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In Naples, Italy, last month, FEMCA-CISL, the ICEM-affiliated energy, chemicals, and textile-related industries union of the federation CISL, held its Third National Congress at the Tiberio Palace Hotel and Conference Center. 
 
The Congress focused on measures to overcome the financial crisis and collective bargaining following the general framework agreement in Italy of 15 April 2009. 

Sergio Gigli, who was re-elected General Secretary of FEMCA-CISL, stated in his Secretariat Report that it is a stressful time for trade unionism, considering protection of workers at this time of economic crisis, as well as work revisions and restructurings being carried out by many companies. 

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Sergio Gigli
But, he added, FEMCA-CISL, a consolidated federation that is united and strong, has been able to intervene successfully in several very difficult situations. 
ICEM General Secretary Manfred Warda congratulated the union for successful renewal of the Global Framework Agreement with Eni, the Italian energy concern, and expressed his condolences to those members of FEMCA-CISL and all Italians who were affected by the March 2009 earthquake in central Italy. 
 
Then, Warda wrote to ICEM&rsquo;s affiliates in Italy: The ICEM expresses its &ldquo;deep sorrow and our sincerest hopes that recovery and rebuilding will occur in the dignified manner in which the world has come to know the Italian people.&rdquo; At last month&rsquo;s Congress, Warda also called for international cooperation to combat the dire consequences of the global financial crisis, brought on by the failed policies of the neo-liberal era. 
 
The ICEM congratulates Sergio Gigli on his re-election as General Secretary of FEMCA-CISL, and expresses its continued and strong readiness to work with the union on issues.

FEMCA-CISL Holds 3rd National Congress in Italy

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The International Metalworkers&rsquo; Federation (IMF) held a changing-of-the-guard Congress in Gothenburg, Sweden, on 24 &ndash; 27 May. 
 
The Congress unanimously elected Jyrki Raina as the new General Secretary of the Global Union Federation. Raina replaces Marcello Malentacchi, who retired after 20 years as General Secretary. 
 
The IMF Congress adopted a new Action Programme for the period 2009-2013. The policy agenda spells out the main themes of the programme, and Raina emphasized them &hellip; building &ldquo;strong national trade unions, organize the unorganized, invest in union-building, education and training, strengthen collective bargaining, defend trade union rights, improve women&rsquo;s representation, and bring about sustainable development and decent work.&rdquo; 

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Raina has served as General Secretary of Nordic-In since 2006. He is a native of Finland, and worked for the Finnish Chemical Workers&rsquo; Union, Kemianliitto, the ICEF and ICEM, before leading Nordic-In. 
 
Raina also emphasized the importance of increasing international cooperation of the labour movement worldwide, so as to more effectively campaign on issues such as the financial and economic crisis, climate change, and sustainable jobs. 
 
Another significant action taken at IMF&rsquo;s Congress was the Executive Committee&rsquo;s endorsement of the Declaration of Intent, signed in March by other Global Union Federations. This document signifies a further step to an eventual unified global union structure for industry and manufacturing. 
 
The IMF Congress also conducted elections for other positions. Berthold Huber, Germany&rsquo;s IG Metall President, was elected IMF President; Thomas R. Buffenbarger, President of the International Association of Machinists (IAM) was elected IMF Vice President; and Hiroshi Kamada of Japan and Fernando Lopes of Brazil were elected as IMF Assistant General Secretaries.

IMF Congress Welcomes New General Secretary

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Jens Bundvad of Danish trade union CO-industri was unanimously elected 11 June as General Secretary of Nordic-In, the five-nation, 22-member Trade Union Federation. The election occurred at Nordic-In&rsquo;s biennial Congress in Stavanger, Norway. 
 
Bundvad succeeds Jyrki Raina, the federation&rsquo;s first General Secretary who was elected to lead the International Metalworkers&rsquo; Federation (IMF) last month. 
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Jens Bundvad
Stefan L&ouml;fven remains the president of 1.2-million-member Nordic-In, which effectively covers industrial workers in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden. L&ouml;fven is also president of the Swedish union, IF Metall. 
 
Nordic-In came into existence in January 2006 with the merger of Nordic Metal and the Nordic Industry Workers&rsquo; Federation (NIF). Its mission is to coordinate policies and actions of the Nordic trade unions, especially within European industry federations European Metal (EMF), EMCEF, and the European Textile, Clothing, and Leather Federation, as well as globally with the ICEM, IMF, and the International Textile, Garment, and Leathers Workers&rsquo; Federation (ITGLWF).

