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Brussels, August 6, 2009 (ITUC OnLine): The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) and Mayors for Peace are launching today an international campaign on peace and the abolition of nuclear weapons by the year 2020. Sixty-four years after the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the danger of nuclear proliferation is acute, and growing. Nuclear weapons
Read moreBrussels, 31 July 2008: The ITUC has once again strongly condemned the military coup carried out in Honduras on 28 June with the abduction, overthrow and expulsion from the country of President Manuel Zelaya Rosales, as it had along with its regional organisation the Trade Union Confederation of the Americas (TUCA) on 8 July 2009.
Read moreBrussels, 28 July 2009: In a letter last week to Mr Lee Myung-bak, the president of the Republic of Korea, the ITUC condemns the brutal attacks against the striking workers of the Ssangyong Motor Pyeongtaek plant. Since July 16, management at the plant has blocked all food from entering the factory. On July 19, it began
Read moreCore Labour Standards in Zambia: Much remains to be done Brussels, 27 July 2009 (ITUC OnLine) : A new ITUC report on core labour standards in Zambia finds major shortcomings in the application of the ILO Core Conventions in this country. The report has been prepared to coincide with Zambia’s trade policy review at the
Read moreG8: Trade Unions Response to Summit Conclusions Brussels, 10 July 2009 (ITUC OnLine): The Global Unions’ statement to the G8 L’Aquila Summit ”Putting Jobs and Fairness at the Heart of Recovery: the Role of the G8”, called on governments to confront the jobs, climate and development crises, as working families around the world suffer the
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