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>/* ---------- "Int'l Days of Action Against Privat" ---------- */
>LIST OF SCHEDULED ACTITIVITES FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DAYS OF PROTEST AND
>STRUGGLE AGAINST PRIVATISATION AND DEREGULATION
>
>(MAY 30-31, 1997) - PT, Paris France, May 15, 1997
>
>International Liaison Committee (ILC) Newsletter No. 12
>(May 15, 1997) In two weeks will take place the International Days of
>Protest and Struggle Against Privatisation and Deregulation, and in
>three weeks the International Forum to Uphold the ILO Conventions will
>be held. These initiatives were all decided collectively by the
>delegates attending the the Third Open World Conference last October in
>Paris. We think it is important for everyone to be informed as to the
>various initiatives planned to occur on this occasion.
>
>We are hereby transmitting the information which has been sent into the
>Workers' Party (PT) in France, which the Open World Conference
>designated to assume the responsibilities of secretariat for the
>International Liaison Committee.
>
>EUROPE
>
>- Belgium: In accordance with the decisions taken at the workers'
>conference meeting on April 12, which formed the Belgian National
>Committee for the Abrogation of the Maastricht Treaty, a public rally
>will be held on May 30 against privatisation and deregulation as a part
>of the international days of protest.
>
>- France: At the time we're writing, more than 40,000 workers and youth
>have signed the appeal for the abrogation of the Maastricht Treaty and
>joined the National Committee for the Abrogation of the Maastricht
>Treaty. Throughout France, departmental and local committees have been
>formed, regrouping of activists from different trade unions, from the
>French Communist Party, the Workers' Party, the Citizens Movement and
>the Socialist Party.
>
>After a good deal of hesitation, the government finally authorised the
>national march which will end with a rally in which the following
>people will speak:
>
>Rmy Auched, CP deputy from the Pas-de-Calais; Daniel Gluckstein,
>national secretary of the Workers' Party; Jean-Jacques Karman, CP
>general councillor, vice-mayor of Aubervilliers; Jean-Charles
>Marquiset, trade unionist; a representative of the Youth Committee for
>the Abrogation of the Maastricht Treaty (Paris Region); Doreen MacNally
>and Sue Mitchell of the Women From the Waterfront, Liverpool.
>
>The mass march and rally will be held Saturday, May 31, on the eve of
>the second round of the early elections which were organised in order
>to vote in a government better armed to implement the reactionary
>measures of the Maastricht Treaty, the national committee has called a
>national demonstration for the abrogation of this treaty, directed
>against the interests and rights of workers and all the peoples of Europe.
>
>- Germany: A meeting of 'Social Democrats Against Maastricht' was held
>on April 12 in the city of Halle. From this meeting came the proposal
>made by the German comrades at the European Workers' Alliance meeting
>held in Paris on April 19 and 20 to convene a European Workers'
>Conference in Berlin in early 1998. Today, the noose of Maastricht is
>being tightened around the necks of the Germany people and the Kohl
>government is accelerating its attacks against workers' rights. It is
>using the ruins in the Eastern part of the country which have been
>created by privati-sation as a springboard to liquidate workers' rights
>throughout Germany. In response, meetings and mass rallies for the
>abrogation of the Maastricht Treaty are being held on May 30 and May 31
>throughout Germany, in: Berlin, Halle, Dessau, Magdebourg, Leipzig,
>Chemnitz, Cologne, Dsseldorf, Duisbourg, Euskirschen, Mslhausen and
>Frankfort.
>
>- Great Britain: A report back of the February 1 meeting in London was
>made before 500 dockers in Liverpool at a workers' assembly. They
>unanimously adopted a motion presented by the secretary of their shop
>committee, Jimmy Nolan, to support and participate in the May 30 and 31
>days of protest. Because of local circumstances (several trade union
>conventions being held the same weekend and a trip to a meeting of
>docker trade unionists in Canada), initiatives linked to the days of
>protest will be spread out over time. A public rally will be held in
>Liverpool on June 14.