Nordic-In Elects Jens Bundvad as General Secretary

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Instead of facing testimony in a US federal court over the complicity its Nigerian subsidiary played in the 1995 executions of Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other Ogoni rights activists, Royal Dutch Shell made a US$15.5 million payout to the nine defendants &ndash; relatives of the martyrs &ndash; and the Ogoni people. 
 
Shell&rsquo;s announcement came at the outset of a federal court case in New York under the US&rsquo;s Alien Tort Claims Act, an effective global instrument to bring social justice and payment damages to non-American victims of crimes or violations committed by companies. Shell said it would pay US$10.5 million to the defendants and US$5 million for an Ogoni trust fund. 
 
Shell termed it a &ldquo;humanitarian settlement&rdquo; and proclaimed innocence over the 1995 complicity with the Abacha regime&rsquo;s round-up and execution of the land and environmental rights activists, who were leading the Ogoni people of the Niger Delta. 
 
The civil lawsuit in the US, brought by the Center for Constitutional Rights and EarthRights International, lingered on for well over a decade. One US writer, labour rights activist Phil Mattera, wrote, &ldquo;It is understandable why the plaintiffs &hellip; would feel a need to settle a case that had dragged on for 13 years and provide some financial assistance to the Ogoni community. Yet it is frustrating to see Shell trying to turn an outrage into an opportunity to burnish its image.&rdquo; 
 
Shell was charged with crimes against humanity, and being complicit with arbitrary arrest, torture, jurisprudence negligence, wrongful death, and emotional distress. Saro-Wiwa and the others faced hasty trials and immediate execution by security forces of General Abacha in November 1995.

Shell Pays Nigeria’s Ogoni People, Avoids Tell-tale US Court Case

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Pakistan'ın İslamabad kentinde on binlerce iş&ccedil;i ge&ccedil;en hafta, 26 Mayıs 2009, sokağa d&ouml;k&uuml;ld&uuml;. İş&ccedil;iler h&uuml;k&uuml;metin gelecek yılki federal b&uuml;t&ccedil;ede &ldquo;ulusal &uuml;cret skalası&rdquo;nın geliştirilmesini ve kamu hizmetlerinin &ouml;zelleştirilmesi planına son vermesini talep ettiler. 21 Mayıs 2009 Perşembe g&uuml;n&uuml; Meclis&ouml;n&uuml;ne y&uuml;r&uuml;yen iş&ccedil;iler burada taleplerini i&ccedil;eren kapsamlı bir belgeyi Meclis Başkanı'na ilettiler. 
Pakistan'da bug&uuml;n elektrik, petrol, doğalgaz, posta, demiryolu taşımacılığı ve demir &ccedil;elik end&uuml;strileri &ouml;zelleştirme riski ile karşı karşıya bulunuyor. 
Kararlı ICEM &uuml;yesi Pakistan WAPDA Sendikası protestonun d&uuml;zenlenmesinde &ouml;nemli bir rol oynadı. Ayrıca Meclis &ouml;n&uuml;nde toplanan iş&ccedil;ilerin taşeron iş&ccedil;iliği konusundaki talepleri eylemdeki bir diğer &ouml;nemli gelişmeydi. Eylemde işletmelerin taşeron iş&ccedil;ilere d&uuml;zenli istihdam edilen iş&ccedil;ilere sunduğu koşulları sunması y&ouml;n&uuml;nde g&uuml;&ccedil;l&uuml; bir &ccedil;ağrı yapıldı. Pakistan sendikalarına g&ouml;re tarihi ge&ccedil;miş Pakistan İş Kanunu'nun ger&ccedil;ek bir reforma ihtiyacı var. 
Su ve enerji Bakanı Pervez Aşraf'ın 23 Mayıs 2009 tarihinde WAPDA ile yaptığı toplantı bu konuda h&uuml;k&uuml;metin tavrının umut verici olduğunun bir işaretiydi. Toplantıda ulusal enerji kıtlığı ile m&uuml;cadele ve 2009 yılının sonuna kadar bunun &uuml;stesinden gelinmesi konusundaki stratejiler tartışıldı. Tasarlanan yeni projeler arasında Lahor'da T&uuml;rkiye ile anlaşmalı olarak yeni bir enerji santralinin kurulması ve devam eden Neelum-Jahlum ve Başa Barajı imşası da var. 
Sendika y&ouml;netiminin enerji bakanı ile yaptığı bu g&ouml;r&uuml;şmelerde WAPDA &uuml;yesi su ve enerji işkolu &ccedil;alışanlarının g&uuml;nl&uuml;k &uuml;cretlerinde de d&uuml;zenleme yapılması konusunda bir uzlaşmaya varıldı. WAPDA'ya &uuml;ye &ccedil;alışanların ev kiralarının %45'inin &ouml;denmesi ve Larkana'da 50 yataklı bir hastanenin WAPDA &uuml;yelerinin hizmetine sunulması kararlaştırıldı.

