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    :: Monday, January 19, 2004 ::

    New ICFTU Report on United States: Serious violations of basic labour rights ICFTU Website
    A new report on labour conditions in the US from the world’s largest trade union body, the ICFTU, denounces a serious record of continuing labour rights violations involving some of the world’s best-known companies such as Wal-Mart.

    The ICFTU report has been produced to coincide with the 14-16 January WTO review of the trade policies of the US, which has ratified just two of the eight core labour conventions of the UN’s International Labour Organisation (ILO)– one of the worst rates of ratification in the world.
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