6th International Meeting of Trade Unionists in Odense, Denmark in
June 9 - 11, 2000, Odense, Denmark.
Main subjects for discussions is
The struggle for collective rights
The struggle against modern slavery
The undermining role of the EU
More information about the meeting is aviable at:
6th International Meeting of Trade Unionists, Henning P. Jensen, c/o
Skibhusvej 100 st. th., 5000 Odense C, Denmark
Telephone: 0045 20 95 32 17 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
We have made an A4 folder in Denmark for mobilizing to the meeting. It
contents the Call to the meeting and practical Information and
Recommandations of the Meeting.
We send it to You translated in English to Your information and use.
Do You have any Recomandations please send them to us.
Here is the contents of the folder
The 1. page is our introducing site for the Danish trade unionists.
( Perhaps You will make your own for Your country)
The 2. page is the international call.
The 3. page is Recommendations
The 4. page is Practical information
1. site:
The 6th International Meeting of Trade Unionists
June 9 - 11, 2000, Odense, Denmark
All Together against the Capital!
Come to the International Meeting of Trade Unionists in Odense, Denmark!
Main subjects
The struggle for collective rights
The struggle against modern slavery
The undermining role of the EU
Do you want to meet with trade unionists from other countries, listen to
their experiences, and discuss the common problems that we face in this
period of the monopolies, everywhere demanding the final end of the
collective rights? Do you want to participate in an exciting initiative
for all people working in the public or private sector, or being without
a job? Then seize the opportunity this year. The meeting is held in
Odense, Denmark.
The meeting will go on from the evening of Friday, June 9th � Sunday,
June 11th. It will be possible to join in at the official opening of the
meeting, taking place Saturday morning 9.30 a.m.
Defend the collective rights! Fight the modern slave labour market!
The main subjects of this year�s meeting are the defence of the
collective rights and struggle against modern slave labour (the
so-called �third labour market�), problems, which are all very actual,
not only in Denmark. E.g., the annual working time and long-term working
hours of 50 hours a week are a common problem, everywhere in Europe.
The meeting is an initiative that has been held every year for the last
seven years, in Germany, France and Spain. Mainly, the participants have
been from most of the countries of EU, but also Eastern Europe, Latin
America and other places have been represented. Many participants,
especially from Germany and France, and from the Nordic countries, of
course, are being expected.
The meeting has been built from the basis, and it is based on the trade
union grass roots, on trade union activists and shop stewards.
At the meeting, struggling workers of different countries will tell
about their experiences and situations (translated into Danish). There
will be memorandums and discussions of the role of the EU in destroying
the union rights of the working class in Europe. There will be group
discussions on the two main subjects: the defence of the collective
rights and the struggle against modern slave labour.
The conference will be held at the Centre of Education of the
Municipality of Odense (Odense Kommunes Uddannelsescenter), just near by
the youth hostel.
Saturday, there will be plenums and group discussions. Sunday, there
will be plenums and the adoption of resolutions. Saturday evening, an
exciting international culture programme will take place. As the basis
of this meeting, a call, which is being distributed with the heading
�All Together against the Capital!� has been made.
More information about the meeting is available at the back of the
folder.
Text under the photo: Participants of the 5th International Meeting of
Trade Unionists in Stuttgart, Germany, June 1999.
If you want to participate in the meeting or know more about it, then
get in touch with:
The 6th International Meeting of Trade Unionists (Henning P. Jensen)
Telephone: 0045 20 95 32 17
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Site 2:
Call for
The 6th International Meeting of Trade Unionists
Denmark 9th - 11th of June 2000
All together against Capital
All over the world international solidarity means strength, united
strength of the working class in struggle. This experience is as old as
the workers movement itself and still of outmost importance. Today when
the multinationals monopolies, with their international organisations
and 'their' national governments, are placing their economic, political
and social agenda in the forefront on a global scale - there is a strong
need for a joint working class answer towards the reactionary politics
of the internationally organised employers.
The 6TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF TRADE UNIONISTS is a forum where
workers and trade unionists, men and women, from different countries,
struggling for their demands, with a multitude of experiences from these
struggles, meet across the borders to exchange experiences and discuss
common problems and joint answers.
Here unity and solidarity is developed from below.
The preceding International Conferences of Trade Unionists has been
successfully concluded in a range of different countries: In Frankfurt,
Germany in 1995, in Argenteuil, Paris 1996, in Madrid, Spain 97, in
Strasbourg in 98 and in Ludwigsburg near Stuttgart, Germany in 99.
Each time under the heading:
All together against Capital.
In the year 2000 it will take place in Odense, Denmark, from the 9th to
the 11th of June.
The 6th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF TRADE UNIONIST will be focusing on
the following themes:
The struggle for collective rights
A general onslaught on the working class and its organisations is today
launched by the employers, by the monopolies and so called multinational
companies, by imperialism.