>
>On May 15 a meeting was held in which Alf Lomas, European MP for the
>Labour Party, and Frank Early of the Labour News editorial board spoke.
>On this occasion a North-East London Committee for the Abrogation of
>the Maastricht Treaty was formed. On May 30, the editorial committee of
>the monthly Labour News is hosting a public meeting for the Abrogation
>of the Maastricht Treaty with the support of the Trade Unionists
>Against the Single Currency Committee.
>
>- Greece, Hungary, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Romania, Yugoslavia, Albania:
>The Balkans-Danube Workers' Conference will be held on May 31 in
>Athens. At this point, Greek, Hungarian, Slovakian, Bulgarian,
>Romanian, Serb, Croa-tian delegates have confirmed their attendance. We
>have just been informed that Albanian activists have decided to support
>and attend the Conference, if they succeed in obtaining a v
>isa.
>
>On May 1, in Rovinari, the mining region in the centre of Romania,
>hundreds of miners met at the call of the Committee for Social
>Resistance (made up of trade union leaders from the mines, textiles,
>the press and activists from the Association 'Workers' Emancipa-tion',
>member of the European Workers' Alliance). The slogan written on the
>banner was: "No to privatisation, withdrawal of Romanian and
>all foreign troops from Albania!"
>
>The delegates of the social resistance committee are engaged in a
>fightback against the devastating privatisation in Romania. They will
>be present in Athens at the Balkans-Danube Workers' Conference. On that
>occasion, on May 31, at the initiative of the Greek Workers' Alliance,
>a public rally will be held in Athens for the abrogation of the
>Maastricht Treaty, for the imme-diate withdrawal of foreign troops
>intervening in Albania against the right of the Albanian people to
>decide their own destiny.
>
>- Lithuania: On the 31st of May will be held a meeting in Siauliai at
>the initiative of the delegation which attended the Third Open World
>Conference.
>
>It is being prepared by a group of trade union activists and officials
>of the Social Democrat Party in Lithuania (invitation was sent to
>activists in Latvia and Estonia to attend the meeting).
>
>- Portugal: On May 31 will be held in Lisbon a meeting in order to form
>a National Committee for the Abrogation of the Maastricht Treaty and
>against the revision of the Constitution. The Portuguese government has
>engaged in a Constitutional reform to adapt it the Maastricht criteria.
>A broad movement of opposition is being built, among others among trade
>union leaders and the Socialist Party parli
>amentary group itself.
>
>- Russia: On March 29 and 30 1997 in (Russia), was held the XIIth
>Con-ference of Solidarnost, trade union of the city and region of
>Kalingrad. In a appeal to the workers' of ex-USSR this conference declared:
>
>"On May 30 and 31, workers the world over will be taking part in
>international days of protest against the campaign of privatisation and
>deregulation being waged by the parasitic classes across the globe.
>Solidarnost associates itself to this initiative which will represent a
>step forward in popular resistance to the capitalist offensive.
>Solidarnost calls on all the workers in the ex-USSR, conscious of the
>importance of organised self-defence, to participate in the May 30-31
>action."
>
>We add: a rally is being organised in Kalingrad at the initiative of
>Solidarnost and a meeting will be held in Saint-Petersburg at the
>initiative of the Russian Party of Communists which sent a
>representative to the Third Open World Conference and published a
>recent issue of its newspaper calling for the international day of
>protest against privatisation and deregulation.
>
>- Spain: One hundred and twenty-five labour activists and leaders are
>calling for a rally-debate in Madrid for the abrogation of the
>Maastricht Treaty. Among them are the former general secretary of the
>Workers' Commissions, Marcelino Camacho and members of the confederated
>committees of the Workers' Commissions and the UGT. The May 31 meeting
>also protests against the job-market reform that the government is
>trying to impose on the trade unions, reform which directly derives
>from the Maastricht Treaty.
