ILC
International Newsletter
N.º 3
December
2nd 2002
Weekly information dossier published by the
International Liaison Committee -ILC,
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Contents:
Presentation
USA: Letter from the parents of an American soldier
The war is being prepared during the inspections
France: Strikes and demonstrationsNovember 26th
Switzerland: The threat of a postal strike stops the restructuring of
the classification centers
Great Britain: the fireworkers strike. Letters from the union and from
ILC
Pakistan: the Trade Union Federation holds its congress.
Korea: Maternity protection law violated
Communiqué from the Working Women Commission of the ILC
Presentation
This week we are publishing a letter directed to the ILC by Dave Patton,
a member of the National Bureau of Firefighters (FBU) of Great Britain,
on strike for their wages in a confrontation with Tony Blair's
government.
The ILC, in accordance with the traditions of international solidarity
of the labor movement, responds to this call to make all of its readers
in the world aware of the situation and calls on them to express their
solidarity with the British firefighters.
In France, Italy, Spain and in other countries in Europe the same
resistance is developing in defense of retirement, of public workers,
and for workers' rights.
This week we are publishing contributions from France, where on November
26th hundreds of thousands of workers went on strike and demonstrated
the unity of the workers and their organizations. We also have
contributions from Switzerland where the «threat of the postal workers
strike has stopped the plan to restructure the postal classification
centers».
In this situation, more than ever, the independence of trade union
organizations is vital. All of our correspondents will be interested in
the report from the Congress of the APTUF, the Trade Union Federation of
Pakistan, which pronounced itself against the process of war, for peace
between India and Pakistan, and against the war in Iraq. In this same
motion, the Congress declared that the defense of the right to organize
and freedom of association, the defense of workers rights and the
application of the conventions of the ILO, are, more than ever, on the
order of the day.
All of us can identify with the letters from the families of American
soldiers, which will help to broaden the movement throughout the entire
world to say: «No to the war on Iraq».
USA: Letter from the parents of an American soldier
Family, Friends and Colleagues, Brothers and Sisters:
We are parents with children in the military. We are in the very
beginning stages of hopefully forming an international organization of
families with relatives in the military to voice opposition to war in
Iraq.
We have both a special need to oppose war and a special role to play
because our relatives are among the human faces of this war.
Because military personnel do not have the freedom to voice their
opinion without facing consequences, we also hope to provide a network
for military personnel and their spouses to connect with others opposed
to war.
We are sharing this letter with you in hopes that we will find others
interested in joining us or lending support to this effort in some way.
We ask you to please distribute this email to friends, to other
activists and throughout the peace/ antiwar community. We urge
those who have family members in the military and who are opposed to the
war to contact us.
Please also read Nancy's and Charley's email below and the attached
letter about their son who is a Marine and is somewhere off the Horn of
Africa.
Love, peace and solidarity,
Jeffrey McKenzie
8127 West Avenue.
Gasport, NY 14067
Dear Brothers and Sisters, Friends and Colleagues:
As many of you know, and some of you don't, my son Joe is an Arab
language trained radio reconnaissance commando in the Marines. I
have attached a picture of Joe and me on the last weekend I saw him
before he shipped out to the Middle East. [Š] Joe was convinced as he
was leaving that he would end up in Iraq.
I don't want any of our sons and daughters to die for oil interests and
Bush's political gain. I certainly don't want Joe to get hurt, or
to have to hurt someone else, because George Bush's ego and his
financial backers won't allow a reasoned, multi-lateral approach to the
situation with Iraq. And I don't want innocent Iraqi women, men and
children to die. [Š]
So I want all of you to look at Joe's picture, those who know him and
those who don't. Or look at the pictures of all the others you
know who might be at risk - sons, daughters, nephews, nieces, friends
and acquaintances.
If you have spoken out against the war, Nancy and I want to thank you.
If you have been thinking about doing it, and haven't yet, we want to
urge you to take some action.
And if you think we should go to war, without trying every other
possibility, without better information, and without being able to
convince the rest of the world that there is a real threat, then we want
you to look at Joe's face and think it all through again. Ask the
questions again. This is not an abstract war they are talking about. Our
sons and daughters will die, and so will so many others.
