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G7 Finance Meeting Must Resist Bankers’ Backlash

4 February 2010 The meeting of G7 Finance Ministers in Iqaluit, Canada, this week needs to press ahead on financial regulation and restructuring of banks, as powerful global financial interests step up their fight against reform. While the meeting is not expected to adopt formal (...) read more

Colombia: Letter from the ITUC and the ETUC to the Members of the European Parliament

3 February 2010 The Colombian Government has launched an intensive lobbying campaign at the European Parliament in an attempt to mislead the international community, and the European Parliament in particular, on the advances made by the Uribe Administration regarding the situation (...) read more

Guatemala: Municipal Trade Unionist Murdered

3 February 2010 The ITUC and its Guatemalan affiliates within the Indigenous and Rural Movement (MSICG) strongly condemn the murder of Pedro Antonio García, a member of the Malacatán Municipal Workers Union, which is affiliated to the Confederation of Trade Union Unity of Guatemala (...) read more

Turkey: Workers Protest Against Government‘s Decision to Close Down Their Workplace

1 February 2010 Tobacco workers from all around Turkey have been protesting in Ankara against their government for 47 consecutive days. The government decided to close down all the warehouses owned by Tekel, the former state tobacco and alcohol monopoly, which was recently (...) read more

Guatemala: Trade Unionist Shot at by Municipal Official

29 January 2010 The ITUC and its Guatemalan affiliates – the Confederation of Trade Union Unity of Guatemala (CUSG,) the General Guatemalan Workers Centre (CGTG) and UNSITRAGUA (Trade Union of Guatemalan Workers) – roundly condemn the attack suffered by Abel Barsilai Girón Roldán, a (...) read more