Pakistan sendikası WAPDA ücretlerin ve çalışma koşullarının iyileştirilmesi için sokağa çıktı.

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The global recession&rsquo;s impact on the rubber industry, collective bargaining, work relationships, health and safety, global solidarity, and a plan of action to address these issues were key topics discussed in the US at the ICEM&rsquo;s World Conference for the Rubber Industries in Nashville, Tennessee, 12-13 May. 
 
The conference, which was hosted by US-based United Steelworkers (USW), attracted some 90 trade unionists from throughout the world. The swine flu epidemic and visa problems into the US prevented the conference from having even more participants. 
 
USW Secretary-Treasurer Stan Johnson, who leads the host union&rsquo;s rubber sector, opened the conference. A 22-year veteran of the tyre industry, Johnson led a successful strike as a local branch president against Italian tyre-maker Pirelli at a Nashville plant in the mid-1990s. He was unanimously elected as ICEM&rsquo;s permanent chairman for the Rubber Industry at this conference. 

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USW Secretary-Treasurer Stan Johnson
Johnson painted a picture of the current global economic crisis&mdash;a halt in the auto industry, collapse of the tyre market, and factories operating at low capacities. &ldquo;Our opportunity lies in making sure that work and the value of workers is once again important,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;It is our responsibility individually and collectively to step forward and change our future.&rdquo; 
 
ICEM General Secretary Manfred Warda pointed out that bad policies allowed irresponsible corporate conduct to occur. He said corporate greed was behind &ldquo;casino capitalism,&rdquo; and that national solutions alone will not work to end the crisis. A global response is needed with unions playing an integral role. 
 
&ldquo;Recovery cannot mean the status quo,&rdquo; said Warda. &ldquo;A sustainable economy must be created. There is a great need to build trade union unity to combat the excesses of unregulated globalization.&rdquo; 
 
Warda also presented a resolution on the US Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), important legislation currently before the American government that would eliminate the unfair advantages that employers commonly use to restrict workers from organising. (See the Resolution <a href="/wp-content/migration/icem/EFCA%20Resolution.pdf">here</a>.) 

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USW scribe Lynne Baker (left) interviews Forestry, Logging, and Industrial Workers&rsquo; Union of Liberia&rsquo;s (FLIWUL) Austin Natee and Edwin Cisco. At right, USW&rsquo;s&nbsp;Marilyn Brown 
Photo: Kenny Carlisle, USW Communications Department 
But the conference centered primarily on the global economic crisis. Presenters mapped out the problems confronting rubber workers throughout this crisis and the opportunities for positive change. The problems cited were common to all: layoffs, reductions in pay and hours worked, outsourcing to low cost countries, leave without pay, wage freezes, use of contract and agency labour, shutdowns, production declines, and lack of investment, all factors leading to increased family and community stress. 
 
Presenters told how some employers were using the economic crisis to avoid their commitments to workers, and rather to create new work structures, including the use of non-regular and short-term contract workers. 
 
&ldquo;Trade unions need to be at the vanguard of developing a new model that guarantees globalization of rights, an agenda to decrease poverty, and to better regulate the financial sector,&rdquo; said Fabio Lins from Brazil&rsquo;s CNQ/CUT union in Brazil. 

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Fabio Lins of CNQ/CUT, Brazil
Peter Bakvis, director of the International Trade Union Confederation/Global Unions office in Washington, D.C., presented a five-point strategy for the ICEM and other global unions to tackle the economic crisis and build a fairer and more sustainable world economy. 
 