Before Vietnam they told us we had to save the world. Tens of
thousands of Americans and many more Vietnamese died because too many
accepted what they had to say. Untold thousands of others have never
really recovered from what they had to live through in that war.
Please think. Please Act.
In Solidarity,
Charley Richardson and Nancy Lessin
12 Park Lane.
Jamaica Plain, MA 02130+
The war is being prepared during the inspections
"The inspectors have returned (..) The two in charge, Hans Blix and
Mohammed L. Baradei, have adopted a conveniently aggressive tone. A
critical time will occur on December 8th, when Baghdad must declare all
of its biological, chemical and nuclear activities. If this report is
not more honest than recent Iraqi declarations, military action will be
inevitable» (New York Times, November 29, 2002). The situation is clear:
in spite of what the Iraqis say or do, it is a question of «arms of
mass destruction.» If they don't find these arms, it is because they
have hidden them, and for this reason «military action» is inevitable.
Le Figaro (Thursday, November 29) dedicated a report to the maneuvers of
the 64th armored battalion of the North American Army stationed in
Kuwait, 60 kilometers from the Iraqi border.
Commander Dunlop declared, «For now, my priority is trainingÖNevertheless
- he added with a smile - starting now we are ready for whatever comesÖFor
ten years we have enjoyed a magnificent training camp and because of
this we have mad enormous progress; in addition, contrary to what some
have speculated, we are capable of taking action in winter as well as in
summer."
Press Extracts
France: November 26th: Unity is building up.
Workers are striking and demonstrating by the hundreds of thousands.
We here publish the analysis of the November 26th day of action by the
editorial board of "Informations Ouvrières", the weekly of
the Workers' Party.
What happened on November 26th? A powerful movement of unity was
expressed throughout the country. Despite the hurdles of every
description, through their strikes and demonstrations a huge number of
salaried people expressed their determination to unite around their
unifying demands: defending our statuses; down with regionalisation,
down with privatisation, and above all, defence of our retirement
pensions, 37,5 years for all, private as well as public sector workers.
At a staff rally in a comprehensive school a few days before the 26th, a
teacher was summarising the dominant feeling when he declared: "We
have to insist and call the national leadership into action for unity,
that is what we want. Otherwise, concerning retirement pension, nobody
will care about union membership and which union, we will lose
everything."
That is what was indeed expressed in the strikes and walk-outs of that
November 26th day of action. Marchers, whatever union they belonged to,
joined in chanting the slogans wherever they were shouted, especially
the one about 37,5 years of contribution for every worker, public sector
or private sector.
When demonstrators heard what they were being told on the very morning:
"The November 26th day of action is just for public services, not
for retirement pensions. Action in defence of retirement pension is
planned in January", they immediately reacted: "But Raffarin
and Fillon confirmed they were attacking retirement pensions right now.
January will be too late; We have to act now. Now we want unity for 37.5
years of contribution, no more, for all, private sector as well as
public sector workers".
We simply cannot allow the on-going bartering on expanding contribution
time to 40 years to draw full pension to continue.
Yes, the core issue is unity, to mirror the unity of the CGT and FO [two
major French trade unions] which in many places has already been forged
as a tool to defend retirement pensions and the 37.5 years of
contribution for all.
Switzerland
The threat of a postal strike stops the restructuring of the
classification centers
One month ago, when the employees in Geneva and Lausana demonstrated
against the REMA plan, they shouted the slogan: "Strike!",
while the Director of the Postal Service, Ulrich Gygi, declared: "A
few movements of protest aren't enough to make us change our
minds".
This past October 22nd, the leadership of the Postal Service announced
its decision to close the 18 existing centers and regroup them into
three new centers. Assemblies in the first centers rapidly pronounced
themselves in favor of a strike.
Today, on November 26th, the government finds itself obliged, in the
face of the strike threat, to withdraw the REMA plan. This is the result
of the postal workers mobilization: the 18 centers in the country voted
for a strike. The government had to revoke the authorization given to
the leadership of the Postal Service.
The management of the Postal Service maintains that its project has not
been questioned "in its principles". According to Liselotte
Spengler, spokesperson for the Postal Service, this step back "does
not mean the abandonment of the restructuring project".
Chritian Levrat, president of the union, declared: "The REMA
project for the Postal Service is definitely buried. This is a major
union victory."
