Tracy Adhiambo is a secretary for the Amalgamated Union of Kenya Metal Workers. Last year she was part of a youth group that received strategic ICT training from IFWEA through a collaboration with IndustriALL. Part of the training involved learning how to make a database for Collective Bargaining Agreements (CBAs)... read more →
Mar
01
Feb
28
February 2023 - "One year since it launched its illegal and brutal invasion of Ukraine, Russia’s campaign of murder and terror against the Ukrainian people continues, with the complicity of Belarus." So says the ITUC in a statement released to coincide with the marking of a year since the brutal... read more →
Feb
16
Nina Langit-Garcia is based in the Philippines, and she joins the IFWEA Secretariat as an Educator/Online Education Assistant. We asked Nina how she came to be involved in workers’ education, and what she is looking forward to this year: Tell us a bit about your background, and how you came... read more →
Jan
31
January 2023 - Leaders of independent trade unions have been sentenced by a court in Belarus to harsh prison terms up to nine years on politically motivated charges. At least 16 leaders and activists of independent unions have already been sentenced to lengthy prison terms or restriction of freedom. This... read more →
Jan
31
Garikanai Shoko is the Regional Education Officer for BWI Africa and the Middle East, responsible for all programmes in the region but also working closely with BWI sub regional coordinators and affiliates project coordinators. Education and training is one of the areas he works on to ensure BWI Africa capacitates... read more →
Jan
20
Myrtle Witbooi, a pioneering leader of the domestic worker movement died on January 16 2023 in Cape Town at age 75. Under South Africa’s apartheid rule, she began to organise women in the garage of her employer and went on to become president of the first global union led by... read more →
Nov
29
December 2022 - As the FIFA World Cup is played out Qatar, BWI and its trade union affiliates are calling for a global wave of support for migrant workers amongst activists, football fans, players, sports communities and the general public. In a statement backing the #WithMigrantWorkers campaign, it was pointed... read more →
Nov
28
The 24th International General Conference of IFWEA will take place in Cape Town, South Africa, for two days between Monday 4 December to Friday 8 December 2023. The theme of the 24th GC will be “Education for Empowerment”. Invitations will be circulated to all affiliates in March 2023. IFWEA’s International... read more →
Nov
15
November 2022 - The Building and Woodworkers’ International (BWI) General Secretary Ambet E. Yuson has released a statement from COP27 in Sharm El Sheik, Egypt, calling for “real action” from COP27 leaders. The statement asserts that “for most workers in the construction, wood and forestry, and building materials sectors, the... read more →
Nov
10
Picture: A young Namrata Bali, IFWEA Vice-President and Director of SEWA, with Ela Ramesh Bhatt Ela Ramesh Bhatt, founder of Self Employed Women's Association (SEWA) in India and a pioneer in advocating for women workers' rights, passed away on 2 November 2022, aged 89. Elaben, as she was affectionately known,... read more →
Oct
21
Meet the 2022 YGAP delegates here. See the Postcard presentation videos here See the YGAP 2022 Postcards here For the first time since 2019, the flagship IFWEA Youth Globalisation Awareness Programme (YGAP) was held in person, at Community House in Cape Town, South Africa. Nineteen participants from organisations including ISD,... read more →
Oct
11
What does ‘Education for the future’ hold for us? Introduction IFWEA Secretariat Educators Renaldi Prinsloo and Melanie Julie, attended and presented at the annual Moodle Moot Global 2022 conference this year in Barcelona, Spain, with the theme 'Education for the Future'. Our participants from the global IFWEA community are already... read more →
Sep
28
Arnaldo Forty Montero Colque is Project Director at the NGO CEPRODE (Center for the Promotion of Democracy, Dialogue and Development) in Bolivia. He lives in La Paz, and is part of the IFWEA study circle on C190. Here he talks about his experiences so far: How long have you been... read more →
Sep
19
This year in the IFWEA Training of Trainers course: Digital tools and methods for conducting online trade union activities, DGB Bildungswerk is supporting its partner Public Service International (PSI). Dr. Everline Aketch is the PSI Sub-regional Secretary for English-Speaking Africa, based in Uganda. She speaks to us about her background... read more →
Aug
31
This year in the IFWEA Training of Trainers course: Digital tools and methods for conducting online trade union activities, DGB Bildungswerk is supporting its partner Public Service International (PSI), of which The Democratic Nursing Organisation of South Africa (DENOSA) is a member. Immaculate Mbali from KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa is... read more →
Aug
29
August 2022 - Russian forces are cracking down on teachers and education in occupied territories in Ukraine. According to Serhiy Shkarlet, Ukraine’s Minister of Education and Science, the Russian army is burning Ukrainian books and threatening, arresting, and torturing teachers in the Kherson region for teaching the Ukrainian curriculum. In... read more →
Aug
29
IFWEA Secretariat educators Melanie Julie and Renaldi Prinsloo’s paper on OLA has been accepted for presentation at the Moodle Global Conference “Education for the future” in Barcelona in September 2022. The conference will feature presentations and workshops by a range of presenters from around the globe, on topics focusing on... read more →
Aug
10
Siyabulela Mama works at the Centre for Post-School Education and Training (CIPSET), which is attached to the Nelson Mandela University in Gqeberha, South Africa. He’s a Community and Worker Educator, and has been with CIPSET since 2018. He is currently helping to co-ordinate the IFWEA study circle on Climate Change... read more →
Jul
29
We spoke to Christy Shabeena Muthukumar, who works at the Institute of Social Development (ISD), an IFWEA affiliate which is a non-governmental organisation located in Kandy, Sri Lanka. The organisation was established in 1991 by a group of activists who engage in the field of human rights, labour, gender, and... read more →
Jul
26
September 2022 - The Building and Woodworkers’ International (BWI), representing 12 million workers worldwide, has condemned the military junta of Myanmar for the brutal execution of four democracy activists who were accused of “terror acts.” BWI extends its deepest condolences and solidarity to the families, comrades and friends of Kyaw... read more →