Chile: National Strike a Success Despite Repression
With tens of thousands of Chilean workers joining the two-day national strike called by the ITUC-affiliated CUT trade union centre, pressure is mounting on the government of President Piñera to respond to the widely-supported demands for a major change in direction.
ITUC Leaders in Chile to Support National Strike
ITUC General Secretary Sharan Burrow has expressed the Confederation’s full support for a two-day national strike called by national trade union centre CUT. Burrow is in the national capital Santiago along with Victor Baez, General Secretary of the ITUC Regional Organisation for the Americas, TUCA
Bahrain’s Anti-union Repression
The authorities in Bahrain are stepping up repression of the country’s trade union movement, with further suspensions and sackings of workers due to their actual or suspected participation in trade union and political actions earlier this year.
USA: ITUC Calls on Verizon to Negotiate with Unions As 45,000 Workers Strike
The ITUC has called on US communications giant Verizon to negotiate in good faith with the unions representing 45,000 striking workers to resolve the largest strike in the USA for several years.
Nine Somali Workers Killed by Al-Shabaab Islamic Militants
On 14 August 2011, nine Somali workers from the public transport sector were killed by Al-Shabaab Islamist fighters in the town of Afgoye, 30 kilometres south of Mogadishu, after refusing to pay the sums the militants were trying to extort from them.