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The ITUC welcomed the International Labour Organisation’s (ILO) decision yesterday to reject Qatar’s false and misleading claims that it had ended the kafala system, giving it until November to force a change.
The bloodstained Gulf state submitted a document to the ILO last week concerning the system which has been likened to modern slavery, after the ITUC lodged a complaint in June 2014.
The ILO’s governing body decided that Qatar failed to demonstrate that it had abolished the system, despite the unprecedented deployment of dozens of lobbyists at the meeting aiming to shut down any possibility of the UN body’s strongest compliance procedure being applied.
As unions sound the alarm on kafala-like dependence, FC Barcelona must decide whether their values extend beyond the pitch, writes KIVANC ELIACIK
Farage and other Reform-ers keep pointing to Dubai’s immigration policy – but there migrants make up most of the population and do all the work without any rights, muses SOLOMON HUGHES
The Bill addresses some exploitation but leaves trade unions heavily regulated, most workers without collective bargaining coverage, and fails to tackle the balance of power that enables constant mutation of bad practice, write KEITH EWING and LORD JOHN HENDY KC
It is only trade union power at work that will materially improve the lot of working people as a class but without sector-wide collective bargaining and a right to take sympathetic strike action, we are hamstrung in the fight to tilt back the balance of power, argues ADRIAN WEIR