Closing down of factories; a wave of privatisation's; cut-backs and
pressure on salaries and real wage, working hours and working
conditions; removal and annihilation of hard-won social rights are part
of the "New World Order".
Collective rights, collective solutions and struggle are pushed away and
replaced by the creation of a completely individualised and atomised,
flexible and mobile workforce. The worker him/herself will be left to
whims of capital.
Everywhere this policy is met with just and ever-growing resistance and
fight-back of the workers. In order to achieve its goals the employers
set state power and its repressive apparatus in motion against the
fighting workers. It is indeed the very right of collective organisation
of the working class that is at stake. Trade Unions engaging in struggle
to defend the workers' rights are under threat, being smashed or bought
up. Spokespersons and activists in trade unions in many countries, who
promote the cause of the workers, are getting sacked, blacklisted or
even imprisoned. In some countries around the world they even face being
murdered.
In Europe, The European Union - aspiring to become the United States
of the European Monopolies - has taken the lead in carrying out the
plan of the employers to achieve maximum profits. The so called 'free
inner market' and 'free labour market' is indeed only a free meal for
the employees, where the workers of different countries, regions,
factories and workshops are forced to compete against each other in
order to reduce the price of the labour force.
Already today the employers of the European Union, the governments and
top leaderships of trade union centres have moved a long way in order to
create and implement a unified reactionary labour market policy. A
policy which is being brutally exported to the countries outside the
European Union, in particular the East European countries, in order to
make also the workers of these countries pay and make tribute to the
superpower ambitions of the European Union.
The struggle against modern day slave-labour
To 'divide and rule' has always been one basic method of Capital of
oppressing the workers. Mass unemployment is being used to increase the
attacks on both the unemployed and on those having jobs. A special kind
of labour market is being created these years, as a consequence of
cutbacks and orchestrated attacks on the workers' rights. The
unemployed, those who are thrown out of the work force, unorganised and
migrant workers are, often according to new legislation, forced to work
at less than minimal wages, just to uphold their existence, or to
receive lousy unemployment or 'well fare' benefits instead of a real
salary for their work.
A 'new' kind of labour market (formerly only known from books of
history) where even the minimum collective rights regarding payments,
working hours, illness, holidays et cetera are suspended. To the
unemployed and the ostracised this signifies nothing but forced labour,
or, to use the proper terms, modern day slave labour. This situation,
affecting a still greater minority of the working class in all
countries, is in turned used by the employers to lower wages, worsen the
working conditions and reducing the living standards of all other
working people, and to force the entire working class to its knees.
Short term contracts and special payments regulations are used on a
still more massive scale to promote such developments. Also the
continually lower wages and the inequality of the working women - in
spite of all rhetoric - are used as a battering ram in this. Also the
insecure and often intolerable situation of the immigrant workers of
different nationalities is used to split and divide - and fulfil the
ever-growing demands for profits.
The mere fact that new forms of modern slave labour is developing at
rapid speed in all countries make it an obvious necessity to strengthen
the concrete solidarity and co-operation of workers of all sorts and
kinds, in a still broader scale.
Together we can face the onslaught and the attacks of monopolies and
employers. The workers of different countries have during many years of
struggles, of defeats and victories, won a great fighting experience.
Let us share this experience; let us learn from each other. Let us
strengthen and develop the struggle of the working class to meet the
offensive against our rights. Together we will fight Capital.
We call upon activists of trade unions, of the fighting people of all
factories and work sites, of the unemployed who struggle for their
rights to make use of this opportunity and participate in THE 6th
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF TRADE UNIONISTS.
The Danish Preparatory Committee
Site 3:
Recommendations of the 6th International Meeting of Trade Unionists:
Brian Schou, bestyrelsesmedlem i SID-Chauff�rer, Randers
Bruno Andersen, SL tillidsrepr�sentant, Mariager
Dorte Gren�, medlem af HK K�benhavn
Ebbe Riis Klausen, tillidsrepr�sentant i K�benhavns L�rerforening
Eric Skytte, formand for ALU Grafisk-HK Odense
Flemming Jensen, SID-talsmand Novo Nordisk K�benhavn
Gerd Berlev, Prosa tillidsrepr�sentant CSC Danmark, K�benhavn.
Hans �rsted, n�stformand Grafisk HK-Industri, Randers
Helen Schulze, formand for Foreningen Bistandsklienter i Helsing�r FBH
Henning Paaske Jensen, medlem af Metal Odense
Jan Nielsen, kontaktperson for Arbejsl�se og Bistandsmodstagere I
Odense. ABIO
Jan Guldmann, formand i SID-Grafisk, �rhus-Randers
Jens Hammer Jespersen, tillidsrepr�sentant, Neopac Randers, best.
medlem SID Grafisk �rhus-Randers
Poul Erik Pedersen, medlem af Ribus-chauff�rernes aktionskommite under
Ribus-konflikten i Esbjerg,
Kaj Rudi Rasmussen, bestyrelsessuppleant i SID Randers
Ole M�ller, sekret�r i Havnearbejdernes Fagforening �rhus.
