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ITUC urges G8 to step up its efforts
Thursday, 26 April 2007, 10:53 am | International Trade Union Federation
ITUC urges G8 to step up its efforts in the fight against the AIDS pandemic More >>
ITUC May Day Manifesto
Thursday, 26 April 2007, 10:51 am | International Trade Union Federation
Brussels, April 24 (ITUC Online): Working people in all corners of the globe, gathering together on the 1st of May, celebrate the tremendous achievements of the trade union movement and commemorate all those who have given so much in the cause of justice, ... More >>
Turkey: Jail sentences for trade union leaders
Friday, 20 April 2007, 10:46 am | International Trade Union Federation
Brussels, April 19 (ITUC online): Both the ITUC and the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) have condemned the legal proceedings that have been brought against 11 Turkish trade union leaders, and the jail sentences that may result from these. More >>
Colombia: Damning New Evidence of Security Service
Thursday, 19 April 2007, 11:45 am | International Trade Union Federation
Brussels, 18 April 2007 (ITUC OnLine): In an explosive new report submitted to the International Labour Organisation (ILO), the ITUC has presented direct evidence of collusion between Colombia's notorious DAS Security Agency and paramilitary death ... More >>
Iran: New Wave of Anti-union Repression
Thursday, 19 April 2007, 11:43 am | International Trade Union Federation
Brussels, 18 April 2007 (ITUC OnLine): The ITUC has issued a strong condemnation of the Iranian authorities for their intensified attacks on independent trade unions in the country, with the arrests of hundreds of leaders and members of teachers' ... More >>
Costa Rica: Serious trade union rights violations
Tuesday, 17 April 2007, 9:37 am | International Trade Union Federation
Brussels, 16 April 2007 (ITUC OnLine): In Costa Rica trade unionists are dismissed, intimated and harassed and workers are strongly discouraged from even joining a trade union, states a new ITUC report on core labour standards in Costa Rica. The report ... More >>
Spotlight interview with Binda Pandey
Monday, 16 April 2007, 11:45 am | International Trade Union Federation
Spotlight interview with Binda Pandey, Deputy general secretary of GEFONT (General Federation of Nepalese Trade Unions) More >>
Ethiopia: 3 Detained Ethiopian Teachers released
Monday, 9 April 2007, 3:34 pm | International Trade Union Federation
Brussels, 4 April 2007 (Brussels, ITUC Online): The ITUC welcomes the release of three elected officers of the Ethiopian Teachers Association (ETA) detained since December 2006. Tilahun Ayalew, Meqcha Mengistu and Antenech Getenet have been arrested, ... More >>
Iraq: Antiunion violence claims another life
Friday, 6 April 2007, 2:12 pm | International Trade Union Federation
Brussels, 4 April 2007 (ITUC Online): The ITUC fully supports the International Chemical, Energy and Mine Workers' Federation (ICEM) in its resounding condemnation of the murder of a leader of the General Federation of Iraqi Workers (GFIW). More >>
PERC gives hope to European workers
Tuesday, 20 March 2007, 9:13 am | International Trade Union Federation
Brussels, 19 March 2007 (ITUC Online): The Pan-European Regional Council (PERC) of the ITUC has been set up today at a Founding Assembly in Rome, Italy, fifty years after Treaty of Rome which started processes of European integration was signed. ... More >>
PERC gives hope to European workers
Tuesday, 20 March 2007, 9:12 am | International Trade Union Federation
Brussels, 19 March 2007 (ITUC Online): The Pan-European Regional Council (PERC) of the ITUC has been set up today at a Founding Assembly in Rome, Italy, fifty years after Treaty of Rome which started processes of European integration was signed. ... More >>
WTO Talks Could Worsen Job Climate
Sunday, 11 March 2007, 5:28 pm | International Trade Union Federation
Geneva, Switzerland, 9 March 2007 (ITUC OnLine) - Trade union leaders from Brazil, India, South Africa, and other developing countries, traveled this week to a Global Unions meeting in Geneva to deliver a message to WTO members rising unemployment ... More >>
Australia Bottom of the OECD on Workers' Rights
Tuesday, 6 March 2007, 10:46 am | International Trade Union Federation
Australia: New Report to World Trade Organisation Puts Australia at the Bottom of the OECD on Workers' Rights, with Women Workers Hardest Hit More >>
Mission to Conakry Supporting Guinean Trade Unions
Tuesday, 6 February 2007, 10:07 am | International Trade Union Federation
Brussels 5 February 2007 (ITUC OnLine): An international trade union delegation to the Republic of Guinea, including senior African trade union representatives and led by ITUC General Secretary Guy Ryder, has returned from an urgent mission to the ... More >>
Gaza: Assassination Attempt on Union Leader
Tuesday, 30 January 2007, 9:25 am | International Trade Union Federation
Brussels, 29 January 2007 (ITUC OnLine): In an attack described by ITUC General Secretary Guy Ryder as a “vicious and cowardly murder attempt”, the home of Palestinian trade union leader Rasem al Bayari was hit by two rockets in the early hours of Monday ... More >>
Guinea: Killings Arrests Govt Turns on Strikers
Monday, 22 January 2007, 10:16 am | International Trade Union Federation
Brussels, 18 January 2007 (ITUC OnLine): The ITUC has condemned the killing of at least three civilians, the wounding of many others and the detention of several top union leaders as the country’s security forces opened fire with live ammunition ... More >>
Spotlight interview with Asma Elbassir (Morocco)
Monday, 22 January 2007, 10:02 am | International Trade Union Federation
Brussels, 18 January 2007 (ITUC OnLine): A qualified dental prosthetist, Asma Elbassir is now a public employee with the social service of Casablanca. A member of the UMT women's committee and youth committee, she warmly welcomes the strengthened capabilities ... More >>
Spotlight interview with Naima Bouguerjouma
Thursday, 18 January 2007, 11:02 am | International Trade Union Federation
Brussels, 17 January 2007 (ITUC Online): Naima Bouguerjouma, women's coordinator and staff union representative at a polyclinic in Marrakech, tells us about the day to day fight for health workers' right to breastfeed at work, to stop sexual harassment, ... More >>
Guatemala: Brutal Murder of Docker's Union Leader
Thursday, 18 January 2007, 10:49 am | International Trade Union Federation
Brussels, 17 January 2007 (ITUC OnLine): The ITUC has condemned the brutal killing on 15 January of Dockworkers' Union leader Pedro Zamora in an attack by a number of armed assassins. Zamora, General Secretary of the STPEQ Union, had been leading ... More >>
New Global Trade Union Partnership Up and Running
Thursday, 11 January 2007, 9:01 am | International Trade Union Federation
New Global Trade Union Partnership Up and Running: union organising and recognition, casino capitalism and public policy in first action plan More >>
