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Barcelona Football Club: ITUC Appeals to Voting Members and Fans to Reject Qatar Airways Deal The ITUC has called on FC Barcelona “socios” (voting members) and fans to end the club's Qatar Airways sponsorship, saying that the airline is the very worst sponsor for a club with a 100-year tradition of democracy and universality. The appeal comes as an election contest for the club's Presidency…

Korea: Supreme Court Affirms Right to Unionise for Undocumented Migrants In a landmark decision, Korea's Supreme Court has now ruled that undocumented migrant workers have the right to unionise, eight years after the migrant workers' trade union MTU first launched its legal action. The government refused to register the MTU and engaged in a targeted crackdown by arrestin…

Greece Bank Closures: Political Failure, Economic Fiasco The closure of Greece's banks, at least until after the surprise 5 July referendum announced by the Greek government on the demands set by the “troika”, underlines the folly of putting ideology ahead of economic sense, according to the International Trade Union Confederation. Sharan Burrow, ITUC Gen…

Cambodia: Proposed Union Law a Rights Disaster | Human Rights Watch (New York) – Cambodia’s draft trade union law would violate the right to organize and be a major step backwards for workers, Human Rights Watch...