Delegates from trade unions worldwide launched a new global labor federation Wednesday aimed at ensuring workers' rights are not forgotten in the rush toward economic globalization. Organizers said the International Trade Union Confederation -- formerly known as the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions -- would reinvent and modernize itself to better tackle fresh challenges to the rights of unionized workers and to strengthen its efforts to stamp out forced and child labor.
See "New International Labor Union Launched", Associated Press, The New York Times, October 31, 2006