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Feature on union fight for social protection badly needed by precarious workers; special report about IMF and affiliates work since IMF World Congress in 2009; Jyrki Raina, IMF General Secretary spotlights the future of global unionism; and profile of Miriam Chipunza, talking about her union Zimbabwe National Engineering Workers Union (NEWU) NEWU participation in the recent World Day of Decent Work.
Precarious work is growing around the globe and, with the increased insecurity it brings, workers are ever more in need of social protection. Yet precarious workers are the most likely to be excluded from these very protections.
The IMF World Congress in 2009 took place in the middle of a global financial and economic crisis. In a difficult situation, metalworkers’ unions renewed their commitment to organize and build stronger unions, fight for trade union rights and join the forces of workers to build a counterweight to transnational corporations (TNCs). This article summarizes the IMF’s work in the key priority areas during the past two years.
In June 2012 in Copenhagen, the affiliates of the IMF, ICEM and ITGLWF will found a new unified global union for the industrial workers of the world. The unions are taking a bold step towards a new era of global solidarity and to fight for a model of globalization that is based on social justice.
Miriam Chipunza, NEWU, Zimbabwe, talks about her union’s participation in the global action of the World Day of Decent Work and the importance of decent wages for workers in Zimbabwe.
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