Executive Board members elected and key decisions made at the 40th ITF Congress held in Vancouver, August 2002

ITF EXECUTIVE BOARD
2002-2006

Africa: Sanda Seydou, Niger; Halima Ibrahim, Nigeria; O Irabor, Nigeria; Randall Howard* (Vice-President) South Africa

Asia/Pacific: Paddy Crumlin*, Australia; Saki Rezwana, Bangladesh; Umraomal
Purohit* (President) India; Sakae Idemoto, Japan; Shigeo Maki*, Japan; Moon Hwan Oh, Korea; Ch Mohammad Ashraf Khan, Pakistan; Gregorio Oca, Philippines

Europe/Middle East: Wilhelm Haberzettl* (Vice-President) Austria; Jean-Louis Brasseur, Belgium; Vladimir Svalina, Croatia; Orla Petersen, Denmark; Yves Veyrier, France; Norbert Hansen, Germany; Jan Kahmann*, Germany; Bob Crow*, Great Britain; Bill Morris*, Great Britain; Remo Di Fiore, Italy; Erika Young, Italy; Paul Voncken, Netherlands; Per Østvold*, Norway; Anatoly Vasiliev, Russia; José Cubillo, Spain; Mikhaylo Kiryeyev, Ukraine;

Latin America and the Caribbean: Alicia Castro* (Vice-President) Argentina; Juan Palacios* (Vice-President) Argentina; Omar Gomes, Brazil; Carvil Duncan, Guyana;
North America: Jim O’Neil, Canada; John Bowers* (Vice-President) US; Patricia Friend, US; Robert Scardelletti, US; Robert Roach*, US.

Also elected
General Secretary: David Cockroft*

* Member of the Management Committee.

KEY DECISIONS

The following is a summary of the general resolutions passed in order to advance the ITF strategy Globalising Solidarity. For a complete listing of resolutions, including those relating to specific ITF Sections, visit the page here >>

Resolution 1: Mobilising Solidarity
Congress welcomed the major initiatives of the Mobilising Solidarity programme and the ITF’s shift in activities towards campaigns, calling upon the Executive Board to continue implementing its principles by building greater solidarity in ITF unions.

Resolution 2: Developing an ITF Campaign Strategy
In the light of the success of, and growing demand for, effective ITF campaigning, Congress asked the Executive Board, with the Sections and the Regions, to evaluate the lessons learned from ITF campaigns. It asked the Board to develop an ITF Campaign Strategy.

Resolution 5: Responding to the rise of logistics in the international freight transport industry
Congress observed the implications for transport workers of the development of trans-national intermodal logistics companies, calling for a cross-sectional ITF strategy promoting solidarity in the transport chain through international trade union coordination, dealing with the concerns of women and men in non-mobile work and including a central role for government regulation and public policy in passenger and freight transport.

Resolution 6: Changes in the international trade union movement: moving forward with the wider trade union movement
Congress stressed the importance of close relations between the “Global Unions” organisations, recognising the value of joint work between them and calling for strengthened international trade union coordination, which could better tackle the balance between the national centre-based and the industry-based wings of the movement and seek an end to the ideological splits in international trade union structure.

Resolution 7: The popular movement to reform the globalisation process
Congress reaffirmed support for the engagement of the international union movement in dialogue with multilateral institutions such as the World Bank and the provision of information on WTO issues for affiliates. It called for close work between the ICFTU and the World Social Forum to seek effective social controls over globalisation, and for a strategy of working with NGOs that are supportive of trade union goals.

Resolution 8: Organising workers in information and unprotected work
Rejecting the concept of an “informal sector,” Congress vowed that any worker engaged in activities in the transport sector should be protected by transport workers’ unions and covered by protective laws and collective agreements. It called upon governments to provide basic labour standards and on ITF unions to equip themselves to organise informal workers in their sectors