Burma: “Elections Are a Sham” Says ITUC Together with ETUC and Human Rights Organisations
The ITUC, together with Belgian union affiliates, the European Trade Union Confederation, the International Federation of Human Rights Organisations (FIDH), Amnesty International and Actions Birmanie, protested in front of the Burmese embassy in Brussels on Friday, 5 November, on the occasion of an International Day of Action ahead of the elections this weekend.
ITUC calls on World Bank to complete overhaul of “Doing Business”
The 2011 edition of the World Bank’s “Doing Business” report, released earlier today, includes a welcome first step for revising the report’s past practice of encouraging countries to dismantle labour and social regulations, which it did by granting its best ratings to countries with the lowest levels of workers’ protection.
Sri Lanka: Labour Rights Violations threatening GSP benefits
The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) reported today to the World Trade Organisation that "while Sri Lanka has ratified all eight of the International Labour Organization’s core conventions, it has largely failed to implement these conventions," as noted by Sharan Burrow, General Secretary of the ITUC.
Trade Union Rights Not Respected in Belize
The ITUC is releasing today a report on core labour standards in Belize, coinciding with the Trade Policy Review of the country at the WTO. The report finds that internationally recognised labour standards are violated especially with regard to child labour and trade union rights.
ITUC Shocked at UN Palestinian Agency Actions Over Strike
The ITUC has written to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon criticising the actions of the UN’s Palestine Relief Agency UNRWA as a strike of its employees enters a third week. UNRWA management have insisted that they will not talk to the workers’ union unless and until the strike is called off. Some 7,500 employees and contract workers are on strike over claims for improvements in their wages and working conditions.