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The Australian Council of Trade Unions - The ACTU website has links to international solidarity work. The Airline Pilots Association - ALPA has a statement about the the importance of being an international union. The Association of Flight Attendants - AFA is urging the Immigration and Naturalization Service to investigate Tower Air's inequitable treatment Israeli flight attendants. Communications International - The international trade secretariat has a solidarity page with links to information on current strikes and other issues around the world, as well as information on how to send letters of protest supporting workers. The Communication Workers of America - CWA has a number of publications on-line and retrievable via key word search on their search engine. Education International - the international trade secretariat has an action page detailing the ways they are working internationally in support of human rights. The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers - The IAM International Affairs Department has a web page with several links to international news and information. The International Brotherhood of Teamsters - The IBT has a NAFTA Section which provides Teamster positions and news about NAFTA and a NAFTA and Trucking section which details the unions position about trucking after NAFTA. The International Federation of Building and Wood Workers - the international federation has two ways in which it supports trade union and human rights internationally: Urgent Action appeals and Solidarity appeals. Both are available from this link. The International Federation of Chemical Energy, Mine and General Workers supports a number of struggles and provides ICEM Update, an occasional labor update you can subscribe to via e-mail. You may visit the ICEM Rio Tinto Cybercampaign against the largest privately-owned mining company in the world, or check out their cybercampaign in support of Russian Workers struggling to recoup unpaid wages. The International Federation of Journalists - The IFJ has a solidarity site with information on why the federation works on trade union and human rights and other information. The International Longshore and Warehouse Union - urgent action page with news on 'ongoing campaigns' and 'coalition/solidarity' The International Transport Workers' Federation - The ITF has a solidarity page that is regularly updated with information on strikes worldwide and what individuals can do tosupport other workers. The ITF writes "The ITF was created out of solidarity between striking workers and we still believe that the best way for transport workers to build global structures is by backing other workers in their struggles." The International Union of Food, Agriculture, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco, and Allied Workers' Associations - The IUF website includes an urgent actions page with information on struggles they are addressing and ways you can protest with them. They also have information on which hotels to use in various countries and provide reasons why certain hotels should be avoided. Laborers' International Union of North America - This is LIUNA's homepage which has a link to its international affairs department webpage The Maritime Union of Australia - MUA has a great site with information on the 1998 disputes at the docks in Australia, the role of international solidarity, and more. Public Services International Urgent Actions - Urgent Actions protests can get unionists out of jail, make employers negotiate in good faith, lift a ban on trade union rights, or change repressive labour legislation... These pages contain the latest protests and Urgent Actions launched by PSI. Individual members of public sector unions can participate in these actions by writing to the relevant authorities or employers. The Steelworkers Humanity Fund - In the 1980s, the Steelworkers started an NGO funded by a one-cent paycheck deduction. The fund supports dozens of development projects throughout the world. Their website also a has a page which describes how the Steelworkers worked internationally in their struggle against Bridgestone/Firestone . UNITE ! has several international campaigns underway against sweatshops. The United Auto Workers - the UAW has a number of articles about the Han Young struggle in Tijuana, where workers are fighting to organize an independent union at the Hyundai contractor. The articles are accessible by using the UAW's search engine to search for pages that include "Han Young." Or, Click here to view an article about how the UAW, Steelworkers and Machinists are working together to file complaints under the NAFTA's labor side accord. The union's on-line magazine Solidarity features a number of articles on related topics such as the struggle with the autoparts maker Echlin, now part of the Dana Corporation. United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE) International Solidarity Page United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE) International Labor Information and Action Site - a joint project of the UE and the Authentic Workers Front (FAT), an independent labor union in Mexico, to build international solidarity and mutual support in Canada, Mexico and the U.S. World Confederation of Labor's Cross Border Union Work Page - details what the WCL does in terms of cross border work. |
