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Spotlight on Marie Josée Lokongo Bosiko, Vice President of the UNTC (National Union of Congolese Workers) Brussels, 28 August 2007, (ITUC OnLine): Marie Josée Lokongo Bosiko is the Vice President of the UNTC (National Union of Congolese Workers) (1). She talks about the obstacles in the way of Congolese women trying to assert themselves in
Read moreBrussels, 24 August 2007 (ITUC OnLine): In a letter to the Hong Kong Labour Minister Mathew Cheung, the ITUC has called on the government to help resolve a strike involving several hundred “bar benders” on construction sites around Hong Kong, due to the refusal of the Bar Bending Contractors Association to enter negotiations with the ITUC-affiliated HKCTU
Read moreBrussels, 16 August 2007 (ITUC OnLine): Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is likely to face unexpected criticism of his government’s human rights record today, when he attends the annual summit meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) in Bishkek, capital of Kyrgyzstan. National trade union organisations in a number of SCO states have renewed pressure on
Read moreSpotlight interview with Diana Holland, Chair of the ITUC Women’s Committee Brussels, 13 August 2007 (ITUC OnLine): Diana Holland is the Chair of the ITUC Women’s Committee. She is an experienced trade union leader and in charge of equality issues at the British TGWU. After outlining the Women’s Committee priorities she goes on to describe her
Read moreBrussels, 9 August 2007 (ITUC OnLine): As trade unionists and human rights activists around the world joined in an international “Iran Day of Action” today, demanding the release from prison of two prominent Iranian trade union leaders, Iranian authorities reacted by stepping up repression against the country’s independent trade union movement. Early this morning, state
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