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Spotlight interview with Maitreyi Shankar (KKPKP – India) Brussels, 15 January 2009 (ITUC OnLine): A union in the Indian city of Pune has secured concrete improvements for waste collectors, an informal economy workforce made up of 90% women. Maitreyi Shankar, one of the activists of the Waste Collectors’ Union, KKPKP (Kagad Kach Patra Kashtakari Panchayat,
Read moreBrussels, 14 January 2009 (ITUC OnLine): An 80-strong high-level delegation of trade union representations from around the world is meeting with the International Monetary Fund Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn and World Bank President Robert Zoellick, as well as Board members and several other officials of the two bodies, this week in Washington to push for
Read moreBrussels, 12 January 2009 (ITUC OnLine): The refusal of Israel and Hamas to accept the UN Security Council Resolution calling for a cease-fire is totally unacceptable, and will cost the lives of yet more innocent civilians, as Israel further escalates its military action and Hamas continues to fire rockets across the border. Israel has faced
Read moreBrussels, 9 January 2009 (ITUC OnLine): The ITUC has welcomed the call of the UN Security Council for an immediate and durable cease-fire in Gaza as the first plane-load of trade union humanitarian assistance was unloaded in Egypt for distribution in Gaza. “The UN Resolution recognizes just how serious the humanitarian crisis is, and
Read moreBrussels, 6 January 2009 (ITUC OnLine): The ITUC welcomes the Cambodian Supreme Court decision on December 31, 2008 to release Born Samnang and Sok Sam Oeun on bail and send the case back to the Court of Appeals to be retried. The two men have spent close to five years in prison on false charges
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