Corporate giants are using their wealth to weaken workers’ rights and undermine democracy. The ITUC’s new report names six companies, including Palantir – and cites EPSU research with CICTAR and @psiglobalunion.bsky.social on how it benefits from European public contracts while paying little tax 👇

Workers are the ones who create wealth for major companies – but this wealth is being used to union bust, subvert policy in the interests of private capital, and fund the far right. @ituc.bsky.social exposes corporations who undermine democracy. www.ituc-csi.org/corporate-un...

Corporate Underminers of Democracy 2026

The report Corporate Underminers of Democracy presents an annual selection of emblematic companies that violate trade union and human rights, consolidate industry power, evade taxes and social respons...

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Some corporations don't just harm workers. They undermine democracy. ➡️ Discover our latest report: buff.ly/YU4tSnU Find out which companies and billionaire owners are profiting while ❌ Violating workers' rights ❌ Influencing politics for private gain ❌ Fueling far-right agendas #FightforDemocracy

Democracy should deliver for working people. ✊ For our rights 🦺 For our safety 💶 For our livelihoods ❤️ For our dignity When we organise together, we win. 📣 This International #DemocracyDay, join the #FightForDemocracy ✊ Join a union

Looking forward to talking shop with the #manifiesta crowd. US workers are fighting for their lives against a govt hell bent on busting unions and the left, led by a far-right billionaire obsessed with lake names and ballrooms @meganromer.bsky.social manifiesta.be/fr/line-up/l...

🎉That's a wrap on #ITUSA2026! Ten days, 17 countries, countless ideas & one shared commitment: building stronger, more democratic trade unions.✊🌍 Safe travels to everyone heading home to turn these ideas into action. Solidarity!❤️ #YoungWorkers #YouthLeadership #FutureOfWork @oegb.bsky.social

Trade unions out front at the European march against war and for welfare, in Brussels:

Big win in the fight for democracy at work and against the impunity of big tech. This convention can provide leverage for national campaigners trying to regulate platforms and trade unions organising and bargaining inside these companies. www.ituc-csi.org/global-prote...

2025 was NOT a good year for worker rights in the US: "perhaps the biggest act of union busting in the nation’s history" "millions of workers being left without access to justice" "use of immigration enforcement..to quell...freedom of expression, assembly, and association"

ITUC@ituc.bsky.social · 5mo ago

📢JUST LAUNCHED 🗣️“The #RightsIndex26 shows that the crisis for workers’ rights is no longer confined to the margins - it is now at the heart of democracies. Governments are failing to protect working people & in many cases are actively undermining them.” @luctriangle.bsky.social 👉 buff.ly/ykzBtQw

An algorithm can decide if you work today, how much you earn... or if you’re deactivated with no appeal. In June 2026, the ILO votes on global protections for platform workers. We break it down on Collective Voices 🎧 www.ituc-csi.org/ituc-podcast...

✊ From Peru’s presidential runoff to the fight for platform workers’ rights, CATP & CUT Peru are mobilising in the #FightForDemocracy! Together with ITUC & TUCA, unions are organising for an ILO convention on platform work and rights for all workers. 🌍⚖️

The ITUC welcomes the Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice, confirming that the #RightToStrike is protected under International Labour Organization Convention No. 87 on Freedom of Association & Protection of the Right to Organise. 🔗 Learn more: buff.ly/NoE6RIo #FightForDemocracy

US employers spend over $1.5 billion annually to fight their workers' unionization efforts www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

US employers spend more than $1.5bn a year to fight labor unions, report finds

Critics say employers spend money hiring union-avoidance consultants and lawyers while not investing in workers

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A new Greenpeace report, “Amazon’s Toxic Web Services,” reveals for the first time how systematically AWS does business with companies that are criticized worldwide for serious environmental or human rights violations. #MakeAmazonPay www.greenpeace.de/pdf/Amazons_...

✊Thousands took to the streets of Bxl today to say NO to the Arizona government’s attacks on pensions, social dialogue and wage indexation Workers & unions are standing together to defend fair wages, strong social protections & democratic dialogue #ForDemocracy @fgtb.bsky.social @lacsc.bsky.social

Solidarity with @fgtb.bsky.social @acv-csc-europe.bsky.social and all the working people on strike across Belgium today. 👊 ✊️

✊#FightForDemocracy = rights for ALL workers — including platform workers! 🌍Workers from 15 countries met in Kenya 🇰🇪 to push for fair pay, protections & a voice ahead of the ILC. ⚠️Tech billionaires won’t decide our future. 🔥It’s time to deliver rights for platform workers! @fesonline.bsky.social

Avec @8meicoalitie.bsky.social à la gare centrale pour commémorer le 8 mai et les femmes résistantes qui ont combattu le fascisme🔻🌹

301 financial institutions are heavily involved in the nuclear weapons industry—a 15% increase compared to previous findings. Workers’ savings, pensions & public funds should support decent work & sustainable development—not weapons of mass destruction. Is your bank or pension fund on the list?