>
>- Sweden: Two meetings are planned on May 30 and 31: one in Gteberg in
>the presence of Swedish and Danish trade unionists: the other in
>Stockholm, at the initiative of trade union activists from the left of
>the Social-Democrat Party.
>
>- Switzerland: A preparatory committee for the international days of
>protest on May 30 and 31 was formed on March 29 bringing together
>activists from the Union of Circles for Workers' Policies (EWA), trade
>union leaders from both French and German speaking Switzerland,
>activists and leaders of the Socialist Party. They decided to call on
>May 30 for meetings in Geneva, Vaud, Neuch tel and Bern. On May
>31, they will hold a national conference against privatisation and
>deregulation.
>
>
>AFRICA
>
>
>- Algeria: the Algerian delegation made up of activists and trade union
>leaders of the UGTA trade union federation and activists of the
>Workers' Party gave a report back of the Third Open World Conference.
>They immediately started organising the campaign for the international
>days of protest against privatisation and deregulation on May 30 and
>31. And this in a situation where the demands of the International
>Monetary Fund have virtually dislocated the country into a 'useful
>Algeria' which is highly protected: the oil producing south, and the
>rest into a 'useless Algeria', ridden with violence and barbarism.
>
>- Benin: On Saturday, February 22 was formed in Cotonou local branch of
>the International Liaison Committee in order to prepare the
>international day of protest.
>
>This Committee was formed by the following organizations: The National
>Union of Primary School tea-chers (SYNAPRIM), National Union of
>Secondary School Teachers (SYNAPES), the National Union of Central
>Administration Finances (SYNTRACEF), National Union of the Benin/Niger
>Railway Office (SYNTRA-OCBN), National Union of Students of
>Benin-UNSEB),the Union of High School Students of CEG Djassin (UDE
>D), Confede-ration of Benin Workers (CSTB), The Party for Work and
>Democracy (PTD), the League for the Defence of Human Rights, the
>Women's Movement for the Freedom and Progress of the People (MFLPP).
>
>This meeting, which took place in the Bourse du travail, decided on a
>schedule to prepare a rally for May 31.
>
>- Burundi: A joint appeal to hold a public meeting was launched by
>trade union and political leaders from Burundi and Zaire. This meeting
>will be held in Bujumbura, on May 31.
>
>- Chad: The trade unionists who attended the Third Open World
>Conference launched an appeal for a gathering on the international day
>of protest. The constitutive congress of the Workers' Party was held on
>April 5 and 6 and gave its support to this appeal.
>
>- Ivory-Coast On February 16, the Ivory Coast International Liaison
>Committee met to launch an appeal to hold a public rally on May 31.
>During the previous days was held the convention of the Federation of
>Autonomous Ivory-Coast Unions (FESACI), whose main leaders had attended
>the Third Open World Conference in Paris.
>
>The convention was entirely devoted to the fight back against
>privatisation and deregulation. The FESACI associated itself to the
>appeal for May 31.
>
>- Senegal: The congress of the Senegal Workers' Party which was held on
>April 12 an 13 launched an appeal to all the worker and popular forces
>which claim to defend democracy and the fight back against structural
>adjustment plans and privatisation to join the inter-national days of
>protest on May 30 and 31. Mass rallies and meetings will take place.
>
>- Togo: The three general secretaries of the three trade union
>confederations (UNSIT, GSA and CSTT) met in order to work together to
>prepare the International Day of Protest Against Privatisation and
>Deregulation, especially regarding the plan to privatise the Togolese
>Office of Phosphates, one of the main sources of wealth for the country
>and a constitutive element of the material basis of the
>Togolese State.
>
>
>AMERICAS
>
>
>- Argentina: One of the well-known figures of the Argentinean labour
>movement of recent year, Carlos Santillan, has joined unionists of
>steel workers, regional civil service employees and teachers to call
>for a demonstration on May 30 in San Salvador de Jujuy.
