The events of the 1926 British General Strike aren’t an issue for abstract historical discussion; they are, more importantly, an example of one of the most intense periods of industrial Trade Union militancy on these isles.
As the authors of this examination of the “Days of Hope” put it, “The key question for Marxists is how to relate to the working class. In countries where the workers
APPOINTMENT OF INSPECTOR - SOLIDARITY On 22 May 2008 the Certification Officer appointed Gerard Walker, Assistant Certification Officer, as an Inspector to investigate the financial affairs of the trade union Solidarity. The appointment was made under Section 37B of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992. The Inspector’s terms of reference are to investigate the financial
One of all these news that so rarely is reported about in the traditional mediachannels:
Albania: Police destroy trade union offices
he ITUC has denounced the expulsion of the two nationally recognized trade union confederations – the KSSH and the BSPSH – from their offices on the first of August. The police were enforcing a court decision involving property seized by the former communist government. The police appeared without notice and staff were prevented from entering the building. Trade unions property and documents were destroyed.
There is a lot of nations in the world there is is dangerous for your life to be a trade unionist.
When right wing politicians attack the trade union rights in Sweden it is in the lenght an attack against tre freedom of speech and freedom of unite and organize.
It is not only China suppressing people.
We have a long way more to go before the world is cvilized. Still there is a loss of human rights around the world:
South Africa:South African soldiers helped doctors tend to patients in the country's biggest hospital on Friday as the government vowed to assert control over a crippling week-old civil service strike.Indonesia (thats a pdf-file, it will take some minute to download it)Trade unionist jailed, beaten for participating in May Day demo
Angola/BotswanaBatswana workers stranded in Angola after strike
Scores of Batswana employees working for a Botswana-registered company
that is involved in the construction of an airport in Angola were left
stranded after a strike. In a telephone interview, one of the Batswana
employees who were roped in to Angola for the construction tender,
Colly Kgalemang said that employees have not been paid for the past
seven months, since November 2006.
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In my job I had to publish information today:
Wanja Lundby-Wedin elected President of the ETUC
At the Congress of the
European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC), The LO President Ms. Wanja
Lundby-Wedin, was elected president of the ETUC the 22:nd of May 2007.
She will thus become the first women president of the ETUC as well as
the first ETUC president from Sweden. LO became member of the ETUC when
the organisation was founded in l973, and today ETUC organizes trade
union organizations representing 60 million blue-collar workers,
white-collar workers and university graduates in 35 countries.
After having been elected, Wanja Lundby-Wedin gave a speech of thanks
in which she accentuated the need of a strong European trade union
organisation which can intensify the welfare development in Europe.
At the same time, she questioned those who are of the opinion that to
develop Europe economically, the welfare needs to be less generous, and
she underlined that solid welfare systems faci
Monday its the first day of the ETUC Congress which takes place in Seville from 21 to 24 May 2007.
The Congress has an homepage and will be possible to follow partly with web-tv.
A first pressrelease about the Congress, The ETUC and the Offensive for more Solidarity in Europe:
From now on the ETUC is going 'On the Offensive for more Social Europe, more Solidarity, more Sustainable Development'. "We intend to take a highly proactive approach in promoting workers' interests. Because of deregulation, neo-liberalism and high unemployment, unions generally have been pressed back onto the defensive in recent years. Now it is time to move onto the offensive," explained ETUC General Secretary John Monks. "This Congress marks a new stage in the development of the European trade union movement, as it becomes stronger, more cohesive and more influential in guiding European policy to reflect the interests of workers and their families, in the EU and worldwide" On Monday 2
In Mexico, Santiago Rafael Cruz, a 29-year-old union organizer from the Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC, AFL-CIO) was brutally tortured and murdered. Santiago was a successful organizer in the USA who had moved down to Mexico to run the union's office there. His activities aroused the hostility of those who fear the growth of trade unionism among farm workers, and generated attacks in the media, threats of deportation, robberies and intimidation, culminating in this terrible crime.
