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Unless Qatar improves its treatment of workers, the World Cup vote must be re-run, unions tell UEFA Congress

Delegates attending the UEFA Congress in London today (Friday) will be lobbied by unions as part of the campaign to secure better treatment for migrant workers employed on the construction of stadiums for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar and for foreign f...

24 May 2013
Unions cry foul on Fiji's fake democracy process

Unions from Australia, New Zealand and the UK have today written to their Foreign Ministers urging them not to be taken in by the Fijian military dictatorship over its claims to be restoring democracy. And the Foreign Ministers have been urged to set...

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3 May 2013
May Day sees assault on Turkish workers

Turkish workers in Istanbul have once more been met by brutal state oppression when they have tried to celebrate May Day peacefully and to remember 42 workers who lost their lives in the celebrations of 1977. The TUC has written to the Turkish Ambass...

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2 May 2013
TUC condemns arrests of trade unionists on May Day in Swaziland.

TUC condemns arrests of trade unionists on May Day in Swaziland.

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2 May 2013
Release Mahdi - Repression in Bahrain

In spring 2011, Mahdi Issa Abu Dheed, the President of the Bahrain Teachers Association called for a teachers strike in support of the democratic movement for reform.

1 May 2013
Protest letter to Guatemalan President

The TUC General Secretary has written to the President of Guatemala to highlight our deep concern at the killing of three more Guatemalan trade unionists in separate attacks in March and to support ITUC demands that the government acts to ensure trad...

9 April 2013
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