Tuesday 12 June 2007

THE TUC

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THE CGTP

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HUMAN TRAFFICKING

"The United Nations reports that human trafficking is now the third largest moneymaker for criminals, after drugs and weapons. No one is sure how many people were enslaved 50 years ago, but the number is thought to have grown rapidly with the population explosion to an estimated 27 million today. The increase in slavery is also linked to globalisation. But this is not about sweatshop workers existing on miserly wages. Slaves are under the complete, violent control of another person; they are economically exploited, and get only enough food and shelter to keep them alive. For millions of victims, their experience differs little in hardship from that of slaves hundreds of years ago". Read it in the FT

SLAVERY EXISTS IN THE UK TODAY

"Migrant workers are particularly vulnerable to slavery and exploitation". Read the Joseph Rowtree Foundation Report

MAP OF ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE

see here

CONSUMER PARADISE IS WORKERS' HELL

see the case of the bananas industry

NOT EVEN EARNING THE MINIMUM WAGE

in the hotel industry
"Today, most immigrant workers in industrialised countries are employed in the three 'D' jobs - those that are dirty, dangerous or degrading. They are not, in the main, competing with local labour". Says the INTERNATIONAL TEXTILE, GARMENT AND LEATHER WORKERS’ FEDERATION

TIME TO STOP AGENCY WORKER ABUSE

says the TUC

MIGRANTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY

need to march to get their rights

LABOUR HEALTH AND SAFETY

Information in Portuguese in the UK

COURT SECURES PAYMENT OF HOLIDAY PAY, SICK PAY AND PENSIONS RIGHTS

in the UK

WORKING IMMIGRANTS

in the US
Read also about the voice of immigrants in the US

THE MAGAZINE FOR LABOUR MATTERS

Read the Magazine on migrants and migration

INTERNATIONAL TRADE UNION CONFEDERATION

Find the ITUC here

TRADE UNION COOPERATION IN LATIN AMERICA

Read about Nicaragua and Costa Rica here

TUC CALL EMPLOYMENT PROTECTION FOR WORKERS

Read the press release here