News

• ITUC Condemns Somalia Atrocity

  16-10-2017

  The ITUC has condemned yesterday’s truck bomb attack, believed to be the responsibility of fundamentalist terror group Al Shabaab, which killed over 300 people and injured hundreds more. The truck carrying the bomb broke through a check point near the country’s Foreign Ministry in Mogadishu and detonated near to a fuel truck which increased the impact of the blast.
• Trade Unions Call on IFIs to Support Global Wage Rise

  12-10-2017

  On the eve of the annual meetings of the IMF and World Bank (Washington, 13-15 October 2017), the ITUC and its Global Unions partners are calling on the international financial institutions to help boost the incomes of working people around the world by supporting a strengthening of weakened collective bargaining rights and an expansion of universal social protection.
• Costa Rica: Global Women’s Organising Assembly

  10-10-2017

  The 3rd ITUC World Women’s Assembly, being held in Costa Rica from 11 - 13 October, brings together 200 women trade union activists from around the world to chart a course for organising to achieve gender equality and equity in the world of work.
• Indian Government Must Fulfil Jobs Promise and Respect Workers’ Rights

  05-10-2017

  The ITUC has called on the government of India to accept a 12-point Charter of Demands from India’s national trade union centres, and withdraw plans to bring in a series of restrictive amendments to the country’s labour laws.
• ITUC and ETUC Criticise European Employers over ILO Regional Meeting in Turkey

  03-10-2017

  The ITUC and ETUC have strongly criticised European employer federations for blocking the circulation of an open letter from the two trade union organisations to government and employer delegates attending the 10th ILO Regional Meeting in Istanbul this week.