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5 April, 2000A new website -- www.global-unions.org -- to be run by the international trade union movement was launched on April 6, 2000.
DURBAN/BRUSSELS/GENEVA: A new "Global Unions" website was launched today, April 6, during the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions' Congress, taking place in Durban, South Africa.
The website, which is jointly owned and run by practically the entire international trade union movement, will contribute to the growing need of the world's trade unions to meet the challenge of globalised capital by globalising trade unions.
In a press statement issued in Durban at the Global Unions' launch, the ICFTU says that "trade union values are timeless, but their structures, strategies and priorities are changing to meet the challenge of globalisation. This includes the use of tools of the information age to create coordinated trade union action."
The fourteen international trade union organisations which are running the website include the ICFTU, the IMF and the ten other international trade secretariats, as well as the European Trade Union Confederation and the Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD. The site is divided into two main sections: global union news and on-going campaigns, and offers from each of these participants the latest on what they are doing. A search engine will provide the possibility to find information on specific countries and topics -- like working time, equality, the environment, union-busting, etc.
Come and visit us at www.global-unions.org
The website, which is jointly owned and run by practically the entire international trade union movement, will contribute to the growing need of the world's trade unions to meet the challenge of globalised capital by globalising trade unions.
In a press statement issued in Durban at the Global Unions' launch, the ICFTU says that "trade union values are timeless, but their structures, strategies and priorities are changing to meet the challenge of globalisation. This includes the use of tools of the information age to create coordinated trade union action."
The fourteen international trade union organisations which are running the website include the ICFTU, the IMF and the ten other international trade secretariats, as well as the European Trade Union Confederation and the Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD. The site is divided into two main sections: global union news and on-going campaigns, and offers from each of these participants the latest on what they are doing. A search engine will provide the possibility to find information on specific countries and topics -- like working time, equality, the environment, union-busting, etc.
Come and visit us at www.global-unions.org