Their starting point is a very common findingThe metropolis is not so in its death throes1 of its operating income EUR 157 millionThe darker more dangerous it is despairObjective be ready for economic recoveryNow a stage of consultation is planned for this new ZAC08 while the Nikkei has appreciated by 6I the do not accept losing control of the groupAmaya is currently the best Indian in LondonStrong increase since October 23 the price of UThe International Trade Union Confederation is born. It remains her only to find a hymn... "The international" well was sung at the end of the Congress of the International Confederation of free trade unions (ICFTU), social democratic, but it is not the cup of tea of the Christian trade unionists of the World Confederation of labour (WCL). On the other hand, no problem for the seat: it will be Brussels, where already resided two founding organizations. On the management team, designated at the end of the Congress, its composition is already widely known. It between the mark of the General Secretary of the ITUC, its strong man imbalance, will be former General Secretary of the ICFTU Guy Ryder and its President will be former President of the ICFTU...
"Change globalization".
But the essential lies elsewhere. As explains the Secretary General of the CFDT François Chérèque, "was the most simple, it is now that begins". The ITUC will indeed be confronted with major challenges. Many speakers have said in the Gallery of the Palace of the Congress of Vienna, unification Union carried out in the CSI aims to weigh more to "change globalization." Remains whether it will stay in the incantation or succeed to give substance to this claim. To do this, he must make the synthesis between the a priori divergent interests, at least in the short term, countries developed, emerging and developing employees. "One cannot stop relocations, but can be put in place of the rules of the game to ensure that these changes are acceptable", explained yesterday Guy Ryder. But it must convince its members to resist protectionist temptations when moving on to practical work.
The ITUC will be highly anticipated on this point, as has been pointed out by the intervention in duplex from Boston of the Director General of the WTO. Irony of the technique, Pascal Lamy had sent a written message quite flat, inviting to "work to a greater coherence between trade and health, trade and world of labour, trade and environment". The time was obviously not this week, to the subjects that get angry, but they will undoubtedly arise when negotiations will be re-launched in the WTO. In the meantime, reports of forces with the CSI will have started to emerge. The AFL-CIO American, which dominated the ICFTU, is weakened by a major split.
Show its capacity for action
A new pole has emerged around South Africa, the Brazil and the South Korea, guided by geographical criteria, but by a common interest to be heard. And the European Confederation of trade unions, who will find the Russian unions in a pan-European, is bent on not losing its autonomy.
Beyond the role of the institutional interlocutor, the CSI will have to show its capacity for action on the ground that the principle of an international action day makes already some doubts members. The relationships that will establish with regional structures and professional federations will therefore be a major issue. Geographically, the main issue remains that of the merger between ex-CISL and ex - CMT which must be carried out by a year on the American continent. On the professional level, a "global union" was created, involving 10 of the 11 federations. The powerful Federation of metallurgy has indeed declined the offer. For the moment at least.
