Georgia: Stop attacks on trade unions - respect labour rights

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.labourstart.org/cgi-bin/solidarityforever/show_campaign.cgi?c=1037

An iconic example of the potential to build free unions in post-Soviet states, the Georgian Union Trade Confederation (GTUC) is in serious jeopardy of being destroyed. Even as its fate hangs in the balance, the GTUC is the largest and most viable civil society organization in Georgia, with a reform-minded leadership that possesses an increasingly sophisticated understanding of the role democratic and representative trade unions play in the promotion of labour rights and democracy. Immediate action is necessary to combat the Georgian government’s concerted, intensifying efforts to dismantle the GTUC and take over the GTUC's teachers' union by violating international labour standards and actions aimed at starving it of financial resources.

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[Sarah Ibarruri]

1. The history of Republicans undermining unions goes way back.

And yet wherever you find Christians, you will find Republicans. And wherever you find high levels of poverty and a low quality of life, you will find Christians. And that's describing the whole country now, but it's always been the South.