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Attività dell'OS KOVO connesse alla Giornata di azione globale contro il lavoro precario <h1 style="margin: 12pt 0cm 3pt 18.7pt;text-indent: -18pt;text-align: left" align="left">·         L'informativa sulla Seconda domanda comune FEM "PER UN'OCCUPAZIONE PIÙ SICURA, CONTRO IL LAVORO PRECARIO" è inclusa nella Guida Metodologica per la contrattazione aziendale collettiva</h1>·          Promozione della Seconda domanda comune FEM nella Guida Metodologica, settimanale OS KOVO Kovák, presso la sede centrale di OS KOVO e le riunioni del Consiglio (incluso <a href="http://www.precariouswork.eu/">www.precariouswork.eu</a>)·         Cooperazione per il film della FEM "Occupazione precaria" per la Conferenza della FEM sulla contrattazione collettiva ·          Proposte di nuovi accordi collettivi di categoria  (Seconda domanda comune FEM)·          Intervista con J. Souček, Vice presidente di OS KOVO sul settimanale Kovák relativamente alla campagna globale contro il lavoro precario ·          Distribuzione dei manifesti ed opuscoli della campagna globale della FISM ·         Pubblicazione sul settimanale Kovák della Risoluzione della FISM sul lavoro precario a fronte della crisi economica adottata dal Congresso della FISM ·         Informativa sulla Seconda domanda comune FEM a Sondy -- Rivista di tematiche sociali·         Integrazione della Seconda domanda comune FEM e delle tematiche relative al lavoro precario nelle attività educative e formative di OS KOVO ·         Inviata ai parlamentari la Dichiarazione di OS KOVO, adottata dalla Direzione centrale di OS KOVO e dal Consiglio, sul lavoro precario inviata ai parlamentari, ai partiti politici ed ai candidati alle elezioni generali ·         Partecipazione attiva alla Conferenza della FEM sulla contrattazione collettiva a Madrid·          Opuscolo speciale dell'OS KOVO nella serie "OS KOVO consiglia, informa, raccomanda" sul lavoro precario

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In Belgien wird am Freitag, dem 9. Oktober in Brüssel eine Sitzung und eine Demonstration stattfinden (am ‚Tour &amp; Taxis' in der nähe des Brüsseler Nordbahnhofs). An dieser Veranstaltung werden mindestens 2.000 aktive Gewerkschafter teilnehmen. Die Aktivitäten werden von den beiden größten Verbänden ACV-CSC und ABVV-FGTB unter dem Motto „menschenwürdige Arbeit gegen die Krise&quot; organisiert. Die beiden Gewerkschaften werden der belgischen Regierung ihre Prioritäten darlegen.

BELGIEN

BRAZIL: When the employers' side began to make excuses during the annual round of negotiations on pay, metalworkers organised rallies, protests and demonstrations. This struggle by IMF affiliates CNM and CNTM has resulted in major gains for metalworkers.After a series of demonstrations and protests by workers, FEM-CUT/SP, affiliated to CNM/CUT, negotiated major gains for the 53,000 metalworkers employed by Volkswagen, Ford, GM, Mercedes-Benz, Scania, Toyota and Honda in Sao Bernardo and Taubate. Employers agreed to a 6.53 per cent pay rise and agreed to pay an additional R$2,800 (US$1570) bonus. The 6.53 per cent takes account of the annual inflation rate of 4.44 per cent, based on the National Consumer Price Index (INPC) and includes a real increase of 2 per cent. The agreement also included a series of social benefits.Meanwhile, 6,000 metalworkers at Renault-Nissan and Volvo, affiliated to CNTM/FS unions, won the biggest pay rise in the country's manufacturing sector this year, according to the trade union research institute DIEESE. They won a real increase of 3% plus the 4.44 inflation rate, totalling 7.57 per cent, and a bonus payment of R$2,000 (US$ 1,110) for each worker. &quot;The pay rise won by the Curitiba Metalworkers' Union for Renault and Volvo workers is important and will have a positive influence on other negotiations that are scheduled to take place over the next six months&quot; said Miguel Torres, president of the São Paulo and Mogi das Cruzes Metalworkers' Union and vice president of Força Sindical.Valter Sanches, CNM General Secretary, said that the agreement in the auto sector &quot;is a major victory after a year in which Brazil, especially the metalworking sector, was affected by the international crisis. The sector has lost approximately 210,000 jobs since October 2008, after a gain of 700,000 since 2003.&quot; Sanches said that at the beginning of the year, metalworkers took the lead in negotiations with employers and the government about how to deal with the crisis and avoid job losses.

