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Back to homepageTrade union leaders and workers at Foxconn India imprisoned 0
Post Views: 6 The ITUC has protested to the Indian authorities over the continued imprisonment of 12 union leaders and workers in Vellore central prison. Criminal cases have been filed against trade union leaders and workers at a Foxconn plant
Read MoreFrench pension reform vote passed by parliament 0
Post Views: 5 Controversial legislation that has provoked a wave of strikes narrowly makes it through upper house Kim Willsher in Paris A protester in Lille wearing a mask depicting French president Nicolas Sarkozy at a demonstration against the government’s
Read MoreDenied work permit, 500,000 foreigners working illegally in Turkey 0
Post Views: 27 ?SA YAZAR ANKARA Many Chinese workers are employed by Turkish mine and construction companies because they will work for lower salaries. According to the Ministry of Labor and Social Security, the Turkish state annually gives work
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518 años de Mentira minera en america latina “con el casco en el corazón”…
Post Views: 9 Chile: rescate de 33 mineros, silencio complice de gobiernos y empresas frente a la ignorancia popular Esto es claro y verdadero en America: la minería fue la principal actividad desarrollada por el conquistador desde 1492, hecho histórico
Read MoreMerkel’s Ongoing Fight to Extend Coal Subsidies 0
Post Views: 2 Berlin Takes on Brussels dpa The European Commission has decided to end coal subsidies by 2014, a decision which does not sit well with Chancellor Angela Merkel. She wants Europe to revisit the decision, but support is lacking. Even
Read MoreChilean miners rescue: first men reach the surface 0
Post Views: 11 Chilean miners rescue: first men reach the surfaceRory Carroll at San José mine Florencio Avalos, the first miner to be rescued, waves after he was winched up from the San José mine in Chile. Photograph: Hugo Infante/AP
Read MoreTrapped Chilean miners: countdown to the party of a lifetime 0
Post Views: 30 Waiting families are focus of nation’s euphoria Rory Carroll and Jonathan Franklin at the San José mine Chile’s mining minister, Laurence Golborne (centre), addresses the media as the rescue of the trapped miners approaches. Photograph: Juan Mabromata/AFP/Getty
Read MoreMassive Protest March in Brussels Rejects European Austerity Plans 0
Post Views: 4 More than 100,000 trade unionists from throughout Europe took to the streets of Brussels today to oppose austerity measures which, if governments do not change direction, will have disastrous social and economic results. Parallel national protests taking
Read MoreITUC Supports New International Standard on Social Responsibility 0
Post Views: 4 Reacting to news that the ISO 26000 has received enough votes to become an official international standard to be issued by the International Organisation for Standardization, ITUC General Secretary Sharon Burrow expressed her satisfaction. “This was the
Read MoreLebanon: Judiciary Failing to Protect Domestic Workers 0
Post Views: 7 A Sri Lankan woman washes the windows of her employers’ home in Beirut. © 2010 Matthew Cassel/KAFA Indifference, Lengthy Procedures, and Restrictive Sponsorship System Defeat Justice(Beirut) – Lebanon’s judiciary is generally failing to hold employers accountable
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