Production at Tate & Lyle's Amylum Starch Corporation in Adana, Turkey halted on March 5 when members of the IUF-affiliated Tekgida-Is launched an unlimited strike after 6 months of fruitless negotiations for a first collective agreement at the plant.

Workers across South Africa responded to COSATU's call for a national strike on March 7, bringing tens of thousands of people onto the streets in dozens of cities. The action has been described as the largest planned protest in the post-Apartheid era.

Developments in the Baltic countries rarely make the news, but the UK press has given extended coverage to global brewer Carlsberg's use of a court decision declaring beer an "essential service" to block strike action at its Lithuanian brewery.

In the midst of an unprecedented, nearly month-long series of hearings at the Ontario Labour Board involving unfair labour practices at three Accor Novotel hotels in the province, Accor continues to wage war against the fundamental rights of those who staff their branded hotels.

On International Women's Day, women workers at Nestlé are fighting discrimination and unequal treatment.

No progress has been made for more than a decade in closing the gender pay gap, according to a recent report by the ITUC (Frozen in time: Gender pay gap unchanged for 10 years)

Domestic workers won one of the best fought and most justified victories ever on June 16 2011 when ILO Convention 189 on Decent Work for Domestic Workers was adopted.

Support at home and abroad continues to build for the struggle for trade union rights at Nestlé factories in Indonesia and Pakistan.

The New York Hotel Trades Council, AFL-CIO has successfully concluded early negotiations for a new Industry-Wide Agreement with the Hotel Association of New York City, Inc. (the organization that represents the city’s hotel owners), covering about 21,000 of the union’s 32,000 members.

Spain's national trade union centers CC.OO and UGT together brought 1,8 million people onto the streets in 57 cities on February 19 to protest government labour legislation which dramatically weakens collective bargaining and workplace protection and facilitates redundancies.

On February 12 the Histadrut, Israel’s national trade union centre ended a four day national strike in support of non-union and exploited contract workers in the country.

Two IUF affiliates, the National Union of Workers in Australia and the New Zealand Dairy Workers Union have signed a cooperation agreement under the auspices of the IUF’s recently established Dairy Division.

Read more from NUW web site here.

Over 100 European trade union activists gathered at Unilever European headquarters in Rotterdam in the Netherlands on February 16 for a noisy protest against the company's attack on the pensions of workers in the UK.

Unite members at the food firm Vion in Cambuslang (near Glasgow) will walk out on 20th February in the first in a series of walkouts planned in a dispute over terms and conditions.