The FEM-CUT/SP, affiliated to CNM/CUT, and the Greater Curitiba Metalworkers' Union, affiliated to the CNTM/FS, have won a pay rise that will have a positive influence on other negotiations in the sector.

Brazilian metalworkers win major gains in annual pay round

1. CGT-FO CGT FO will be holding an International Conference on the 7 October 2009 as part of their National Confederation Committee, which will focus on discussions with foreign unionists about the Economic crisis and International Union Action.   On the 7 October FO will also be preparing for their National Conference that meets end of October. The goal of this conference is to coordinate and reinforce union intervention for the defence of employee rights in the face of the economic crisis. 2.  On 7 October as part of a joint strategy five French IMF affiliates CFDT, &quot;Force Ouvrière&quot; de la Métallurgie - FO, FGMM-CFDT, CGT, CFTC and CFE-CGC, together with FSU, Solidaires and UNSA are going to hold in common meetings, rallies, gatherings and press conferences, industrial actions, debates and meetings with union officials all over France.

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Der Metallgewerkschaftsbund in Montenegro druckt eine serbische Version des Posters und der Broschüre und wird diese an die Mitglieder verteilen (vielleicht mit einem Begleitschreiben). Zudem wird anlässlich der Kampagne eine Pressekonferenz organisiert und das Informationsmaterial den Medien vorgestellt. Da der 7. Oktober der Welttag für menschenwürdige Arbeit ist, wird unser Dachverband an diesem Tag etwas organisieren. Die Metallgewerkschaft wird zudem die globale Kampagne des IMB vorstellen.

MONTENEGRO

Medlemsförbunden i Indonesien samarbetar för att anordna stora demonstrationer den 4 oktober (söndag). Indonesiska versioner av IMFs material håller på att tas fram.

INDONESIEN

VASAS plant derzeit in einigen großen Städten sowie in Budapest die Durchführung von Flashmob-Aktionen. Junge Gewerkschaftsmitglieder sollen dabei etwas Außergewöhnliches durchführen, um die Passanten auf das Problem aufmerksam zumachen. Diese jungen ‚Darsteller' sollen T-Shirts und Mützen mit dem Logo des IMB bzw. der Gewerkschaft (VASAS) tragen.Die IMB-Broschüren sind ins Ungarische übersetzt worden und werden vor Ort gedruckt und verteilt.

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AUSTRALIA: Building on the recently adopted steel climate change policy (Tokyo 2008) the International Metalworkers' Federation's steel department held its second climate change meeting on March 24-25 in the lead up to Copenhagen 2009. The most widely known global agreement trying to cut global emissions, Kyoto is approaching the end of its life and in Copenhagen, Denmark, governments will try to make a new deal on emission cuts between 2012 and 2020. An international approach to tackling climate change is essential and steel unions have called for an international response that avoids unfair trade conditions and guarantees a level playing field. The argument that the world faces a serious threat from environmental degradation is no longer open to serious challenge. At the IMF meeting in Australia, steel unions from 5 regions held discussions with business leaders, governmental ministers, trade union partners, think tanks and environmental NGO's in order to build partnerships and further develop the IMF's approach on this vitally important issue. Representatives from the Chinese All Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU) were also invited to attend but unfortunately were unable to participate. The outcomes of the meeting were as follows:<ul><li>IMF will promote a metalworkers' position in the International arena including Copenhagen 2009.</li><li>IMF will produce some practical materials for distribution amongst affiliates.</li><li>The IMF Steel section will present a resolution on this issue to the IMF Congress in May 2009.</li><li>IMF will continue to build relationships with other interested parties.</li><li>IMF will develop strategies to engage with national and international agencies such as UNFCCC, OECD, ILO, etc.</li></ul>

Metal unions meet in Australia to craft strategy for enhanced engagement in the climate change debate in preparation for Copenhagen 2009.

