Climate Summit: Unions Call on Governments in Cancun to Lift Expectations and Get Results in Next Three Days
While millions of workers and their families face destruction of their lands and livelihoods from extreme weather events and millions more are desperate for a secure green job, the world’s governments remain timid in the wake of their failure at Copenhagen.
Israel/Palestine: Now Is the Time for Serious Negotiation
The ITUC is increasingly concerned at the lack of progress in achieving a just and peaceful resolution to the Israel-Palestine peace process. In particular, Israel’s refusal to extend the moratorium on building settlements is proving to be a major barrier to advancing the process. All governments need to step up support for a lasting peace and for development of a prosperous Palestinian state.
Regional Trade Union Conference in Moscow - New Report Highlights Barriers to Union Rights
A new ITUC report “Building Democracy and Trade Union Rights in the NIS” released in Moscow today highlights barriers to legitimate trade union organisation in the newly independent states, as patterns of union representation have evolved over the past decade. The report, which sets out key challenges for union organising and collective bargaining and highlights concrete steps to overcome violations of workers’ rights, will be the focus of discussions at a regional conference of the ITUC-PERC* in Moscow, which opens today.
World AIDS Day: A Focus for Action in the Workplace
Trade unions around the world will be using World AIDS Day as a focus to promote action on HIV and AIDS in the workplace and to call for renewed international commitment to tackle the pandemic, which is responsible for some 5,000 deaths every day. Unions will highlight this year’s theme, Universal Access and Human Rights, to build awareness of the social nature of the disease, since HIV transmission mainly takes place along the fault lines caused by poverty, gender inequality and social injustice.
Hong Kong: Minimum Wage Welcome, but Much More Progress Needed
The International Trade Union Confederation
(ITUC) reported today to the World Trade Organisation that Hong Kong
continues to violate core labour standards despite recently legislating a
minimum wage.