>
>- Brazil: Under the aegis of the Brazilian International Liaison
>Committee for a Workers' International (ILC) and the delegation of PT
>deputies and CUT trade unionists who attended the Third Open World
>Conference, pre-paratory committees were set up for the International
>Day of Protest Against Privatisation and Deregulation in several states
>of Brazil (which is a federalist state): Sao Paulo, Brasilia, Porto
>Alegre, Belo Horizonte, Rio de Janeiro, Florianopolis, Curitiba, Cuiba,
>Salvador de Bahia, Maceio, Recife, Forteleza, etc. Participating in
>these committee are activists, deputies and municipal councillors of
>all tendencies of the PT, of the PCdoB., trade union leaders and activists.
>
>The fightback against privatisation is of utmost urgency and necessity
>at a time when the company Vale do Rio Doce (CVRD) has just been
>privatised. This national company, which possessed virtually all of
>Brazil's mineral reserves, was sold off to the international speculator
>Sores.
>
>In these conditions, at the initiative of preparatory committees for
>the international day of struggle, thou-sands of workers and activists
>have already joined the campaign to demand the cancellation of the
>sale, the abrogation of the law on privatisation. The International Day
>in Brazil has been called for May 27 (as the 30 and 31 of May are
>natio-nal holidays).
>
>This day of protest is an integral part of the national situation which
>has been marked by a heightened onslaught engineered by the Cardoso
>government, the resistance of workers from the city and rural areas, by
>the massive demonstration welcoming the landless workers in Brasilia.
>These developments have placed on the agenda the formation of popular
>assemblies, represen-tative of all the forces which are fighting back
>against the govern-ment's anti-worker and anti-natio-nal plans, along
>the line of a natio-nal popular assembly as a centrali-sing framework
>for this fight.
>
>The international Day of Protest Against Privatisation and Deregulation
>will include demonstrations in all the cities where these com-mittees
>have been set up. In the morning, in Sao Paulo, will be held a
>preparatory meeting to the conference against the ALCA (enlarging the
>North American Free Trade Treaty to the rest of the Americas) and
>against the Mercosur which will be held in July in Porto Alegre (State
>of Rio Grande do Sul).
>
>Among the initiators of this conference: Flavio Koutzi, PT deputy from
>the Rio Grande do Sul, Luiz Palo Pilla Vares, PT president and a number
>of trade unionists from this state, Plinio de Aruda Sampaio, member of
>the national leadership of the PT and Emanoel Melato, metal worker,
>vice-president of the CUT in Sao Paulo.
>
>- Chile: The International Liaison Committee for a Workers' and
>People's International (ILC) in Chile along with left socialists, the
>Workers' Party of workers' activists regrouped in the Forum as well as
>independent trade unionists are preparing a meeting in Santiago, Chile.
>
>- Ecuador: The committees formed in Quito, Guayaquil, Cuenca and
>Ambata... are preparing a joint meeting of workers from Equator and
>Peru which will be held on May 31 at the border between the two
>countries in the city of Huaquillas. The trade unions from the
>elec-tricity sector (AEOI and the trade union of the firm EMELEC) as
>well as the national assembly of delegates of the firms of this sector
>are calling for joint gathering.
>
>This gathering is all the more im-portant as in Ecuador a popular
>uprising got rid of Bucaran, the corrupt president sold off to the IMF.
>The country is also facing a political crisis which has spread to Peru.
>This meeting is of great importance because we know from the past that
>the governments and the oligarchies of these two coun-tries have no
>scruples when its comes to resorting to chauvinisti
>c provocation.
>
>- Mexico: On May 31 in Mexico will be held a preparatory meeting to the
>San Francisco Conference against NAFTA, called for Novem-ber 1997 by
>the AFL-CIO Confede-ration of California. Trade union delegates from
>the 'SA will attend this meeting along side their Mexi-can comrades.
>
>The preparatory committee of the International Days of Protest on May
>30 and 31, formed notably by representatives of the Mexico bus drivers
>union (Sutaur 100), of the National Union of Education Work-ers, of
>trade unions from the State Employees and Social Security Workers sectors.
