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International Migrants’ Day
International Migrants’ Day
The New Zealand Council of Trade Unions has joined unions around the world in calling for equal rights for migrant workers on International Migrants Day.
“With migrants in New Zealand subjected to a barrage of racist attacks, it is timely today to acknowledge that migrants must be entitled to equal rights and treatment at work,” said CTU president Ross Wilson.
Ross Wilson said 150 million migrants make up 2% of the world's population, with 100 million of these migrants in the workforce.
“Economic globalisation and the resulting development disparities have forced thousands of people to leave their home countries and seek work in wealthier countries,” he said.
“Only too often these workers are subjected to discrimination and exploitation.”
Ross Wilson said the CTU supported, along with good settlement policies for migrants to adjust to their new countries, increased protections at international and national levels to promote and ensure equal rights for migrants.
The International
Confederation of Free Trade Unions has been campaigning for
several years with human and migrants' rights associations
to obtain the ratification of the international conventions
providing for equal treatment for migrant workers in terms
of jobs, wages, social security and union rights.
New Zealand Council of Trade Unions
Te Kauae Kaimahi
The New Zealand Council of Trade Unions Te Kauae Kaimahi brings together over 350,000 New Zealand union members in 40 affiliated unions. We are the united voice for working people and their families in New Zealand.
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