Asia: the highest number of trade union rights violations

Author: International Confederation of Free Trade Unions

From fierce repression to restrictive legal barriers...the ICFTU reports on 33 Asian countries where trade union rights are violated, eight more than last year. Brutality, harassment, imprisonment, detention, arrest...according to the Survey, there...

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Asia: the highest number of trade union rights violations

Author: International Confederation of Free Trade Unions

From fierce repression to restrictive legal barriers...the ICFTU reports on 33 Asian countries where trade union rights are violated, eight more than last year. Brutality, harassment, imprisonment, detention, arrest...according to the Survey, there...

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Li Wangyang Gets More of the Same: Veteran Trade Unionist Sentenced to Ten Years [China]

Author: China Labour Bulletin

Despite imminent improvements to China's Trade Union Law, rumours of the right to strike being given legal status, China's ratification of the International Convenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, and the All China Federation of Trade Union...

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Middle East: Workers denied the most fundamental trade union rights

Author: International Confederation of Free Trade Unions

Between total bans or tight controls on their activities, the independent trade unions are virtually non-existent. Strikes are banned, there is no collective bargaining, migrant workers are exploited and persecuted - such is the gloomy picture painted...

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