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G20 Labour Ministers agenda for action must be backed up with investment
International unions welcomed the agenda for action from G20 Labour Ministers to create quality jobs, green jobs and jobs for young people, but warned that G20 leaders must drive urgent, coordinated investment to drive implementation. Sharan Burrow, General Secretary of International Trade Union Confederation, said Labour Ministers should take the message to the G20 Summit in Los Cabos urging them to coordinate investment in infrastructure, enabling green infrastructure and green jobs as a (...)
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Employment ,
Global economy ,
Informal economy ,
Youth ,
Green jobs ,
News ,
World-Global
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Trade Union Nordic Development Cooperation meeting
?To restore confidence, creating quality jobs, decent work must be the core of any legitimate policy of economic and financial reform and any strategy for growth? Norway has a rights-based approach to the decent work; we believe this approach is even more vital in times of crisis? Participation and dialogue must be at the centre of the recovery?, Jonas Gahr Støre, Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs, told the participants from Global Unions and the Nordic Solidarity Support organisations at (...)
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nologo,
Development cooperation ,
News
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Unions welcome apparent shift by the G8 from austerity to a focus on growth and jobs
Commenting on the Declaration issued at the end of the G8 Camp David Summit on 20 May, international unions welcomed an apparent shift of focus from austerity and budget cuts to growth and jobs. Sharan Burrow, General Secretary of the International Trade union Confederation, said ?We welcome the clear statement by the G8 that their commitment is to promote growth and jobs. But this has now to be reflected in a change of policy on the ground, where short sighted austerity is destroying jobs (...)
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Employment ,
TUAC ,
G8 ,
News ,
Financial crisis ,
World-Global
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Trade union statement to the G20 Labour summit in Guadalajara, Mexico, refers to AIDS
L20 (trade unions from the G20 countries) has issued a common statement for the G20 Labour and Employment Ministerial Meeting that is taking place in Guadalajara, Mexico, 17-18.05.2012. L20 (trade unions from the G20 countries) has issued a common statement for the G20 Labour and Employment Ministerial Meeting that is taking place in Guadalajara, Mexico, 17-18.05.2012. ? Today, 1.4 billion people are struggling to survive on less than $1.25 a day, some 84 million more than before the (...)
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HIV/AIDS ,
Global economy ,
G20 ,
News
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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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