Photo: Delegates vote unanimously in support of backing Coca-Cola workers.
A resolution submitted by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, which represents around 14,000 CCE and Coca-Cola workers in the USA was unanimously supported by the Congress.
Full details are here.
The 25th IUF Congress:
CONDEMNS the slaughter of villagers protesting against Government seizure of agricultural land in Nandigram by police and ruling party goons. On March 14 at least 31 villagers were shot dead. Many women were raped, innumerable bodies (including children) have disappeared.
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The 25th IUF Congress:
Notes the dangerous trend towards the creation of a Police State which has arisen under President Mahinda Rajapakse’s Emergency Regulations under which abductions, disappearances and arbitrary detentions have occurred including the abductions of trade unionists and journalists;
The 25th IUF Congress:
NOTES that seven farmers who led protests defending their land in Guangdong province were detained and brutally beaten by the police. They had their crops destroyed, were charged with extortion in December 2006 and had their lawyers barred from entering the court.
CONDEMNS this police brutality and the shocking denial of legal rights.
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The 25th IUF Congress ended in Geneva with the traditional singing of the working class hymn, "The Internationale" -- delegates sang in their own languages, clenched fists raised. You can watch this video and many more on the IUF 25th Congress YouTube page.
For more information about "The Internationale" including lyrics in different languages, click here.
On the final day of the IUF 25th congress we interviewed three more participants:
Aliaksandr Yarashuk, from the Belarus Confederation of Democratic Trade Unions
Mark Lauritsen, from the UFCW in North America
Branislav Canak, from Nezavisnost in Serbia
All the videos can be seen on YouTube.