[petition] UN's Ban Ki-moon: We won't negotiate with unions

[ckaihatsu]

UN's Ban Ki-moon: We won't negotiate with unions


The UN should practice what it preaches.


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This is outrageous.

The Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, is derecognizing the organization's staff unions who represent 65,000 workers.

He will no longer negotiate with unions over issues like safety and security, welfare and conditions of service.

The people who work for the UN often risk their lives to do so.

In the last decade, 555 staff have been attacked and 200 killed.

They often work in dangerous and hostile locations.

The UN Staff unions are calling for support from trade unionists everywhere.

They are demanding that Ban Ki-moon respect labour rights at the UN.

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Thank you!



Eric Lee
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[erupt]

Is anyone else surprised the UN workers want/have a union?

[Os Cangaceiros]

In the last decade, 555 staff have been attacked and 200 killed. Holy crap! They do need a union.

[khad]

UIn the last decade, 555 staff have been attacked and 200 killed.
One guess as to who's primarily responsible.

[ckaihatsu]

http://www.answercoalition.org/national/news/march-demands-end-diplomats-labor-trafficking.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=major&utm_campaign=ANSWER%20Newsletter


New York City march demands end to diplomats' participation in labor trafficking

Demonstration as the United Nations General Assembly begins

September 26, 2013

On Sept. 23, Damayan Migrant Workers Association and their allies in T’ruah, JFREJ (Jews for Racial and Economic Justice) and Women Organized to Resist and Defend (WORD) held a rally at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza in New York City to demand an end to the modern-day slavery of labor trafficking and to promote Damayan’s Baklas campaign. New York City is the home of the United Nations Headquarters and the second largest home to diplomatic missions in the United States, after Washington, D.C. Incidents of domestic worker trafficking by diplomats are appallingly common.

[kaylee_book]

Looks like a working reunions :grin: