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21 May, 2001The IMF Executive Committee has endorsed a major project for the information and communications technology (ICT) sector.
ITALY: Speaking to the IMF's Executive Committee, meeting in Venice, Italy, on May 22-23, the IMF general secretary, Marcello Malentacchi, has explained why it is necessary to expand activities in the ICT sector. "It is an increasingly important economic branch in which we have affiliates with a significant membership. We are meeting particular challenges from unions with well-educated members, and we are confronting unions in other economic sectors."
The goal for the IMF is to strengthen the position of the trade unions and the IMF in the information and communications technology sector. Thus, a task force has been set up and a survey distributed to affiliates on their needs with respect to ICT, plus an IMF-ICT webpage is being prepared, to be launched very soon. In the future, an ICT e-mail network will be set up. The IMF will focus on ICT in its company and regional meetings and will also continue discussions with the Union Network International (UNI) on further cooperation.
This last point was underlined by Mari-Ann Krantz, president of the Swedish white-collar union SIF: "The IMF president and general secretary have been asked to find cooperation with the UNI." Krantz, who also presides the IMF Non-Manual Workers' Department, concluded that the new ICT initiative was a good one and that it was important for the IMF to cooperate also with the European Metalworkers' Federation.
The goal for the IMF is to strengthen the position of the trade unions and the IMF in the information and communications technology sector. Thus, a task force has been set up and a survey distributed to affiliates on their needs with respect to ICT, plus an IMF-ICT webpage is being prepared, to be launched very soon. In the future, an ICT e-mail network will be set up. The IMF will focus on ICT in its company and regional meetings and will also continue discussions with the Union Network International (UNI) on further cooperation.
This last point was underlined by Mari-Ann Krantz, president of the Swedish white-collar union SIF: "The IMF president and general secretary have been asked to find cooperation with the UNI." Krantz, who also presides the IMF Non-Manual Workers' Department, concluded that the new ICT initiative was a good one and that it was important for the IMF to cooperate also with the European Metalworkers' Federation.