Morning Star.png Unions Unite Across the World to Protest against Exploitation James Tweedie, The Morning Star, London, 8 October 2015 Trade unions around the world mobilised for yesterday's Day for Decent Work protests, demanding an "end to corporate greed." More than a hundred events forming part of the annual global day of action had been registered on the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) special website (2015.wddw.org) by yesterday morning. This year's focus was on ending corporate greed, eliminating insecure work and formalising casual jobs, as well as winning a statutory living wage for workers. ITUC general secretary Sharan Burrow said: "We need to transform the exploitative supply-chain model which robs workers while filling the coffers of multinational companies, many of which are culpable of the most egregious exploitation including the use of modern slavery. "We will show our determination to build a better world for working families and for the generations to come," she added. Belgian trade unions brought Brussels to a standstill with a march against their government's austerity drive. Manufacturing unions held events across the globe to demand an end to precarious work, organised by global union federation IndustriALL. Sea of Red In South Africa, trade union federation COSATU, backed by the South African Communist Party, turned city streets nationwide into a sea of red with their protests. COSATU communications Officer Norman Mampane said the federation was expecting 56,000 people to demonstrate in Johannesburg alone. "COSATU has been a shield for workers for many years," he noted. "We are going to the streets to demand the end to labour issues." Central to its list of demands was "affordable, accessible and efficient" public transport. "Thousands of people are killed on our roads each year and thousands of workers lose their jobs because of the unreliability of the public transport system," a union statement read. Another key demand was for action to address the threat of massive job losses in the crucial mining and steel industries, where falling global prices threaten tens of thousands of redundancies. The ANC government has held talks with industry and unions over the issue in recent months. Unions also want a swift roll-out of the proposed National Health Insurance programme and a national minimum wage. From: <http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-b3dc-Unions-unite-across-the-world-to- protest-against-exploitation#.VhXwIvmqqko> http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-b3dc-Unions-unite-across-the-world-to-p rotest-against-exploitation#.VhXwIvmqqko -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
