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BELGIUM: Between 3,000 and 5,000 European workers rallied at the Opel plant in Antwerp on September 23 in response to a call from the European Metalworkers' Federation for mobilisation and solidarity in the light of the current restructuring of GM Europe and the threat of closure of the Antwerp plant.EMF general secretary Peter Scherrer welcomed trade unionists from Spain, England, Germany, Poland, Hungary and France to the rally as well as the workers in Belgium.&quot;We will address management again and again regarding our principle demands, which are: no to the closure of plants and no to forced redundancies!&quot; said Scherrer.&quot;We all know that when we do not fight for Antwerp today, tomorrow it will be Bochum, Luton or Zaragossa. We all know that if we do not stick together as firmly as possible we all will lose this fight,&quot; he said.&quot;We need responsible behaviour from the governments and politicians. We will not accept that workers are the hostages of political games. We want effective co-ordination of help, support and aid given to companies at European level,&quot; argued Scherrer.Other speakers at the rally include Klaus Franz, the Chairman of EEF (the GM European Works Council) and trade union leaders of the Belgian trade unions.

Workers rally at Opel plant in Antwerp demanding no to the closure of plants and no to forced redundancies.

GM workers across Europe mobilise in Antwerp

CANADA:  The delegates of IMF affiliated International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAMAW) from the U.S. and Canada met recently in Vancouver to discuss how communications will develop in the future. The delegates, including local and district communicators, educators and web stewards, spoke about the ways their union could manage to get on the forefront of 21st century communications.The speakers at the forum were IAM general vice president Rich Michalski as Chairperson of the Conference, IAM's Canadian general vice president Dave Ritchie, IAM general secretary-treasurer Warren Mart, and former Senator Hillary Clinton's Chief of Staff Tamera Luzzatto. One of the most important events at the forum was the launch of a newly designed IAM website <a href="http://www.goiam.org/">http://www.goiam.org/</a>. The developers made the site more user-friendly and added new features including the possibility for visitors to leave their comments, rank and share stories. Interactive video is another innovation on the site. The IAMAW turned its electronic newsletter iMail into a blog. In addition, the site is updated with a new search system allowing the search by keywords known as 'tags'.Staying on the forefront of new communication technologies the IAM launched its official <a href="http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/pages/International-Association-of-Machinists-Aerospace-Workers-IAMAW/75198195635?ref=nf">Facebook</a> and Twitter pages <a href="http://www.twitter.com/machinistsunion">www.twitter.com/machinistsunion</a>. The IAM event proceeds the IMF-EMF Communicators' Forum, which is scheduled for November 17-18 and will be hosted by German IMF affiliate IG Metall in Frankfurt. For more details see our previous <a href="../index.cfm?c=20519">story</a>.

IAMAW delegates from the U.S. and Canada met in Vancouver to discuss union communication strategy.

