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Spotlight interview with Esther Stevens, president of the South African Domestic Service and Allied Workers’ Union, SADSAWU Esther Stevens has been a domestic worker for 45 years and is the president of the South African Domestic Service and Allied Workers’ Union, SADSAWU. She talks about how difficult but also how important it is to organise
Read moreBrussels, 5 October 2007 (ITUC OnLine): On Sunday the people of Costa Rica are casting their vote in a referendum on the ratification of the DR-CAFTA, a free trade agreement between the US, the Dominican Republic and Central America (Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua). Costa Rica is the only one of these
Read moreBurma: No Clean Hands for Foreign Businesses Brussels, 2 October 2007 (ITUC OnLine): The ITUC is writing to several hundred companies known or suspected of having business links to Burma to pull out of the country and “stop propping up the brutal regime”, and is calling on governments to extend economic sanctions to cover all
Read moreBrussels, 2 October 2007 (ITUC OnLine) : The ITUC released a new report today on core labour standards in Gabon and Cameroon. This report coincides with both countries´ trade policy reviews at the WTO and highlights important shortcomings in the application and enforcement of core labour standards, with many contradictions between the principles of these
Read moreBrussels, 28 September 2007 (ICTU OnLine): 1,850 people yesterday joined a “strike” in the internet virtual world “Second Life” against IBM. The action, organised by Global Union Federation UNI, was undertaken in support of IBM workers in Italy who having requested a modest salary increase, had their “productive results benefit” cancelled by the company resulting
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