Archive for March 2010
Building Solidarity with Burmese workers
Posted on March 30, 2010
IMPACT and PSEU support the Trade Union movement in Burma with €20,000
On the 25th of March ICTU Global Solidarity and Burma Action Ireland co-organised a solidarity meeting with the Trade Unions in Burma. The meeting was held in INTO learning centre in Dublin.
The main speaker was June Sorensen, who is responsible for the Burma solidarity work at the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC). She informed the meeting about the extreme oppression of workers in Burma, one of the last countries in world where state institutions impose forced labour on the population. But despite the risk of torture and imprisonment, trade unionists operate underground to organise and unite the workers.
Read the latest Global Solidarity Newsletter
Posted on March 02, 2010
Important updates on our international trade union solidarity work
In this newsletter you will find updates about the solidarity campaign and lobby work of Justice for Colombia, the partnership project we have with the Lesotho Congress of Democratic Unions, the support we hope to give to the Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions through the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign beginning in 2010.
On page 7 you can read about the desperate employment conditions that garment workers, mostly women, are enduring and Congress' response to this by focusing on 'clean clothes campaign' with other Irish groups who share these concerns.