Rights demanded for Qatar workers

The International Trade Union Confederation (ICTU) has demanded that workers building Qatar’s World Cup stadia must be allowed to join a trade union.

ICTU general secretary Sharan Burrow, who led a delegation to Qatar that included the UK’s GMB general union, said that Qatar’s new World Cup worker welfare standards “do not deliver fundamental rights for workers”.

She added: “Not a single change has been made or recommended to Qatar’s laws that deny workers their fundamental rights.

“No workplace voice or representative is allowed for migrant workers in Qatar.

“Qatar has to change its laws, nothing else will do.”

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