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Brussels, 11 September 2006 (ICFTU OnLine): The ICFTU has protested to Australian Prime Minister John Howard over the latest in a series of trade union rights violations, under the country’s notorious industrial laws. In a letter to Howard, General Secretary Guy Ryder criticises the launching of law-suits by the government against 107 construction workers. The workers
Read moreBrussels, 7 September 2006 (ICFTU Online): While the leaders of Asia and Europe will meet in Helsinki this weekend for the VI ASEM Summit, the trade unions of these countries are organising on Thursday and Friday in the same city a parallel Trade Union Summit under the slogan: “10 years of ASEM – time to
Read moreBrussels, 6 September 2006 (ICFTU Online): The International Confederation of Free Trade Unions strongly criticized the new edition of the World Bank’s highest-circulation publication, Doing Business, for including recommendations that governments should do away with labour market regulations and emulate those countries that have almost no worker protection rules of any kind and are not
Read moreSpotlight on Gerald Lodwick (NWC-Sri Lanka) Brussels, 31 August 2006 (ICFTU online): The NWC (National Workers Congress), which is a WCL affiliate, is one of the Sri Lankan unions that manages to organise workers in the export processing zones (EPZs). At present they have approximately 7,000 members in 45 factories, 6 of which have recognized
Read moreBrussels, 31 August 2006 (ICFTU online): With their 80 to 85% female workforce, the 9 Sri Lankan export processing zones (EPZs) largely produce textiles, though also toys, diamonds, tobacco, electronic goods and even tyres. The new TUW Briefing, based on interviews conducted by journalists within the Sri Lankan EPZs, reveals the indecent living conditions experienced by
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