The strategy focuses on job creation through public investment, including active labour market policies and protection of the most vulnerable; nationalization of insolvent banks and new roles and mechanisms to control global finance; extension of collective bargaining coverage and strengthening of wage-setting institutions; negotiation of an ambitious international agreement on climate change; and governance reform of the global financial institutions like the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the World Trade Organisation. 

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ICEM Rubber Conference participants
At the conclusion of the conference on 13 May, Chemicals and Rubber Industry Officer Kemal &Ouml;zkan presented an ICEM action plan that included campaigning for basic trade union rights and union organising; providing immediate solidarity during conflicts; providing effective and active solidarity for collective bargaining; striving for decent work in the rubber sector, meaning campaigning for sector-wide standards on use of contract and agency labour, equal pay initiatives, and use of Global Framework Agreements to address such issues. 

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ICEM Chemicals and Rubber Industry Officer Kemal &Ouml;zkan 
Photo: Kenny Carlisle, USW Communications Department 
As well, the work includes improving, strengthening, and creating new workers&rsquo; networks; creating a global level of industrial relations through existing instruments; establishing industry and company-wide standards for health, safety, and sustainable jobs; seeking to improve cooperation between Global Union Federations in the auto-parts and auto supply industries along the global production chain; and providing special solidarity to US unions for passage of the EFCA, to tyre workers at Hankook and Bridgestone in Hungary, to French and German workers of Continental AG, and to Mexican miners. 
To view the action plan in its entirety, as well as to see the presentations made by speakers, click <a href="/index.php?id=20&amp;la=EN&amp;doc=3207">here</a>.
Special thanks to Contributor Lynne Baker, USW Communications Department.

ICEM’s Rubber Conference Focuses on Problems, Opportunities in Economic Crisis

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The three-day Congress of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) in South Africa late last week provided stark reminder that tensions do exist on certain issues between trade unions and the ruling African National Congress (ANC) party. One such issue is the contentious matter of labour brokers. 
ANC General Secretary Gwede Mantashe, himself a former NUM General Secretary and ICEM Executive member, argued on the first day that certain actions by labour unions might prove &ldquo;counter-productive&rdquo; with the ANC and the new Zuma government. But earlier, Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) General Secretary Zwelinzima Vavi told delegates that in current wage talks throughout the country, it is wrong to think that workers should pick up a share of the economic burden. 
Vavi called it &ldquo;scandalous&rdquo; that the first response to this economic crisis is for workers to lower their pay demands. &ldquo;I say No to the CEOs who have watched their salaries grow by 150% each year and now say it is workers who must lower their demands,&rdquo; Vavi said. 
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ICEM President Senzeni Zokwana
The NUM&rsquo;s Triennial Congress was held at Gallagher Estate in Midrand, near Johannesburg. The union conducted debates, deliberations, and their elections under two banners, &ldquo;Members First Today and Forever&rdquo; and &ldquo;Strengthen Solidarity, Deepen Class Consciousness.&rdquo; Delegates attended from all 11 regions of the 320,000-member NUM to this 12th policy-shaping Congress. 
One of the policies adopted is an outright ban on the use of labour brokers in South Africa. The NUM calls it the biggest threat to decent work in the country today. The NUM stands along side COSATU and other unions on the ban, while the ANC government has said it will introduce laws that more closely regulate contract work, subcontracting, and outsourcing. 
NUM President Senzeni Zokwana, who also is ICEM President, gave a forceful and moving speech to open the Congress on 28 May by stating, &ldquo;Let no one here believe we are going to settle for low wages. We will demand a living wage for mineworkers, construction workers, and energy workers.&rdquo; 
Zokwana called for an end to labour brokering, saying it is the creator of detrimental work conditions and the beginning of slave wages. 
South Africa Labour Minister Membathisi Mdladlana also criticised labour brokers. &ldquo;These companies send the labour of workers to the highest bidder and then they pay them the lowest possible wage,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;It is an extreme form of free market labour capitalism. It allows workers to be traded for profit just as if they are meat or vegetables.&rdquo; 
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ICEM General Secretary Manfred Warda
ICEM General Secretary Manfred Warda told delegates that the Global Union Federation stands with them in calling for the ban, calling Contract and Agency Labour &ldquo;one of the worst plagues of globalisation.&rdquo; Warda added that &ldquo;the neoliberal model and the greed that it encouraged&rdquo; has led the whole world to the edge of economic disaster. &ldquo;We need a world of equality and regulated financial governance now more than at any previous time.&rdquo; 
Warda paid tribute to the NUM&rsquo;s leading role inside Africa related to trade-union building, and he also mentioned the union&rsquo;s exemplary work in HIV/AIDS prevention and in mine safety. Warda also used the NUM forum to issue a call for unity among the trade unions of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). 
Zokwana was re-elected President of NUM, while ICEM Executive member Frans Baleni won re-election as General Secretary.

