Five public sector union organisers from Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu recently spent a week with Australian sister unions in Sydney, exchanging organising strategies and learning from each other’s experiences.

In Indonesia’s coal heartland, workers face unsafe conditions, insecure jobs and exploitation. But they are organising for change. See how coal workers are fighting for decent work and safer workplaces.

Unions and activists alike took up the call around the country to organise Union Aid Abroad-APHEDA activities to foster solidarity between working people in Australia and around the world.

When governments attack aid and development, it’s often been union movement solidarity organisations like us that are hit first and hardest. This has certainly been the case for our sister organisations in Europe and the US, who have faced devastating cuts. At Union Aid Abroad–APHEDA, we have always understood this risk, but also know that worker-to-worker solidarity cannot be cut, regardless of who is in power.

The environmental toll of the textile and garment sector is staggering: mountains of fabric waste, and carbon-heavy transport crisscrossing the globe. These impacts aren’t abstract—they are experienced firsthand by workers and their communities.

Few people will be as impacted by the coal phase-out as coal workers will. Clearly, they need to front and centre of the planning for the closure of mines and deeply involved in the preparations for life after mining. Without the voice of workers and unions shaping these plans, there will be no just transition.  Through the Innovation Regions for a Just Energy Transition (IKIJET) project, Union Aid Abroad–APHEDA has […]