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Launch of global poverty movement sets challenges
Monday, 31 January 2005, 11:40 am | International Confederation Of Free Trade Unions
Launch of global poverty movement sets challenges to world leaders The Global Call to Action against Poverty (GCAP), the biggest ever global mobilization to hold governments accountable for the promises they made to eradicate poverty, was launched today at ... More >>
Disaster looms with the end of the quota system
Wednesday, 26 January 2005, 11:03 am | International Confederation Of Free Trade Unions
“The textile and clothing sector is set to experience a revolution on 1 January 2005”, according to an ICFTU report published today. The report entitled "disaster looms with the end of the quota system”,,”concentrates on the imminent social drama ... More >>
Burma and multinational companies: who profits
Wednesday, 26 January 2005, 11:00 am | International Confederation Of Free Trade Unions
The International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) today released a new report on business with Burma. The 28-page document, entitled “Doing Business with Burma”, concentrates on investment in and trade with Burma and shows how foreign ... More >>
RESTRICTIONS ON TRADE UNION RIGHTS, JAPAN
Wednesday, 26 January 2005, 9:39 am | International Confederation Of Free Trade Unions
The ICFTU released a new report today on core labour standards in Japan. This report coincides with Japan's trade policy review at the WTO this week, and reveals shortcomings in the application and enforcement of core labour standards, particularly with regard ... More >>
Mexico: Trade union wins battle
Wednesday, 26 January 2005, 9:37 am | International Confederation Of Free Trade Unions
Brussels, 21 January 2005 (ICFTU OnLine): The ICFTU welcomed today the hard-fought victory of the workers of Mexican trade union EUZKADI who after a three-year struggle have finally secured the reopening of the factory closed down in the state of Jalisco ... More >>
Iran: Trials behind closed doors - Saqez seven
Tuesday, 25 January 2005, 12:35 am | International Confederation Of Free Trade Unions
BRUSSELS, 24 January 2005, ICFTU Online: The ICFTU has protested against the second trial behind closed doors in the prosecution of seven independent labour leaders for "organizing an illegal gathering", a May Day event 2004 in Saqez (Kurdistan ... More >>
New ICFTU report submitted to the WTO
Tuesday, 18 January 2005, 9:24 am | International Confederation Of Free Trade Unions
BRUSSELS, 17 January 2005, ICFTU Online: The Caribbean country of Jamaica came under the spotlight today when the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) released a report on the country's respect for core labour standards. The publication ... More >>
Tsunami relief: Global Unions launch aid effort
Wednesday, 12 January 2005, 10:28 am | International Confederation Of Free Trade Unions
Brussels, 11th January 2005 (ICFTU Online): With trade unions around the world raising millions of dollars for tsunami relief efforts, the ICFTU and its Global Unions partners today launched an international trade union initiative to channel funding to sustainable ... More >>
Iraq: Senior Trade Union Leader Tortured & Killed
Friday, 7 January 2005, 9:57 am | International Confederation Of Free Trade Unions
BRUSSELS, 6 January 2005, ICFTU Online: The ICFTU today expressed its deep shock and revulsion at the brutal torture and murder of Hadi Salih, International Secretary of the Iraqi Federation of Trade Unions (IFTU) at his Baghdad home on Tuesday night ... More >>
New ICFTU report highlights labour abuses in EPZs
Wednesday, 8 December 2004, 9:20 am | International Confederation Of Free Trade Unions
Miyazaki, Japan, 7th December 2004: Competition amongst developing countries to attract foreign investors is forcing their governments to employ tax breaks and a liberal labour policy with the result of a fast-track to escalating labour abuses, said the ... More >>
Serious labour standards violations in Brazil
Wednesday, 1 December 2004, 9:31 am | International Confederation Of Free Trade Unions
Brussels, 30 November 2004 (ICFTU online): A new report by the ICFTU on core labour standards in Brazil, produced to coincide with the World Trade Organisation's (WTO) review of the Latin American country's trade policy, shows important shortcomings ... More >>
Ukraine: Trade Unions Allege Election Intimidation
Monday, 29 November 2004, 10:35 am | International Confederation Of Free Trade Unions
Brussels 25 November 2004: The ICFTU is deeply concerned about the situation in Ukraine following the Presidential elections, including allegations of fraud and partisan utilisation of the "state apparatus" to the extent that legitimacy ... More >>
"A trade union guide to globalisation" launched
Monday, 29 November 2004, 10:34 am | International Confederation Of Free Trade Unions
Brussels, 26 November 2004 (ICFTU online): The role of trade unions in the globalisation process is the centrepiece of a new ICFTU publication, launched in the run-up to the organisation's 18th World Congress (5- 10 December in Miyazaki, Japan). More >>
Fight Against Child Labour Highlighted
Thursday, 25 November 2004, 11:30 am | International Confederation Of Free Trade Unions
Brussels - (ICFTU online): Spotlight on the founder and president of the South Asian Coalition on Child Labour (SACCS), one of the main organisations involved in the fight against child labour in India and architect of the Global March spanning four ... More >>
Call for social dialogue and unity in Venezuela
Friday, 19 November 2004, 8:51 am | International Confederation Of Free Trade Unions
Brussels November 18, 2004 (ICFTU online): Manuel Cova, General Secretary of the CTV, the ICFTU's affiliate in Venezuela, explains the difficult climate of constant threats endured by the CTV owing to its role in defense of trade union rights andn ... More >>
Unions press Chilean President APEC social agenda
Wednesday, 17 November 2004, 9:10 am | International Confederation Of Free Trade Unions
Brussels - Leaders of trade unions from APEC (Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation) economies are meeting President Ricardo Lagos of Chile today (Tuesday 16 November) to call for trade union demands to be properly incorporated into the agenda for the ... More >>
Colombia: trade unionists expulsion not credible
Monday, 8 November 2004, 10:55 am | International Confederation Of Free Trade Unions
Brussels, 5th November 2004 (ICFTU Online): The deportation from Colombia's "Eldorado" airport in Bogotá last weekend of four senior international trade unionists marks an escalation of the government's anti-union policies, Colombia's Ambassador to Brussels ... More >>
European Union position on Burma "weak"
Monday, 8 November 2004, 10:54 am | International Confederation Of Free Trade Unions
Brussels, 5th November 2004 (ICFTU Online): The EU's common position on Burma is nothing short of "seriously inadequate", said the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) and the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) in ... More >>
Colombia: expulsion of trade unionists condemned
Wednesday, 3 November 2004, 9:45 am | International Confederation Of Free Trade Unions
The international trade union movement today expressed its outrage at the expulsion of four international union representatives from Colombia on 30 October and 1 November, on the order of the government of President Alvaro Uribe Velez. It is understood ... More >>
China Detains Workers For Requesting Wage Arrears
Wednesday, 3 November 2004, 9:43 am | International Confederation Of Free Trade Unions
Brussels, 2nd November 2004 (ICFTU Online): The International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) has protested against the unfair and long prison sentences handed down to five workers at the Stella International's Xing Ang Shoe Factory, in China's ... More >>
