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ITUC general secretary Sharan Burrow yesterday urged Fifa not to ignore the new report into its human rights obligations and strip Qatar of the 2022 World Cup.
Havard lecturer John Ruggie was tasked by football’s world governing body making a recommendation on their human rights obligations and came to the conclusion that tournaments should be removed from countries if hosts are failing to eradicate abuses.
Burrows said: “Fifa commissioned this report and now it needs to put the recommendations in place.
It is only trade union power at work that will materially improve the lot of working people as a class but without sector-wide collective bargaining and a right to take sympathetic strike action, we are hamstrung in the fight to tilt back the balance of power, argues ADRIAN WEIR
Report raises alarm over ‘preventable deaths’ of labourers in Saudi Arabia
TONY BURKE says an International Labour Conference next month will try for a new convention to protect often super-exploited workers providing services such as ride-hailing (taxis) such as Uber as well as fast food and package delivery