Friday, 11 June 2010

101 trade unionists murdered

The ITUC has published its Annual Survey of violations of trade union rights. It exposes some shocking treatment of our comrades throughout the world. Here's a short extract.
  "At least 101 trade unionists and labour activists were murdered in 2009 compared to 76 the previous year: 48 were killed in Colombia, 16 in Guatemala, 12 in Honduras, six in Mexico, six in Bangladesh, four in Brazil, three in the Dominican Republic, three in the Philippines, one in India, one in Iraq and one in Nigeria. Colombia was yet again the deadliest country in the world: 22 of the trade unionists who died were senior trade union leaders and five were women."
 Please take the time to read the report at http://survey.ituc-csi.org/+-Whole-World-+.html

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