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Dan Gallin will present his book "Red Thread" in Moscow Dan Gallin, one of the most important leaders and theoreticians of the trade union and socialist movements, will arrive in Russia. On 28 November 2017 in Moscow, he will present his book "Red Thread: Ideas and organisation of the international labour movement."
Labour unions welcome court ruling in favour of Aeroflot flight attendants On Wednesday, September 6, the Moscow City Court issued a ruling on the lawsuit of Aeroflot flight attendants Evgenia Magurina and Irina Jerusalimskaya. The claims of the airline workers were partially met. Russian trade unions welcome this decision and consider it necessary to seek the elimination of all types of discrimination for the airline employees.
Kazakhstan: Sentencing of Union Leader a Travesty of Justice
The ITUC has condemned the sentence handed down against trade union leader Larisa Kharkova by a Kazakhstan court today as a travesty of justice, and an affront to democracy.


Declaration of the Union Rights' Defence Centre

cliffordharper-03.jpgAnd yet we still hear news around the world about the harassment of workers, attacks on trade union activists, arrests, new legal limits on union rights or strikes, lock-outs and dismissals. Greece and Bahrain, Iran and Egypt, Columbia, Peru, Canada, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Korea, Indonesia and Pakistan are on the map of trade unions and workers activists' battles with persecution. It is sad to admit, but most of the countries of our region, the former Soviet Union countries, are also in this list.

Failure to provide trade union rights is the source of growing inequality, poverty, food and environmental problems. Attacks on labour and trade union rights today are at the end of the day, attacks on our future. To protect it we have to have that unique instrument, the organization of employees, which we can set against the growing power of corporations and financial institutions, and neoliberal policies of governments.

Trade union rights are the key to this.

Full text of the Declaration
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