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The TUC has always been internationalist, working with unions throughout the world for social justice. In particular the TUC has played a key role in advancing workers’ rights in Europe and making the case for social Europe. We are affiliated to the world trade union body, the ITUC and the European TUC - both of which maintain up to date links to unions throughout the world.

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Voluntary Counseling Confidential Testing (VCCT) organized under the NLC-TUC workplace initiative has proved popular among workers in the Federal Capital Territory in Nigeria where HIV prevalence is considered to be third highest in the country.

IDM - Monthly newsletter reporting international development matters and issues affecting trade unionists around the world.

Tell the Bahraini authorities to release the President of the Bahraini Teachers Association (BTA) from jail.

The Nigeria Labour Congress and the Nigeria Trades Union Congress have suspended industrial action following the Federal Government's decision to reduce the price of petrol from N141 to N97 and agree to some other demands.

At the end of the second day of the Nigerian General Strike, NLC Acting General Secretary Owei Lakemfa and TUC Secretary General John Kolawole write about the horrific attacks on protesters and strikers.

In a letter to the Nigeria High Commission in London, the TUC has strongly condemned the indiscriminate killing of demonstrators by the security forces in protest marches organised by the NLC and Nigeria TUC in Kanu, Lagos and Benin,Nigeria, on 9 Jan...

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