(Excerpts of the Journal of the Union des Cercles pour une Politique
Ouvrière - november)
Great Britain: Letter from Daved Patton,member of the national
leadership of firefighters (FBU) to the International Liaison Committee
Dear Comrades:
Please find attached, a letter briefly explaining our current dispute,
and calling for support.
Should you require any further information, please do not hesitate to
contact me...
Dave Patton FBU Nec
Since 1978, Firefighters' pay has been linked to manual worker's pay.
However since this pay link was established 25 years ago, Firefighters'
wages have fallen in real terms, whilst the demands of the job have
increased in terms of skill levels, training required, and the number
and type of incidents attended. Indeed for several years the Government
itself has classed Firefighters in the professional category of workers,
whilst their pay levels have remained tied to that of manual workers.
In May 2001, and as a result of growing concerns over a number of years
that their pay did not reflect the professional job that they are
required to do, the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) commissioned 2 independent
research studies into the pay levels of firefighters. This research was
conducted by specialists in their fields, the Labour Research Department
and an Independent Employment Consultancy.
Our research firmly identifies the failure of the current formula to
reflect earnings growth and wages drift amongst the majority of the
full-time workforce as the main reason for its disappointing
performance. The dynamics of the skilled labour market are better
represented by the growth in average full-time earnings (pointing
perhaps to an 'average-plus' figure), or the upper quartile earnings of
all full-time workers than the male manual upper quartile.
By leaving behind the male/female and manual/non-manual distinctions
that seemed appropriate in 1978, fire fighters and Control staff ought
to be able to look forward with confidence to better pay rises in the
years ahead.
The New Earnings Survey should continue to provide a solid link to
earnings and wage drift in the wider labour market. Given the concerns
that have been voiced about the effects of including overtime (and
allowances) in the calculation, a formula based on the increase in upper
quartile 'basic' pay is one of the options that could be considered.
For the formula to fulfil its original purpose changes are needed. The
essential challenge is to get the 'fundamentals' right for the 21st
Century. If a better, more up-to-date and forward-looking link to New
Earnings Survey figures can be agreed, and the appropriate salary level
for a qualified fire fighter settled, then other issues, such as how
best to deal with overtime and other non-basic earnings, could perhaps
be looked at afresh.
This substantial independent research was used by the FBU to evidence
the current pay claim in May 2002. The pay claim was put to the National
Fire Service Employers (representing local councils who have
responsibility for running the fire service), in a professional manner;
credible independent evidence which clearly showed that firefighters
were being paid the wrong rate for the job.
Throughout the period of the pay negotiations, the Government stated
that the correct rate of pay for Firefighters and Emergency Fire Control
Operators was a matter to be agreed between the FBU and the Fire Service
Employers. However whilst publicly stating that the pay claim was
nothing to do with them, the Government were working behind the scenes,
and as long ago as July 2002, the Government effectively blocked a pay
offer by the Fire Service Employers which could have formed the basis of
a negotiated settlement without the need for strike action.
In September 2002, two months after blocking a pay offer by the Fire
Service Employers, the Government announced that it would set up its own
'review'. The Government and the Fire Service Employers continually
state that this is the way forward in the pay dispute. However the terms
of reference of their review relate not directly to the pay claim, but
to the future management and organisation of the fire service. The 3
Government-appointed people who are conducting the review have admitted
that they have little or no knowledge or experience of the fire service.
They are expected to conduct this wide-ranging review by December this
year, when all fire service professionals know that to carry out such a
detailed and wide-ranging review properly, in order to improve the fire
service, would take between 3-5 years. The Government told their review
team that any recommendations on pay levels for Firefighters and
Emergency Fire Control Operators had to be made not based on the true
value of the firefighters' job (as per the presented union research),
but against what the Government termed 'affordability'. This was
following an announcement by the Government that there was no money for
the pay increase anyway!
Firefighters and Emergency Fire Control Operators have refused to get
involved in this Government review. In their experience the Government
will only accept truly independent research if there are no cost
implications for them. Whenever it appears that independent research
will mean increased spending, then no matter what the benefits,
Firefighters have seen the Government trying to shift the goal posts at
the last minute.
