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Subject: ITF chief calls for global strategy
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Unions need a global strategy, says ITF chief
from ITF Info No 8.
It is time trade unions stopped complaining about the effects of
globalisation and instead made sure that they are effectively organised
internationally to secure the best deal for their members, ITF General
Secretary David Cockroft told a gathering of labour movement leaders and
activists in Denmark on 31 May and 1 June.
"We will never organise real global solidarity with our present resources,
our present working methods, or with the present attitude to international
work which we encounter amongst many of our affiliated unions," Cockroft
told the Global Labour Summit in Copenhagen organised by the ITF-affiliated
SiD Danish transport and general workers union.
Unions also had to harness the enthusiasm which existed among rank and file
trade unionists for international contacts and solidarity, combining modern
communication methods like the Internet with existing international
networks.
