ITF unions have celebrated the ‘impressive’ results of a three-year project to support the organisation of informal transport workers – including a large rise in trade union membership, the signing of collective agreements, greater visibility of women workers and the formation of new unions.
Global union leaders witnessed the sentencing of the latest union leader to be unjustly tried in South Korea, and pledged their support for the country’s trade unions in the face of ongoing persecution.
North Sea oil strikers want to hear from you – that’s the message the ITF is delivering to its unions after an appeal from the RMT and Unite the Union, whose members are challenging an employer trying to slash their wages.
The ITF has intervened after reports by its member union Tümtis of union busting practices by management at the Gaziantep municipality’s urban transport company, Gazi-Ulaş Transportation.
Global union leaders will be in court in Seoul tomorrow (26 July), to witness the latest in a series of unjust trials of South Korean union leaders. They will then report on what they have seen directly outside the building.