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Global Unions at Genoa G8 Summit: A new vision and action needed for the global economy (550 words) |
 | Global health epidemics continue to rip apart communities as the ecological balance tips into the red zone, at the very same time that the US Administration has shredded the Kyoto protocol. |
| To address this, the Global Unions will call for a reorientation of policy by the G8 leaders, in order to achieve an expanded programme of comprehensive development assistance, debt write-off and reform of international financial institutions, allied with new health and education initiatives to boost development prospects. |
| Global Unions believe that comprehensive reforms of the international trading system are needed as part of an integrated development strategy which should be addressed swiftly by world leaders to make globalisation work for working families, based on respect for labour and wider human rights. |
| International Transport Workers' Federation: Tsunami reconstruction: Global Unions' fact-finding mission identifies ... (661 words) |
| The local unions also stressed the need for the international trade union movement to assist them in the fight against the erosion of workers' rights and the danger of more ruthless exploitation of both adult and child workers. |
| Having witnessed the difficulties on the ground in ensuring that aid distribution reaches the most needy, the mission has confirmed the conviction of the ICFTU and its Global Union partners that pressure must be exerted to ensure that the aid is managed and distributed in a totally transparent and equitable manner. |
| The Global Unions group is continuing with its efforts to press the international community to honour its reconstruction aid commitments and ensure that priority is given to a sustainable reconstruction of the economies and public infrastructures. |
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