Estonia Ranked as Free in Workers’ Rights Report

On August 31, 2010, Freedom House released The Global State of Workers’ Rights: Free Labor in a Hostile World, an assessment of trade union and worker freedoms in 165 countries. According to the findings of this first-of-its-kind report, one-third of the global population lives in societies in which workers’ rights suffer a significant degree of repression. The report found substantial problems in every region of the world except Western Europe, with the most serious abuses occurring in the Middle East and the former Soviet Union.

Estonia was one of the 41 countries ranked as “Free”, the highest ranking. It is among the eight Central and Eastern European countries to receive this ranking—the other are Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Latvia, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia.

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