Companies named and shamed today for violating workers’ rights in Europe have received more than a billion Euro in EU funding. The Global Rights Index published by the International Trade Union Confederation lists 15 companies who they have found to have flouted labour law or ignored workers’ and trade union rights over the last year.

The concerns include a range of violations, part of union-busting tactics used to suppress wages and working conditions, which include the sacking of workers, disciplinary action against union members and refusal to respect the right to collective bargaining.

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