ITUC General Sets Agenda for Global Action in 2012

http://www.ituc-csi.org/ituc-general-council-sets-agenda.html The ITUC General Council, has set out priorities for global trade union action through to the end of 2012, with a determination to fight back against the attacks on labour rights and the loss of jobs driven by the deepening world economic crisis. Major areas of action include:

• the launching of a programme of political organising, focusing on countries where new attacks on union rights are emerging; • an alternate job-centred growth model with guaranteed social protection and a minimum wage;• stepping up campaigns against multinational companies which violate worker’s rights to union representation and collective bargaining; • an intense schedule of activities on climate change and the green economy from the Durban Climate Change Conference through to next June’s Rio+20 sustainable development summit; and, • concerted international campaigning to ensure respect for ILO standards in nine “countries at risk”: Bahrain, Burma, Colombia, Egypt, Fiji, Georgia, Guatemala, Swaziland and Zimbabwe.
The Council also adopted an updated policy “Labour Migration: A Decent Work Issue”, and agreed measures to support trade union development in the Middle-East and North Africa where the establishment of a new Arab Democratic Trade Union Forum was welcomed.- Advice ITUC http://www.ituc-csi.org/