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Saturday, December 1, 2018
TOGETHER, LET US TURN HUMAN RIGHTS INTO EVERYDAY REALITY!
10 December 2018 marks 70 years since the UN General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. For the first time in history, this unique international legal instrument recorded a set of fundamental rights of every inhabitant of the Earth - political, civil, social, cultural and economic ones.
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Wednesday, September 5, 2018
STATEMENT BY THE GENERAL CONFEDERATION OF TRADE UNIONS IN CONNECTION WITH THE WORLD DAY FOR DECENT WORK 7 OCTOBER 2018
On the 7th of October, 2018, the world trade union movement will mark the eleventh World Day for Decent Work (WDDW).
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Friday, September 15, 2017
STATEMENT BY THE GCTU’ 8th CONGRESS ON THE RATIFICATION AND OBSERVANCE OF ILO CONVENTIONS
The 8th Congress of the General Confederation of Trade Unions expresses concern at the socio-economic development in the region’s countries hit by an economic slowdown resulting from the global crisis and aggravated by a worsening geopolitical situation. The social price of anti-crisis measures taken in recent years, and economic, political and legislative transformations has almost everywhere been exorbitantly high. The legal and social protection of working people has decreased, their real incomes have dropped dramatically, the number of unemployed has risen, and even those who have a job do not always manage to secure themselves a decent standard of living.
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Friday, September 15, 2017
GCTU HOLDS CONGRESS IN MOSCOW
The 8th Congress of the General Confederation of Trade Unions (GCTU) took place in Moscow’s Palace of Labour 12 September 2017. Attending the event were 131 delegates from the national trade union centres of the Newly Independent Sates and the industrial Trade Union Internationals (TUIs) representing about 50 million organised workers, and also guests from the ITUC, leading CIS bodies, the business community, and the press.
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Friday, August 18, 2017
RAISE WAGES TO DECENT LEVEL!
Appeal by the GCTU in connection with the 10th Anniversary of the World Day for Decent Work
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Thursday, April 20, 2017
APPEAL BY THE GENERAL CONFEDERATION OF TRADE UNIONS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DAY OF INTERNATIONAL WORKERS’ SOLIDARITY 1 MAY
A little more than two weeks remains till May 1 when workers all over the world, including the countries of our region, will take to the streets of cities and villages to participate in rallies, meetings, demonstrations and marches to be organised by trade unions, and remind the authorities and employers of their requirements.
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Thursday, April 20, 2017
APPEAL BY THE COUNCIL OF THE GENERAL CONFEDERATION OF TRADE UNIONS TO THE WORLD’S TRADE UNIONS ON THE OCCASION OF THE GCTU 25th ANNIVERSARY
The Council of the General Confederation of Trade Unions, meeting in Moscow in the year of the 25th Anniversary of the GCTU, calls on all friendly trade union organisations to strengthen international solidarity in the face of increasingly new formidable challenges posed by globalisation and its negative consequences for workers.
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Thursday, April 20, 2017
"TOGETHER WE ARE STRONGER!": GCTU CELEBRATES ITS 25th ANNIVERSARY
A special ceremonial session of the GCTU Council took place in the Palace of Labour in Moscow 14 April 2017 to commemorate the 25th Anniversary of the General Confederation of Trade Unions.
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Thursday, April 20, 2017
GCTU COUNCIL SETS DATE OF CONGRESS
At its session 14 April 2017, the Council of the General Confederation of Trade Unions decided to convene the 8th Congress of the Confederation in Moscow on the 12th of September 2017.
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Thursday, April 20, 2017
GCTU EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE REVIEWS RATIFICATION OF ILO CONVENTIONS
The Executive Committee of the General Confederation of Trade Unions (GCTU) met in Moscow 13 April 2017 to discuss, among other things, the progress of ratification and compliance with ILO conventions in the countries of GCTU member organisations. Executive Committee said the affiliates had done a significant amount of work to speed up the ratification of the 11 ILO Conventions, as selected by the GCTU in 2004 for priority ratification, with the support from the CIS Inter-Parliamentary Assembly.