Conditions for working people continue to get worse. The right to strike, or to join a union, is denied by increasing numbers of the world’s governments.
I’d never heard of the ITUC. I found their low rating of Vietnam surprising and the absence of Cuba altogether even more so. They seem to have anticommunist roots if you follow their lineage back to the ICFTU.
In 1949, early in the Cold War, alleging Communist domination of the WFTU’s central institutions, a large number of non-communist national trade union federations (including the U.S. AFL–CIO, the British TUC, the French FO, the Italian CISL and the Spanish UGT) seceded and created the rival ICFTU at a conference in London attended by representatives of nearly 48 million members in 53 countries.
I’d never heard of the ITUC. I found their low rating of Vietnam surprising and the absence of Cuba altogether even more so. They seem to have anticommunist roots if you follow their lineage back to the ICFTU.