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Trade Unions at the Top of the World
Saturday, 28 May 2011, 2:54 pm | ITUC
INTERNATIONAL TRADE UNION CONFEDERATION (ITUC) ITUC OnLine 109/270511 Trade Unions at the Top of the World Brussels/Kathmandu, 27 May 2011 (ITUC OnLine): A member of Nepal’s Sherpa trade union, Dorje Khatri, yesterday planted the ITUC flag on the ... More >>
Syria: ITUC Supports Call for General Strike on 18 May
Wednesday, 18 May 2011, 11:52 am | ITUC
As the repression against the popular uprising throughout the country continues, Syria's opposition has called for a general strike today. The strike call comes as the AFP news agency reports that dozens of bodies are lying in the streets of Tall ... More >>
Spotlight on Ukrainian trade unionist Irina Livkovich
Friday, 13 May 2011, 9:30 am | ITUC
Irina Livkovich used to be an economist but is now the head of the women's committee of PIT.Ua, a union for IT people in Ukraine. The Women's Committee was created under the Decisions for Life project, and as a direct result its mission is more or less ... More >>
Georgia: Europe’s Black Sheep for Workers’ Rights
Friday, 6 May 2011, 10:56 am | ITUC
Georgia is rapidly becoming the black sheep of workers’ rights in Europe. The workers are being pressed to work in unhealthy and dangerous environments, trade union activists are being dismissed, and trade union leaders are being harassed and threatened. The ... More >>
Arab Workers Demands for Jobs and Rights Across the Region
Tuesday, 3 May 2011, 12:07 pm | ITUC
Tens of thousands of people across the Arab world have demonstrated to demand decent jobs, social justice and an end to repression on May Day. At trade union rallies across the region, from Iraq in the east to Mauritania in the west, workers from ... More >>
Winds of change for social justice and democracy
Friday, 29 April 2011, 8:09 pm | ITUC
"Winds of change for social justice and democracy 1 May 2011" "Brussels, 1 May 2001 - common statement of the ITUC and its Global Unions partners". Brussels, 29 April 2011 (ITUC OnLine): Today as trade unionists around the world celebrate ... More >>
Paraguay under scrutiny to achieve compliance with ILO
Thursday, 28 April 2011, 11:18 am | ITUC
A new report by the ITUC on core labour standards in Paraguay, published to coincide with the World Trade Organisation's (WTO) review of its trade policies, has found that the government does not effectively enforce its laws on trade union rights. More >>
ITUC Condemns IKEA Anti-union Discrimination Practices in US
Thursday, 28 April 2011, 11:15 am | ITUC
The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) representing 175 million workers in 151 countries and territories is alarmed at the delay of responsibility of the furniture giant IKEA regarding the anti-union discrimination practices in Danville, ... More >>
Anti-regulation agenda threatens health and safety - ITUC
Thursday, 28 April 2011, 11:05 am | ITUC
International trade unions are warning of the potentially devastating effect of business lobbying to weaken protection for worker's health and safety as workers across the world take part in the International Commemoration Day for Dead and Injured Workers ... More >>
ITUC urges Bahrain to stop attack on trade union movement
Thursday, 21 April 2011, 9:56 am | ITUC
The authorities in Bahrain have launched an all-out attack on the Bahraini trade union movement, says the International Trade Union Confederation. More >>
IMF backs ITUC analysis on global jobless and inequality
Friday, 15 April 2011, 10:34 am | ITUC
The international trade union movement is calling on the international financial institutions (IFIs) to change course in their policy directions and to pay as much attention to employment deficits as they do to fiscal deficits by taking coordinated ... More >>
Madrid Climate Dialogue: Call For Green And Decent Jobs
Wednesday, 13 April 2011, 10:23 am | ITUC
Madrid/Brussels, 12 April 2011 (ITUC OnLine): International trade union leaders meeting today in Madrid with the UN Panel on Sustainability and business and ngo representatives are calling for decisive and ambitious climate action in the lead-up to the Durban ... More >>
Swaziland: Democracy Protests Meet Violent Reaction
Wednesday, 13 April 2011, 10:18 am | ITUC
Brussels, 12 April 2011 (ITUC OnLine): Widespread pro-democracy protests across Swaziland have met with a violent reaction by the security forces of King Mswati today, with leaders of the country’s trade union movement amongst the many detained. More >>
EU Should Support Commission of Inquiry on Burma
Tuesday, 12 April 2011, 10:32 am | ITUC
Brussels, 11 April 2011 (ITUC OnLine): The ITUC and the ETUC are calling on the European Union to support the holding of a UN Commission of Inquiry into war crimes and crimes against humanity in Burma, when the EU renews its Burma policy on 12 April. More >>
Bahrain: ITUC Demands End to Anti-Union Repression
Friday, 8 April 2011, 9:22 am | ITUC
In a letter to King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa of Bahrain, the ITUC has demanded an immediate end to the anti-union repression campaign being waged by the authorities, the reinstatement of some 1,300 workers who have been sacked by various enterprises ... More >>
Zambia: Charges Dropped Against Two Chinese Supervisors
Thursday, 7 April 2011, 9:42 am | ITUC
Brussels, 6 April 2011 (ITUC OnLine): Outrage in Zambia. The prosecutors in charge of the case against two Chinese supervisors who shot 13 miners in October 2010 have decided to drop the charges against them. The ITUC firmly condemns this decision, ... More >>
Union Launch Jobs Pact for Young Workers
Thursday, 7 April 2011, 9:39 am | ITUC
Brussels, 6 April 2011 (ITUC OnLine): The international trade union movement is launching a new worldwide jobs pact for young people at a special G20 employment meeting in Paris. More >>
Mexico: Labour Legislation Reform Without Consultation
Thursday, 7 April 2011, 9:38 am | ITUC
Brussels, 6 April 2011 (ITUC OnLine): On 10 March 2011, the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), backed by the National Action Party (PAN), put forward a bill radically reforming Mexico's labour laws. The bill was drawn up without consulting the social ... More >>
Spotlight on Omar Faruk Osman (NUSOJ-Somalia)
Wednesday, 6 April 2011, 9:27 am | ITUC
“Somali workers, including media workers, need international solidarity to bring back their voices” More >>
Australia: Time to Improve Workers’ Rights
Tuesday, 5 April 2011, 9:29 am | ITUC
Brussels, 04 April 2011 (ITUC OnLine): The state of fundamental workers’ rights in Australia is disclosed in a new report by the ITUC, published to coincide with the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) review of its trade policies. More >>
