INDIA: Elderly domestic workers surviving on delayed, insufficient pensions demand hike thehindu.com/news/cities/ch…

SOUTH AFRICA: Union vows to continue Germiston strike until demands are met jacarandafm.com/news/news/unio…

KOSOVO: The latest decision of the Telecom Board is leading workers to strike reporteri.net/en/lajme/vendi…

NIGERIA: Enugu Judiciary Staff Go On Strike Over Unpaid Salary Arrears nigeriainfo.fm/news/homepage/…

SENEGAL: General strike announced in the primary sector: Workers demand their housing allowance seneweb.com/en/news/8/grev…

New campaign! NEXT shuts down Sri Lanka’s only unionised garment factory. Show your solidarity here & please share widely: labourstartcampaigns.net/show_campaign.…

16-09-1912 CANADA: Vancouver Island coal miners begin what becomes a two-year strike for workplace safety and union recognition. To defeat the miners' union, the companies bring in strikebreakers and the province calls out the militia. thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/van…

16-09-1913 CANADA: The New Brunswick Federation of Labour is organized at Saint John, New Brunswick, with James L. Sugrue as president. Today it is the provincial federation in Canada with the second longest continuous history. read.aupress.ca/read/provincia…

16-09-1917 AUSTRALIA: Eva Lynch, a member of the IWW union in Australia, Is arrested while addressing a meeting in Sydney where she was training women public speakers to try to keep the union alive while so many of the men were in prison. workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e19-th…

CYPRUS: Fight over fair pay for all heats up knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/business/fi…

1,474 supporters on Day 1. Can we bring that up to 2,000 today? Please share widely: labourstartcampaigns.net/show_campaign.…

17-09-1871 GLOBAL: International Workingmen’s Association begins conference in London, though attendance disrupted by Franco-Prussian war.

17-09-1871 UK: London conference of the IWA until the 23rd. Karl Marx has the principle of the constitution of the proletariat as a political party adopted in each country.

17-09-1900 USA: 100,000 anthracite miners on strike in Pennsylvania. They are paid by weight but employers estimate that a ton can weigh between 2,400 and 4,000 pounds, not 2,000.

International Equal Pay Day 2025: Trade unions are key to closing the gender pay gap ituc-csi.org/international-…

CANADA: Union leaders to meet with workers of Amazon facility in Delta, B.C. ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/union-lea…

JAPAN: Pension reforms needed in Japan as women's work styles evolve mainichi.jp/english/articl…

BELARUS: Two Top Union Leaders Released from Political Imprisonment in Belarus solidaritycenter.org/two-top-union-…

AUSTRALIA: Sectoral Bargaining Reforms Show Early Promise americanprogress.org/article/austra…

ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA: Paula C. M. Lee to Headline ABWU’s 58th Delegates Conference antigua.news/2025/09/16/pau…