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06-03-2024

Trade Union Focus on Development - Issue 93 (Jan- Feb 2024)

Get all caught up with the latest trends and news that show that trade unions are actors of development in their own right!

05-03-2024

FESTU presents Somali workers’ priorities to UN Resident Coordinator

Following an official request from the Federation of Somali Trade Unions (FESTU), the UN Resident Coordinator for Somalia, Mr. George Conway, met with a FESTU delegation led by General Secretary Omar Faruk Osman on Monday, 19 February 2024. The delegation highlighted the main priorities for Somali trade unions and explored ways the Resident Coordinator’s office could support them.

31-01-2022

#timefor8: EATUC brings union demands on SDG 8 and the 2030 Agenda to the political agenda of East African countries

The East African Trade Union Confederation (EATUC) champions the 2030 Agenda and its SDGs, particularly SDG 8, as a highly relevant tool to the work of trade unions for resilience and recovery.

06-07-2018

Somalia: European Parliament Calls on Government to End Repression of Unions

The ITUC has welcomed the adoption by the European Parliament of a Resolution on Somalia strongly condemning violations of freedom of association in the country against national union centre FESTU and journalists’ union NUSOJ and demanding that the government implement decisions of the ILO Committee on Freedom of Association.

16-10-2017

ITUC Condemns Somalia Atrocity

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.

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