International Trade Union Confederation

Workers in nine out of 10 countries have seen their right to strike violated over the past year as they battle the worst cost-of-living crisis in decades, the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) warned on June 30.

A decade after launching its first annual Global Rights Index, the ITUC said the results for 2023 provided "a sobering confirmation of its founding purpose."

Members of the branch of the MediaSind Romanian Union of Journalists (SRJ) in the Romanian Television (TVR) have decided on Friday to continue the strike through excessive zeal started for the purpose of provoking the dismissal, in urgent regime, of the President-General Director of the Romanian Television Society, as well as the directors of the Human Resources and Legal departments, a documen

Bulgaria has the largest number of programmers in the countries of Europe, it became clear at a conference on 8 March of the Union of Transport Unions to CITUB.

At a meeting in Sofia with the General Secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation, Sharan Burrow, President Rumen Radev said Bulgaria should attract investors with economic incentives and not only with low wages.

40% of workers on a global scale are part of the informal economy, with Bulgaria occupying a prominent place in the ranking with a share of 30-35%, according to Plamen Dimitrov, President of the Confederation of Independent Trade Unions in Bulgaria (CITUB).

"Austerity measures won't help economy recover"

BELGRADE -- International Trade Union Confederation General Secretary Sharan Burrow has warned that genuine social dialogue needs to be established in Serbia.

BELGRADE - General Secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) Sharan Burrow said Thursday that a genuine social dialogue needs to be established in Serbia, noting that sustainable demand, and consequently a sustainable economy, is not possible if people have no income.