>
>They have joined to organise demonstrations and gatherings in several
>cities in Mexico: Mexico, Tuxla Gutierrez (in the heart of Chiapas),
>Mexicali, near the border of the, where there will a be demonstration
>against Clinton's threat to expel more than 2 million "undocumented"
>workers of Mexican origin. In Hermosillo, Oaxaca, Morelia.
>
>- Haiti: A Rally will be organised by the Workers' and Peasants Party
>whose constitutive congress took place in January 1997 at the
>initiative of delegates who had attended the IIIrd Open World Conference.
>
>- Peru: The CGTP called for the gathering of Ecuadorian and Peruvian
>workers at Huaguillas and is also preparing for May 30 a massive day of
>mobilisation and demonstrations in Lima, Chimbote, and particularly in
>Chiclayo, this city of workers from the sugar industry.
>
>- Uruguay: A public rally is being called for May 30 in Montevideo by
>trade union activists in textile and health care.
>
>- USA: In the 'SA May 30 and 31 mark important steps forward towards
>preparing the All-Americas Conference Against NAFTA, convened for
>November 1997 in San Francisco at the call of the 21st Congress of the
>AFL-CIO of California (the biggest AFL-CIO union council in the USA).
>
>Already, the appeal for this conference has received the support not
>only from a large number of trade union bodies and officials in the
>United States but also from officials and trade union organizations
>from Mexico, Dominican Republic, Peru, Brazil, Equator, Haiti,
>Guadeloupe and Chile.
>
>On May 30 and 31, meetings will take place in several cities in the US.
>For example in Saint Louis, in liaison with the organizations of public
>hospital workers fighting back against the privatisation offensive and
>attempt to close these hospitals. During the same period, after the
>national tour of the Wo-men from the Waterfront from Liverpool, and
>with the support of the San Francisco trade union council, delegations
>will be organised on May 30 in Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Los
>Angeles, Washing-ton, Chicago and Boston.
>
>ASIA
>
>- Bangladesh: A broad-based committee regrouping representa-tives from
>several independent trade union confederations was formed under the
>presidency of comrade Iqbal Majumder, general secretary of the National
>Federation of Bangladesh workers, delegate to the IIIrd OWC. The new
>govern-ment which owed its electoral success above all to the massive
>re-jection of the corrupt regime which was openly
>submitted to the IMF, the World Bank and its demands has already begun
>to follow the same road as its predecessor.
>
>The resistance of the workers and their trade unions has for the
>mo-ment pushed back the most recent attempt to widely privatise and
>liquidate the textile and jute indus-tries. It's in these conditions
>that the national committee has called for a protest demonstration on
>May 30 in the capital of Bangladesh, Dacca.
>
>On the next day, May 31, a conference will be organised along the road
>of forming an independent Party, representing the interests of workers
>in the cities and the rural areas, calling on them to organise against
>the dismembering of the country and its ruin, at a time when, as one
>leader of the ILC in Bangladesh said:
>
>"The only ray of light in the dark political situation of our country
>is the labour movement."
>
>- China: The international call for the days of protest and struggle
>has been translated into Chinese and is being circulated in the country.
>
>- India: A gathering and a confe-rence will be held on May 30. They
>have been convened notably by the activists and officials of several
>independent trade unions which co-ordinate their activities in Bombay
>and by the union of public service employees of the HMKP in Bom-bay.
>These workers have recently been on strike against their working
>conditions and privatisation.
>
>The great importance of the May 30 demonstration is its assertion of
>working class independence at a time when a government coalition (in
>which two Communist Parties in India participate and the other one
>supports) is following policies of privatisation and adaptation to the
>demands of the WTO, policies which lead to the dismantling of the
>national economy.
