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Unions are flying the flag for equality
Saturday, 18 May 2019, 12:26 pm | ITUC
On International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia (IDAHOT), trade unions reaffirm their commitment to expressing solidarity through diversity: no discrimination, no exceptions. The ITUC celebrates the progress that has been made towards equality, ... More >>
Uber IPO is a bad bet
Saturday, 11 May 2019, 11:18 am | ITUC
Loss-making Uber’s stock market float is a bad bet on a business that is facing a precarious future, according to the world’s main trade union body the ITUC. The company is facing strike and boycott actions called by its drivers in several countries ... More >>
May Day 2019: the time has come for a New Social Contract
Wednesday, 1 May 2019, 10:12 am | ITUC
With inequality soaring and corporations capturing an ever-greater share of wealth and holding governments to ransom, the ITUC is calling for a new social contract, backed by a universal labour guarantee, in this the Centenary year of the International ... More >>
Removing dangerous substances from the workplace
Monday, 29 April 2019, 9:27 am | ITUC
Every 11 seconds a person loses their life because of lethal working conditions. While awareness is growing, cancer remains the number one workplace killer in many countries. On this International Workers’ Memorial Day, the ITUC is calling for ... More >>
Striking for peace in Colombia
Saturday, 27 April 2019, 3:28 pm | ITUC
Working people took to the streets in their thousands yesterday in defence of the peace agreement in Colombia. Unions called a national strike in response to proposals currently being discussed in parliament that would undermine the peace process and ... More >>
Unions Call for Action on Marine Pollution
Thursday, 7 March 2019, 9:41 am | ITUC
UN Environment Assembly: Unions Call for Action on Plastics Pollution, Toxic Chemicals and Marine Pollution More >>
This International Women’s Day, let’s call time on Violence
Thursday, 7 March 2019, 9:33 am | ITUC
Gender-based violence blights the lives of millions of women. It excludes women from the world of work and often stigmatises them within their communities. More >>
World support for Indian unions over worker protections
Saturday, 23 February 2019, 12:36 pm | ITUC
International support for Indian unions over destruction of worker protections More >>
Trade unions win minimum wage increase in Nigeria
Friday, 1 February 2019, 9:40 am | ITUC
The ITUC has welcomed progress towards a minimum wage increase of sixty-six per cent in Nigeria. Trade unions won parliamentary support for the improvement amid last minute attempts to dilute the terms of the jointly agreed increase. “This is great ... More >>
“E-commerce” push at WTO threatens to undermine labour
Saturday, 26 January 2019, 10:54 am | ITUC
The ITUC has warned that new trade rules currently being tabled would place severe restrictions on governments’ ability to regulate in the interests of working people. The proposals, which come under the banner of the “e-commerce agenda”, have far-reaching ... More >>
Trade unions ramp up opposition to Hungary’s ‘slave law’
Thursday, 20 December 2018, 1:09 pm | ITUC
Brussels, 19 December 2018 (ITUC OnLine): Tens of thousands have taken to the streets in opposition to a new law that imposes drastic measures on working people in Hungary. The contentious law increases the limit on overtime to 400 hours a year and breaches ... More >>
Ryanair’s Michael O’Leary wins ITUC’s World’s Worst Boss
Saturday, 8 December 2018, 1:00 pm | ITUC
Copenhagen, 6 December 2018 (ITUC Online): Michael O’Leary was announced as winner of the world’s worst boss at the 4th International Trade Union Confederation World Congress in Copenhagen. The ITUC representing 207 million workers, is meeting in ... More >>
India: Alarming Erosion of Labour Laws
Saturday, 17 November 2018, 1:51 pm | ITUC
Brussels, 16 November 2018 (ITUC OnLine): The ITUC has expressed alarm at a wholesale erosion of labour laws initiated by the Indian government, and pledged full support for a general strike in protest against the changes planned for 5 January. The global ... More >>
World Bank and IMF should support a new social contract
Friday, 12 October 2018, 10:43 am | ITUC
Brussels, 11 October 2018 (ITUC OnLine): The ITUC and its Global Unions partners, in a statement ahead of the IFI Annual Meetings taking place 12-14 October in Bali, Indonesia, are urging the international financial institutions to support a sustainable ... More >>
UN General Assembly calls for new social contract
Wednesday, 26 September 2018, 10:00 am | ITUC
The UN General Assembly (UNGA) opened in New York this week with Assembly President María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés saying, “The world needs a social contract based on shared responsibility, and the only forum that we have to achieve this global ... More >>
Major win for Mexican workers
Saturday, 22 September 2018, 10:48 am | ITUC
Brussels, 21 September 2018 (ITUC OnLine): The decision by the Mexican Senate on 20 September to ratify ILO Convention 98 on the Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining is a major victory for Mexican workers, following a sustained campaign ... More >>
Argentina: General Strike Planned
Saturday, 15 September 2018, 11:03 am | ITUC
Brussels, 14 September 2018 (ITUC OnLine): The ITUC’s affiliates in Argentina, CGT, CTA-A and CTA-T have announced a general strike for 24-25 September in opposition to expected sweeping austerity measures being developed by the government and the ... More >>
Belarus: Two Union Leaders Sentenced Despite Lack of Proof
Tuesday, 28 August 2018, 10:07 am | ITUC
The ITUC has described the 24 August sentencing of Belarusian trade union leaders Gennady Fedynich and Ihar Komlik, from the Radio and Electronics Industry Workers’ union REP, as a travesty of justice. The two were sentenced to four years’ suspended ... More >>
Zimbabwe Elections: Military unleash violence
Friday, 3 August 2018, 9:26 am | ITUC
Zimbabwe Elections: Military unleash violence on peaceful assembly of protesters, gunshots fired at trade union offices More >>
US Supreme Court Decision a Victory for Corporate Greed
Friday, 29 June 2018, 8:56 am | ITUC
Brussels, 28 June 2018 (ITUC OnLine): The decision by the US Supreme Court on the “Janus” case on 27 June, which allows public sector workers who are not union members to benefit for free from union-negotiated collective bargaining, is a victory ... More >>
