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Paris Conference: Innovative Development Financing
Thursday, 2 March 2006, 10:57 am | International Confederation Of Free Trade Unions
Contribution of the Trade Union Movement to the Paris Conference on Innovative Development Financing - Practical measures at last! More >>
China: labour prisoner released, but harrassment
Thursday, 2 March 2006, 10:45 am | International Confederation Of Free Trade Unions
Brussels, (ICFTU OnLine) A labour activist, held in prison since March 2002, has been released by the Chinese authorities three weeks ahead of completing a four-year sentence. However, the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions has learnt ... More >>
Informal economy: from info to mutual protection
Wednesday, 1 March 2006, 10:35 am | International Confederation Of Free Trade Unions
Brussels, (ICFTU online): How to manage a hairdressing salon or a welding shop? What are the basic rights of a worker in the informal economy? Armed only with their teaching materials, the educators trained by the Programme for the Reinforcement of Trade ... More >>
IFC Action on Workers' Rights a Major Step Forward
Thursday, 23 February 2006, 3:44 pm | International Confederation Of Free Trade Unions
Brussels (ICFTU online): The ICFTU has applauded yesterday's adoption by the International Finance Corporation (the private sector lending arm of the World Bank) of a new loan performance standard on labour rights and working conditions. After the new standard ... More >>
ICFTU: Cartoons Depicting the Prophet Mohammed
Tuesday, 21 February 2006, 8:51 am | International Confederation Of Free Trade Unions
Brussels, 20 February 2006 (ICFTU OnLine): The publication of cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed, initially in a Danish newspaper, has caused deep offence to many Muslim people around the world. Freedom of the press is a principle of fundamental ... More >>
ICFTU Online 033/200206
Tuesday, 21 February 2006, 8:34 am | International Confederation Of Free Trade Unions
Brussels, 20 February 2006 (ICFTU online): The trade union movement in Guinea-Bissau is having a tough time. The unions are apparently being subjected to systematic harassment. The ICFTU was concerned to learn of the repressive measures by the management of ... More >>
Clemenceau returns, health & safety blight remains
Friday, 17 February 2006, 2:05 pm | International Confederation Of Free Trade Unions
Brussels, (ICFTU online): The decision on 15 February by French President Jacques Chirac to recall the toxic warship Clemenceau back to France underlines the depth of the crisis in the global ship breaking industry. The aircraft carrier, containing ... More >>
Angola: Child trafficking & denial of union rights
Wednesday, 15 February 2006, 2:36 pm | International Confederation Of Free Trade Unions
New ICFTU report submitted to the WTO: Child trafficking and government denial of collective bargaining More >>
Changes needed in World Bank's pensions policy
Wednesday, 15 February 2006, 2:31 pm | International Confederation Of Free Trade Unions
Brussels (ICFTU) : The ICFTU has written to the President of the World Bank, Paul Wolfowitz, calling on him to re-think the forms of assistance provided by the Bank on pensions, taking into account the study by the WB's own Independent Evaluation ... More >>
Iran: Union day of action this Wednesday, 15 Feb
Tuesday, 14 February 2006, 5:48 pm | International Confederation Of Free Trade Unions
Brussels (ICFTU online) Following the continuing repression against the Trade Union of the Greater Teheran United Bus Company (Sherkate-Vahed), a n international day of action has been organised in numerous countries on Wednesday 15 February with ... More >>
Niger: Court orders reinstatement of union leader
Thursday, 9 February 2006, 2:54 pm | International Confederation Of Free Trade Unions
Niger: Court of Appeal orders the reinstatement of an unfairly dismissed union leader under pressure from the international union movement More >>
Iran: 100s arrested unionist persecution escalates
Friday, 3 February 2006, 1:23 pm | International Confederation Of Free Trade Unions
Brussels, (ICFTU OnLine): Iranian authorities have again targeted trade unionists at Sherkate Vahed, Teheran's bus company, in the latest wave of brutal repression. The ICFTU, in a letter ( http://www.icftu.org/displaydocument.asp?Index=991223374&Language=EN ... More >>
New Report on core labour standards in Israel
Wednesday, 1 February 2006, 2:46 pm | International Confederation Of Free Trade Unions
A new ICFTU report on core labour standards in Israel is being issued today to coincide with Israel's trade policy review at the WTO this week. More >>
Ukraine: life in exchange for 250,000 tons of coal
Wednesday, 1 February 2006, 2:38 pm | International Confederation Of Free Trade Unions
Spotlight interview with Anatoliy Akimochkin, vice president of the Ukrainian trade union confederation KVPU and first president of the Independent Miners Union of Ukraine More >>
Chad: Trade union censures World Bank & Chad Govt.
Wednesday, 1 February 2006, 2:36 pm | International Confederation Of Free Trade Unions
Brussels (ICFTU OnLine) The Union des Syndicats du Tchad (UST), an ICFTU affiliate, has issued a declaration in response to the World Bank's decision to suspend its programmes in the country following the government's revision of Law 001 guaranteeing, ... More >>
Ukraine: gas crisis eases miners' great depression
Tuesday, 31 January 2006, 2:07 pm | International Confederation Of Free Trade Unions
Brussels,(ICFTU OnLine): The cut off in the supply of Russian gas to Ukraine on 1 January 2006 has reopened the debate on the country's energy independence. Could the huge coal reserves in Ukraine's subsoil help to build this independence? Ukraine's ... More >>
Iraq: ICFTU Condemns Murder of trade union leader
Friday, 27 January 2006, 11:32 am | International Confederation Of Free Trade Unions
Brussels,(ICFTU OnLine) Alaa Issa Khalaf, a member of the Executive Board of the Baghdad branch of the mechanics union, and a prominent member of the recently created General Federation of Iraqi Workers, GFIW, has been killed. He was shot dead at around ... More >>
International Trade Union Bodies Meet With Annan
Friday, 27 January 2006, 10:05 am | International Confederation Of Free Trade Unions
Brussels, 26 January 2006 (ICFTU OnLine): At a meeting with Kofi Annan at the World Economic Forum in Davos on 25 January, ICFTU General Secretary Guy Ryder said the global trade union movement had reached "good understandings" with the ... More >>
World Social Forum: Decent work, trade union unity
Thursday, 26 January 2006, 10:53 am | International Confederation Of Free Trade Unions
ICFTU OnLine: Decent work and trade union unity at centre stage of the World Social Forum in Caracas More >>
Unions Call Corps & Govts to Account on Jobs, Tax
Wednesday, 25 January 2006, 4:16 pm | International Confederation Of Free Trade Unions
Brussels, 25 January 2006 (ICFTU OnLine) At this year's Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, global trade union leaders will be tackling government and business leaders on the issue of plummeting corporate taxes, and pressing for ... More >>
