December 6, 2021 – The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) has welcomed a decision by a United Nations credentials committee to postpone a decision about who will represent Afghanistan and Myanmar at the UN. The move effectively blocks the Afghan Taliban and the Myanmar military junta from representing their countries at the UN for now. […]
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Hong Kong civic society decimated: enough is enough, says ITUC
December 2, 2021 – The ITUC is calling on the Chinese authorities to immediately repeal the national security law in Hong Kong and to release prisoners detained under it as evidence grows that the law is being used to dismantle independent civil society. A recent estimate suggests that over 50 groups in Hong Kong have […]
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Nobel Prize in economics explodes minimum wage and jobs myth
The award of this year’s Nobel Prize in economics has further exploded a decades-old myth that increasing minimum wages costs jobs. The prize was awarded to David Card, Joshua Angrist and Guido Imbens for real-world research in the 1990s that demonstrated, empirically, that the idea touted by conservative economists that higher minimum wages mean fewer […]
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Violence in Israel and Palestine must stop, says ITUC
The ITUC is calling for an immediate cessation of violence in Israel and Palestine, and urgent talks through the UN and the Middle East Quad to tackle the immediate causes of the violence and the underlying injustices from the Israeli occupation. Israeli airstrikes on Gaza have killed 24 people, including nine children. These were launched […]
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Military spending rises to US$2 trillion as urgent needs remain unmet
Sharan Burrow, ITUC General Secretary, said: “Governments have brought shame on themselves by wasting vast sums of money on the military and increasing spending while urgent requirements for public health and economic reconstruction and resilience from the COVID-19 pandemic have not been met. “This is a scandalous misuse of resources at a time when the […]
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Hiroshima/Nagasaki Anniversary Must Spur Efforts to End Nuclear Weapons
August 6, 2020 – This week’s 75th anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, with 250,000 killed and many more suffering terrible effects on their health, is a sombre reminder of the appalling destruction of nuclear weapons and should spur international efforts to eliminate them. “With rising global tensions and the retreat by many […]