Tag: Sharan Burrow

• Saturday, July 4th 2015 - 06:57 UTC

  ITUC appeal to FC Barcelona voting members to end Qatar Airways sponsorship

  

  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.

• Thursday, June 18th 2015 - 04:51 UTC

  ITUC challenges football associations and sponsors to push for independent FIFA reform commission

  

  The International Trade Unions Congress, ITUC is calling on national football associations to push for genuine reform of FIFA through the establishment of an independent commission, and not merely accept that FIFA can suddenly reform itself under a leadership which has failed to end corruption after years of multi-million dollar scandals

• Wednesday, June 10th 2015 - 21:50 UTC

  Colombia, Guatemala and China in ITUC list of world’s ten worst countries for workers

  

  The Gulf States are among the world’s worst countries for workers’ rights, while workers under European austerity measures endured the starkest deterioration of standards, according to the 2015 Global Rights Index. The ITUC rights index ranks 141 countries against 97 internationally recognized indicators to assess where workers’ rights are best protected, in law and in practice.

• Saturday, June 6th 2015 - 11:23 UTC

  Corporations experience huge 'trust deficit' in major Western economies, says TUC

  

  Just one in five of people in western economies like France, Germany, the UK and the US agree that corporations can be trusted with their global workforce, according to a new poll commissioned by International Trade Union Confederation.

• Monday, May 25th 2015 - 06:55 UTC

  FIFA Election: ITUC back Prince Ali on human rights commitments

  

  The International trade Union Confederation is calling on FIFA delegates to support Jordan’s Prince Ali in this week’s election for FIFA President, following Ali’s re-affirmed commitment on labour and other human rights. The other two challengers to incumbent Joseph Blatter, Luis Figo and Michael van Praag have withdrawn from the race.

• Tuesday, May 19th 2015 - 01:40 UTC

  Qatar World Cup building sites working conditions again targeted: letters to the sponsors

  

  Fifa sponsors are being asked by a new campaign grouping to speak out about working conditions at the 2022 World Cup building sites in Qatar. The working and housing conditions of migrant construction workers have been heavily criticized.

• Friday, June 13th 2014 - 07:51 UTC

  ILO votes protocol to fight forced labor; Qatar tarnished with 2022 Cup preparations, abstains

  

  A new global protocol to fight forced labor, adopted this week by the International Labor Organization, will accelerate action against modern slavery. The private sector is responsible for 90% of the estimated 21 million victims of forced labor, reaping some 150 billion dollars from some of the most severe forms of exploitation in existence today.

• Monday, March 17th 2014 - 15:56 UTC

  FIFA top committee to address Qatar (Cup 2022) labor working conditions

  

  A new report from the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) exposes how far Qatar will go to deny workers their rights, ahead of a critical FIFA Executive Committee meeting on Thursday 20th March in Zurich.

• Tuesday, February 25th 2014 - 20:51 UTC

  Qatar, host of 2022 World Cup described as 'a slave state' by ITUC which calls on FIFA to act

  

  FIFA recognized the terrible conditions for migrant workers in Qatar, host of the 2022 World Cup, at a European Parliament hearing but fell short of calling for an end to the kafala visa system which enslaves people working in the country.