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Repression of Trade Unions in Northern Cyprus

Saturday, 7 August 2010, 2:23 pm | International Trade Union Confederation

Brussels, 6 August 2010 (ITUC OnLine): The ITUC and the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) have issued a joint statement strongly protesting against the arrest of 24 trade unionists on August 3 in Northern Cyprus while they were demonstrating against ... More >>

Press For Rights-Based Approach To Combat Pandemic

Friday, 6 August 2010, 5:42 pm | International Trade Union Confederation

The international trade union movement is calling for governments to push ahead with a rights-based approach to tackling the HIV and AIDS pandemic, following the 18th International AIDS Conference in Vienna at the end of July. More >>

Iraq: Trade Union Banned in the Electricity Sector

Tuesday, 27 July 2010, 6:42 pm | International Trade Union Confederation

The ITUC strongly protest against the Ministerial Order, Issue 22 244, of the Iraqi Government. This Order clearly violates trade union rights. According to the information received by the ITUC, the Ministerial Order, issued by the Minister of Electricity, ... More >>

Wave of anti-union repression in Panama

Wednesday, 14 July 2010, 12:54 pm | International Trade Union Confederation

Brussels, 12 July 2010 (ITUC OnLine): The ITUC, together with its affiliated organisations in Panama, firmly condemns the violent repression of the strike movement by workers in the Bocas del Toro Province that has resulted in killings, more than 100 people ... More >>

Two More Trade Unionists Assassinated In Colombia

Thursday, 8 July 2010, 1:13 pm | International Trade Union Confederation

The trade union world is again in mourning after the assassination of two more trade unionists in Colombia. The ITUC has roundly condemned the murders of the killing of Nelson Camacho González and of Ibio Efrén Caicedo. More >>

Workers' Rights In Taiwan

Tuesday, 6 July 2010, 3:59 pm | International Trade Union Confederation

A new report by the ITUC on core labour standards in Taiwan finds that various categories of employees are barred from forming and joining unions, and that penalties in the law are insufficient to prevent anti--union discrimination. More >>

Iran: ITUC Demands Government Free Osanloo

Sunday, 4 July 2010, 1:08 pm | International Trade Union Confederation

The ITUC and the International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF) have written to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad insisting that the authorities fulfill their promise to release imprisoned trade unionist Mansour Osanloo More >>

Farm Workers Are Ill-Treated And Abandoned

Sunday, 4 July 2010, 1:04 pm | International Trade Union Confederation

Gertrude Hambira is the general secretary of the General Agricultural Plantation Workers Union of Zimbabwe. She has been forced to leave her country after criticising the land reform that has triggered countless barbaric acts. More >>

Iran says Osanloo to be freed

Friday, 2 July 2010, 12:15 pm | International Trade Union Confederation

The ITF and ITUC today welcomed an Iranian government promise that Mansour Osanloo is to be freed – but stated that there are still 52 other innocent trade unionists who should also be released. More >>

G20 Failing to Meet Jobs Challenge

Tuesday, 29 June 2010, 12:59 pm | International Trade Union Confederation

Toronto, Ontario, 27 June 2010 (ITUC OnLine): G20 Leaders risk sleepwalking into a double-dip recession due to their haste to halve fiscal deficits by 2013 or even sooner, according to an international trade union delegation in Toronto at the end ... More >>

Argentina And The Crisis

Saturday, 26 June 2010, 1:13 pm | International Trade Union Confederation

Defending the right to decent work was a priority for the government during the 2001 crisis in Argentina said the country’s President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner More >>

ITUC Congress debates global employment crisis

Thursday, 24 June 2010, 3:08 pm | International Trade Union Confederation

Vancouver, 23 June 2010: As the ITUC’s Congress moved into its second day, the state of the world economy and the global employment crisis continued to be heavily debated. Leaders of some important internal organizations were invited to take part ... More >>

World Social Justice and World Public Services Day

Thursday, 24 June 2010, 2:50 pm | International Trade Union Confederation

About 1,500 trade union activists called on world leaders to move towards global justice at a rally held outside the Vancouver Convention Centre today. Delegates and guests to the ITUC Congress were joined by many local Canadian trade unionists, ... More >>

Second ITUC World Congress opens in Vancouver

Tuesday, 22 June 2010, 4:12 pm | International Trade Union Confederation

Vancouver, 21 June 2010: The second ITUC World Congress was officially opened today in Vancouver, Canada. More than 1400 delegates from around the world will debate the future of the trade union movement under the theme Now the People, from the crisis ... More >>

The world’s youth demand decent work

Monday, 21 June 2010, 3:14 pm | International Trade Union Confederation

In the lead up to the ITUC Congress that takes place this coming week in Vancouver, Canada, young trade unionists from all over the world got together and discussed the situation of young people at the workplace. The ITUC Youth Committee is a body ... More >>

G20 Must Measure Recovery by Jobs

Sunday, 20 June 2010, 10:05 pm | International Trade Union Confederation

Otawa, 17 June 2010 (ITUC OnLine) In a meeting today with a Global Unions delegation, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper agreed that economic recovery would not be achieved until the labour market had recovered, and that measures were needed to ... More >>

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