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Work Life Campaign Acts On Financial Crisis
Friday, 30 January 2009, 10:11 am | ITUC
Belém, 29 January 2009 (Media Release): The Decent Work Decent Life Campaign, led by the International Trade Union Confederation, Solidar, the Global Progressive Forum, World Solidarity and the European Trade Union Confederation, is organizing – two ... More >>
Trade Unions Call for a New Growth Model
Thursday, 29 January 2009, 10:29 am | ITUC
INTERNATIONAL TRADE UNION CONFEDERATION (ITUC) ITUC Online 012/280109 World Social Forum: Trade Unions Call for a New Growth Model Brussels, 28 January 2009 (ITUC Online): On the occasion of the World Social Forum in Belem, the ITUC has released ... More >>
Trade Unions Bring Tough Message To Forum
Wednesday, 28 January 2009, 9:24 am | ITUC
Brussels, 27 January 2009 (ITUC OnLine): A team of global and national trade union leaders will deliver a tough message to business at this year's Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, pointing to the potential social time bomb caused ... More >>
ITUC demands justice after acid attack
Thursday, 22 January 2009, 10:50 am | ITUC
Brussels, 21 January 2009 (ITUC online): The ITUC is deeply shocked by the inadequate investigation into the particularly barbarous attack on Constantina Kuneva, General Secretary of the trade union covering the cleaning sector in the Athens region, PEKOP. More >>
Zoellick and Strauss-Kahn React to Unions' Demands
Tuesday, 20 January 2009, 4:00 pm | ITUC
Washington, 18 January 2009 (ITUC OnLine): Commitments to strengthen social programmes for workers hit by the economic crisis and to increase action on core labour standards were made by World Bank President Robert Zoellick and IMF Managing Director Dominique ... More >>
Gaza: End Of Fighting Opens Opportunities
Tuesday, 20 January 2009, 10:24 am | ITUC
Brussels, 19 January 2009 (ITUC OnLine): The cessation of fighting in Gaza opens a vital opportunity to build a just and lasting peace, which both Israel and Palestine must seize, in order to end the cycle of conflict and ensure justice for the Palestinian ... More >>
Defending The Living Of Waste Collectors
Friday, 16 January 2009, 10:51 am | ITUC
Brussels, 15 January 2009 (ITUC OnLine): A union in the Indian city of Pune has secured concrete improvements for waste collectors, an informal economy workforce made up of 90% women. Maitreyi Shankar, one of the activists of the Waste Collectors' Union, ... More >>
Stabbing of Labour Rights Activist
Friday, 16 January 2009, 10:49 am | ITUC
Brussels, 15 January 2009 (ITUC OnLine): After 14 months of delay, the hearing for suspects in the stabbing of Huang Qingnan, a workers' rights activist from Shenzhen, will take place on 16 January. More >>
Growing World-Wide Unemployment
Thursday, 15 January 2009, 9:39 am | ITUC
Brussels, 14 January 2009 (ITUC OnLine): An 80-strong high-level delegation of trade union representations from around the world is meeting with the International Monetary Fund Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn and World Bank President Robert Zoellick, ... More >>
Gaza: Cease-Fire
Tuesday, 13 January 2009, 10:20 am | ITUC
Brussels, 12 January 2009 (ITUC OnLine): The refusal of Israel and Hamas to accept the UN Security Council Resolution calling for a cease-fire is totally unacceptable, and will cost the lives of yet more innocent civilians, as Israel further escalates ... More >>
First Delivery of Trade Union Aid Arrives
Monday, 12 January 2009, 10:41 am | ITUC
Brussels, 9 January 2009 (ITUC OnLine): The ITUC has welcomed the call of the UN Security Council for an immediate and durable cease-fire in Gaza as the first plane-load of trade union humanitarian assistance was unloaded in Egypt for distribution in ... More >>
Release of Born Samnang and Sok Sam Oeun On Bail
Wednesday, 7 January 2009, 11:48 am | ITUC
Brussels, 6 January 2009 (ITUC OnLine): The ITUC welcomes the Cambodian Supreme Court decision on December 31, 2008 to release Born Samnang and Sok Sam Oeun on bail and send the case back to the Court of Appeals to be retried. More >>
ITUC Demands Immediate Gaza Cease-Fire
Tuesday, 6 January 2009, 10:50 am | ITUC
With the death and injury toll in the conflict between Israel and Hamas continuing to rise, the ITUC again calls for an immediate cease-fire and a major aid effort to bring much-needed assistance to the people of Gaza. More >>
Swiss Government Must Protect its Workers
Tuesday, 16 December 2008, 10:44 am | ITUC
Brussels, 15 December 2008: A new ITUC report on core labour standards in Switzerland and Liechtenstein issued today to coincide with the trade policy review at the WTO denounces the lack of adequate protection for workers in Switzerland. More >>
Notorious Rights Violations Rewarded
Tuesday, 16 December 2008, 10:40 am | ITUC
The European Commission's decision to grant additional GSP (generalized system of preferences) trade benefits to sixteen countries including several with serious violations of basic workers' rights has been strongly denounced by the ITUC. More >>
Strong Outcomes at UN Climate Change Conference
Friday, 12 December 2008, 1:15 pm | ITUC
Poznań, 11 December 2008: As Ministers arrive in Poznań for the final negotiations of the two-week annual global conference on climate change, trade unions are stepping up their efforts to get just transition, green jobs, trade union consultation and ... More >>
DOHA Outcome Not Bold Enough
Wednesday, 3 December 2008, 10:38 am | ITUC
Doha, 2 December 2008 (ITUC OnLine): Responding to the outcome of the Doha Follow-up International Conference on Financing for Development, the members of the Decent Work, Decent Life Alliance* (the International Trade Union Confederation, SOLIDAR ... More >>
ITUC Condemns India Terror Attacks
Saturday, 29 November 2008, 11:52 am | ITUC
Brussels, 27 November 2008 (ITUC OnLine): The ITUC has condemned this week's terrorist attacks in the Indian financial centre Mumbai as despicable atrocities, aimed at innocent civilians from India and abroad. More than 100 people are known to have ... More >>
Trade Unions Demand an Ambitious Climate Agreement
Friday, 28 November 2008, 11:20 am | ITUC
Brussels, 27 November 2008 (ITUC OnLine): On the eve of major international climate negotiations in Poznan, Poland, the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC). More >>
Trade Unionists Threatened and Intimidated
Friday, 28 November 2008, 11:18 am | ITUC
Brussels, 26 November 2008: Guatemala continues to be the scene of union bashing, threats and intimidation, on this occasion in the municipality of Zacapa. The ITUC has strongly condemned these trade union rights violations. More >>
