As profits announced, unions pressure DHL to guarantee workforce rights
As DHL makes ready to announce solid profits in Frankfurt tomorrow a coalition of global union organisations is challenging the company to prove its respect for the workforce that helped generate them. As part of that challenge the ITUC, UNI and ITF will be unveiling Respect at DHL, a new campaign website.
Trinidad and Tobago: Excessive Restrictions of the Right to Organise
The ITUC is releasing today a report on core labour standards in Trinidad and Tobago, coinciding with the Trade Policy Review of the country at the WTO. The report finds excessive restrictions to the right to organise, to collectively bargain and to strike; for instance, in order for a union to obtain bargaining rights, the union must satisfy an excessive requirement that it represent 51 per cent of the workers. Domestic workers and some other categories are not covered by the Industrial Relations Act and so cannot join trade unions or benefit from their protection.
Frozen in time: Gender pay gap remains unchanged for 10 years
Asia shows greatest wage difference between men and women
New industry ranking puts domestic workers on largest gender pay gap
Women in unionised sectors are less likely to be discriminated against
Burma: Cautious Optimism but More Progress Needed to Lift Sanctions
There are grounds for cautious optimism with recent developments in Burma, however the international community should only lift sanctions when there is evidence of concrete progress on labour standards and other human rights. Based on the findings of a recent ITUC staff mission to the country, the ITUC is urging the international community to adopt an incremental approach to removing sanctions, which rewards progress with concrete results on a number of labour and human rights benchmarks.
Egypt: ITUC Call to Drop All Charges Against Kamal Abbas
The ITUC is calling on the Egyptian authorities to withdraw all charges and annul the sentence of 26 February against Kamal Abbas, the general coordinator of CTUWS.