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Governments must act for a sustainable and equitable recovery

28.04.2012 Updated on 12.04.2015 International trade union co-operation, Labour rights, Public policies, Public services

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Global Unions Message — May Day 2012. It is more than five years since the finan­cial cri­sis hit, fol­lowed rapid­ly by a larg­er eco­nom­ic cri­sis. This eco­nom­ic earth­quake exposed the dan­gers of finan­cial­i­sa­tion; of hav­ing the real econ­o­my sub­servient to finance; and of two decades of grow­ing inequal­i­ty. The result­ing shock added mil­lions to the already teem­ing ranks of the job­less and threw mil­lions more into pre­car­i­ous work. Many work­ers have lost good jobs and far too many have also lost the fun­da­men­tal rights that went with them.

Global finan­cial mar­kets, opened up by dereg­u­la­tion at nation­al lev­el, have not only pro­duced the cur­rent eco­nom­ic cri­sis, but also the insta­bil­i­ty that has char­ac­terised eco­nom­ic devel­op­ment for the last 30 years, with peri­od­ic “bub­bles” and crises. […]
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Iran | Stop the execution of Abdolreza Ghanbari

12.03.2012 Updated on 13.06.2020 International solidarity, International trade union co-operation, Labour rights

Abdolreza Ghanbari

Abdolreza Ghanbari, a 44-​year-​old lec­tur­er of Payam e Nour University, was arrest­ed at his home in Pakdasht on 4 January 2010. He was charged with Moharebeh (enmi­ty towards God) for receiv­ing unso­licit­ed emails from an armed oppo­si­tion group, to which he does not belong. While in deten­tion at the noto­ri­ous Evin Prison, Prof. Ghanbari was inter­ro­gat­ed for 25 days in a row and forced to con­fess under duress to unproven charges. Nasrin Sotoudeh was his lawyer until he was him­self con­demned to a six-​year sen­tence in Evin prison for “pro­pa­gan­da against the regime” and “act­ing against nation­al security”.

In 2007, Prof. Ghanbari had already been detained for 120 days and sen­tenced to a six-​month sus­pen­sion from teach­ing and exiled from Sari to Pakdasht. […]
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The Council of Global Unions (CGU) issues a reminder to the G20

03.11.2011 Updated on 05.07.2019 International trade union co-operation

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Global Union Federations (GUF), the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) and the Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD (TUAC-​OECD) have issued a dec­la­ra­tion aimed at remind­ing mem­bers of the G20 of their Pittsburgh com­mit­ments in September 2009, in par­tic­u­lar that of “plac­ing qual­i­ty jobs at the core of the recovery”.

This dec­la­ra­tion also com­mits the G20 to take full account of the con­clu­sions of the meet­ing of G20 employ­ment min­is­ters in Paris, which make pro­vi­sions for set­ting up a social pro­tec­tion base backed by suit­able financ­ing accord­ing to lev­els of devel­op­ment. It also demands the imple­men­ta­tion of reforms in the finan­cial sec­tor agreed on at the London G20 meet­ing in April 2009, as well as the set­ting up of a tax on finan­cial trans­ac­tions. […]
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