Firefighters have been watching the Government's antics all year with
dismay, and simply aren't prepared to put up with it any longer. That is
why they have voted reluctantly, but by nine-to-one, to strike - they
see no other option. The necessary independent research to agree pay
levels has already been conducted, but is being ignored by the
Government in favour of their 'own enquiry'. If it was as simple as the
Government are spinning, you would not have seen such a huge vote to
strike by the people who know what's really going on. The strike is a
course of action which firefighters have been forced into, and quite
literally it makes them feel physically sick.
The Government has deliberately delayed dealing with a professionally
presented and evidenced pay claim until the last minute, and have forced
firefighters into taking strike action. They have ignored independent
research in favour of their own 'enquiry'. This is a desperate attempt
to spin the real issue, and to pull off some kind of PR coup, trying to
turn the public against the very firefighters who day in and day out are
prepared to risk their lives to protect the public.
We sat down to negotiate with our employers at 11:00 hrs on the 21st
November and around 20 hours later we finally agreed a draft statement
which both sides felt would be the basis for further talks and which we
felt would allow us to postpone a proposed 8 days of strikes. Just _
after that, the deal was destroyed by the government in a cynical
blocking move. The Deputy Prime Minister was apparently not prepared to
even look at the draft agreement before 09:00 hrs, which was the time of
our strike action commencing. We have to wonder at the motivation behind
this move, and can only presume that there are those in Government who
are seeking a confrontation with the Fire Brigades Union. Since then,
the entire membership of the Fire Brigades Union has been on strike, and
that strike is solid.
It is worth noting that we have given the government an undertaking that
in the event of a major disaster, we would be prepared to return to
work. However, even without such an agreement, our members have been
leaving picket lines to carry our rescues where there was a threat to
life.
John Prescott, the Deputy Prime Minister, speaking in the House Of
Commons, stated that thousands of firefighters' jobs would be scrapped
as part of any pay deal. Mr Prescott told MPs that because 20 per cent
of firefighters were due to retire over the next three years, there was
"ample opportunity to discuss how you might deal with the more
efficient utilisation of labour without redundancies or sackings".
Nick Raynsford, the Local Government minister, said the Government
wanted to create a leaner service.
We therefore call on the wider labour movement to back our action for a
professional wage for our members, and against the threat to our
industry.
We further ask that messages of support be sent, and that any such
correspondence is copied to the Prime Minister.
Letter from Daniel Gluckstein
Coordinator, International Liaison Committee of Workers and Peoples
To Andy Gillchrist FBU General Secretary, Dave Patton FBU NEC
Dear Comrades,
Thank you for the letter sent to the ILC by comrade Dave.
First of all , on behalf of the ILC, I wish to salute the determination
of the FBU members, at every level, to defend their right to organise
and negotiate on a national collective basis, in the face of provocation
by the Blair government.
Your report clearly illustrates what the European Union and all the
governments at their service call "modernisation ",
which is nothing but thousands of job-cuts as part of a
restructuring designed to impose greater flexibility in working
practices and ultimately to do away with national collective bargaining
rights codified in ILO conventions.
In your country as well as in every other European countries submitted
to the dictates of the European union, the immediate aim of such
restructuring is to drive down labour costs in the name of
"affordability ".
It is exactly the same situation in France where public sector workers
and pensioners are facing the strangling of public services
and of retirement pensions by the application of the Maastricht budget
restrictions and the Brussels directives.
Last week on November 26, workers with their trade unions went on strike
and and demonstrated against similar plans.
The same resistance is taking place in Spain, Italy, Germany, and other
countries throughout Europe against the same dictates, against the same
directives.
It is with the aim to help this resistance against the Eurpean Union
policies that the ILC supports the convention of a European
workers Conference to take place in 2003.
Your report also shows that in your struggle for decent pay you are
confronted to interference in the national bargaining process by the
Blair Government.
Therefore, it is also a struggle in defence of ILO
conventions and especially ILO convention securing the right to
negociate with employers.
As you know the ILC organises every year in Geneva , in the month of
June, an international conference of trade unionists in defence of ILO
conventions and trade union rights.