>
>- Pakistan: The All Pakistan Trade-Union Federation, whose general
>secretary is comrade Chudhary, participant at the IIIrd Open World
>Conference as delegate from Pakistan, has taken charge of preparing
>gatherings on May 30 and May 31 in the main cities of Pakistan. This
>campaign is being waged in liaison with other trade union federations
>who have united to fight against governmental measures being aimed
>against the working class.
>
>Asserting the unity of workers throughout Pakistan is all the more
>important that as comrade Chud-hary wrote, the policies dictated by the
>IMF are resulting in the disintegration of the country:
>
>"The possibility that Pakistan be driven into open conflict between the
>various nationalities has been aggravated by the fact that there is no
>political party which can genui-nely unite the nation around its
>program. Today Pakistan is a se-riously polarised country, both
>vertically and horizontally. The poor are becoming poorer but they are
>also becoming increasingly divided (...).
>
>Wherever the state proves itself incapable of assuming its functions,
>the informal sector quickly deve-lops. Wherever the government proves
>itself capable of providing jobs, the youth, with no where to go, tries
>to find refuge under the protection of criminal Mafiosi. Wherever the
>leading classes are totally occupied by trying to maintain their
>privileges, those who are taking over the land are prospering. Wherever
>illness and illiteracy predominate, armed gang-sters take advantage of
>the misery and powerlessness of the people."
>
>- Sri Lanka: In Sri Lanka, the comrades present at the IIIrd OWC are at
>the initiative of an appeal to restore trade union rights in the free
>trade zones or special economic zone which exist in Sri Lanka as in
>most other Asia countries.
>
>The comrade recalls that 40 million workers, from women to children in
>Asia work in these zones where trade union rights are violated or
>totally non-existent. The government, aligned with the IMF's
>injunctions, has set up a vast plan of privatisation
>(telecommunications, ports, etc.). A broad front regrouping 41 trade
>union organizations addressed the government to demand a halt to the
>privatisation plan and explicitly referred to the "decision of workers'
>delegates from 70 countries who decided to organise an International
>Day of Protest against Privatisation".
>
>The appeal of 41 organizations adds: "We reject as being false the
>reasons put forward by the repre-sentatives of your government to
>justify privatisation (...).
>
>We urgently request that you put an end to this program of
>privatisation which is devastating our national resources... If you
>persist, we will have no other alternative but to engage in determined
>trade union action against these plans."
>
>This is the context in which the rally in Colombo will take place.
>
>- Vietnam: The International Appeal for the international days of
>protest and struggle has been translated into Vietnamese and is being
>circulating inside the country.
>
>JUNE 8 INTERNATIONAL MEETING IN GENEVA
>
>Enclosed you will find the most recent list of signatories of the
>Appeal for the International Meeting in Defence of ILO Norms. To this
>day, trade unionists and labour activists from 37 countries have
>informed us of their intention to be present at the meeting:
>
>Europe: 1 from Portugal, 5 from Spain, 15 from France, 3 from Italy, 2
>from Belgium, 8 from Germany, 1 from Lithuania, 1 from Russia, 4 from
>Romania, 2 from Hungary, 2 from Slovakia, 5 from Great-Britain, 40 from
>Switzerland, 1 from ex-Yugoslavia, 1 from Ireland.
>
>Asia: 1 from Sri Lanka, 2 from Pakistan, 4 from India, 1 from
>Bangladesh, 3 from Vietnam.
>
>Latin America: 1 from Peru, 5 from Brazil, 1 from Antilles-Guyane, 1
>from Haiti
>
>Africa: 2 from Egypt, 1 from Algeria, 1 from Mauritania, 2 from
>Senegal, 2 from Niger, 1 from Burkina Faso, 2 from Togo, 1 from Benin,
>1 from Cameroon, 1 from South Africa, 1 from Mauritius Republic, 2 from
>Ivory Coast, 1 from Burundi.
>
>Between now and the holding of the meeting, we are expecting other
>responses especially after reception by the organizations represented
>at the annual ILO assembly of the letter inviting them to attend.
