An overtime boycott by 530 union members at The Leela Hotel in Mumbai entered its second week as the campaign for casual workers’ rights at one of the city’s most expensive luxury hotels continues.

In the early morning on January 28, Juan Carlos Muñoz, a SINTRAINAGRO member, was murdered by gunmen on his way to board a bus to take him to work in the sugar cane fields in Colombia's Cauca River Valley.

IUF-affiliated NUW members at Lion in Crestmead struck for 24 hours on Christmas Eve after negotiations with the company failed to reach a fair outcome for Queensland workers.

Mondelez CEO Irene Rosenfeld has been granted a USD 10 million 'special equity award' of stock in the new company, less than three months after Mondelez was ripped out of the former Kraft Foods Inc.

Thousands of workers from Germany`s largest beverage company, Coca-Cola (CCE AG) organized by IUF affiliated NGG will be staging 2 weeks of warning strikes at about 60 sites of Coca-Cola in Germany against the company`s plan over restructuring, job cuts and more flexible working hours.

The IUF- affiliated Unia has won a major victory in its 5-year fight for the rights of 14 Domino's Pizza workers in Geneva. Unia has successfully established that home-delivery restaurants were covered under the national hotel/restaurant agreement and revealed the scandalous working conditions at Domino's.

Housekeeping and restaurant workers at Las Vegas casino-hotels owned by Station Casinos LLC and operated by Fertitta Entertainment LLC continue to fight for a fair process to exercise their right to union organization following the October 2 decision of the National Labor Relations Board to uphold an earlier legal ruling that the company committed 87 unfair labor practices in its anti-union campaign.

New Zealand's Service and Food Workers Union (SFWU) is targeting the Foreign Ministry in support of the struggle for reinstatement of 22 unfairly dismissed union workers at the Conrad Hilton Rangali Islands Resort in Maldives.