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ITUC Leaders in Chile to Support National Strike Brussels, 24 August 2011 (ITUC OnLine): 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
Read moreBAHRAIN’S ANTI-UNION REPRESSION Brussels, 23 August 2011 (ITUC OnLine): 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. Government workers in particular are being targeted, including in
Read moreUSA: ITUC Calls on Verizon to Negotiate with Unions as 45,000 Workers Strike Brussels, 19 August 2011 (ITUC OnLine): 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. Despite record profits, Verizon
Read moreNine Somali Workers Killed by Al-Shabaab Islamic Militants Brussels, 18 August 2011 (ITUC OnLine): 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
Read moreYEMEN: ITUC CALLS FOR URGENT HUMANITARIAN AID Brussels, 17 August 2011 (ITUC OnLine): The ITUC is calling on the international community to respond to the humanitarian emergency in Yemen, where shortages of food, water, electricity, fuel and other essential goods are worsening by the day. Many companies and factories have closed down, leaving tens of
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