he ITUC's Annual Survey of Trade Union Rights has documented a dramatic increase in the number of trade unionists murdered in 2009, with 101 killings à ‚¬" an increase of 30% over the previous year. The Survey, released today, also reveals growing pressure on fundamental workers' rights around the world as the impact of the global economic crisis on employment deepened. |
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Born in the USA, living in Canada since 1968, I'm a Vietnam war resister, a revolutionary democratic socialist partisan of the Fourth International reproclaimed in 1993, a member of Canada's New Democratic Party, on the executive committee of (more...)