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Workers’ rights are inseparable from global justice. While workers have long built cross-border movements for rights and solidarity, the people and institutions that uphold international cooperation are increasingly under attack.

The Big Ride for Palestine-Australia is back and ready to commemorate ten years of solidarity with the Palestinian people.

SJTTL, Timor-Leste’s largest sectoral union established in 2008, has been working to expand their private sector membership, develop workplace delegates, educate workers about labour law and social security, and build stronger systems for collective bargaining and complaints handling.

Myanmar diaspora in Sydney gathered with political leaders, activists and supporters to amplify calls for democracy, human rights and international recognition of Myanmar's legitimate representatives. Specifically, the call is to back the permanent representative to the United Nations, Kyaw Moe Tun, who is being targeted by Myanmar's military-backed government, which claims he was undertaking "illegal activities" and that his status had been revoked and withdrawn.

The Samoa Workers Congress (SWC) has taken an important step toward strengthening the voice of working people by bringing together its Executive Committee to develop a plan to build a stronger, more representative trade union movement.

The Brazilian Supreme Court has confirmed that Brazil’s 2017 ban on asbestos includes mining asbestos for export.  Brazil now joins Canada as a large former producer of chrysotile asbestos, which has banned chrysotile from being mined, exported, used, or manufactured into asbestos-containing materials.

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.

In July 2026, the Philippine Department of Health launched a new National Framework for the Prevention of Asbestos-Related Diseases, establishing a national policy direction for preventing asbestos-related diseases, strengthening awareness of asbestos regulations, and promoting coordinated efforts to prevent them.

Care work is essential. But in Indonesia, the workers who provide it –most of them women–are too often undervalued, underpaid, and conditions are far from decent work.