In a mail from Labourstart I read:Santiago has a family in Mexico, a mother, father, sisters and brothers. But his family is much larger than that; it includes all of us. We must grieve together with his family, and we must fight together with them as one large family to ensure that the Mexican government investigates the murder, arrests and prosecutes those responsible, and ensures the safety of union activists in that country.Here you can protest against the murder of Santia
When I meet friends and acquaintances from US and other countries they often ask me to tell them more about Swedish politics and Trade Union issues. They have often heard that we have a
So well, here in some new reports and such things from the Swedish Trade Union Confederation:LO demands commission to investigate statutory unemployment insurance On February 14, the Minister of Labour announced that the Government intends to make a thorough investigation of statutory affiliation to the unemployment insurance system instead of submitting a premature proposal. The issue concerning statutory affiliation to the unemployment insurance system is controversial and it is a very central issue for the trade union organisations. LO says in a letter addressed to Minister of Labour, Mr. Sven Otto Littorin, that it is therefore of vital importance that this issue be thoroughly investigated and is accepted in a broad sense. New LO report: Women's wages are too low A great majority, 86 per cent, of
When I meet friends and acquaintances from US and other countries they often ask me to tell them more about Swedish politics and Trade Union issues. They have often heard that we have a
So well, here in some new reports and such things from the Swedish Trade Union Confederation:LO demands commission to investigate statutory unemployment insurance On February 14, the Minister of Labour announced that the Government intends to make a thorough investigation of statutory affiliation to the unemployment insurance system instead of submitting a premature proposal. The issue concerning statutory affiliation to the unemployment insurance system is controversial and it is a very central issue for the trade union organisations. LO says in a letter addressed to Minister of Labour, Mr. Sven Otto Littorin, that it is therefore of vital importance that this issue be thoroughly investigated and is accepted in a broad sense. New LO report: Women's wages are too low A great majority, 86 per cent, of
When I meet friends and acquaintances from US and other countries they often ask me to tell them more about Swedish politics and Trade Union issues. They have often heard that we have a
So well, here in some new reports and such things from the Swedish Trade Union Confederation:LO demands commission to investigate statutory unemployment insurance On February 14, the Minister of Labour announced that the Government intends to make a thorough investigation of statutory affiliation to the unemployment insurance system instead of submitting a premature proposal. The issue concerning statutory affiliation to the unemployment insurance system is controversial and it is a very central issue for the trade union organisations. LO says in a letter addressed to Minister of Labour, Mr. Sven Otto Littorin, that it is therefore of vital importance that this issue be thoroughly investigated and is accepted in a broad sense. New LO report: Women's wages are too low A great majority, 86 per cent, of
Signed on Thursday January 4, 2007 with the siége of the group Office DEPOT Group (France 93 Villepinte France).
PRINCIPAL SOCIAL RIGHTS OBTAINED BY TRADE UNION SOD DURING THESE NEGOTIATIONS.
- ARTICLE 1 - Wage increase
- General increase
Wage increase for the executives (coefficients 300 and more) is entirely individualized and does not return within the framework of the general increases.
This agreement will thus not treat general increases in the executives.
A general increase in the basic wages for all the employees and supervisors is founded according to following methods':
For coefficients 140 to the 180 (Hostesses of reception and Cases in Store, Restockers, Preparers of Orders in the Warehouses of Meung France On the Loire and Saint Martin de Crau etc.)
=> + 1% of Increase at January 1, 2007.
=> + 2% of Increase at July 1, 2007.
For Coefficients 190 to the 290 (Chiefs, Foremen, Supervisors in Productions etc.)
=> + 1% of Increase at Ja
I know. I have not written here for a while.That is because many different reasons.
First: I dont think it is such a good idea of mixing writing about Martial art-issues in the same blog as politics in hte view of working class. And at the same time write about the life in Sweden and about rockmusic.So I have moved my Martial Art-blogging to an own blog, you find it here.
About issues of politics I am trying to find a way of creating an international blog with different contributors from grassroot-level in trade unions or something like that.
So now I decided to now use this blog for writing about the life of a Swede in the global world of today, of how it is to continue struggling on with life in the cold northern part of Europe, or something like that.
Second reason to why I have not blogging here for a while is that I two months ago got a sore back because of to much sitting in front of the computer. It is not fully good yet, but much better anyhow.
So here I am sitting in a wo
