Post by account_disabled on Mar 14, 2024 1:58:46 GMT -5
The International Trade Union Confederation commemorates WMDT (World Day of Decent Work) every October 7 . It must be remembered that the International Trade Union Confederation was born in Vienna on November 1, to bring together two of the three major global trade union organizations: the (International Confederation of Free Trade Unions) and the ( World Confederation of Labor). The origins of the hundreds of national organizations integrated into the new Labor International were very diverse and plural, from secular unions to socialist, Christian, or progressive unions. They needed an annual moment in which to vindicate what had united.
Them: quality work, with rights, safe, without risks, they called it Decent Work and chose October 7, 2008 as the first World Day to vindicate labor rights. Since then, 13 years ago, October 7 has led to a chain of linked demands, nation after nation, following the time zone, throughout the entire planet. I remember the first year, in AOL Email List which a map of each country was displayed as dawn broke and information about the different organized events appeared. Each year the JMTD has been organized around a specific demand: Combat the greed of large corporations, invest in the care of people, the economic crisis and the destruction of employment, precariousness and temporary employment, the employment of young people. , the need for organized unionism to address the problems, equality, protection and social rights of people, each year a global demand on which to focus unity efforts.
The truth is that reviewing the situation of work in most countries, we could continue singing that work is a condemnation and that the word work, followed by decent, constitutes an example of an oxymoron, one of those expressions that brings together contradictory words, something like saying tense calm, thunderous silence, original copy, or scorching cold. Today, 60% of work in the world is carried out in the informal, underground economy, without contracts, without rights, while precariousness affects 40% of workers. It is enough to see that today, in the world, 60% of work is carried out in the informal, underground economy, without contracts, without rights, while precariousness affects 40% of workers, child labor is still common, Slave labor is still a reality in many countries, trafficking in people and women is present in many places in the world, freedom of association is a utopia and there are many states in which people are detained, kidnapped, tried, condemns, imprisons, or murders union members, simply for defending labor rights.
Them: quality work, with rights, safe, without risks, they called it Decent Work and chose October 7, 2008 as the first World Day to vindicate labor rights. Since then, 13 years ago, October 7 has led to a chain of linked demands, nation after nation, following the time zone, throughout the entire planet. I remember the first year, in AOL Email List which a map of each country was displayed as dawn broke and information about the different organized events appeared. Each year the JMTD has been organized around a specific demand: Combat the greed of large corporations, invest in the care of people, the economic crisis and the destruction of employment, precariousness and temporary employment, the employment of young people. , the need for organized unionism to address the problems, equality, protection and social rights of people, each year a global demand on which to focus unity efforts.
The truth is that reviewing the situation of work in most countries, we could continue singing that work is a condemnation and that the word work, followed by decent, constitutes an example of an oxymoron, one of those expressions that brings together contradictory words, something like saying tense calm, thunderous silence, original copy, or scorching cold. Today, 60% of work in the world is carried out in the informal, underground economy, without contracts, without rights, while precariousness affects 40% of workers. It is enough to see that today, in the world, 60% of work is carried out in the informal, underground economy, without contracts, without rights, while precariousness affects 40% of workers, child labor is still common, Slave labor is still a reality in many countries, trafficking in people and women is present in many places in the world, freedom of association is a utopia and there are many states in which people are detained, kidnapped, tried, condemns, imprisons, or murders union members, simply for defending labor rights.