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COLOMBIA: Oil Workers Threaten Strike Unless Ecopetrol CEO Quits bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

NEW ZEALAND: How a crucial 45-minute meeting between ministers took pay equity claims away from tens of thousands of women rnz.co.nz/news/top/59010…

USA: Sex workers are fighting to own their likenesses in an AI world 19thnews.org/2026/03/sex-wo…

INDONESIA: Journalists assaulted while reporting on tin mining dispute ifj.org/media-centre/n…

TANZANIA: Union, Zanzibar govts move to expand job opportunities dailynews.co.tz/union-zanzibar…

GLOBAL: CSW70: Decent work recognised as essential for women’s access to justice ituc-csi.org/csw-70-ituc-st…

SOUTH AFRICA: Collective bargaining changes lives for South African workers industriall-union.org/collective-bar…

INDIA: Unions unite around organizing and Just Transition industriall-union.org/india-council-…

MEXICO: CISO Denounces Shooting of Striking Tornel Workers mexicosolidarity.com/quebec-labour-…

SOUTH AFRICA: Bus strike looms over Easter weekend as wage talks deadlock witness.co.za/news/2026/03/1…

GERMANY: Bus and tram strikes hit several states hard dw.com/en/germany-new…

SAUDI ARABIA / GLOBAL: Cease and desist: Saudi Arabia wants a repeat of the Qatar World Cup – little or no accountability over the treatment of migrant workers josimarfootball.com/2026/03/19/cea…

ROMANIA: 30,000 bank workers in Romania to be left without sector-wide collective bargaining protections uniglobalunion.org/news/30000-ban…

BELIZE: What’s next for stevedores? amandala.com.bz/news/whats-nex…

NORTH MACEDONIA: International Trade Union Confederation: It is unacceptable for a full-time worker to receive a salary below the poverty line gazetaexpress.com/en/The-Interna…

NEW ZEALAND: Fuel crisis hitting home support workers hardest as mileage rate falls further behind etu.nz/fuel-crisis-hi…

CANADA / ISRAEL: The Labour Push to Declare Israeli Goods Untouchable pressprogress.ca/labour-for-pal…

20-03-2001 BRAZIL: The giant P-36 oil platform, operated by Petrobras, sinks following a series of explosions which occurred on March 15 and which left 11 dead.

20-03-1960 MOROCCO: The General Union of Workers of Morocco (UGTM) affiliated to the Party of the Istiqlal is created following a split within the Moroccan Union of Labor (UMT).

20-03-1955 MOROCCO: The Moroccan Labour Union (UMT) is created and begins to organize clandestinely.