Per N�rbo, Medlem af SL Fyn
Poul Andersen, SID tillidsrepr�sentant, Novo Nordisk K�benhavn.
Poul Erik Pedersen, medlem af Ribus-chauff�rernes aktionskommite under
Ribus-konflikten i Esbjerg,
Steen Horst, n�stformand i SID-Transport Odense
Frankrig:
Daniel Cantyn, CGT RATP ; Daniel M�ric, CGT-RATP , Daniel Issaadi, CGT
chimie ; Martine Morange, CGT sant� ; Jean-Pierre Denis, CGT sant�.
Norge
Rolf J�rgensen, Leder i Lokomotivpersonalets Forening �st, avdeling
Oslo.
Ziya Eroglu, Stillasmont�r, Haugesund
Tyskland:
Arno, Benning, IG Metall, Schermbeck/Gahlen
Cabbar Kockaya, �TV, Duisburg
G�zel Albayrak,, IG Metall, Ennepetal
Hadi �zg�ltekin, �TV, tillidsrepr�sentant, D�sseldorf
Hans Bischoff, IG Metall, bedriftsr�dsmedlem, Stuttgart
J�rgen Burmeister, �TV, Bergkamen
Kemal Kockaya, �TV, tillidsrepr�sentant, D�sseldorf
Klaus Bauer, Gewerkschaft der Eisenbahner Deutschlands (GdED), Dormagen;
Klaus Dillmann, IG Medien, Dortmund
Mark Staskiewitz, �TV, Kierspe
Niels Clasen, IG Metall, bedriftsr�dsmedlem, Stuttgart/Leinfelden:;
S. Yilderim, IG Metall, bedriftsr�dsmedlem, Dortmund
Walter Hofmann, IG Metall, bedriftsr�dsmedlem, Kempten;
Werner St�ckelmann, �TV, M�nster;
Nihat Uzun, �TV, Dortmund
Yakub Bas�z, IG Metall, tillidsrepr�sentant, Stuttgart;
Som names translated to English
Tillidsrepr�sentant is shop Steward
Bestyrelsesmedlem is Member of the tradeunion Committee
Bestyrelsessuppleant is committe member substitute
Formand is chairman
N�stformand is deputy chairman
Sekret�r is secretary
Ribus Chauff�rerne is Ribus Drivers
Medlem is member
SID is Trade Union for Speical Workers (Unskilled Workers)
Danish Metal is Trade Union for Metal Workers ( Skilled Workers)
HK is Trade Union for Trade and Office Workers
Prosa is trade union for Data Workers
SL is Trade Union for Social Educators
Arbejdsl�se og Bistandsmodtagere is a Committe movement of unemployed
workers - different categories of slave labour.
Havnearbejdernes Fagforening is The Dockers Trade Union
Site 4:
Practical Informations about the Meeting
Arrival and duration:
Friday
6 � 9 p.m.: Arrival and registration at Odense Vandrerhjem.
6 � 9 p.m.: Cheese and sausage board.
Saturday
9.30 a.m.: Official opening of the meeting in Odense Kommunes
Uddannelsescenter (very near Odense Vandrerhjem).
Evening: Cultural programme.
Sunday
3 p.m.: Closing of the meeting.
Text under photo:
Odense Kommunes Uddannelsescenter, Schacksgade 39, 5000 Odense C:
Here the meeting, the international cultural programme (Saturday
evening) as well as the lunch (Saturday and Sunday) and the dinner
(Saturday) will take place.
Odense Vandrerhjem, Kragsbjergvej 121, 5230 Odense M:
Here the participants stay the night of Friday and Saturday as well as
eating breakfast Saturday and Sunday morning.
Prices:
550 Dkr.
425 Dkr. (unemployed, apprentices and youth workers)
This includes staying the nights, breakfast, lunch and dinner.
If you do not bring bed lined and towel yourself, you will be charged 50
Dkr.
Registration for the 6th International Meeting of Trade Unionists, June
9 - 11, 2000, Odense, Denmark
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I participate Friday evening � Sunday afternoon.
I want bed lined and towel (50 Dkr. extra).
I arrive Saturday morning at the meeting � Sunday afternoon
(registration: Saturday 9.00-9.30 a.m.).
Payment:
At registration is paid 275 Dkr. for each participant. Unemployed,
apprentices and youth workers pay 210 Dkr. The remaining amount of money
is paid at the arrival, at the latest.
The money is placed to the account: Internationalt Fagligt Tr�f, Henning
P. Jensen, BG Bank, Odense N, Denmark,
Reg. nr. 0927, Konto nr. 4955677930
More information is available at:
6th International Meeting of Trade Unionists, Henning P. Jensen, c/o
Skibhusvej 100 st. th., 5000 Odense C, Denmark
Telephone: 0045 20 95 32 17 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
