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Brussels, 26 February 2009 (ITUC OnLine): An international trade union mission* to Korea this week has concluded that the trade union rights situation is deteriorating, and that Korea is not living up to commitments it made to respect international labour standards when it joined the OECD in 1996. The government has also failed to implement
Read moreBrussels, 24 February 2009 (ITUC OnLine): The ITUC has joined with TUCA, its regional organisation for the Americas, and Building and Wood Workers’ International (BWI), to strongly condemn the raid on the head office of the National Construction and Services Union of Guatemala (SINCS-G). The raid took place within the framework of a terror campaign
Read moreBrussels, 20 February 2009 (ITUC OnLine): In a video message on the World Day for Social Justice today, ITUC General Secretary Guy Ryder has called on governments to act together decisively to tackle the global economic crisis, by stimulating economies to create jobs, regulating the banking and financial sector, establishing real global governance and putting
Read moreBrussels, 19 February 2009 (ITUC OnLine): The ITUC has expressed deep concerns over the planned holding of trade union elections in Iraq in March under the legal framework inherited from the regime of Saddam Hussein, in violation of international law on freedom of association. The elections are set to be held under “Law 52”, which
Read moreJapan: Public Workers’ Rights Still Denied Brussels, 18 February 2009 (ITUC OnLine): Violations of trade union rights and discrimination remain to be addressed in Japan, according to an ITUC report on core labour standards. The report, which coincides with the Trade Policy Review of Japan at the WTO on 18 and 20 February, notes that
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