More Teachers Murdered in Colombia
The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) has once again condemned and expressed its deep sorrow at the murders of two more Colombian teachers, Carlos Julio Gómez Freddy, on 26 May, and Antonio Cuadrado Núñez, on 29 May. Their killings add to the long list of trade unionists and teachers murdered this year.
ITUC calls on French Multinational Roquette Frères to end US lockout and respect UN Global Compact principles
On 28 September of 2010, Roquette Frères, a privately held French multinational company, aggressively locked out workers at its facility in Keokuk, Iowa, members of Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers, and Grain Millers (BCTGM) Local 48G.
Rural Workers Pay with their Lives for Defending Forests
The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) has expressed its deepest concern at the murder on 24 May of two environmentalists, José Cláudio Ribeiro Da Silva and Maria do Espiritu Santo Silva, in an ambush seven kilometres from their home.
New Report on Misery of Gulf Migrant Workers
A new multimedia report uncovering the human cost of the huge migrant labour force in the Gulf States of Qatar and the United Arab Emirates is being launched today by the International Trade Union Confederation in Brussels.
Guatemala: Killings of Trade Union Activists Continue in Guatemala
Yet another trade union leader has been brutally murdered in Guatemala for exercising his union activities. The ITUC and its affiliated organisations in Guatemala, the CUSG, CGTG and UNSITRAGUA, have firmly condemned the assassination of Idar Joel Hernández Godoy, finance secretary of the Izabal banana workers’ union SITRABI, affiliated to the CUSG.