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Amid rising global challenges, including the surge in populist right-wing ideologies and authoritarian governments, the global union movement stands firm in its commitment to gender equality and women’s rights.

From Brazil and Mexico to South Africa and Malaysia, international labor solidarity is aiding the UAW’s fight to reverse the global race to the bottom.

We should use all our leverage to influence corporations, civil society, our government to support projects around the world committed to working-class liberation without unconditional support or unconditional condemnation of any particular regime.

Global labor leaders weigh in on the myriad ways the right is threatening organizing efforts. If we want to fight the global pandemic of right-wing extremism, w need to learn from each other, and operate with international solidarity.

At the International Labour Conference, PSI has also underlined that corporates that made huge profits at the expense of workers and people’s rights are to be held accountable for the multi-layer crisis we are facing.

The primary, leading aspect for change in the US labor movement should be recovering lost bargaining power through organizing the unorganized, including through cross-border campaigns.

Our world order, globalized from above, cries out for a globalized response from below, a new international fit for the purpose of system transformation in the twenty-first century

The systematic and deliberate withholding of wages of seafarers working on the high seas thousands of miles from home effectively amounts to a form of compulsion requiring workers to remain in abusive working and living conditions.

The Indonesian union OPPUK (Organisasi Penguatan dan Pengembangan Usaha-Usaha Kerakyatan) representing palm oil workers indirectly employed by PepsiCo and the Teamsters in the United States representing about 200,000 PepsiCo workers in North America reaffirmed their solidarity in a shared fight for global labor and human rights.