10TH
INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF SOUTHERN INITIATIVE ON GLOBALISATION AND TRADE UNION
RIGHTS (SIGTUR)
Perth,
Australia – from 2nd to 6th December 2013
Com. M.
Krishnan, Secretary General, Participated
Against the everyday reality of the human
social and psychological destructiveness of Neo-liberal capitalist
Restructuring, one hundred and twenty (120) trade union activists from fourteen
countries across four continuents in the Global South, representing democratic unions
from Brazil, Argentina, South Africa, Nigeria, Rwanda, Japan, India, Burma, Thailand,
Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, South Korea and Australia gathered in Perth,
Western Australia from 2nd to 6th of December 2013.
The five days program of workshops and
plenary debates focused on four issues: - (1) Challenging the power of global
corporations (2) Public sector restructuring (3) Transport and Communications
and (4) Trade Union education and empowering workers in the age of neo-liberalism.
The congress endorsed continuing to build and strengthen global solidarity
networks and actions in the above mentioned four areas. The congress
recommended that noting the intense anti-privatisation and other public sector
struggles which are presently being fought on all continents within the SIGTUR
network, priority shall be given to intensifying these struggles and SIGTUR
coordinators shall prioritize this defined objective. Further the congress
noted development and emergence of global campaign against Trans-National
Corporations (TNCs) by the SIGTUR participants and leading role played by them.
Congress recommended that SIGTUR
participants shall work strongly for country to country and union to union initiatives
and solidarity actions that intensify these campaigns. Congress decided that a
continuing exchange of ideas on union education on workplace issues and
political economy should be promoted across the network as part of a process of
further developing the social and political consciousness of workers.
The congress was addressed by Com. Ged
Kearney, ACTU President, Com. Christy Cain, State Secretary & National Vice
President of Maritime Union of Australia (MUA), Com. Paddy Crumlin, National
Secretary of the MUA & International President of International Transport
Federation (ITF). There were II sessions consisting of workshops and plessary
sessions.
The Indian delegation consisting of 13
leaders of various organizations was lead by Com. Amanulla Khan, All India
President of the All India Insurance Employees Association. Com. M. Krishnan,
Secretary General represented the Confederation.
SIGTUR’S
OBJECTIVE
“Step by step we will build a globally
integrated labour movement in the south, in the most fundamental battle of our
era. In this we represent the hopes and aspirations of generations to come;
hopes for a just global economy providing security for all in society; for a planet
whose fine tuned ecology is protected before all else and for world society
that relegates the weapons and methods of warfare to the dustbin of history,
where they truly belong. In each of these struggles we will never cease to
advance, for while we have breath in our bodies we will remain committed to
what is best and to what drives our movement: a solidarity which will last
forever”.
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