>
>First endorsers:
>
>Alioune Sow, general secretary of the Democratic Union of Senegal
>Workers ('DTS) - Gaston Azoua, general secretary of the Workers Trade
>Union Confederation of Benin (CSTB) - Thulani Hlatshwayo, president of
>the Steel, Mining and Chemical Workers Union - Zwane Phumlane,
>organizer, Security and General Workers Union of South Africa (SEGEW')
>- Mandla, Steel, Mining and Chemical Workers Union of South
> Africa (STEMCW') - Marcel Ette, general secretary of the Ivory Coast
>Autonomous Trade Unions Federation (FESACI) - Franois K. Yao, general
>secretary of the Ivory Coast Electricity and Gaz national trade union,
>(SYNASEG) - Collen Lindsey, LALIT spokesman, Republic of Mauritius -
>Deepak Benydin, president of the Trade union of Institutional Corps
>(FSCC) and member of the national Committee of the All Workers
>Conference of the Republic of Mauritius - Saley Seydou, responsible for
>the international commission of the Workers Trade Unions Confederation
>of Niger (USTN) - Abdallah Ould Mohamed, general secretary of the
>Workers Confedera-tion of Mauritania (CGTM) - Gami Ngarmadjal, general
>secretary of the Teachers Trade Union of Chad (SET) - Tol Sagnon,
>general secretary of the General Confederation of Labour of Burkina
>Faso (CGTB) - Salom Ntsogo, vice-president of the Free Trade Unions
>Confederation bureau of Cameroon (USLC) - T.-N. Gbikpi-Bnissan, general
>secretary of the National Union of the Independant Trade unions of Togo
>(UNSIT) - Amar Takdjout, federal secretary of the National Federation
>of the Textile and Leather Workers of Algeria (UGTA) - Charles
>Ndabirabe, president of the Trade Union Confederation of Burundi (COSYBU).
>
>New endorsers:
>
>Bangladesh: Tafazzul Hussain, President of the Bangladesh National
>Workers Federation, BJSF - Iqbal Majumder, General Secretary of the
>Bangladesh National Workers Federation. - Mahtabur Rahman Bachu,
>General Secreary, Keranigonj readymade Garment workers and employees
>union - Abdul Khaleque, President Qwami Jute Mill workers and employees
>union - Shahadat Hossain, President Chand Textile Mill work
>ers union - Belayet Hossain, President, Sattar Jute Mill workers union
>- Bachu Mia, General Secreary, Janata Jute mill workers union - Md.
>Ismail Hossain, General secretary, Jute spinning and Twine miills
>workers and employees federation - Rabiul Islam, Organising secretary,
>Jute spinning and Twine miills workers and employees federation - Gazi
>Hafizur Rahman, General secretary, Sundarban Textile
>Mills workers union - Md. Hamidur Rahman, Preisdent, Dinajpur Textile
>Mill workers union - Md. Wares Ali, President, Rajshahi Textile Mills
>workers union - Fazlul Hoque Ripon, International Secretary BJSF -
>Belgium: Pierre Marlhioux, member of the Executive Committee of the
>SETC, Brussels, Hal, Vilvorde - Philippe de Menten, Trade unionist,
>CGSP, education - Joseph Pennisi, Trade unionist, FGTB, scUty President
>of the CUT of Sao Paulo, President of the Steel Workers Union of
>Campinas - Luis Bicalho, member of the National Executive Committee of
>the CUT - Jos Roque Fereira, Coordinator of the National Federation
>(FNIST-CUT) and President of the Railway Workers Union of Bauru - Sao
>Paulo - Ismael Cesar, member of the Executive Committee of the
>Democratic Confederation of Federal Civil Servants, CONDSEF - Jos
>Guilherme, member of the Executive Committee of the Town Civil Servants
>Trade Union of Sao Paulo - Roldao Gomes Filho, President of the
>Airports Ground Employees of Sao Paulo. France: Patrice Sifflet,
>Movement of the Manifesto. - Germany : Dieter Fuchs, president of
>Dsseldorf TV and other members of the TV and the Afa (SPD workers
>commission) leadership - Tina Hauptmann and other shop stewards, TV,
>Berlin -Great-Britain: Geoff Martin, UNISON trade union executive,
>London region, Convenor of UNISON London Regional Committee - Jacki
>Johnson, National Executive NATFHE, Lecturers' Union - Tom Hart, former
>Secretary of the Transport and General Workers Union (T&G) North East -
>JM Bowie, Secretary of Accrington District T & G, Brown, Secretary
>6/682 Branch T & G - Jimmy Nolan, Merseyside Docks Shop Stewards
>Committee - Bobby Norton, Merseyside Docks Shop Stewards Committee - D.