International Machinists discuss communications for the 21st century

GLOBAL: Metalworkers around the world are participating in the World Day for Decent Work today calling for an end to precarious employment and joining the International Trade Union Confederation in its call for getting the world to work.In the continuing fallout from the global financial crisis, millions of workers in precarious employment have lost their jobs. For employers, cutting temporary and agency jobs has proven to be a cheap and easy way of reducing their workforce. But for workers it has resulted in hardship, uncertainty and a complete lack of control over their working lives.As economies begin to recover, there is a real risk that companies will increase their dependence on temporary jobs, replacing jobs that were once permanent with precarious jobs. The importance of employment in the recovery is the subject of a new ITUC report released on this World Day for Decent Work. <a href="http://www.ituc-csi.org/IMG/pdf/Finacial_crisis_EN-final.pdf" target="_blank">Jobs - The Path to Recovery, How employment is central to ending the global crisis</a> describes how in response to the global economic crisis, the worst since the Great Depression with tens of millions of jobs disappearing, the economy must be built on social justice and environmental sustainability, respect for internationally-recognised workers' rights, effective financial regulation and global governance which puts people first.Global unions, including the International Metalworkers' Federation, have been calling on governments to focus on jobs in response to the crisis. At the G20 meeting in Pittsburgh last month global unions warned that the full ripple effect of the year-old crisis is only now being felt as tens of millions of jobs are cut, with a forecast of more job losses to occur in 2010 and 2011.The G20 Leaders' Statement, available on the IMF website <a href="../index.cfm?c=20830&amp;l=2" target="_blank">here</a>, offers some positive prospects for workers, but regrettably begins with the self-congratulatory assumption that the worst is over and recovery is in sight. The ITUC/TUAC evaluation of the 3rd G20 Summit indicates that the results of the Summit &quot;represented some advance on the outcome of the April Summit in London but also demonstrated a degree of complacency and progress was slow in some crucial areas&quot;. A full copy of the evaluation is published on the IMF website <a href="../files/09100714222566/G20evaluation-FINAL.pdf" target="_blank">here</a>.&quot;The IMF joins the ITUC and the Trade Union Advisory Committee (TUAC) to the OECD in expressing deep concern for what seems to continue being a dangerous underestimation of the employment issue, in terms of both job losses and deterioration of the employment conditions everywhere in the world,&quot; said IMF general Secretary Jyrki Raina.&quot;Around the world, the IMF, metal unions and their members are mobilizing, organizing and bargaining for secure jobs and equal rights for all workers&quot; he said.To read the full ITUC report  Jobs - The Path to Recovery, How employment is central to ending the global crisis:  <a href="http://www.ituc-csi.org/IMG/pdf/Finacial_crisis_EN-final.pdf">http://www.ituc-csi.org/IMG/pdf/Finacial_crisis_EN-final.pdf</a><a href="http://www.ituc-csi.org/IMG/pdf/Financial_crisis_DE.pdf">http://www.ituc-csi.org/IMG/pdf/Financial_crisis_DE.pdf</a><a href="http://www.ituc-csi.org/IMG/pdf/Financial_crisis_FR.pdf">http://www.ituc-csi.org/IMG/pdf/Financial_crisis_FR.pdf</a><a href="http://www.ituc-csi.org/IMG/pdf/Financial_crisis_ES.pdf">http://www.ituc-csi.org/IMG/pdf/Financial_crisis_ES.pdf</a>To read the ITUC/TUAC evaluation of the 3rd G20 Summit:<a href="../files/09100714222566/G20evaluation-FINAL.pdf"></a><a href="../files/09100714222566/G20evaluation-FINAL.pdf">English</a><a href="../files/09100714222566/G20evaluation-FINAL.pdf"></a><a href="../files/09101415552379/EVALUACION_G20_CSI_TUAC_ES.pdf">Spanish</a>

International Metalworkers' Federation joins global unions in call for secure employment as the essential response to the global economic crisis on this World Day for Decent Work.

Secure jobs are the answer to crisis

De globala facken IFS, ICEM. ITGLWF &amp; IMF kommer att vara i Turkiet torsdagen den 1 oktober för att träffa Turkiets arbetsmarknads- och socialförsäkringsminister Ömer Dincer i Ankara.Fredagen den 2 oktober kl. 11.00 anordnar delegationen från de globala facken en presskonferens om otryggt arbete Turkiet.Birlesik Metal-IsBirlesik Metal Is anordnar ett solidaritetsevenemang på kvällen den 3 oktober. Det kommer att kopplas till Sinter Metals kamp. IMFs film skall visas och en turkisk version av IMFs affisch och flygblad skall distribueras.

TURKIET

SIERDas Zentralkomitee der SIER beabsichtigt, eine öffentliche Sondersitzung über die globale Aktion gegen prekäre Beschäftigung durchzuführen und alle Medien einzuladen. Zudem wird die SIER eine Sonderausgabe ihres Info-Magazins herausgeben. Auf der Titelseite wird das Logo der Kampagne gegen prekäre Beschäftigung abgedruckt.Weiterhin ist vorgesehen, am 1. und 2. Oktober mit der neuen Führung der GSM Nezavisnost ein gemeinsames Seminar durchzuführen, das sich u.a. mit der Frage der prekären Beschäftigung befasst.

