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14 November, 1999Trade unionists representing unions organising Matsushita workers gather for the Regional Matsushita Council Meeting for Asia and the Pacific.
SINGAPORE: The International Metalworkers' Federation held a regional Matsushita Council meeting for Asia and the Pacific on November 4-5 in Singapore, with some 75 trade unionists representing unions organising Matsushita workers attending. After hearing a presentation on Matsushita's global and regional strategy by the president of Asia Matsushita Electric, participants discussed the implications of this strategy on jobs, wages and working conditions, as well as the strengthening of trade union solidarity through an information exchange in the newly set-up IMF Regional Matsushita Council for Asia & the Pacific.
To achieve their goal of forming closer links and intensifying cooperation at international level, the meeting agreed to:
- work towards the adoption of a Code of Conduct based on the IMF Model Code of Conduct;
- set up a Matsushita Contact Network;
- use the IMF website to help facilitate communication among Matsushita-related unions in Japan and overseas;
- update periodically IMF database information on Matsushita;
- propose a Matsushita Steering Committee (MSC) meeting be held sometime next year to discuss IMF-World Matsushita Council goals, based on the IMF policy on IMF World Company Councils which will be adopted by the IMF Executive Committee in December 1999;
- call on Matsushita management at its headquarters in Japan as well as at its supporting company for operations in Asia to set up a forum for the exchange of information and discussion on important issues between the responsible management and the members of the IMF-MSC.
To achieve their goal of forming closer links and intensifying cooperation at international level, the meeting agreed to:
- work towards the adoption of a Code of Conduct based on the IMF Model Code of Conduct;
- set up a Matsushita Contact Network;
- use the IMF website to help facilitate communication among Matsushita-related unions in Japan and overseas;
- update periodically IMF database information on Matsushita;
- propose a Matsushita Steering Committee (MSC) meeting be held sometime next year to discuss IMF-World Matsushita Council goals, based on the IMF policy on IMF World Company Councils which will be adopted by the IMF Executive Committee in December 1999;
- call on Matsushita management at its headquarters in Japan as well as at its supporting company for operations in Asia to set up a forum for the exchange of information and discussion on important issues between the responsible management and the members of the IMF-MSC.