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Interview: Irakli Petriashvili (Georgian Trade Union)
Wednesday, 19 October 2011, 10:18 am | International Trade Union Confederation
An ultraliberal labour law coupled with repeated attacks by the authorities has lost Georgia's biggest union, the Georgian Trade Union Confederation (GTUC), over 100,000 members. Its president, Irakli Petriashvili, outlines the discrimination Georgian ... More >>
Bahrain: Repression against Workers & Trade Unions Continues
Wednesday, 19 October 2011, 10:10 am | International Trade Union Confederation
The ITUC has once again condemned the terrible repression hitting the Bahraini workers. Trade union rights have been constantly under attacks for months now despite government promises. Although the states authorities are pretending the opposite, the repression ... More >>
Kuwait: ITUC Condemns Military Threat to Striking Workers
Wednesday, 19 October 2011, 10:07 am | International Trade Union Confederation
The international trade union movement has condemned today's threat by the Kuwaiti authorities to use the army and police to stop public sector strikes in the country as public anger grows at the government's failure to respect workers' rights and ... More >>
Guatemala: Another SITRABI Member Assassinated
Friday, 14 October 2011, 11:47 am | International Trade Union Confederation
The ITUC has joined with its Guatemalan affiliates, the CUSG, CGTG and UNSITRAGUA, in condemning the murder of Henry Anibal Marroquin Orellana, a member of the Izabal banana workers' union SITRABI, on 24 September in the municipality of Amates, in ... More >>
Burma: Seven Trade Unionists Released From Prison
Friday, 14 October 2011, 11:43 am | International Trade Union Confederation
Brussels, 13 October 2011 - The International Trade Union Confederation welcomes the recent release from prison of 7 trade unionists ( * ). However, much more remains to be done. Burma’s regime recently announced an amnesty for 6,359 prisoners; yet ... More >>
Romania’s IMF-Inspired Labour Laws Mean Hardship for Workers
Thursday, 13 October 2011, 10:35 am | International Trade Union Confederation
Major changes in Romania’s labour laws, introduced at the behest of the International Monetary Fund, the European Commission and the European Central Bank, have stripped away key protections for the country’s workforce and are denying large numbers ... More >>
Interview: Who speaks of the human cost of maritime piracy?
Thursday, 13 October 2011, 10:33 am | International Trade Union Confederation
Born into a seafaring Odessa family, Alexander Dimitrevitch is an ex-Chief Purser on cruise ships. Currently the Special Councillor on Foreign Relations and Social Issues to the President of the Ukrainian Marine Trade Union Federation, he is also ... More >>
Kuwait: Trade Unions Call for Dialogue, Not Military Force
Wednesday, 12 October 2011, 10:12 am | International Trade Union Confederation
Kuwait’s government needs to step back from confrontation and accept dialogue with the country’s trade unions to resolve public sector strikes, according to the ITUC. “The authorities’ decision to give the military and security forces the power ... More >>
Somalia: Al-Shabaab Deprives 3253 Telecommunications Workers
Thursday, 6 October 2011, 10:40 am | International Trade Union Confederation
On 2 October, the Islamist militant group al-Shabaab banned the operations of three telecom companies, paralysing the telecommunications system in eight regions of the country. More >>
Japan: Trade Union Work When Disaster Strikes
Wednesday, 5 October 2011, 4:23 pm | International Trade Union Confederation
The Japanese Trade Union Confederation Rengo has been one of the major organisations involved in the relief work after the big tsunami that hit the eastern part of Honshu in March this year. Tatsumasa Yoshino is the General Secretary of a sub-regional ... More >>
The Great Financial Hoax
Monday, 3 October 2011, 5:36 pm | International Trade Union Confederation
The ITUC today released a video message from General Secretary Sharan Burrow calling for action by G20 leaders to fulfil their promises to create jobs and reform financial institutions. More >>
G20 Labour Ministers Need to Push for Job Creation
Thursday, 22 September 2011, 1:06 pm | International Trade Union Confederation
A full scale jobs emergency confronts the G20 with 110 million jobs needed by 2015 just to return to the pre-crisis employment rate. Fiscal consolidation policies have set back growth and recovery, forcing millions of people into poverty and unemployment. More >>
Fiji’s Dictatorship Moves against Trade Unions
Thursday, 15 September 2011, 3:07 pm | International Trade Union Confederation
Fiji’s military dictatorship has tightened its control over the country’s economy with a new decree outlawing trade union rights across key sectors. The UN’s International Labour Organisation has accused the regime of demonstrating “the same lack of concern ... More >>
King of Swaziland Must End Brutal Repression of Workers
Thursday, 8 September 2011, 1:41 pm | International Trade Union Confederation
Swaziland's Independence Day on 6 September will be used by the international workers' movement to highlight the ongoing attacks on freedoms and workers' rights in the Kingdom. More >>
ITUC Calls for UN to Step up Africa Famine Action
Tuesday, 30 August 2011, 11:35 am | International Trade Union Confederation
The ITUC has expressed its deep concern about the unprecedented drought and famine in the Horn of Africa, in a letter to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, calling on the UN to dramatically scale up action to deal with the on-going human tragedy. More >>
Chile: National Strike a Success Despite Repression
Friday, 26 August 2011, 11:34 am | International Trade Union Confederation
With tens of thousands of Chilean workers joining the two-day national strike called by the ITUC-affiliated CUT trade union centre, pressure is mounting on the government of President Pinero to respond to the widely-supported demands for a major change ... More >>
Malaysia: Japanese Firm Must Drop Defamation Charges
Wednesday, 17 August 2011, 12:06 pm | International Trade Union Confederation
On February 14, 2011, the Malaysian subsidiary of Japanese electronics firm Asahi Kosei filed a $3.2 million defamation suit against human rights defender Charles Hector after he posted on his blog reports he received from Burmese migrant workers ... More >>
Spotlight Interview: Chaco Inter-Ethnic Council Paraguay
Wednesday, 10 August 2011, 12:55 pm | International Trade Union Confederation
Pillaging of the environment, poor education, worker exploitation... the indigenous peoples of the Chaco region face a multitude of problems. Coordinator of the Chaco Inter-Ethnic Council, Crecencio Caceres, aged 47, is calling for international solidarity ... More >>
International Day of the World's Indigenous People
Tuesday, 9 August 2011, 2:18 pm | International Trade Union Confederation
To mark the International Day of the World's Indigenous People, the ITUC is releasing a new report entitled "The Alliance Between the Indigenous Peoples and Trade Unions in Latin America" The report points to the discrimination, feudal exploitation, isolation ... More >>
Call for G20 Summit to respond to run on financial markets
Tuesday, 9 August 2011, 12:32 pm | International Trade Union Confederation
As the collapse in world share values threatens to trigger renewed downturn and with it a surge in unemployment, union leaders have called on G20 leaders to convene an emergency Summit to take the initiative to regulate the markets and avert economic ... More >>
