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Philippines: Trade Unions Face An Environment Of Violence
Wednesday, 21 March 2012, 10:40 am | ITUC
International Trade Union Confederation ITUC OnLine Philippines: Trade Unions Face An Environment Of Violence And Intimidation Brussels, 22 March 2012 (ITUC OnLine): The ITUC is releasing today a report on core labour standards in Philippines that ... More >>
As Profits Announced, Unions Pressure DHL: Guarantee Rights
Thursday, 8 March 2012, 11:38 am | ITUC
Brussels, 7 March 2012 (ITUC OnLine): As DHL makes ready to announce solid profits in Frankfurt tomorrow a coalition of global union organisations is challenging the company to prove its respect for the workforce that helped generate them. As part ... More >>
Frozen In Time: Gender Pay Gap Remains Unchanged For 10 Yrs
Thursday, 8 March 2012, 11:04 am | ITUC
Asia shows greatest wage difference between men and women New industry ranking puts domestic workers on largest gender pay gap Women in unionised sectors are less likely to be discriminated against More >>
Trinidad and Tobago: Restrictions of the Right to Organise
Thursday, 8 March 2012, 10:59 am | ITUC
Brussels, 7 March 2012 (ITUC OnLine): The ITUC is releasing today a report on core labour standards in Trinidad and Tobago, coinciding with the Trade Policy Review of the country at the WTO. The report finds excessive restrictions to the right to ... More >>
ITUC Newsletter 1 - March 2012
Monday, 5 March 2012, 12:55 pm | ITUC
N°1 / March 2012 Trade unions on the move for Rio+20 ACT NOW! Domestic workers - 12 by 12 START NOW! More >>
Egypt: ITUC Call to Drop All Charges Against Kamal Abbas
Monday, 5 March 2012, 12:50 pm | ITUC
International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) ITUC OnLine Brussels, 1 March 2012 (ITUC OnLine): The ITUC is calling on the Egyptian authorities to withdraw all charges and annul the sentence of 26 February against Kamal Abbas, the general coordinator ... More >>
Spotlight interview with Salman Jaffar Al Mahfoodh
Monday, 5 March 2012, 12:43 pm | ITUC
Unlike Tunisia, Egypt and Libya, the Arab spring in Bahrain did not lead to democratic reforms nor to the end of an autocratic regime. The authorities responded to the demand for freedom with harsh repression and unprecedented violence on protesters, ... More >>
Algeria: 40 Contract Teachers Arrested
Wednesday, 29 February 2012, 9:14 am | ITUC
Brussels, 28 February 2012 (ITUC OnLine): Forty unionised contract teachers affiliated to the SNAPAP have been arrested in Algeria. The president and general secretary of the National Council of Contract Teachers have also been arrested. The ITUC has ... More >>
Belarus: Climate for Workers’ Rights is Worsening
Saturday, 25 February 2012, 8:03 pm | ITUC
Brussels, 24 February 2012 (ITUC OnLine): The ITUC has called on Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko to stop a new round of anti-union harassment against workers at the RUPP “Granite” company in Brest. Some 600 workers from the construction ... More >>
Workers' Rights: London Olympics Committee
Friday, 24 February 2012, 3:33 pm | ITUC
London Olympics Committee to Get Tougher with Supplier Factories on Workers’ Rights: IOC Should Set High Standards Too Brussels 23 February 2012 (ITUC OnLine): With the organisers of the London 2012 Olympics introducing new measures to protect workers ... More >>
Turkey: ITUC Report - Govt’s Failure to Protect Workers
Wednesday, 22 February 2012, 3:25 pm | ITUC
Brussels, 21 February 2012 (ITUC OnLine): A new ITUC report released today strongly criticizes the Turkish government’s failure to protect workers from exploitation and intimidation by private-sector employers and state authorities. Weak and poorly-enforced ... More >>
Turkey: Repression Against Women Trade Unionists
Saturday, 18 February 2012, 9:05 pm | ITUC
INTERNATIONAL TRADE UNION CONFEDERATION (ITUC) ITUC OnLine Turkey: Repression Against Women Trade Unionists Brussels, 17 February 2012 (ITUC OnLine): The ongoing police harassment of public Turkish trade unions has this time targeted women. On 13 February, ... More >>
SITRABI Target of Deadly Anti-Union Repression in Guatemala
Saturday, 11 February 2012, 2:23 pm | ITUC
Brussels, 9 February 2012 (ITUC OnLine): Miguel Angel González Ramírez, a member of the Izabal banana workers' union SITRABI, was killed on 5 February. He was shot several times whilst carrying his young child in his arms. More >>
Spotlight Interview With Pari Moses (Malaysia – MTUC)
Thursday, 9 February 2012, 11:27 am | ITUC
Brussels, 8 February 2012 (ITUC OnLine): The vast majority of domestic workers in Malaysia are migrants, mainly from Indonesia. The MTUC (1) is running a project aimed at preventing the abuses and exploitation they often face. Interview with project ... More >>
Discrimination Against Foreign Workers and Forced Labour
Wednesday, 8 February 2012, 3:49 pm | ITUC
Brussels, 7 February 2012 (ITUC OnLine): A new report from the International Trade Union Confederation on workers’ rights in Kuwait reveals restrictions on labour rights, extensive use of forced labour and discrimination in law and in practice. ... More >>
Workers’ Rights Endangered in Greece
Wednesday, 8 February 2012, 2:51 pm | ITUC
Brussels, 7 February 2012 (ITUC OnLine): The ITUC has condemned the attacks on workers’ rights in the current demands being made of the Greek government by the European Union and the IMF . The international trade union movement has urged all parties ... More >>
Syria: Assad Refusal of Peace Plan Will Deepen Conflict
Friday, 3 February 2012, 12:11 pm | ITUC
Brussels, 2 February 2012 (ITUC OnLine): The rejection of Arab League peace proposals by Syrian ruler Bashar al Assad means that yet more innocent women, men and children will lose their lives as the regime clings to power against massive internal opposition. ... More >>
Govts Urged to Act on UN Jobs and Social Protection Call
Friday, 3 February 2012, 12:07 pm | ITUC
Brussels, 2 February 2012 (ITUC OnLine): The ITUC has welcomed calls by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon for governments to act on job creation and universal social protection in a report being presented at the UN Commission on Social Development. “We welcome ... More >>
Nepal: Child Labour and Forced Labour Remain Problems
Friday, 3 February 2012, 10:10 am | ITUC
Brussels, 1 February 2012 (ITUC OnLine): A new report by the ITUC on core labour standards in Nepal, published to coincide with the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) review of its trade policies, reveals some serious violations of fundamental workers’ ... More >>
Somalia: Freedom of Press in Danger
Wednesday, 1 February 2012, 1:31 pm | ITUC
Brussels, 31 January 2012 (ITUC OnLine): Hassan Osman Abdi, a leading Somalia journalist, was followed from his work place, shot and riddled with bullets on Saturday 28 January. He died on his way to the hospital. The ITUC strongly condemns this murder and calls ... More >>
