Attack on workers’ unions
Bolsonaro faces senate inquiry as pandemic worsens in Brazil and other stories
Today we look at a Senate inquiry into Brazil’s Covid response, protest actions by port workers and drivers in the US,the Biden administration’s approval of a weapons deal with the UAE, and civilian killings by Eritrean troops in Tigray
Indian trade unions protest attack on workers’ rights
Ten central trade unions in India issued a nationwide protest call against the changes being made to labour laws.
Torrent Pharmaceutical workers face repression for unionizing in Himachal Pradesh
The management forced workers to resign from the union, and victimized union office bearers and workers through unilateral transfers and suspensions.
Trump’s new Medicaid rule prohibits automatic payment of union dues
Critics of the new rule view it as an attack on the workers’ right to unionize and as a move to diminish the unions’ influence by targeting their funds.
- Trump’s retaliatory sanctions over Netanyahu arrest warrant halt work of International Criminal Court
- Iran reasserts its right to maintain peaceful nuclear program as US talks show new promise
- 100,000 march for Palestine in The Hague as Europe marks Nakba Day
- Anti-austerity march to oppose Labour government cuts
- Kurdish PKK group to disband, ending 40-year armed struggle with Türkiye
