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Algeria: Government Repression Provokes Union Hunger Strike
The ITUC is demanding that the Algerian authorities stop repression of the country's emerging independent trade union movement. A wave of harassment of members of the National Independent Union of Public Administration Personnel (SNAPAP) has led to seven members of the union's board, including four women, starting a hunger strike on 6 May. One of them, Fayza Abrakan, has been admitted to hospital in a serious condition. Workers in the Ministry of Justice, hospital doctors and employees in (...)
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Human and trade union rights ,
nologo,
Algeria,
News ,
Strike ,
Public service ,
Repression
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?Jobs Wanted' ? young workers deliver message to Mexico's Secretary of Labour and G20 Labour Ministers
Young workers from G20 countries including Mexico, Canada, USA delivered a ?Jobs Wanted' message to Rosalinda Vélez Juárez Secretary of Labour and Social Prevention, Mexico, calling on the Secretary of Labour to take their message to G20 Labour Ministers meeting in Guadalajara. ?42 million young people will be looking for work each year for the next ten years. ?Secretary Velez is in a unique position to represent the needs of millions of young people world-wide to G20 Labour Ministers. (...)
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Employment ,
Global economy ,
Youth ,
nologo,
G20 ,
News ,
Financial crisis
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New evidence of abuses of workers rights in Qatar prompts ITUC investigation
The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) has announced a new investigation into the conditions of workers in Qatar following a visit of ITUC General Secretary Sharan Burrow to Nepal to hear first hand accounts from workers who have just returned from the Gulf Kingdom. Sharan Burrow, ITUC General Secretary, said new figures made public during her visit recorded 162 deaths of Nepalese workers in Qatar in the first ten months of 2011. Most of the workers' deaths are unexplained, and (...)
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EU Policy Forum on Development: a timid attempt to provide a policy dialogue space for CSOs and development stakeholders
The ITUC/TUDCN participated in the first interim meeting of the Policy Forum on Development (PFD), which took place in Brussels on 10-11 May. This meeting, organised by DEVCO, saw the participation of the European External Action Service (EEAS), EU Member States representatives, the European Parliament (EP), the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC), and the Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) and Local Authorities platforms. The PFDconstitutes the follow-up of the Structured (...)
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nologo,
Development cooperation ,
News
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Trade unions need to put development cooperation high on their agenda
At the TUDCN General Meeting, concluded last week in Helsingor, Denmark, many voices called for putting development cooperation in the focus of not only governments and international institutions, but of the trade unions as well. In the face of the multiple global crises and development budget cuts by some of the key donors, international solidarity and development cooperation have never been more important. The meeting brought together over 50 representatives of trade unions, regional (...)
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Development cooperation ,
News
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