11 Sep 2008 -
World Day for Decent Work, 7 October 2008

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As part of the Organising Globally programme adopted by the Durban Congress, the ITF is currently preparing an organising handbook on precarious workers. Precarious work is one term used to describe a growing type of worker which exist increasingly not just in transport but in most sectors of the world economy, which are not in a traditional full time, permanent, employment relationship with an employer, but are either 'informal workers, part-time or casual workers or are classed as self employed even though they are, in reality, dependent for work on a public or private enterprise.

Build Rights, Build Unions - The Informal Economy View a film on trade unions and the informal economy

This category of workers is growing constantly, as employers outsource or 'offshore' work into relationships which often remove the workers concerned from the protection of trade union membership, collective bargaining or even social legislation. In focusing attention on the urgent need to adapt trade union organising strategies and national and international regulations to cope with this growing proportion of the workforce, we are working closely with other Global Union Federations, particularly the International Metalworkers Federation and the International Chemical Energy and Mineworkers Federation.