http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSL0963879920080609Mon Jun 9, 2008 12:58pm EDT
By Robert Evans
GENEVA (Reuters) - The global labor union grouping (ITUC) accused the United States on Monday of violating a wide range of workers' rights and allowing the existence of a "huge union-busting industry".
In a report sent to Geneva from its Brussels headquarters the International Trade Union Confederation said many U.S. workers were denied the right to organize into unions while child labor was not effectively tackled.
"The U.S. administration, rather than leading the way on the protection of working people and on decent pay and conditions, has been intent on denying the freedom to join a union and bargain collectively to millions of workers," the ITUC said.
"This hurts America's working people and has a negative impact on workers' rights in other countries as well," said the grouping's General Secretary Guy Ryder.
The ITUC was created two years ago out of the merger of two other worldwide labor groupings which emerged in the 1950s to resist communist control of the international labor movement. Key U.S. members include the AFL-CIO.
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