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UK: How mining banners helped shape communities past and present www.bbc.com/news/article...

How mining banners helped shape communities past and present

The colourful banners can be seen around north-east England, but why and what do they represent?

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LabourStart @labourstart.bsky.social · 1h

PHILIPPINES / CANADA: Filipino migrant workers in Canada call for livable wage, job security www.bulatlat.com/2025/10/11/f...

Filipino migrant workers in Canada call for livable wage, job security

“In an industry where precarious jobs, wage theft, unsafe conditions can be commonplace, where workers — especially migrants, women — face intimidation, fear of reprisal, for speaking up, it is not en...

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LabourStart @labourstart.bsky.social · 1h

GLOBAL: Teachers and their unions use innovative and empowering approaches to ensure the right to education for girls in all their diversity www.ei-ie.org/en/item/3149...

Teachers and their unions use innovative and empowering approaches to ensure the right to education for girls in all their diversity

On the International Day of the Girl Child and every day, educators around the world are fully committed to advancing girls’ rights through education.

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LabourStart @labourstart.bsky.social · 1h

NIGERIA: Dangote: Textile union defends Oshiomhole against NUPENG www.vanguardngr.com/2025/10/dang...

Dangote: Textile union defends Oshiomhole against NUPENG

Oshiomhole, former NLC leader acted patriotically in his remarks on the ongoing dispute between Dangote Refinery and PENGASSAN, NUPENG told

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LabourStart @labourstart.bsky.social · 1h

CAMBODIA: Unions Denounce Thai Military for Violating Sovereignty and Territorial Integrity www.khmertimeskh.com/501771266/ca...

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LabourStart @labourstart.bsky.social · 1h

FRANCE: Paris department store workers protest over Shein deal and mismanagement www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

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LabourStart @labourstart.bsky.social · 1h

AUSTRALIA: Women are $26,000 poorer in retirement due to unpaid super www.sda.au/news/women-a...

Women are $26,000 poorer in retirement due to unpaid super

A new report by the Super Members Council shows that Australian women are $26,000 worse off in savings by retirement because of unpaid superannuation.

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LabourStart @labourstart.bsky.social · 2h

AUSTRALIA / JAPAN: Zenkoku-Kowan letter of support for CBH Kwinana workers during lockout www.mua.org.au/news/zenkoku...

Zenkoku-Kowan letter of support for CBH Kwinana workers during lockout

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LabourStart @labourstart.bsky.social · 5h

CANADA: Canada Post workers will return to work, hoping Canadians take up their cause www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

Canada Post workers will return to work, hoping Canadians take up their cause | CBC News

Canadians should start receiving mail again on Tuesday, after Canada Post workers shift from nationwide strike action to a rotating strike on Saturday morning. CUPW, the union representing Canada Post...

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Chris Downs @chris-downs.bsky.social · 1d

This autumn there's a play about to be performed around the country by @raggedgore.bsky.social and Rukmini Sircar, telling the story of the Grunwick strike: #WeAreTheLionsMrManager
www.townsendproductions.org.uk/shows/we-are...

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LabourStart @labourstart.bsky.social · 6h

11-10-1873 USA: The Miners’ National Association is formed in Youngstown, Ohio, with the goal of uniting all miners, regardless of skill or ethnic background.

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LabourStart @labourstart.bsky.social · 1d

TURKIYE: At least 206 workers die in Türkiye in September, bringing 2025 toll to 1,566 www.turkiyetoday.com/nation/at-le...

At least 206 workers die in Türkiye in September, bringing 2025 toll to 1,566 - Türkiye Today

At least 206 workers die in Türkiye in September, bringing the total to 1,566 in 2025, with agriculture and construction among the deadliest sectors

www.turkiyetoday.com

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LabourStart @labourstart.bsky.social · 1d

INDIA: Karnataka becomes first Indian state to grant paid menstrual leave to all women maktoobmedia.com/india/karnat...

