Trade unions from North and South are coming together for a series of virtual meetings during July, August and September, 2020, to discuss the implications of the COVID-19 crisis and find fresh ways to strengthen global worker solidarity.

Beneficiaries of the PPP included a lettuce farming venture backed by Trump’s son, Kushner companies, and a dentist who golfs with the president. The figures were released after a lawsuit by several news organizations, including ProPublica.

"An increasing number of Palestinians work in Israeli settlements. Depending on the source, between 23,000 and 34,000 Palestinian men and women were working in the settlements in 2019. Many Palestinian interlocutors stressed that taking such work was a last resort for Palestinians, particularly Palestinian women, and that working in settlements carried a social stigma. Figures vary, but the mission received information that around 2,500 women in the Jordan Valley work in the settlements, mainly in agriculture and domestic work. ... The challenges in enforcing workers’ rights in settlements are ongoing. The mission was informed that abuses of Palestinian workers’ rights continued in the settlements in 2019, in particular the non-application of the minimum wage and occupational safety and health requirements, as well as harassment and violence by supervisors and Israeli security force personnel. ... A growing number of Palestinian men and women work in the Israeli labour market. A number of interlocutors reiterated the structural disadvantages that these workers face. These include limited opportunities and prospects, movement restrictions and low awareness of rights, compounded by a permit system binding the Palestinian worker to a specific employer, cash wages and fictitious reporting of social benefits. Whether or not they have permits, few Palestinians have written or oral employment contracts, and only just over 40 per cent receive wage slips. ... Bipartite and tripartite social dialogue on a draft trade union organization law continued in 2019 and early 2020, with little progress made. While the Ministry of Labour and the PGFTU have expressed full commitment to finalizing the draft law in 2020 and to aligning it with the Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948 (No. 87), and the Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention, 1949 (No. 98), disagreements have persisted."

A new bill introduced Tuesday would restore "balance" in the workplace by legislating restrictions on where unions can picket and how they can use membership dues to finance political activities, says Alberta's labour minister.

Bill 32, introduced in the legislature by Labour and Immigration Minister Jason Copping, proposes changes to employment standards and the labour relations code.