The European Commission and Columbia have entered into negotiations on a Free Trade Agreement. EPSU Congress adopted a Resolution at its 2009 Congress in which these negotiations are criticized.
Several groups and unions are organising a series of activities to ensure that the European Commission takes trade union rights seriously in the negotiations.
The UK confederation, together with EPSU affiliate Unite and others has published a report on the situation calling for an immediate end to the negotiations (Report attached).
The activities are also taken to the European Parliament 9 December 2009. Unions and others are requested to send a letter to their national MEPs (Draft letter attached).
- ETUC
Together with ETUC we reject trade agreements without social dimension
http://www.etuc.org/a/6500
- PSI
The situation is very bad with so many trade unionists being killed because they stand up for workers and workers’rights. See also the work done by PSI
- ITUC
And the annual report of the ITUC on violations of trade unions rights 2009 draws also attention to the difficult situation of trade unionists.
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