World’s Unions Urge G20 to Focus on Jobs for Economic Recovery
As forecasts warn of a continuing rise in unemployment on top of the additional 34 million people worldwide who have become unemployed due to the economic crisis, trade union leaders from the G20 countries will urge for more action on jobs when they meet with G20 Labour and Employment Ministers on 19 April in Washington DC.
Save lives: join unions on this 28th April!
In three weeks time, on the annual International Commemoration Day on 28th April, workers and trade unions around the world will commemorate those who have lost their lives, were injured or fell ill due to unsafe, unhealthy or unsustainable work. This year, the focus of activities is on the role trade unions play in making work safer.
Fruit multinational violate workers fundamental rights
The ITUC supports its Guatemalan affiliates the CUSG, CGTG y UNSITRAGUA in roundly condemning the serious and persistent violations of trade union rights committed by national and multinational fruit companies.
Serious Workers’ Rights Problems in Armenia
A new report by the ITUC on core labour standards in Armenia, published to coincide with the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) review of its trade policies, has found that further measures are needed to comply with the commitments Armenia accepted when it joined the WTO, including commitments undertaken at Doha in the WTO Ministerial Declaration in 2001, as well as in the ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work in 1998 and its Social Justice Declaration in 2008.
Action plan for preventing future trafficking cases in Eastern Europe
A two-day meeting was held in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, on 31 March and 1 April, to discuss the SerbAz company case, which involves the trafficking of workers from the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Republic of Serbia and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to Azerbaijan. This case concerns 700 migrant construction workers and as such is one of the largest registered cases of human trafficking for labour exploitation purposes in Europe.