employers systematically abuse the right of workers to join existing unions or form new ones. PSI works actively to support the right of workers to free collective bargaining, and to help stop abuses when they occur.

West African trade unions hold strategic workshop

26 July 2016

Further to the re-launch conference in October 2015, the Organization of Trade Unions of West Africa (OTUWA) organised a strategic planning workshop with the primary objective of developing a strategic plan to guide OTUWA's engagements, operations and activities in the next five years. The workshop was held from May 11-13, 2016 at Hotel De Bently, Utako, Abuja, Nigeria.

Global union leaders personally investigate victimisation of South Korean trade unionists

25 July 2016

Global union leaders will be in court in Seoul tomorrow (26 July), to witness the latest in a series of unjust trials of South Korean union leaders. They will then report on what they have seen directly outside the building.

The response of public sector workers to the 16 April earthquake in Ecuador

21 July 2016

Through the testimonies collected, it was found that these workers are not seen as victims, although they also lost their homes, clothes and food. In addition, they had to leave their families to meet their obligations in the public sector.

Turkey: thousands of public workers arrested and removed from their jobs

20 July 2016
Workers removed from their jobs after attempted coup in Turkey

It is with much concern that PSI has received news from Turkey indicating that thousands of public workers have been arrested, suspended and removed from their jobs over the last few days, as a follow-up to last weekend’s attempted coup.

Nigerian public workers rally against state policy on wages and privatisation

08 July 2016
Workers rally in Oyo, Nigeria

Oyo state public service workers held a rally on 15 June to protest unpaid salaries and proposed privatization of some schools.

Call for support to the academics threatened to be imprisoned

08 July 2016
Academics for Peace

Turkish scholars have been subject to heavy pressures and constraints since the declaration of the petition “We’ll not be a party to this crime” launched by the Academics for Peace initiative in mid-January.

All-Ukrainian Protest March

07 July 2016
All-Ukranian protest march 6 June

On 6 June over 50 thousand trade union members and workers from all over Ukraine gathered in Kyiv for the All-Ukrainian Protest March. Under the slogan «EUROPEAN PRICES - EUROPEAN WAGES!», they rallied near the Parliament and Government houses, protesting against the shock increases in gas price and communal tariffs.