In the spirit of this annual conference , and in the
traditions of the international labour movement of working class
solidarity, the ILC will be happy to respond to your call on the wider
labour movement to back your action by circulating
your report in the countries where we have correspondents and by
calling for the widest possible expressions of support for
your struggle , which is the struggle of us all.
An injury to one is an injury to all.
Yours fraternally,
Daniel Gluckstein Coordinator International Liaison Committee of Workers
and Peoples
November 30th 2002
Pakistan: In order to carry out the demands of the workers, the
Pakistani Trade Union Federation holds its congress.
The Congress of the APTUF (Pakistani Trade Union Federation) was held in
an industrial zone of Gulberg on November 5, 2002, presided over by
Gulzar Ahmed Chaudhry.
This conference was held in a situation in which the parliamentary
elections which just took place did not allow any political party to
gain a majority that would permit the formation of an independent
government. The President of the Republic has made a decree which
permits the parliamentary members to vote against their own party,
nevertheless, the political uncertainty persists. In spite of the
prohibition on demonstrations and meetings adopted as a result of this
situation, the APTUF decided to maintain its conference. It made that
decision in spite of the pressures and threats exerted by the
governmental authorities. The mission of the APTUF, in holding this
conference, is to carry out the demands of the workers and to wage a
protest that will bring their situation and the problems that they face
to the attention of the new legislators, and which will put pressure on
them to respond to the demands of the workers and the population in
general after the formation of the government.
APTUF was able to hold an impressive conference with 1,400 labor
delegates participating from all over the country. The majority of the
participants wore red caps. They have printed posters and pamphlets and
have posted them on the buildings in the industrial zone and in the
major cities in Pakistan. The main result of this meeting was to analyze
the successes and failures of the APTUF in the course of its actions
over the past year. Contributions were also circulated among the
delegates to inform each other of the activities and the struggles waged
in the last year in order to improve the fate of the working class.
Two delegates per province were able to intervene on the situation of
the workers and make proposals to improve the work of the federation and
its strategy for overcoming obstacles. The speakers concentrated on the
miserable working conditions for workers, the rise in prices, and
emphasized the importance of holding meetings to fight against the
acceleration of price increases, against privatizations, the budgetary
restrictions of the government, and the effective absence of a policy in
favor of the work recently announced.
Directing himself to the participants, G.A. Ghaudry explained that the
uncertain politics of the government had submerged the workers and the
people of Pakistan in misery, that the prices of basic consumer goods
have risen without any restrictions while wages have been frozen. He
declared clearly that the APTUF rejects the social policies and the
Decree on Industrial Relations (IRO), which intends to deny workers the
rights that were hard won by their struggle and sacrifice.
He insisted as well that the Indian and Pakistani governments stop the
process of war and initiate a dialogue for the maintenance of peace,
something that is essential for the progress of the workers and the
people. He also condemned the fascist foreign policy of the USA and the
attack against Iraq and Palestine. The people there have not only lost
lives but all of their resources for survival. Millions of workers are
laid off in the name of the struggle against terrorism. Governments that
call themselves democratic have also introduced legislation that will no
doubt have ominous consequences for freedom of association and freedom
of collective bargaining. The unions in Pakistan are already targets of
repression. The new laws deprive the workers of petroleum and gas, and
deny miners and social workers the right to form unions, while millions
of workers in Pakistan already lack any right to form unions or to have
collective bargaining contracts. The new legislation also reduces the
rights of the farm workers. These laws prohibit the courts from
punishing bosses for the violation of labor laws. It is a totally
anti-labor policy; one which we reject completely. He insists in an
appeal to the President that he not sign these new orders which would
establish the laws of responsibility of the Parliament. He accused the
government of increasing the wages and the privileges of the members of
the National Assembly and of the Parliament by more than 100%, while
nothing was being done for the most dispossessed levels of society.
Rubina Jamil explained that, since independence, the elite in power have
exploited the entire nation, adopting laws and creating a situation
which makes the very survival of the population difficult. She
emphasized as well the tendencies towards the exploitation of the
workers and expressed her distress in the face of the 2.5 million job
positions being eliminated in various sectors of the economy and
industry, in the name of restructuring and rationalization, while the
bosses grant themselves ample salaries. She criticized the submission of
the government to the dictates of the IMF and the World Bank in the
defining of its policies. In a situation in which insecurity is
developing and the threat of war growing throughout the region, numerous
investors have closed their companies and factories. Rubina Jamil
suggested that the workers should form their own political party in
order to gain representation in the legislative bodies and be able to
formulate laws that would improve the fate of the dispossessed. She put
emphasis on the need for the government to adopt the appropriate
measures for the application of the basic conventions of the ILO.