>McNally, Women of the Waterfront - Sue Mitchell, Women of the
>Waterfront - Martin, secretary of the National Union of Journalists,
>NUJ, section Magazine, for the region of London - Jo Marino, General
>Secretary of the Bakers Federation Workers Union, BFWU. India: Namiath
>Vasudevan, General Secretary, Social Protection trade union - Javier
>Moron, General Secretary of the section 18 of the National Trade Union
>of Education (SNTE) - Leonel Villafuerte, General Secretary of the Ruta
>100 trade union of Mexico - Jorge Cuellar, labour and conflicts
>relations executive, Ruta 100 trade union of Mexico. Pakistan: Gulzar
>Ahmed Chudhary, General Secretary of the All Pakistan Trade Union
>Federation - Mis
>s Rubina Jamil, Secretary of the Pakistan Workers Confederation -
>Fazal-e-Wahid, Chief Organiser of the Pakistan Railway Workers Union -
>Sultan Khan, President of the Pharmaceutical and Chemical Trade Union
>Federation - Malik Muhamad Arif, General Secretary of the Punjab Flour
>Mill Workers Federation - Hafiz-ullah Cheema, President of the
>Vegetable Ghee and Oil Mills Workers Federation. Peru: Juan Deputy
>General Secretary of the Building Industry Workers Federation - Victor
>Herrera, Federation of the Building Industry Workers - Adolfo Pea
>Olivos, Town Civil Servants Union - Amedeo Ato, Alejandro Garibay,
>Eduardo Chavarry, Petroleum Workers - Juan Pachas, Pedro Orillana,
>Regional Front of Workers - Pedro Ramos, Gregorio Chavez, Hilario
>Narvaez, Workers Federation of the Trujillo region - Rau
>l Rodriguez Valle, General Secretary of the Drinkable Water System
>Workers of Lima - Rodriguez Flores, General Secretary of the Libertad
>Region Workers - Erwin Salazar, Workers Trade Union of Lambayeque -
>Dionisio Mejia Ramos, Teodoro Puertas, Siderperu trade union laid off
>leaders. Rumania: Constantin Cretan, Deputy President of the Miners
>Federation (FSM) - Florin Orban, President of the Radio j
>dent FSM, Motru - Nicolae Predescu, First Deputy President of Salvamin,
>Motru - Cristea Fluecatoru, Secretary of Salvamin Motru. Spain:
>Marcelino Camacho Abad, former General Secretary of the Workers
>Commissions (CCOO) - Jos Miguel Villa, General Secretary of the UGT
>Services Federation of Madrid, member of the Confederal Committee of
>the UGT - Jos Cardo, General Secretary of Euskadi UGT Federation of
>Industries - Santiago Tamames, General Secretary of the PTT Sorting
>office trade union of Chamartin, UGT (Madrid) - Fernando Valle, General
>Secretary of the Spanish Federation of Woodwork and Building Industry
>(UGT) of the Castellon province - Atilano Escobar, member of the
>Executive Committee of the Federation of Woodwork and Building Industry
>(FECOMA - CCOO) of the Valencia region.
>San Francisco Chapter, Labor Council for Latin American Advancement,
>LCLAA, Coordinator, Western Hemisphere Conference.
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