ICTU Headquarters

PEACE PROCESS MUST BE BUILT ON JUSTICE FOR COLOMBIA


Assistant General Secretary Peter Bunting on the recent peace deal in Colombia and at the trade union role in the wider peace process It appears peace has finally come to Colombia and Latin America's longest-running conflict is at an end. The peace accord between government and FARC rebels is...
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Global Issues, Local Action


David Joyce delves into some of the key issues to be tacked at the Global Solidarity Summer School Global challenges & Opportunities: Local & Global Responses is the theme for the 2016 Global Solidarity Summer School, which takes place this year in Donegal. This is the eight successive incarnation...
ICTU Headquarters

Solidarity with Korean Trade Unions


Following a call for solidarity via the ITUC, Congress wrote to the Korean authorities regarding the KCTU President Han Sang-gyun and the likelihood of him facing an 8-year imprisonment for combined charges against him by the Korean government. His 5 year sentence was since announced by the Korean...

TTIP

Motion no
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Northern Ireland Committee Biennial Delegate Conference 2016
“This Conference is extremely concerned by ongoing international trade negotiations that will most certainly endanger government’s ability to regulate, and citizen’s rights to access basic public services; e.g. water, health and energy all for the sake of...
Adopted

TTIP

Motion no
10
Northern Ireland Committee Biennial Delegate Conference 2016
Conference notes the ongoing campaigns to oppose the Transatlantic Trade & Investment Partnership. While some public events have been organised to raise awareness of the impact on local communities and services, conference notes that not enough is known...
Adopted
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FIFA's squalid secret


Sharan Burrow - General Secretary of the ITUC - says a new report on human rights could finally force FIFA to do the right thing for workers in Qatar. Thousands of workers building the 2022 FIFA World Cup facilities and infrastructure in Qatar are forced to live as modern day slaves. They are housed...
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