28 March, 2011Stronger Together, a new quarterly newsletter released today, reports on the joint actions and shared goals of IMF, ICEM and ITGLWF as the three global union federations explore the creation of a new unified International for industrial workers.
GLOBAL: Trade unions around the world affiliated to the International Metalworkers' Federation (IMF), the International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers' Unions (ICEM) and the International Textile, Garment and Leather Workers Federation (ITGLWF) have a common interest in becoming a stronger voice for industrial workers.
A joint IMF-ICEM-ITGLWF task force met in Japan in February to continue its examination of how to unify the world's industrial workers into one global union federation.
Today, in support of this process, the three organisations released the first issues of Stronger Together, a new joint quarterly newsletter on the creation of the new International.
Covering topics such as the joint action on Mexico, Chile and Turkey, this first issue of the newsletter also explores strategic areas of work such as combating the use of sandblasting in the textiles sector and cross-sectoral organizing in manufacturing export processing zones.
For a copy of the newsletter go to: www.imfmetal.org/strongertogether
The next issue is will go out at the end of May.