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Article: LABOUR RELATIONS: ICFTU ANNUAL SURVEY OF VIOLATIONS OF TRADE UNION RIGHTS.
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- European Report
- Article date:
- June 23, 1999
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Summary:"Trade unions continue to be hampered by gross violations of their rights, as they galvanise themselves to fight for workers' rights in the twenty-first century", said Bill Jordan, General Secretary of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU), launching the International Confederation of Free Trade Union's 1999 Trade Union Rights Survey on June 10. This year's ICFTU survey shows that 123 trade unionists were murdered in 1998, 1,650 individuals were attacked or injured, 3,660 were arrested, and a massive 21,427 were sacked for trade union activities. This year a record number of 119 countries worldwide are cited. France, Norway and Germany are ...