Karnataka becomes first Indian state to grant paid menstrual leave to all women

Karnataka has approved a groundbreaking policy that grants all women one day of paid menstrual leave each month, making it the first state in India to extend such benefits to women across both governm...

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LabourStart @labourstart.bsky.social · 1d

NIGERIA: NLC accuses govt, employers of weaponising court orders against workers www.vanguardngr.com/2025/10/nlc-...

NLC accuses govt, employers of weaponising court orders against workers

NLC has accused employers and government institutions of weaponising court injunctions to suppress the constitutional rights of Nigerian workers and their unions.

www.vanguardngr.com

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LabourStart @labourstart.bsky.social · 1d

UK: RMT welcomes Mayor’s call to pause visa changes affecting rail workers www.rmt.org.uk/news/rmt-wel...

RMT welcomes Mayor’s call to pause visa changes affecting rail workers

Transport union RMT today welcomed the intervention by the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, in calling for an urgent pause to damaging government changes to the Skilled Worker visa scheme which threaten t...

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LabourStart @labourstart.bsky.social · 1d

USA: Two movies document Starbucks union fight in Buffalo buffalonews.com/life-enterta...

Two movies document Starbucks union fight in Buffalo

The Starbucks union organizing campaign that started in Buffalo has inspired two films by documentary filmmakers. One is "Baristas vs. Billionaires," premiering at North Park Theatre Friday night, the...

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LabourStart @labourstart.bsky.social · 1d

GLOBAL: Sydney Congress: white-collar voices www.industriall-union.org/sydney-congr...

Sydney Congress: white-collar voices

Ahead of the IndustriALL upcoming Sydney Congress, 40 white-collar union delegates met online, 29 September 2025, to strategize on advancing their priorities in the debates.

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LabourStart @labourstart.bsky.social · 1d

AUSTRALIA: Activist seafarer returns to Oz www.thedcn.com.au/news/activis...

Activist seafarer returns to Australia

Activist seafarer Hamish Paterson returns to Australia after detention in Israel, sparking calls for justice and an end to Australian arms exports to Israel.

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LabourStart @labourstart.bsky.social · 1d

FRANCE: Players' union backs Rabiot over criticism of Serie A's Australia fixture www.straitstimes.com/sport/footba...

France's players' union backs Rabiot over criticism of Serie A's Australia fixture

France's players' union (UNFP) has thrown its support behind AC Milan midfielder Adrien Rabiot after Serie A Chief Executive Luigi De Siervo dismissed his concerns about scheduling Milan's league matc...

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LabourStart @labourstart.bsky.social · 1d

CANADA: Canada Post union says it will move from nationwide strike action to rotating strikes on Saturday www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Canada Post union says it will move from nationwide strike action to rotating strikes on Saturday | CBC News

The Canadian Union of Postal Workers, which represents 55,000 Canada Post workers, announced late Thursday that it will end its nationwide strike action and move to rotating strikes starting Saturday....

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LabourStart @labourstart.bsky.social · 1d

10-10-1947 AFRICA: Beginning of a 170-day strike ending 19 March 1948, in the railways of French-speaking West Africa. 20,000 strikers mobilized in all the territories of the former AOF under the slogan "For equal work, equal pay".

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LabourStart @labourstart.bsky.social · 1d

10-10-1933 USA: Pixley, CA: 18,000 cotton workers strike & ultimately win a pay raise; 4 workers killed during the strike.

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LabourStart @labourstart.bsky.social · 1d

10-10-1910 IRELAND: Huge torchlight march through Dublin to celebrate release of socialist and trade union leader James Larkin from jail.

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LabourStart @labourstart.bsky.social · 2d

09-10-1988 FRANCE: Wage strike by Eiffel Tower workers.

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LabourStart @labourstart.bsky.social · 2d

09-10-1913 NEW ZEALAND: In Huntly, miners at the Allison Taupiri Coal Company strike after the dismissal of 16 of theirs, including 3 recently elected union officials. This is the start of The Great Strike.

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