NUM Stands Pat on Ban of Labour Brokers at 12th Congress

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Two fresh law suits under America&rsquo;s Alien Tort Claims Act were filed last week in US federal courtrooms. In the state of Alabama, Drummond Coal was again hauled to the dock for its complicity with right-wing death squads in Colombia, and in New York state, Shell Oil will have to answer to its alleged conspiracy with Nigerian security forces in the 1995 execution of Ken Saro-Wira. 
 
The Colombian case against Drummond is the second such case against the US-based coal producer. Drummond&rsquo;s alleged involvement in the 2001 assassinations of union leaders Valmore Lacarno, Victor Oracasita, and Gustavo Soler, all leaders of the mining union Sintramienerg&eacute;tica, was the first Alien Tort Claims Act case to reach trial. In 2007, after key Colombian witnesses were prevented from testifying, a federal judge dismissed the case against Drummond and an appeals court failed to reverse that decision in December 2008. 
 
This time Drummond, between 1999 and 2006, is accused of complicity with right-wing paramilitary squads in the murders of 63 men and four women. The suit, filed by a state of Florida law firm on behalf of 252 relatives of the slain, who are entitled to compensatory damages from Drummond if the company is proven guilty. The lawsuit claims Drummond specifically paid millions to the United Self-Defense Forces (AUC), who &ldquo;terrorised&rdquo; women and children &ldquo;in their homes, on their way to and from work, and often murdered&rdquo; others &ldquo;on behalf of Drummond.&rdquo; 

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Ken Saro-Wiwa is a martyr because, as leader of the non-violent Movement for the Survival of the Ogani People (MOSOP), he was among the first Nigerians to stand up against environmental degradation and human exploitation in the Niger Delta. His strong voice earned him a hasty trial and execution by the repressive regime of General Sani Abacha. The New York suit will attempt to prove that Shell was complicit in a campaign of terror undertaken by Abacha&rsquo;s security forces. 
 
The Alien Tort Claims Act, on US law books since 1789, allows non-Americans access to US civil court action in order the hold accountable US-based or other corporations to violations of international law. Because of the US&rsquo;s historic economic power throughout the world, Alien Tory Claims cases are seen as a leading way in which human rights conduct gets heard in America.

Drummond, Shell Called to US Courts to Answer on Human Rights Charges

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On 12 June, civil society across everywhere will mark World Day Against Child Labour, this year coming on the 10th anniversary of adoption of ILO Convention 182, the convention that condemns the worst forms of child labour. In step with this year&rsquo;s International Labour Conference gender theme, the ILO will focus 12 June on the exploitation of young girls in child labour. 
 
The ILO estimates that 100 million girls are involved in child labour. The ICEM believes that the first and most important instrument toward decent work is education. A child and young adult&rsquo;s education is the surest and securest way to escape poverty, and to grow as an adult into a decent and secure livelihood. 

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On this World Day Against Child Labour, the ICEM draws attention to our trade union affiliate at the Firestone Rubber Plantation in Liberia, a union that still must carry the fight to leave behind the scars of child labour. Despite a new collective agreement, Firestone has not implemented parts of it, including reductions on quotas for rubber tapping. It was these quotas that demanded children be used in order to fulfil production. 
 
The ICEM calls attention to the rescue of 37 children in New Delhi, India, last week, who were restrained and bonded while performing needle-stitch work. For every such rescue, there are scores more illegal worksites that cheat and exploit children. The ICEM also makes note of a report from an NGO in Uzbekistan that the use of child labour in cotton fields is growing and becoming an even bigger menace. In Thailand, we know, it is common to abuse Lao and Burmese children while at work in sweatshops. 
 
There are countless stories that certify child labour as the number one obstacle to decent work. The ICEM encourages everyone to acknowledge 12 June, but also to use it as the day to make a year-long commitment to expose and eradicate all forms of child labour.

