13th Conference In Defense of the ILO Conventions and Trade Union
Independence
Geneva, Sunday, June 11, 2006
The countries represented were Algeria, Germany, Bangladesh, Belgium,
Benin,
Burkina Faso, Burundi, Ivory Coast, France, Gabon, India, Italy, Niger,
Pakistan, Romania, Senegal, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Togo, and Chad.
A discussion began concerning the questions posed by the "new trade union
international"
On Sunday June 11, delegations from 21 countries came together in Geneva
at
the 13th Conference of the ILC In Defense of the ILO Conventions and Trade
Union Independence
This conference opened up a needed discussion concerning the reality of
the
"new trade union international," which is set to be founded on November
1st
in Vienna, after the dissolution of the ICFTU and the WCL.
In his introduction, Daniel Gluckstein, coordinator of the ILC, spoke of
the
connection between the threats to the International Labor Organization
(ILO)
and the questions posed by the "new trade union international," as well as
the world summit of the U.N. of last autumn.
Due to the quality of the discussion at this conference, we will be
publi****ng all of the speeches. This week, we are publi****ng the first
part
of the re****t of Daniel Gluckstein.
The ILC is not in competition with any other organization of the workers´
movement. Its mission is not to formulate a program. Its responsibility is
to inform, alert and discuss these questions which affect the future of
the
workers´ movement. At the end of the rich debate, the following proposals
were made:
-- To organize the debate and continue the discussion, not only on a
national level, but in the framework of the newsletter of the ILC. In the
ILC International Newsletter we will include, until November, a special
section on this discussion, beginning with the publication of speeches
presented at the Geneva conference.
-- To mandate the bureau of the ILC to write a letter to all the affected
organizations and all the delegates to the November 1st Congress in
Vienna,
to discuss with them the need to preserve the independence of trade union
organizations.
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