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Brussels, 18 September 2007 (ITUC OnLine): An appalling total of 144 trade unionists were murdered for defending workers’ rights in 2006, while more than 800 suffered beatings or torture, according to the Annual Survey of Trade Union Rights Violations, published by the 168-million member International Trade Union Confederation. The 379-page report details nearly 5,000 arrests
Read moreBrussels, 17 September 2007 (ITUC OnLine): A new ITUC report on core labour standards in Panama has been released today to coincide with Panama¹s trade policy review at the WTO on 17 and 19 September. According to the report, trade unions’ rights are seriously violated in Panama. Public sector workers cannot fully enjoy their trade union
Read moreBrussels, 14 September 2007 (ITUC OnLine): The ITUC welcomed the end of the bar-bender strike on 12 September after settling a deal of HKD 860 for an 8-hour day. “The wage increase is insignificant compared to the initial worker demand of HKD 950”, declared Lee Cheuk Yan, General Secretary of the Hong Kong Confederation of
Read moreBrussels, 13 September 2007 (ITUC Online): Meeting in Sydney, Australia, 8-9 September, the leaders of the 21 member states of APEC – including the US, Russia, Japan, China, Mexico, Malaysia, Peru, Indonesia, the Philippines and the host, Australia – failed to tackle the real challenges of the billions of workers and ordinary people around the
Read moreBrussels, 10 September 2007 (ITUC OnLine): The ITUC has sent a strongly worded letter of protest to the head of the Burmese military regime, General Than Shwe, over the imposition of heavy prison sentences on six labour rights supporters on 7 September. The six, Thurein Aung, Kyaw Kyaw, Wai Lin, Myo Min, Kyaw Win, and Nyi Nyi
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