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Workers, Bloggers Get Ready for World Day for Decent Work
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With just one month to go before the World Day for Decent Work, Oct. 7, trade unions across the world are stepping up pressure for decent jobs and social justice. And bloggers can play a big role in spreading the message.
Bloggers Unite has set up a special World Day for Decent Work site here and is asking bloggers to submit blogs on or before Oct. 7 about events in their areas. Blogs about the hundreds of events planned for Oct. 7 around the world will show world leaders how determined workers are to get decent jobs with good pay, safe working conditions and benefits. Take part by signing up today to submit blogs to Bloggers Unite here.
Organized by the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), World Day for Decent Work is a day for mobilization around the world: one day when all the trade unions in the world stand up for decent work, at home and abroad.
“Working people are still paying a heavy price for the world economic crisis, as the banking and finance sector returns to business as usual,” says ITUC General Secretary Sharan Burrow.
This year’s World Day for Decent Work will be a peak moment in the global trade union movement’s action for fundamental reform of the global economy. We will be holding political leaders to account on jobs, financial regulation and quality public services, and governments would be well advised to heed the trade union call.
There’s plenty to blog about. Yesterday, millions of workers in India took to the streets in a national strike against national and state government employment and industrial relations policies. In France, unions organized national rallies and strike actions to protest major changes to retirement and pensions proposed by the Sarkozy government. And in the United States, corporate greed at the expense of workers at Mott’s and the efforts by America’s unions to push for job creation are just some of what’s going on here.
Trade unions across Europe are planning a massive demonstration in Brussels, the capital of the European Union, on Sept. 29 to protest austerity measures. Some 100,000 demonstrators will join the march. The same day a general strike will take place in Spain and protests are also planned in the Czech Republic, Cyprus, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Portugal. Massive protests across Germany are being organized by the ITUC affiliate DGB in the coming weeks over government finance, employment and social security policies.
The ITUC also launched a special interactive website for the World Day for Decent Work, with information from last year’s events and updates on this year’s actions. Organizations planning events can upload their information onto the multi-language site, which also features a Twitter feed, video and photo galleries and other interactive functions. It also will contain information on the main themes for the 2010 events.
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If the unions will not inform American workers, then manufacturing companies should let workers know, that manufacturing will not be created by new investments in our country, knowing that the Federal Government is not seriously addressing, the “economic pass” that has been given to foreign ships polluting our waters with ballast discharges and carbon emmissions as they bring their foreign manufactured products into our country. With this administration not addressing the issues of one Senator Boxer who objected to historic legislation passed by the House (395-7) in 2008, and then delaying action on ballast water with another study to coincide with a 20 year military plan ,it shows those who manufacture goods that a policy of economic globalization is still being pursued over economic Americanization, and will continue to stiffle the cost of manufacturing in our country. This is especially evident shown by a report created in 2009 for congress that describes the cost of national ballast water legislation, mandating installation of technology. The report suggest the cost would be incurred by, mainly foreign ships, bring foreign imports into our country and this would cause the cost of imports to rise. Currently our military is offering incentives to foreign ships, importing foreign goods, to install technology to protect our waters. If they leveled the playing field with legislation that protected our water, and our commander and chief directed the military to worry about enforcement, rather than offering incentives to ease the problems that cost would create for foreign shipping bringing foreign manufactured goods into our country, manufacturing may again decide to investment in America.