Open World Conference of Workers

In Defense of Trade Union Independence & Democratic Rights

Building the Caribbean Conference

December 2002 

(on the basis of the Roseau Declaration - April 4, 2002)

Report on the July 11-12, 2002 meeting in Guadeloupe
Conclusions statement

On Thursday and Friday, July 11-12, 2002, representatives from the Movement for Workers and Peasants Party of Guadeloupe (MPTPG), the Workers and Peasants Alliance of Martinique, the National Workers Union (NWU) of Dominica, and the Dominica Trade Union (DTU) met in Guadeloupe at the invitation of the MPTPG with the aim of giving a concrete continuation to the proposal to hold a Caribbean Conference that was submitted at the April 4, 2002, meeting in Roseau (Dominica) with those same organisations.

A solidarity gathering was held at the striking workers' picketlines at Chronopost and SO.TRA.PEINT. A fruitful discussion was organised with UGTG trade union section representatives from GADDARKHAN enterprises. These enterprises are also established in Dominica, where the workers are represented by a DTU section. That discussion will lead to mutual information initiatives and solidarity between UGTG and DTU unionists from those same enterprises.

A meeting was organised with UGTG leadership which declared itself to be in total agreement with the conference objectives such as set out in April 4, 2002 "Roseau Declaration" and expressed a principled agreement, in accordance with its congress mandate, to totally be one of the partners of that conference.

The following decisions were taken:
… The conference will take place on Thursday 12 and Friday 13 December 2002 in Guadeloupe;
… It will be set on the basis of the financial independence; it means self-financing of all delegates;
… It will be within the framework of April 4, 2002 "Roseau Declaration";
… The first issue of "Caribbean Open Forum" (new formula) will be out in the first week of August 2002 in English, French, Spanish.

This journal will be the centralising organ of contributions to the conference.

signed/

S. APATOUT for the MPTPG:
J. PETITOT for the AOP
L.B. NICHOLAS for the DTU
R.F.A. JEMMOTT for the NWU





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