12 June, Day Against Child Labour, Another Bold Reminder

The international commitment to sustainable job creation and a financial transactions tax (FTT) will be the focused of RIO+20. The international labour movement, led by ITUC, could play a strong role at RIO+20 to ensure that international commitments are turned into national legislation.

	The ITUC released a new report &quot;<a href="http://www.ituc-csi.org/growing-green-and-decent-jobs,11011.html?lang=en" target="_blank">Growing Green and Decent Jobs</a>&quot; that trade union leaders can use in negotiations on green investment and job creation as a part of their national policies. The report, released on April 18, analyses seven industries including manufacturing and energy industries in 12 countries and shows that investing two per cent of GDP in a greener economy could create up to 48 million new jobs over the next five years.

	Since world leaders adopted Agenda 21 in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, governments have been called upon to invest in a greener economy and accelerate the adoption of clean technologies, but actual progress at the global level has fallen short of the expectations expressed in Agenda 21 (1992), the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs, 2000, and the 2008 update), the Johannesburg Program of Implementation (JPOI, 2002), the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

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	Especially on sustainable job creation, a review by the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD) secretariat reports &quot;global delivery of the employment and green jobs-related commitments is sobering. While judgment is needed to assess delivery against the not so well defined commitments, there is ample evidence to suggest that progress has been slow and in some cases even contradictory to the stated goal. It is impossible to say whether delivery of commitments specifically relating to &quot;green jobs&quot; has fared better or worse than those generic to employment as a whole.&quot;

	Twenty years after the adoption of Agenda 21 at the 1992 Rio Earth Summit as a roadmap towards a sustainable future, representatives of governments, businesses, and international organizations, including trade unions, NGOs, business leaders, academics, politicians, bureaucrats and journalists, will once again discuss the issues on sustainable development at UNCSD-RIO+20 on June20 to 22, in Rio de Janeiro. The main objective of the Conference is to assess the progress to date and the remaining gaps in the implementation of the outcomes of the major summits and to secure renewed political commitment for tackling poverty eradication and sustainable development challenges. The RIO+20 will also highlight <a href="http://www.uncsd2012.org/rio20/7issues.html" target="_blank">seven critical issues</a> which need priority attention; these include decent jobs, energy, sustainable cities, food security and sustainable agriculture, water, oceans and disaster readiness.

	As representatives of industrial workers in the metal, chemical, energy, mining, paper, rubber, textiles, materials, and related sectors, the IMF, ICEM and ITGLWF have been jointly promoting common policy demands on sustainable development; including:
<ul>
	<li style="text-align: justify">
		a strong, legally-binding, comprehensive global agreement with an ambitious reduction target for greenhouse gas emissions,</li>
	<li style="text-align: justify">
		creation of sustainable jobs that meet ILO definition of Decent Work while ensuring a Just Transition, and</li>
	<li style="text-align: justify">
		building a strong financial foundation for a sustainable future using instruments such as a financial transactions tax.</li>
	<li style="text-align: justify">
		The IMF, ICEM, and ITGLWF fully support following three key demands as articulated by the ITUC:</li>
</ul>

	<a href="http://www.ituc-csi.org/IMG/pdf/greendecentjobs_madesimple.pdf" target="_blank">Green&amp;Decent Jobs 
	http://www.ituc-csi.org/IMG/pdf/greendecentjobs_madesimple.pdf</a> 

	<a href="http://www.ituc-csi.org/IMG/pdf/socialprotectionfloor_madesimple.pdf" target="_blank">Social Protection Floors 
	http://www.ituc-csi.org/IMG/pdf/socialprotectionfloor_madesimple.pdf</a>

	<a href="http://www.ituc-csi.org/IMG/pdf/ftt_madesimple.pdf" target="_blank">The Financial Transaction Tax 
	http://www.ituc-csi.org/IMG/pdf/ftt_madesimple.pdf</a>

	We hope that all industrial workers who attend RIO+20 as labour delegates will play an active role in supporting the common union demands. The international labour movement could play a strong role at RIO+20 to ensure that international commitments are turned into national legislation.

	For further information on ITUC&#039;s campaign on RIO+20, please go to: 
	<a href="http://www.ituc-csi.org/rio-20.html">http://www.ituc-csi.org/rio-20.html</a>

RIO+20 Must Commit to Sustainable Job Creation

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