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Minimum Global Corporate Tax Rate: A Launchpad For Greater Ambition
Tuesday, 12 October 2021, 6:35 am | ITUC
The ITUC has welcomed the agreement by 136 countries on global tax reform, which includes a 15% minimum global tax rate, but it must be the beginning of changing the system so big companies pay their fair share. ITUC General Secretary Sharan Burrow ... More >>
French Senate Recognises Myanmar National Unity Government
Thursday, 7 October 2021, 7:15 am | ITUC
The ITUC has welcomed the pioneering decision by the French Senate to recognise the National Unity Government (NUG) as the official government of Myanmar. The Senate, the upper house of the French parliament, adopted the resolution unanimously. ITUC ... More >>
7 October – World Day For Decent Work (#WDDW): Just Jobs
Wednesday, 6 October 2021, 7:03 am | ITUC
With trade unions and workers’ rights supporters mobilising around the world on October 7, the World Day for Decent Work, the ITUC is calling for governments to adopt national jobs plans based on dialogue with unions and employers. Every country ... More >>
UNGA76: ITUC Supports The Secretary-General’s “Global Accelerator For Jobs And Social Protection”
Friday, 1 October 2021, 6:48 am | ITUC
The ITUC has welcomed the Global Accelerator announced by the UN Secretary-General António Guterres and its target for jobs and social protection. The policy brief sets out a target to create at least 400 million jobs by 2030, primarily in the green ... More >>
ITUC Condemns Wave Of Attacks On Belarusian Trade Unionists
Friday, 24 September 2021, 5:50 am | ITUC
The ITUC has condemned the latest attacks by the regime of Alexander Lukashenko in Belarus on the independent trade union movement there. Earlier in September , senior activists from the Belarusian Independent Trade Union (BITU) and members of ... More >>
World Bank “Doing Business” Report Goes Out Of Business
Thursday, 23 September 2021, 6:02 am | ITUC
The World Bank’s decision to terminate its discredited “Doing Business” report is long overdue. The annual report for the past 18 years graded and ranked countries according to whether their regulatory or tax regimes were sufficiently pro-business. ... More >>
Hong Kong: ITUC Affiliate HKCTU To Disband
Wednesday, 22 September 2021, 6:16 am | ITUC
In recent months the HKCTU and its member organisations have faced unprecedented attacks, intimidation and allegations of offences under the national security law. The personal safety of union leaders has also been threatened. The HKCTU’s decision ... More >>
New ILO/WHO Work Fatality Figures Must Spur Action
Wednesday, 22 September 2021, 6:14 am | ITUC
New figures jointly released by the ILO and the WHO identify that 19 work-related risk factors cause some two million deaths each year. However, adding in causes of death by risk factors not included in the joint report and filling in information ... More >>
Myanmar: Action For The National Unity Government
Thursday, 16 September 2021, 6:06 am | ITUC
To mark the International Day of Democracy , the Global Unions are stepping up their campaign in support of democracy in Myanmar. On 1 February, the military seized power. More than 1,000 peaceful, pro-democracy protesters have been killed, and more than ... More >>
ITUC Welcomes UN Secretary-General’s Report “Our Common Agenda”
Thursday, 16 September 2021, 5:58 am | ITUC
A much-anticipated report from UN Secretary-General António Guterres backs the call for a renewed social contract, setting out an ambitious plan for multilateral action to address the multiple crises facing the world. The report contrasts two ... More >>
Tunisia: ITUC Backs UGTT Call For Early Election
Wednesday, 15 September 2021, 6:58 am | ITUC
The ITUC is supporting a call by the Tunisian General Labour Union (UGTT) for early parliamentary elections to break a democratic paralysis. UGTT Secretary General Noureddine Taboubi has called for a national vote to bring in a new legislature to provoke a ... More >>
Global COVID-19 Vaccine Deficit Is A Scandal
Tuesday, 14 September 2021, 6:01 am | ITUC
The revelation in a World Health Organization (WHO) statement that just 20% of people in low- and lower-middle-income countries will have been vaccinated against COVID-19 by the end of this year is a scandal of epic proportions. Around 80% of people in ... More >>
Ukraine: ITUC Concerned About Wave Of Regressive Labour Laws
Saturday, 11 September 2021, 5:45 am | ITUC
The ITUC has written jointly with the ETUC to senior politicians in Ukraine to raise serious concerns about ongoing regressive labour reforms in the country. Several draft laws are being considered by the Verkhovna Rada (the Ukrainian parliament) ... More >>
Korea: Release KCTU President
Friday, 3 September 2021, 7:15 am | ITUC
The ITUC and its Asia-Pacific regional organisation, ITUC-Asia Pacific, are demanding the immediate release of the president of the KCTU Korea, Yang Kyeung-soo, from detention. ITUC General Secretary Sharan Burrow said: “The charges against Yang are wrong ... More >>
ITUC Welcomes ILO World Social Protection Report 2020-22
Thursday, 2 September 2021, 6:41 am | ITUC
The new International Labour Organization (ILO) report on social protection exposes the huge gaps in social protection coverage around the world, with 47% of people having no social protection at all, and a further 22% lacking full protection in ... More >>
Kyrgyzstan: ITUC Welcomes Veto Of Anti-worker Bill
Wednesday, 1 September 2021, 6:35 am | ITUC
The ITUC has praised the decision by the president of Kyrgyzstan, Sadyr Japarov, to veto a new law on trade unions. The law was drafted by the Parliament without properly consulting workers unions, competent government officials or the expertise ... More >>
World Day For Decent Work: Just Jobs
Saturday, 28 August 2021, 5:41 am | ITUC
With more than 200 million jobs lost to the pandemic, another hundred million still at risk and large numbers of unemployed people – the vast majority of whom are women – simply dropping out of the labour market, the World Day for Decent Work ... More >>
Belarus Repression Intensifies
Wednesday, 18 August 2021, 6:34 am | ITUC
One year after Belarus’s Alexander Lukashenko claimed victory in flawed presidential elections, the repression of independent trade unions and other civil society organisations has intensified. The authorities are dissolving the journalists’ union BAJ and ... More >>
Afghanistan: International Community Must Act To Defend Human Rights
Wednesday, 18 August 2021, 6:23 am | ITUC
The ITUC has welcomed a call by UN Secretary-General António Guterres for “all possible tools” to be used to stop human rights atrocities in Afghanistan, where the Taliban has rapidly taken control of the country after decades of international ... More >>
ITUC declares arrest warrant against KCTU President “Wrong"
Sunday, 15 August 2021, 5:13 am | ITUC
The issuing of an arrest warrant against KCTU Korea President, Yang Kyeung-soo, by the Seoul Central District Court is wrong and disproportionate. More >>
