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Côte d’Ivoire: ITUC Renews Its Call for an End to Violence and for the Respect of Democratic Principles Brussels, 4 March 2011 (ITUC OnLine): Côte d’Ivoire is moving perilously close to civil war. On Thursday 3 March there was fresh violence which led to the death of at least six women, shot by security forces
Read moreLIBYA: WORLD TRADE UNIONS CALL MULTINATIONALS TO ACCOUNT Brussels, 3 March 2011 (ITUC OnLine): The ITUC and the Global Union Federation representing oil and chemical workers, the International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers’ Unions (ICEM), have today written to 28 multinational companies* in the oil, infrastructure and chemicals industries concerning investments in
Read moreFIJI: MILITARY INTIMIDATION AND BEATINGS OF UNION OFFICIALS Brussels, 2 March 2011 (ITUC OnLine): The ITUC and Global Union Federations ITF and IUF have reacted strongly to intimidation and physical attacks against Felix Anthony, General Secretary of the Fiji Trade Union Congress and against other officials from FTUC affiliates. Anthony is also General Secretary of
Read moreEGYPT: ITUC CALLS ON THE HIGH MILITARY COUNCIL TO RESPECT TRADE UNION RIGHTS Brussels, 28 February 2011 (ITUC OnLine): The ITUC has expressed deep concern over statements attributed to the new Minister of Manpower in Egypt, Ismail Fahmy, that “the issue of trade union rights is kept on hold until such a time that the
Read moreINTERNATIONAL UNION LEADER HARM BUITER PASSES AWAY Brussels, 25 February 2011 (ITUC OnLine): 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. Born in Tubbergen, the Netherlands, in 1922, Harm Buiter’s studies in
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