News

• Corporate Greed Takes Hold in Brazil

  18-07-2017

  The decision by Brazil’s corruption-riddled parliament to eliminate a swathe of protections in the country’s labour laws will impoverish millions of people and leave workers completely at the mercy of employers who will have unilateral power to set wages, holiday entitlements, working hours and bonuses.
• Colombia: Trade Unionists Murdered As Peace Process at Risk

  17-07-2017

  An explosion of violence against trade unionists in Colombia, including the murders of six union representatives since mid-May, is putting the peace and reconstruction process in the country at severe risk.
• ITUC/TUCA Statement on Venezuela

  14-07-2017

  The ITUC and its Regional Organisation the Trade Union Confederation of the Americas (TUCA) have once again expressed their deep concern over the current situation in Venezuela, where dangerous confrontation is resulting in an increasingly high loss of life, injuries, arrests, destruction of infrastructure and other damages to the country and its population.
• New Bangladesh Accord will Protect Workers and Improve Bangladesh’s Garment Industry

  14-07-2017

  The ITUC has welcomed the signing of the new Bangladesh Accord on Fire and Building Safety, as a further step towards protection of workers and a means to improve Bangladesh’s garment industry, which has suffered massive reputational damage over the 2013 Rana Plaza factory building collapse that killed 1,100 workers.
• Global Unions Reaction to Hamburg G20 Summit

  11-07-2017

  It was 19 to 1 on climate at the conclusion of the G20 G20 The Group of Twenty, or G20, is a forum for international cooperation on the most important aspects of the international economic and financial agenda. It brings together 19 countries and the European Union, which together represent around 90% of global GDP, 80% of global trade and two thirds of the world’s population. Summit in Hamburg. The victory for Chancellor Merkel on securing a majority commitment to the Paris Agreement is a relief for the world, but it requires deep cuts in emissions and a commitment to ensure industrial transformation is accompanied by “just transition” measures.