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With a Presidential decision dated March 19, 2021 and issued by President and ruling AKP Chair Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Turkey has withdrawn from the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence. The President of Turkey was strategically waiting for the best time to pull the trigger. In Turkey,…

Unions have launched an international letter-sending campaign to protest the mass job cuts at Douglas Perfumerie. The cosmetics retail chain announced a mass layoff of 2500 jobs across Europe and is undermining meaningful negotiations with workers’ unions. Stand with the workers and send a letter to the CEO (also in German, Spanish and Italian). Getting…

Since 2014, the year when the Jacobs family pulled out of Adecco, the workers have been denouncing that the Adecco Group has increasingly steered towards a short-termist management approach. According to its workers, Adecco moved from being run as a family company to a management focused almost exclusively on returns to investors, disregarding a frenetic…

The elected leaders of 106 workers’ unions from 29 countries have written to the European Commission President to call for governments to commit to only signing contracts with companies that respect their workers. Public procurement accounts for €2 trillion per year or over 13% of the EU’s GDP. This money, spent by governments and public…

Workers in the performing arts in France call for the reopening of the sector and the guarantee of social rights for intermittent cultural workers. Since 4 March, performing arts workers have been occupying the legendary Odéon theatre in Paris. The beginning of the action marks the first anniversary of the closure of the sector and…