Aima Mahmood informed the congress of the miserable situation of women
workers and suggested that the unions push for equal participation of
women workers in union activities and roused them to wage a common
struggle against the capitalist policies which oppress men and men. She
expressed her distress over the very limited application of labor laws
and protested in detail against the sexual harassment of women deprived
of their fundamental rights, such as the right to maternity protection,
among others. She criticized the administrative expenses of the
government and demanded that the government designate 5% of the budget
to education and health.
The speakers who intervened in this conference were Nazir Gulzar, Rab
Nawaz (Rawalpindi), Junaid Awan (Karachi- SIND), Akram Baluch
(Hyderabad-SIND), Faqeer Mohammed (Peshawar-NWFP), Mohammed Rafique
(Sheikhupura), Noor Mohammed (Faislabad), Sabir Hussain (Wah Cantt),
Mohammed Zaman (Quetta-Bluchistan), Fazal-e-Wahid, Shabbir Hissain Shah,
Mmes Nusrat (Avocat), and Ghulam Fatima of the Workers Front of Brick
Factories of Pakistan (BKWFP), who also spoke on the occasion.
The conference adopted the following demands in the defense of the needs
of the workers:
- Minimum wage for unskilled workers equivalent to 10 grams of gold
- Apart from the military and the police, all workers must have the
right to form unions and the right to collective bargaining negotiation.
The social policies should be defined by the application of the
Conventions of the ILO.
- The law prohibiting child labor and slavery must be applied in its
spirit and its letter.
- The capitalists who violate labor laws should not have impunity.
- The workers in the brick factories, in agriculture and in the informal
sector should have access to all workers rights and the labor laws
should be applied to them, just as with the carpet workers.
Korea: Maternity protection law violated in many workplaces
One year after the enactment of the Maternity Protection Law last
November, mothers' workplace rights are still being extensively
violated, although some progress has been made
The Korea Health and Medical Workers' Union (KHMWU) yesterday said most
of its members subject to maternity protection haven't been able to
claim their rights granted by the law.
Seventy percent of workers surveyed in 88 hospitals replied that the
ratio of people taking maternity leaves remained at a level similar to
before the law was adopted.
Only 34 percent of workplaces banned pregnant women working night
shifts, which the law forbids. Also, 18.9 percent of the workplaces made
female workers sign an agreement to work in the evenings.
Most employees, or 69.4 percent, provided no extra labor when the
employees took the mandatory three-month birth leaves, meaning
colleagues had to shoulder the additional work.
"Almost all the workplaces violated the Maternity Protection Law,
but the Labor Ministry is doing little supervision" - said Lee
Joo-ho of the KHMWU. Most workers hadn't been aware that the ministry
conducted monitoring from May to August, he added.
The Labor Ministry also conceded the scant use of maternity leaves and
other violations of the law, promising to enhance its scrutiny.
"We provided a total of 2 billion won to 2,516 people who took c
the childcare leaves (which are different from the three-month mandatory
maternity leave), a number lower than our expectations"· - a
ministry press release stated yesterday.
It remarked, however, that the situation has shown improvement,
"and the workers are showing more recognition of their rights, as
in the case of a woman who sued her employer because of a Stillbirth due
to extra work and night shifts."
Correspondent
Communiqué from the Working Women Commission of the ILC
The International Women's Conference for the defense and recovery of
ILO's 103 convention protecting maternity rights, for working women's
rights decided to send a delegation to the ILO.
This delegation was received by ILO officials. Later, Mr. Manuel Simon,
chairman of the office for the workers activities in the International
Labour Office, sent an answer stating that ILO convention number 3 shall
never be suppressed. It is good news.
Nevertheless, worldwide, under the pressure of IMF, European Union,
governments, women are facing an onslaught on the maternity protection.
The Working Women Comission of ILC invites all its correspondents to
inform about the concrete situation of women in each country concerning
the maternity protection.
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