ICAN@nuclearban.bsky.social · 6mo ago

🗣️The 2026 #DontBankontheBomb report, shows that 301 financial institutions are heavily involved in the nuclear weapons industry. That is a 15% increase compared to previous findings. Is your bank or pension fund on the list? Check it out: icanw.org/investors_su... #NuclearBan

✊🌍 #FightForDemocracy is also a fight for solidarity ITUC & ITUC Asia Pacific held the first South Asia Youth Leadership Academy in Sri Lanka. When unions empower young workers to lead, solidarity grows, more workers organise, and democracy flourishes ✨

Democracy works when workers’ rights are protected 💪 Don’t miss this powerful conversation on migrant & platform workers’ rights 🗓 23 April 2026 | ⏰ 11:00–12:30 CEST Hear real stories. Learn real solutions. Take action. 👉 Save your spot today: buff.ly/lOpkkbQ #FightForDemocracy

When entire sections of the working class are denied their rights to organise, bargain, and strike, as is too often the case for migrant and platform workers, do they really have democracy? That's why unions organise alongside them from the shop floor to the UN. Join us:

ITUC@ituc.bsky.social · 7mo ago

✊ #FightForDemocracy by amplifying the voices of migrant and platform workers! Join our webinar to hear from global union leaders and advocates working to secure rights, dignity, and protections for workers everywhere. 🎤 Featuring speakers from Fiji, Kenya, Kuwait, Italy & ITUC 🔗 buff.ly/lOpkkbQ

🛑 Think unions are just an old folks’ thing? Think again. In EP1 “Why Join a Union?”, we sit down with Todd Brogan @organise.bsky.social to talk about why collective power hits different when you're trying to survive in today’s economy. 🎧 Catch up now: buff.ly/nZpsZyy

Solidarity to my Belgian comrades on day 3 of the strikes. Austerity never, solidarity forever! Solidarité et courage à mes camarades et voisins belges en ce 3ième jour de grève! Solidariteit aan mijn Belgische kameraden en buren op dag 3 van de stakingen!

📢 #NorthropGrumman named in ITUC’s Corporate Underminers of Democracy 2025 🚀 Biggest profiteer of nuclear weapons. Silent funder of anti-democratic politics. Their business? Endless war. Their cost? Our future. 📎 Full report: buff.ly/xlWRV3y #WarProfiteers #NuclearThreat #ForDemocracy

Solidarity with my comrades at @fgtb.bsky.social @csc-acv-brussels.bsky.social and all of the workers and formations mobilised in Belgium today against the attacks on our livelihoods and our rights. 👊 ✊️

ENTRETIEN avec le directeur des campagnes et de la mobilisation au sein de la Confédération syndicale internationale (CSI), Todd Brogan, @organise.bsky.social. www.equaltimes.org/depenses-soc...

Dépenses sociales vs. défense : « On ne peut protéger un mode de vie en le privant de financement », souligne Todd Brogan de la CSI

Le rapport Ces entreprises qui menacent la démocratie 2025 examine la menace grandissante que sept entreprises mortifères (Amazon, Meta, Palantir, Anduril, Northrop Grumman, SpaceX, Vanguard) font pes...

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🗣️“You cannot protect a way of life by defunding it.” – @organise.bsky.social Redirecting social spending to arms manufacturers won’t make the world safer — it’s eroding democracy and empowering billionaires. 🔗 Read @equaltimes.bsky.social interview: www.equaltimes.org/ituc-campaig...

ITUC campaigns director Todd Brogan on the global trend of rerouting social spending to defence: “You cannot protect a way of life by defunding it”

The Corporate Underminers of Democracy 2025 report analyses the growing threat to our rights and freedoms posed by seven deadly corporations (Amazon, Meta, Palantir, Anduril, Northrop Grumman, SpaceX,...

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🎥Building Power and Democracy at Work with #MigrantWorkers 🗣️ “Migrant workers are indispensable to the global economy, yet their basic rights — especially the right to freedom of association & collective bargaining — are often denied.” Irem Arf @ituc.bsky.social 📺 buff.ly/IsNjEoo 📰 buff.ly/c685VGz

🧭 The countdown is ON! 🌍 Join us this 7 October at 13:30 CEST for the World Day for Decent Work webinar! 💬 Let’s talk about democracy that delivers – for workers, for justice, and for a fairer future. ✊🏽⚖️ 👷🏾♀️👨🏼🏫👩🏻⚕️ Decent work is a right, not a privilege. 🔗 Register now: buff.ly/EwL9xFW #WDDW2025