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.
Guatemala: Assassination of two Indigenous and Rural Workers Trade Union Movement of Guatemala (MSICG) leaders
The ITUC joins with the United Trade Union Confederation of Guatemala (Confederación de Unidad Sindical de Guatemala -CUSG), the General Workers’ Centre of Guatemala (Central General de Trabajadores de Guatemala - CGTG) and UNSITRAGUA in condemning in the strongest possible terms the assassinations on 6 and 26 March of Luis Felipe Cho and Samuel Ramírez Paredes.
Guatemala: Report on the situation of Guatemala’s indigenous peoples
The ITUC, the Indigenous and Rural Workers Trade Union Movement of Guatemala (MSICG), the Trade Union Confederation of the Americas (ITUC-TUCA) and the Council of the Peoples of the West (CPO) have published a report on the situation of Guatemala’s indigenous population, “The Right to Consultation of the Peoples of Guatemala: The Breakdown between Words and Practice”. The report sets out the results of research carried out between 1996 and March 2010.