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Lobby Colchester Brough Council as they set their budget

Colchester Trades Union Council urged all trades union branches and local people to join them in a lobby of councillors on Febuary 16) at 5.30am at the Town Hall, High Street

We are calling on Colchester councillors to prevent any cuts which will impact on services to the community All councillors were elected to improve services not slash them. To stop jobs from being axed and a range of public services from being scaled backed as a council looks to find about £3.6 million worth of savings and extra income

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Petition to Save Seahorses in Malaysia

The seahorses and the Pulai River Estuary need your help. We would be Grateful if you could take a couple of minutes of your busy schedule to Log on

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Against Child Labour

Over 132 million children aged 5 to 14 work in agriculture - up to 70 per cent of all working children. In recognition of the fact that little or no progress has been made in eliminating child labour in agriculture.

The IUF has established a special website with news, editorials and updates on union activities. There you can also download the publication Bitter Harvest in English, French and Spanish:

The website is being updated daily. Articles can be translated into many languages by clicking on the "FreeTranslation" icon on the right hand side of the home page.

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A DVD was shown at the April meeting Colchester Trades Council, on the issue of the campaign to Boycott Coca-Cola for allegedly hiring right-wing death squads to terrorise workers at its Colombian bottling plant. It alleges that Coca-Cola and Pan-American Beverages (its principal bottler in Latin America ) waged what union leaders describe as a campaign of terror, using paramilitaries to kill, torture and kidnap union leaders in Colombia. They also alleges that Coca-Cola bears indirect responsibility for the killing of Isidro Segundo Gil, a union leader shot dead on 5 December 1996. More than 50 union leaders have been killed in Colombia this year, 128 last year and more than 1,500 in the past 10 years."Coca-Cola denies any connection to any human-rights violation of this type," company spokesman Rafael Fernandez Quiros said from the company's headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia. "We do not own or operate the plants," added Mr Quiros. Colombia has been locked in a bloody, 37-year civil war between leftist rebels and right-wing paramilitaries and the armed forces in which hundreds of unionists have died.