World AIDS Day: A Focus for Action in the Workplace
Trade unions around the world will be using World AIDS Day as a focus to promote action on HIV and AIDS in the workplace and to call for renewed international commitment to tackle the pandemic, which is responsible for some 5,000 deaths every day. Unions will highlight this year’s theme, Universal Access and Human Rights, to build awareness of the social nature of the disease, since HIV transmission mainly takes place along the fault lines caused by poverty, gender inequality and social injustice.
Hong Kong: Minimum Wage Welcome, but Much More Progress Needed
The International Trade Union Confederation
(ITUC) reported today to the World Trade Organisation that Hong Kong
continues to violate core labour standards despite recently legislating a
minimum wage.
European Multinationals’ Position on Vietnam Wages “Totally Unacceptable”, Say ETUC and ITUC
John Monks, General Secretary of the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) described as “totally unacceptable” the position of the European Chamber of Commerce in Vietnam (EuroCham) threatening withdrawal of European investment in the country if minimum wages are raised. ITUC General Secretary Sharan Burrow has described EuroCham’s intervention as “offensive”.
Iran: Continuous Harassment of the Independent Trade Union Movement in Iran
The ITUC strongly condemns the continuous harassment of the independent trade union movement in Iran. The ITUC lodged numerous protests with Iran over the past years and months in response to seeing trade unionists being arrested, harassed and facing the threat of arrest for conducting normal trade union duties.
Trade Unions Say NO to Violence against Women and the Discrimination that Cultivates it
To mark International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women and Girls, the ITUC and its affiliated organisations across the globe are rallying to say NO to this violence and to fight the discrimination underpinning it.