US EditionITUC: Workers' Rights 'in Free Fall' Worldwide
- The International Trade Union Confederation released its 2025 Global Rights Index on June 2 in Paris, highlighting a global decline in workers' rights.
- The report shows worsening conditions caused by decades of deregulation, neoliberalism, and policy attacks on collective labor rights worldwide.
- It assessed 151 countries using 97 UN-based indicators, finding 87% restricted the right to strike and 80% limited collective bargaining.
- ITUC head Luc Triangle warned if current trends continue, no country will retain the highest rating for workers’ rights within ten years.
- The report noted Europe and the Americas experienced their worst scores since 2014, with violence against trade unionists in five countries persistently rising.
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Global war on labor: Report says workers’ rights in freefall as right-wing power grows
Around the world, workers’ rights are in “freefall,” with the Trump administration in the lead of a global far-right alliance that’s waging a “global war on labor rights.” That’s the conclusion of the latest Global Rights Index report published by the International Trade Union Confederation, the world’s largest trade union federation, representing 191 million workers in 169 countries. “We are witnessing a coup against democracy, a concerted, sus…
Turkey among 10 worst countries for workers in 2025
Each year, the ITUC Global Rights Index rates countries depending on their compliance with collective labour rights and documents the violations of internationally recognised rights by governments and employers. The 10 worst countries for workers in 2025 were: Bangladesh, Belarus, Ecuador, Egypt, Eswatini, Myanmar, Nigeria, the Philippines, Tunisia, and Turkey. Turkish authorities and employers continue to suppress union rights and persecute act…
Retrocessed of a level like Argentina, Costa Rica, Georgia, Mauritania, Niger and Panama. The rights of Italian workers and workers worsen, according to the Index of Global Rights of the International Trade Union Confederation. A clear and worrying alarm, warns the CGIL that it relaunches the report published in the past hours and that will be presented on 10 June in Geneva during the International Conference of Labour all'Oil. For the union, th…
Malay Mail
MalaysiajournalWorkers’ rights in global free fall: 87pc of countries violate strikes, 80pc cripple collective bargaining
PARIS, June 2 — Workers’ rights around the world are “in free fall”, with widespread attempts to hamstring collective bargaining and attacks on trade union representatives, the world’s largest trade union organisation said Monday. The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) found a “profound deterioration” in workers’ rights in its annual rights index published on Monday, based on 97 indicators laid out by the United Nations and internati…
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