MAZEDONIEN

&#160;Am 7. Oktober wird es in den Unternehmen Zusammenkünfte und an öffentlichen Plätzen Mahnwachen geben. Dank der Initiative der IMB-Mitgliedsorganisationen wird die FNPR (Russlands größte nationale Zentrale) zusätzlich zu den Slogans der Globalen Kampagne für menschenwürdige Arbeit auch Slogans gegen prekäre Beschäftigung einsetzen. Die Massenmedien sind dazu eingeladen, über die Kundgebung der russischen Gewerkschaften zu berichten.Das IMB-Regionalbüro hat zusammen mit der IUF, der VKT, der School of Workers' Democracy und dem Center of Social and Labour Rights einen Ausschuss eingerichtet, um  Ende November eine GUS-Konferenz über prekäre Arbeit und Erfahrungen bei deren Bekämpfung durchzuführen.

RUSSLAND

CNM/CUT<a href="http://www.cnmcut.org.br/verCont.asp?id=19529" title="http://www.cnmcut.org.br/verCont.asp?id=19529">http://www.cnmcut.org.br/verCont.asp?id=19529</a>  Die CNM/CUT wird im Rahmen der Aktivitäten zum Welttag für menschenwürdige Arbeit zusammen mit anderen Gewerkschaften und nationalen Zentralen am 7. Oktober am Arbeitermarsch in Brasilia teilnehmen.Auf dem Arbeitermarsch werden wir folgendes fordern:•·   Arbeitszeitverkürzung bei vollem Lohnausgleich;•·   Mindestlohn;•·   IAO-Übereinkommen 151 &amp; 158;•·   Billigung des PEC 438 gegen Sklavenarbeit;•·   Sofortige Rücknahme der Arbeitnehmerüberlassungsregelungen PL 4302/98 und PL 4330/04.

BRASILIEN

I samband med verksamheterna kring den globala aktionsdagen om anständigt arbete kommer CNM/CUT att tillsammans med andra fackförbund och huvudorganisationer delta i arbetarklassens marsch i huvudstaden Brasilia den 7 oktober.Några krav under marschen är de följande:•·   Kortare arbetstid, utan lönesänkningar•·   Minimilön•·   ILO-konventionerna 151 och 158•·   Ett godkännande av lagförslag PEC 438 mot slavarbete•·   Omedelbart upphävande av lag PL4302/98 och PL 4330/04 om utkontraktering

&#160;In Bielorussia, il REPAM prevede di:•·        Pubblicare un numero speciale del giornale &quot;Solidarietà dei lavoratori&quot; dedicato alla Giornata di azione globale contro il lavoro precario•·        Inviare una richiesta di autorizzazione dall'amministrazione di Minsk per il picchettaggio nazionale del REPAM il 7 ottobre 2009•·        Negoziare con BKDP e SPM sulla cooperazione per l'allestimento della Giornata globale di azione•·        Organizzare una tavola rotonda con i media•·        Distribuire gli opuscoli della FISM nelle vicinanze delle aziende e dei quartieri operai delle città industriali

BIELORUSSIA

&#160;In Belarus plant die REPAM folgendes:<ul><li>Veröffentlichung einer Sonderausgabe der Zeitung „Arbeitersolidarität&quot; zum globalen Aktionstag gegen prekäre Beschäftigung.</li><li>Einreichung eines Antrags bei der Stadtverwaltung von Minsk für die Genehmigung einer nationalen Mahnwache am 7. Oktober 2007.</li><li>Verhandlungen mit der BKDP und der SPM über die Zusammenarbeit bei den Vorbereitungen und der Durchführung des globalen Aktionstags.</li><li>Organisierung eines runden Tisches mit Vertretern der Massenmedien.</li><li>Verteilung der IMB-Broschüren in der Nähe von Unternehmen und in den Arbeitervierteln der Industriestädte.</li></ul>

BELARUS

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