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Brussels, 18 August 2006 (ICFTU OnLine): The International Confederation of Free Trade Unions today welcomed the release from prison on August 17 of M. Wellington Chibebe, the General Secretary of its affiliated organisation, the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU). M. Chibebe was arrested at a roadblock on August 15 and detained at Waterfalls Police
Read moreIMF announces DAY of ACTION on September 12 GLOBAL [August 16, 2006]: The International Metalworkers’ Federation has coordinated a DAY of ACTION on September 12 calling on all affiliates to urge the Japanese government to use its influence in bringing a just resolution to the troubling situation at Toyota Motor Philippines Corporation. The IMF Executive
Read moreBrussels, 30 May, 2006 – The ICFTU, ETUC and WCL have written to European Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson, and many of their affiliates have written to the countries in the European Union committee that decides which countries will benefit under their Generalised System of Preferences (GSP), urging them to suspend Belarus’s trade preferences due to
Read moreBrussels, 30 May 2006 (ICFTU OnLine): In the latest brutal attack against the Iraqi trade union movement, the General Federation of Iraqi Workers (GFIW) has reported the kidnapping and murder of Thabet Hussein Ali, Head of the General Trade Union for Health Sector Workers, on April 27. Ali was taken by a terrorist group as
Read moreBrussels, 1 June 2006 (ICFTU OnLine): Serious threats were made against Costa Rican trade union representatives from the Confederación de Trabajadores Rerum Novarum (CTRN) when their office was attacked in on 24 May. 5 CTRN representatives were held at gunpoint by assailants who burst into their offices in the morning of the 24th, then tied
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