International Trade Union Confederation

We started to see that fix it.

But in the meantime, the International Trade Union Confederation, ITUC, has written directly to Prime Minister Mark Carney warning that Bill C-39's proposed restrictions on the right to strike are highly likely to violate Canada's international labor obligations under ILO Convention 87.

Wes, we know how important international When you hear the word international and it being a violation, it's very alarming.

Yeah, it is, brother.

And that's more than probably the rest of the world combined.

I mean, major federations, one is a communist federation, the World Federation of Trade Unions, and the pro-US, pro-capital one at the International Trade Union Confederation used to be involved in the Cold War.

makes up about 150 million workers at most.

So yeah, they try to actually exclude China from any kind of comparison whatsoever, where I think that's actually highly faulty, because in most and many instances, I won't say most, but Those labor unions that are successful in organizing workers and improving their conditions of life tend to be completely an arm of a political party.

They're anti-imperialist, they support the Palestine struggle, and they support the kind of laborers that make up most of the workers on the planet, and they are what is coming full circle, informal workers.

And you see, I mean, I have seen and spoken with members of the World Federation of Trade Unions who are, you know, committed to that cause.

So for instance, unlike the Western-styled federation internationally, once called the ICFTU, now called the International Trade Union Confederation, that there is a significant difference.

The international union the US is aligned with, and many other countries throughout the world, are aligned with, but they're also aligned with the WFTU and some other unions in the same countries.

be listening.

Media coverage of the International Trade Union Confederation's reaction to the proposed restriction on the right to strike in federally regulated workplaces that the Gritzer pitching was a big one as well.

It's a bit odd to see the extent to which the ITUCs and the global union federations get respect from the mainstream media in Canada in ways that the domestic movement doesn't.

And we carried about 200 items from Canadian unions on the same nasty subject.