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New ITUC Report Released Today Maps Regulatory Agenda Brussels, June 2007: Launching a new report ”Where the house always wins, Private Equity, Hedge Funds and the new Casino Capitalism” the world’s peak trade union body, the 168 million-member International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), today issued a global warning to pension funds over investment in private equity and
Read moreBrussels, 21 June 2007 (ITUC OnLine): With the decision of the European Commission to suspend access by Belarus to trade preferences under the EU Generalised System of Preferences (GSP) today, the ITUC General Council meeting in Brussels has adopted a resolution urging the government to take all necessary measures to bring national legislation and practice
Read moreBrussels, 21 June 2007 (ITUC OnLine): In an address to the ITUC General Council meeting in Brussels today, Iranian trade union leader Mansour Osanloo told of the persecution of him and other members of his union in the “Sherkate Vahed” company (Syndicate of Workers of Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company) by their employers and the
Read moreSpotlight interview with Myriam Luz Triana, National Finance Secretary and head of women’s affairs at the Colombian General Workers’ Confederation, the CGT Brussels, 19 June 2007 (ITUC OnLine): Myriam Luz Triana is the National Finance Secretary and head of women’s affairs at the Colombian General Workers’ Confederation, the CGT. She tells us how, in spite
Read moreBrussels, 15 June 2007 (ITUC OnLine): The ITUC deplores the descent into violence in Gaza, following days of conflict between Hamas and Fatah fighters, costing the lives of some 90 people, many of them civilians. “Our immediate thoughts are with the innocent victims of the violence and their families. On top of this the potential
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