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Trade unions around the world are playing a leading role in the protracted global debate on various issues in the Gulf region. They continually dominate media headlines with allegations of wrong doing taking place against workers in places like Abu Dhabi, Kuwait, Qatar and Saudi Arabia, to name a few.

Chairman of Independent Democratic Confederation of Nepalese Trade Union (INDECONT) , has sent letter to International Labour Organization (ILO) REGARDING issue with ITUC General Secretary (Asia - Pacific) Noriyuki Suzuki.

It has developed that there was a plot to fix the February 2015 ITUC Asia Pacific decision. Worldwide Leaks has uncovered that Carol Beaumont, the previous work Party MP and secretary of New Zealand Council of Trade Unions, was being pushed by general secretary Sharan Burrow for the post of ITUC (AP) general secretary through questionable means. Spilled Emails indicate how Ms Burrow drew in with Grant Belchamber (worldwide officer, Australian Council of Trade Unions), Helen Kelly, president NZCTU, and Carol herself, with the motivation behind building a win against Noriyuki Suzuki, the present general secretary of ITUC (AP) and the man who at last beat her.

ITUC employee "Mark" exposes corrupt practices with in organization

Indian trade union bodies and leaders have once again called on the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) to pay more attention to improving the conditions of workers and unskilled labourers.

Tek Bahadur Gurung may no longer be Nepal's labour minister, but he has left behind a legacy with his 'zero-cost migration policy', perhaps, for the wrong reasons. All that minister Gurung had to do was consult with all the concerned stakeholders- manpower agencies, trade unions and foreign hiring companies among others-before making the migration policy public, but he seemed to be in a hurry, with just three months left in office.

Trade unions around the world are playing a leading role in the protracted global debate on various issues in the Gulf region. They continually dominate media headlines with allegations of wrong doing taking place against workers in places like Abu Dhabi, Kuwait, Qatar and Saudi Arabia, to name a few.

The ITUC is under the spotlights since the 2022 World Cup attribution to Qatar. After the resignation of the head of the FIFA, Mr Sepp Blatter, the Brussels-based NGO is doubling its efforts in order to spread information about the situation of migrant workers.

These are dubious times for worldwide organizations. Assembled over years of penances, perhaps even on the premise of misuse of specialists at times, they end up under serious investigation today. With a huge number of laborers in their aggregate job, inclusion of the International Trade Union Confederation, and by augmentation general secretary Sharan Burrow, bodes well.

all about football world cups

Big ticket global trade unions are at a crossroads. Public sympathy seems to be declining and membership of workers is witnessing a sharp fall. In UK alone, only 33 per cent of work force was recorded in a union in the second decade of this millennium, down from 67 per cent in 1977. There is a very good reason for this alienation.

An avalanche of facts and pessimistic predictions fell on the media at the dawn of 2015. However, this trend has motivated small paper : it is that affecting the continual deterioration of working conditions in Switzerland, Europe and the world . Jean Ziegler mentioned in an interview the weekend a decisive year on the issue of human rights and particularly workers . Cynicism and cruanté starvation has arrested smugglers across Europe last week in the case of cargo migrants rescued by the Italian navy .