Climate Change- Taking the power back

The IMF Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean has been located in Montevideo, Uruguay, since March 2008. It represents trade unions in many Latin American countries in the metalworking, mining, automotive, steel, electrical and electronics, aerospace, shipbuilding, mechanical engineering sectors. The IMF Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean represents affiliates in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Curaçao,  Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, the Dominican Republic, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay and Venezuela. The regional office team provides advice and education services on trade union issues and organises sector activities and meetings for members of affiliated unions in the metalworking and related industries with a view to contributing to the development of international trade union policy and international solidarity, promoting the involvement of unions in trade agreements and analysing trade union structures in order to improve them so they are able to meet the challenges they face today.In addition, the office channel&#039;s international experience on labour and trade union rights to trade union leaders during disputes with multinational companies and governments.The regional office also implements projects and activities in cooperation with trade unions, especially in the automotive, mining and metalworking sectors.The regional office has staff for financial administration, education and projects, the organisation of conferences and meetings and communications and press. The regional office has been previously located in Caracas, Venezuela; San Jose, Costa Rica; Mexico City and Santiago, Chile.The Regional Officer is Jorge Almeida, an Argentinean national, a trade union leader in the automotive industry from a young age and specialist in the area of trade union education.The regional office has a quarterly publication called Mundo Metal, which reports on the activities, programmes and projects of the IMF and its affiliates and discusses issues of regional importance.

GLOBAL: After years of strong criticism by trade unions, the World Bank has finally instructed its staff to stop using the labour indicators of its &quot;Doing Business&quot; flagship publication that gives higher rating to countries with the lowest workers&#039; protection. These have been used to push developing countries to adopt strict labour market deregulation policies as recipe for development and conditions for eligibility for loans and grants.At a time of global crisis, with the institutions of finance being severely criticised as part of the causes of the present problems that hit most severely workers in all countries of the South and the North, the World Bank is making a significant move that, if concretely translated quickly and effectively in its policy recommendations, can mark an important change with positive effects on employment policies in developing countries. The World Bank communiqué issued on April 27 stresses the importance of &quot;development goals&quot; such as &quot;social safety nets to shield vulnerable parts of society from intolerable risk and protection of rights for workers and households as well as for firms&quot;.The Bank is also scaling up its work on social safety nets, on &quot;issues of access to benefits such as unemployment insurance and social security&quot;. With regard to the Doing Business indicators, the Bank will adjust the scoring in its annual report &quot;regarding provisions for fixed term workers and standards for severance payment, mandatory days of rest and night work and holidays, and minimum wage levels, in order to accord favourable scores to worker protection policies that comply with the letter and spirit of the relevant ILO Conventions, recognizing that well-designed worker protections are of benefit to the society as a whole&quot;. Furthermore &quot;a guidance note will be issued clarifying that the indicators do not represent World Bank policy and should not be used as a basis for policy advice or in any country program documents that outline or evaluate the development strategy or assistance program for a recipient country.  The note will emphasize the importance of regulatory approaches that facilitate the creation of more formal sector jobs with adequate safeguards for employees&#039; rights and that guard against the shifting of risk from firms to workers and low-income families.....We will convene a working group including representatives from the ILO, as the international standard setting body, trade unions, businesses, academics and legal experts.....to advice on revising the EWI and on the establishment of a new worker protection indicator.......and on labour market and employment protection issues -- with a view to creating regulations that help build robust jobs with adequate protection in the formal sector that can withstand future crises.     The development of a new worker protection indicator (WPI).......could cover such matters as how a country is adhering to core labour standards and using law, regulation and other instruments of government to ensure that workers are adequately protected, including in the event of unemployment&quot;.The International Metalworkers Federation will actively monitor, together with the other global unions, the translation of these welcome developments into practice.

After years of strong criticism by trade unions, the World Bank has finally instructed its staff to stop using the labour indicators of its "Doing Business" flagship publication that gives higher rating to countries with the lowest workers' protection.

Surprise: labour market deregulation is no recipe for development!

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