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The ITF’s 41st Congress in Durban, South Africa, ended on a high note. Ten minutes before business was concluded, delegates received the news that Mansour Osanloo of the oppressed Tehran bus workers’ union in Iran had been freed from prison after a relentless eight month solidarity and publicity campaign by ITF and other trade unions worldwide.
A few weeks later, the ITF’s Arab world representative visited Lebanon to deliver solidarity and some humanitarian assistance (see page 4) to unemployed union members and the families of workers killed during the five-week Middle East conflict, which was the subject of an emergency Congress resolution.
International solidarity is all about practical outcomes like these. But in the longer term, all practical trade union work relies on a strong membership base. The main decision of Congress was to adopt a major work programme to help its unions to organise, nationally and globally, in every sector of the transport industry.
It also agreed to review the strategic direction of the ITF’s flag of convenience campaign, to launch a new ports of convenience campaign, and to combat the threat to transport workers posed by HIV/AIDS.
The Congress – the first to be held in Africa and the first to elect an African President, Randall Howard from South African union Satawu– buzzed with the energy of over 1,000 activists representing unions in more than 100 countries. Together they expressed their determination to fight for justice and strong trade unions in a globalised world.
The ITF industrial sections, long the core of the organisation, will have to work more closely together than ever before. This will involve new organising campaigns, and persuading unions to adapt themselves to organise workers who are not traditionally used to unions, such as informal and casual workers and those in smaller, private sector workplaces.
It will also mean renewing and updating their democratic structures by bringing women and young workers right into the centre of union work.
ITF affiliates have become increasingly aware of the strategic role played by transport in the global supply chain and the leverage this could bring to trade union campaigning. But this potential cannot be realised without concerted international organising within the same industry and the same employer.
Transport unions have resolved to build a stronger movement, first by working systematically and comprehensively to identify their current strengths and weaknesses among key companies and in key transport hubs, and to find ways internationally of filling the gaps that exist.
This is how the Organising Globally programme endorsed by Congress will begin to get our unions ready to take effective action, not to oppose globalisation, but to shape it into a force that benefits, not weakens, the jobs, working conditions and living standards of workers in every region of the world.
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Issue 25 October 2006
Outras páginas para Issue 25 October 2006:
Congress pledges more global action | Transport unions fight AIDS | Out of sight Out of mind | Jobs and the environment | Tackling intimidation | Unity follows division | TI Briefing: The ports of convenience | Working life | My Agenda | Reflections: Readers’ thoughts
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