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PSI affiliates condemn Indonesian electricity privatisation |
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During a meeting earlier this month in Bali, Indonesia, the PSI regional Executive Board adopted a resolution rejecting any attempt to stimulate or encourage efforts by the Indonesian government to privatise its state electricity company. PSI and its regional affiliates also express their support for its affiliated union SP.PLN in its efforts to resist this privatisation. |
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PSI participation in 1 May celebration |
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Several thousand people participated in the traditional 1st May celebration in Geneva. Among the participants was a delegation from PSI head office, including general secretary Peter Waldorff and other staff members. Also present was EB member Agripina Hurtado of PSI’s Colombian affiliate SINTRAEMCALI. |
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May Day: Workers' rights are human rights |
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PSI is renewing its call to governments to do more than pay lip service to international instruments on human rights and labour standards and to take urgent steps to guarantee the exercise of trade union rights and the safety of trade unionists. |
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PSI Executive Board Meeting in Geneva |
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PSI's Executive Board (EB) is currently holding it yearly meeting in Geneva. It is the first since the 100-year Congress in Vienna in September 2007 and the first under the new secretary general Peter Waldorff. Over two-and-half days the EB will discuss PSI’s work priorities and debate specific issues and themes on public service policies and campaigns. |
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Labour groups charge US with violating NAFTA labour standards |
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PSI and ICEM are supporting more than 40 labour organisations in Canada, the United States and Mexico, who on 23 April filed a charge against the U.S. under the North American Agreement for Labour Cooperation (NAALC), the labour side agreement to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). The complaint charges that the state of North Carolina and the United States are violating the NAALC by denying 650,000 public employees the right to engage in collective bargaining. |
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PSI supports union stand on Zimbabwe arms shipment |
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PSI affiliate in South Africa, the Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union (Popcru) has spoken in support of the SA Transport and Allied Workers Union (Satawu), that has refused to unload a ship docked in Durban harbour, carrying arms destined for the Mugabe regime in Zimbabwe.
The Chinese ship, the An Yue Jiang, had been at anchor off the port of Durban since 14 April. |
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Colombia: threats and assassinations - impunity continues |
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 28 March 2008 - PSI is calling on its affiliated organisations to send letters of protest to President Alvaro Uribe condemning the assassinations of four trade unionists on or around the day of action held in Colombia on 6 March. The day of action “For the Dignity of Victims”, which had the full support of the trade union movement, was a tribute to—and in solidarity with—all the victims of arbitrary violence and the armed conflict. PSI is further calling on affiliates to protest against serious threats made against Maria Fernanda Bolaños, an employee of the publicly owned waste and sanitation services of Cali and a member of PSI affiliate SINTRAEMSIRVA. |
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