UNI calls for release of Zimbabwe trade union leader

Veröffentlicht: 11 November 2009
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UNI Global Union’s World Executive Board (WEB) called on Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe to release arrested Lovemore Matombo, president of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions.



The UNI WEB, meeting in Nyon, Switzerland, called for the unconditional release of Matombo and those arrested with him in Victoria Falls on 8 November 2009.



“These arrests undermine the rights of trade union leaders to conduct trade union activities

freely and are a setback for democracy and the unity government in Zimbabwe,” said UNI General Secretary Philip Jennings in a letter to Mugabe. “We call on the Zimbabwean Government to allow trade union leaders to conduct their activities in an environment that is free from intimidation and oppression.”



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