The ITUC (International Trade Union Confederation) released yesterday a report on the fundamental labor norms internationally recognized in the EU. In the chapter on Romania there is mentioned that the right to establish a union can't always be carried out, as some company owners tend to prevent the making of unions in their enterprises. There is also added that some other owners establish unions they are in control of in order to counter the activity of independent unions and some even try to dismember independent unions. There are also invoked those really anti-union owners, most of them in foreign enterprises, who are in the habit of hiring a person depending on his/ her unwillingness to become an union member or to initiate a union. (...) (C.U.)