International Union Leader Harm Buiter Passes Away
It was with deep sadness that the ITUC learned of the death this week of Harm Buiter, general secretary of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions from 1967 to 1971.
United Nations Commission on the Status of Women
An eighty-strong delegation of trade union women from ITUC, EI, PSI, BWI and ITF are participating in the 55th Session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (UN CSW55) in New York, from 22 February to 4 March, 2011.
G20 Finance Ministers Fall Flat on Jobs, Disappoint on Financial Reform
The international trade union movement has sharply criticised the failure of last week’s meeting of G20 Finance Ministers to focus on the global employment crisis.
Middle East/Maghreb: "End the repression. Social and political responses are needed!" insists ITUC
Triggered by the Tunisian revolution, then given impetus by that of Egypt, the wave of protests spreading throughout the Middle East and the Maghreb is growing by the day. The response to it has become increasingly violent, culminating in recent days with the atrocious massacres committed in Libya by the brutal dictatorship of Colonel Gaddafi, regarding which the ITUC has just launched an urgent appeal (*).
Democracy, Fundamental Rights and Freedoms at Risk in USA As Wisconsin and Other States Attack Unions
Workers across the world are shocked to see the rights of teachers, health workers and other public employees attacked in the ’Land of the Free’. Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and other Republican Party state governors including in Indiana and Ohio have launched a major assault on the rights of public sector workers to union representation and collective bargaining, with heavy pay cuts and new obstacles to freedom of association. Demonstrations have taken place in several US states over recent days, as opposition grows to the coordinated anti-union onslaught, which has its roots in the ultra-conservative “tea party” movement.