The 107-day strike by the IUF-affiliated Tekgida-Is at Tate & Lyle's Amylum Starch Corporation in Adana, Turkey ended on June 20 when agreement was reached on wages and social benefits.

Seventy-one trade unionists, members of unions of the Confederation of Public Sector Trade Unions (KESK), including its head, were detained across the country using the pretext of an operation against the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) on June 25.

On June 15 60 trade union and worker rights activists were arrested by heavily armed police at a peaceful meeting of the Coordinating Committee to Help Form Workers' Organizations in the city of Karaj. Most were released within 24 hours, but nine remain in the custody of the intelligence services.

In recent years up to 80 million hectares of land have been bought up - often at giveaway prices -- by financial investors, sovereign wealth funds and transnational corporations, a process which has come to be known as 'landgrabbing'.

On June 7-8, 2012, 1,200 poultry workers at Pilgrim's Pride in Russellville, in the US state of Alabama voted overwhelmingly to join the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU).

The Representatives of ITF, PSI, IUF, ICEM, UNI, CGU and union confederations of Turkey met with the Turkish Labour Minister in Geneva on June 12.

Casual workers in an Australian workplace supplied by global temp giant Manpower are required to wear barcodes, reports the National Union of Workers (NUW).

Despite challenging times for our movement IUF members had important wins in recent weeks.