Trade Unions and human rights | Amnesty International UK

The right to form and join trade unions, to collectively bargain and to strike are universal human rights. And these rights have been our cause since our beginning.
Toni Ambatielos, a Greek trade unionist imprisoned for defending seafarer’s rights was among the six prisoners of conscience whose case was highlighted by Peter Benenson in the newspaper article that led to the foundation of Amnesty International. 
— Read on www.amnesty.org.uk/trade-unions-and-human-rights

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