The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) and the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) are welcoming the release today from prison of Ebrahim Madadi, a board member of the Tehran bus drivers’ union, the Vahed Syndicate. Ebrahim had been unjustly held on false charges of endangering national security since being arrested […]
Monthly Archives: December 2011
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Up to a thousand garment workers went on strike in at the start of this week in Phnom Penh, Cambodia calling for the re-instatement of three suspended union representatives. The company, Cambo Handsome Ltd, suspended the three on charges of stealing two t-shirts. The union representing the workers, the Workers […]
62 workers at a Turkish subsidiary of German-owned GEA have been locked out since July. An international delegation of some 60 representatives from 20 countries visited the plant and called on the company to reinstate the workers immediately. At the center of the struggle is GEA’s open hostility and aggressive […]