• Stop G4S

    Is G4S the worst company in the world?

    Whether it’s supporting Israeli apartheid, killing asylum seekers, failing in its obligations at the Olympics, or illegally detaining South African prisoners, G4S is the future of outsourced security.

    We’ll be using this page to turn the focus on this global security giant, and to support the campaign to Stop G4S.

    Stop G4S

    Walmart destroys Mexico's cultural heritage

    Part of the ancient Teotihuacán site, pictured right, is now underneath a Walmart, after Walmart bribed local officials. Walmart destroys Mexico’s cultural heritage for profit.

     

    More

    Walmart Watch

    Walmart is the biggest private sector employer in the world.  Whether they’re undermining wages or building stores on ancient archaeological sites, let’s keep an eye on them.

     

    Watch

    Justice for Aminul Islam

    Bangladeshi garment workers’ union leader Aminul Islam was tortured and murdered in April this year. Support the campaign to bring his killers to justice.

     

    Support

    Bangladesh: Demand Justice!

    More than 1,000 workers died – and the lives of their families ripped apart - when a factory making clothes for Primark, Matalan and Mango collapsed. Demand that these UK high street retailers take responsibility for their supply chains.

    There are four things you can do right now:

    Take action

    Tell Walmart and Disney to compensate Tazreen fire victims

    The Tazreen Fashion fire in Bangladesh killed 112 workers in November last year. Some brands have compensated family members for their loss, but Walmart and Disney refuse.

    Support

  • Video

  • Brasil

    Protests in Turkey and Brazil, the UK banks, and land rights in South Africa

    Protests in Turkey and Brazil, the UK’s banks, and land rights in South Africa. Watch the [...]

    Protests in Brazil and ERT in Greece

    Protests in Brazil and ERT in Greece – your dose of #dailyoutrage from Union Solidarity [...]

    A Short History of Brazilian Trade Unions

    From state surveillance to a transnational future… By Lucy McMahon Brazilian workers [...]

    • BigBlueButton

    Meeting
    Name
    Password

    Follow us

    Donate

  • News

    Unions shame Turkish PM with worldwide actions

    British trade unions, the TUC (Trades Union Congress) and Turkish community groups will be among those joining the ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) in London tomorrow to protest at the savage repression taking place in Istanbul. [...]

    Food security, peasant movements and the G8

    - By Walton Pantland Today is the 100 year anniversary of the passing of the Native Land Act in South Africa. At the time the brilliant South African intellectual Sol Plaatje, the first general secretary of the organisation that would become the [...]

    Protests in Turkey and Brazil, the UK banks, and land rights in South Africa

    Protests in Turkey and Brazil, the UK’s banks, and land rights in South Africa. Watch the video: Or download the podcast:     Download Protests in Turkey are ongoing and the international trade union movement has called for days of [...]

    America: right-wing legal attack on gay marriage and equality

    By Jeff Monahan The Supreme Court of the United States heard oral arguments in March about the constitutionality of the Defense Of Marriage Act (DOMA) and California’s Proposition 8, both of which condemn gay marriage in different ways.  The [...]

    Protests in Brazil and ERT in Greece

    Protests in Brazil and ERT in Greece – your dose of #dailyoutrage from Union Solidarity International. Watch the video:   Or download the podcast: Download Monday night saw seven Brazilian cities rocked by massive protests as between [...]

    Charlie Donnelly of the National Union of Workers on union issues in Australia

    We speak to Charlie Donnelly the National Secretary of the National Union of Workers on union issues in Australia. Charlie gives USi an update on the NUW’s major campaigns including the growing problem of casualisation in the labour market in [...]

    Turkey resists: a report from DISK and a call for international support

    The people’s resistance and mobilisation is in its 20th day. Since 8 pm Saturday night, in Taksim Square and many districts there have been non-stop clashes with police. Police have used excessive violence and have attacked peaceful protesters [...]

    Death Becomes Us - reflections on life, death and political struggle

    - By James Martin “The life of the dead is placed on the memories of the living. The love you gave in life keeps people alive beyond their time. Anyone who was given love will always live on in another’s heart” – Marcus Tullius Cicero [...]

    The Fallout from Prism and General Strike in Turkey

    The Fallout from Prism and General Strike in Turkey – welcome to your daily dose of outrage from Union Solidarity International. Watch the video:   Or download the podcast. Download Two Turkish trade union confederations have gone on [...]

  • RSS USi » Podcast

    • Protests in Turkey and Brazil, the UK banks, and land rights in South Africa
      Protests in Turkey and Brazil, the UK’s banks, and land rights in South Africa. Watch the video: Or download the podcast:     Download Protests in Turkey are ongoing and the international trade union movement has called for days of action against the Turkish government on Friday the 21st and Saturday the 22nd of June. […]
    • Protests in Brazil and ERT in Greece
      Protests in Brazil and ERT in Greece – your dose of #dailyoutrage from Union Solidarity International. Watch the video:   Or download the podcast: Download Monday night saw seven Brazilian cities rocked by massive protests as between 100,000 and 200,000 people took to the streets. The biggest protests Brazil has seen since the end of […]
    • Charlie Donnelly of the National Union of Workers on union issues in Australia
      We speak to Charlie Donnelly the National Secretary of the National Union of Workers on union issues in Australia. Charlie gives USi an update on the NUW’s major campaigns including the growing problem of casualisation in the labour market in the logistics sector. In response to this issue the union has launched a brilliant campaign called […]
    • The Fallout from Prism and General Strike in Turkey
      The Fallout from Prism and General Strike in Turkey – welcome to your daily dose of outrage from Union Solidarity International. Watch the video:   Or download the podcast. Download Two Turkish trade union confederations have gone on strike today to protest against the treatment of demonstrators. They are joined by the doctors’ dentists’ and […]
    • Wage theft, zero hour contracts, unpaid internships and Eurozone unemployment
      We talk about wage theft, zero hour contracts, unpaid internships and Eurozone unemployment. Watch the video:   Or download the podcast: Download Latest figures from Eurostat shows growing unemployment across Europe. The highest unemployment is in Greece, Spain, Italy, Portugal and Cyprus, and shows the devastating effect of austerity on these societies. You […]
    • lovingly designed and powered by Mass1