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Trade unions under pressure in Albania
Saturday, 24 June 2006, 5:43 pm | International Confederation Of Free Trade Unions
Brussels (ICFTU online): The Executive Board of the ICFTU, at its 125th meeting on 21 June 2006, expresses its profound concern at the situation in Albania and the possible consequences it could have for the social dialogue. It urges the government ... More >>
Challenging the World Bank and the IMF
Saturday, 24 June 2006, 5:39 pm | International Confederation Of Free Trade Unions
Brussels (ICFTU OnLine): The ICFTU today released Challenging the IFIs: Practical Information and Strategies for Trade Union Engagement with International Financial Institutions, a new guide on challenging the programmes and policies of the World ... More >>
Infringement of trade union rights in Iceland
Sunday, 11 June 2006, 5:28 pm | International Confederation Of Free Trade Unions
Brussels (ICFTU Online): In a report published by the ICFTU to coincide with the trade policy review of Iceland at the WTO this week, the Icelandic government is criticised for intervening in the country's industrial relations. Again and again ... More >>
Costa Rica: Antiunion repression
Saturday, 3 June 2006, 6:13 pm | International Confederation Of Free Trade Unions
Brussels (ICFTU OnLine): Serious threats were made against Costa Rican trade union representatives from the Confederación de Trabajadores Rerum Novarum (CTRN) when their office was attacked in on 24 May. More >>
Trade unions globally urge EU: Deny Belarus trade
Thursday, 1 June 2006, 9:17 pm | International Confederation Of Free Trade Unions
Brussels - The ICFTU, ETUC and WCL have written to European Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson, and many of their affiliates have written to the countries in the European Union committee that decides which countries will benefit under their Generalised ... More >>
Iraqi union leader kidnapped, tortured & murdered
Wednesday, 31 May 2006, 9:02 pm | International Confederation Of Free Trade Unions
Brussels (ICFTU OnLine): In the latest brutal attack against the Iraqi trade union movement, the General Federation of Iraqi Workers (GFIW) has reported the kidnapping and murder of Thabet Hussein Ali, Head of the General Trade Union for Health Sector ... More >>
EU Action on decent work internationally is urgent
Wednesday, 24 May 2006, 8:51 pm | International Confederation Of Free Trade Unions
Brussels: Tomorrow, the European Commission is due to issue a Communication on 'decent work' -- putting workers' rights and basic employment standards on the European and international political agendas. Trade unions and social stakeholders welcome this ... More >>
Uruguay: Child labour and forced labour
Wednesday, 17 May 2006, 9:29 pm | International Confederation Of Free Trade Unions
Brussels (ICFTU Online): The ICFTU has just published a new report on respect for core labour standards in Uruguay. The document, published to coincide with the WTO review of the country this week, criticises the persistent irregularities in the ... More >>
Fight against child labour: Poverty & decent work
Friday, 5 May 2006, 7:09 pm | International Confederation Of Free Trade Unions
New ILO report: Making the link between poverty and decent work in the fight against child labour More >>
Spotlight interview with Gershon Gelman, Israel
Wednesday, 3 May 2006, 7:37 pm | International Confederation Of Free Trade Unions
Brussels (ICFTU OnLine): Four years ago, the president of Histadrut for the Tel Aviv and Jaffa region, Gershon Gelman, opened the only trade union structure in Israel for the 150,000 migrants employed in the country. Dozens of migrants now come to ... More >>
Chernobyl still killing 20 years on
Friday, 21 April 2006, 9:29 pm | International Confederation Of Free Trade Unions
Brussels, (ICFTU Online): Belarus, Ukraine, Russia: Drawing from eyewitness accounts and analyses, ICFTU has published a new Trade Union World Briefing ( http://www.icftu.org/displaydocument.asp?Index=991223708&Language=EN ) condemning the fact that 20 years after the fateful day of 26 April 1986, the biggest ... More >>
UAE: Massive abuses against migrant workers
Friday, 21 April 2006, 9:21 pm | International Confederation Of Free Trade Unions
Brussels: A new ICFTU report on core labour standards in United Arab Emirates deplores massive abuses committed against migrant workers who constitute about 95% of the working force in the private sector. The report has been prepared to coincide with ... More >>
Trade unions successfully resist World Bank, IMF
Friday, 21 April 2006, 9:12 pm | International Confederation Of Free Trade Unions
Brussels: Amidst growing consensus within global civil society that the World Bank and the IMF do not address public concerns when demanding that governments implement major economic policy changes, the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions ... More >>
Nepal: General strike brutally repressed
Friday, 14 April 2006, 11:50 am | International Confederation Of Free Trade Unions
Brussels: The general strike in Nepal, initially planned to run from 6 to 9 April, was severely repressed by the national police force. The collective action had been organised by the Seven Parties Alliance (SPA), a broad coalition of political parties ... More >>
Bangladesh: international actions focus on garment
Wednesday, 12 April 2006, 8:46 pm | International Confederation Of Free Trade Unions
Brussels - Today, 11 April, international actions on garment workers' health and safety in Bangladesh are being held around the world. This date has not been chosen randomly. It was exactly one year ago today that the Spectrum factory in Bangladesh ... More >>
Interview with Parul Sharma on Women in Journalism
Wednesday, 29 March 2006, 9:53 pm | International Confederation Of Free Trade Unions
"We should not wait for discrimination to be wiped out before we take our place." More >>
Indonesia: Proposed Labour Laws'd Weaken Rights
Wednesday, 29 March 2006, 9:39 pm | International Confederation Of Free Trade Unions
Brussels (ICFTU OnLine): The ICFTU has written to Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono ( http://www.icftu.org/displaydocument.asp?Index=991223606&Language=EN ) calling on him not to proceed with proposed labour law amendments which would have ... More >>
Arrests of Union Officials by Lukashenko Regime
Thursday, 23 March 2006, 8:29 pm | International Confederation Of Free Trade Unions
Brussels, (ICFTU OnLine): The ICFTU and the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) have today made representations to the European Union, following the arrest of eight trade union officials in recent days by the regime of Alexander Lukashenko. The trade ... More >>
'Unions for Women, Women for Unions' campaign
Thursday, 9 March 2006, 9:41 pm | International Confederation Of Free Trade Unions
Brussels, (ICFTU Online): Antiunion violence against women, persistent wage gaps, the feminisation of poverty -the situation of women in the world of work is not getting any easier. On 8 March, International Women's Day, the international trade union ... More >>
8th March - International Women's Day: Interview
Friday, 3 March 2006, 12:14 am | International Confederation Of Free Trade Unions
Brussels, (ICFTU OnLine): On March 8, 2006, the ICFTU will launch the second phase of its global campaign to organise women workers. Women working in the informal economy are a primary target of this campaign (*). More >>
