ITUC urges Bahrain to stop attack on trade union movement

ITUC: Bahrain, stop attack on the trade union movement

Brussels, 20 April 2011 (ITUC OnLine): The authorities in Bahrain have launched an all-out attack on the Bahraini trade union movement.

Thousands of workers have been dismissed for taking part in trade union activities in suport of the peaceful calls for greater democracy and reform.

Many of the Executive members of the General Federation of Bahraini Trade Unions have been dismissed from their jobs, as have many local trade union leaders.

The people of Bahrain are living in a state of fear of further killings and other violence, arbitrary detention, and loss of their livelihoods. Bahrain is sliding into absolute dictatorship, and the elimination of trade union activity is being given a high priority by those in the ruling circles who intend to complete the transformation of the country into a totalitarian state

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