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Brussels, 7 June 2006 (ICFTU OnLine): 115 trade unionists were murdered for defending workers’ rights in 2005, while more than 1,600 were subjected to violent assaults and some 9,000 arrested, according to the ICFTU’s Annual Survey of Trade Union Rights violations, published today. Nearly 10,000 workers were sacked for their trade union involvement, and almost
Read moreBrussels, 7 June 2006 (ICFTU OnLine): There is no doubt about it. Apart from Colombia, the worst violators of union rights in the Americas are multinational companies, and particularly those based in the region’s export processing zones (EPZs). The ICFTU’s 2006 Annual Survey on Violations of Trade Union Rights also documents other obstacles to the
Read moreBrussels, 8 June 2006 (ICFTU Online): In a report published by the ICFTU to coincide with the trade policy review of Iceland at the WTO this week, the Icelandic government is criticised for intervening in the country’s industrial relations. Again and again the Icelandic government has interrupted collective bargaining processes and denied certain groups of
Read moreBrussels, 3 April 2006: For the ICFTU, yesterday’s suspension of WTO trade talks comes as no surprise given the blindingly obvious faults in a negotiation strategy that claimed to be concerned with development, but looked at nothing other than market access. In our view, any trade talks that don’t encompass changing unfair trade practices simply
Read moreBrussels, 12 June 2006 – The ICFTU and the World Confederation of Labour are deeply concerned at the deteriorating situation in Guinea with serious violations of trade union rights taking place, including death threats against union leaders. Threats have been levelled against the trade union leaders of the two most representative labour confederations in Guinea
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