FIET Z 4631 FIET report on activities 1987- 1991 22nd World Congress San Francisco, August 19-23, 1991 INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF COMMERCIAL, CLERICAL, PROFESSIONAL AND TECHNICAL EMPLOYEES FIET OBITUARIES Chapter 1: IN Chapter 2: CONTENTS GOVERNING BODIES World Congress World Executive Committee Management Committee Order Ref. No.: GS/ 91/ 5/ E report on Chapter 3: Chapter 4; SE FICES activities Chapter 5: REGIONAL ORGANISATIONS AFRO- FIET APRO- FIET EURO- FIET IRO- FIET 1987- 1991 Chapter 6: Bank Commerce Chapter Insurance Property Sa FIET Chapter 8 TECHNOLOGY Chapter 9 ACTI ON 22nd World Congress San Francisco, August 19-23, 1991 Chapter Chapter 11: Chapter CONS INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF COMMERCIAL, CLERICAL, PROFESSIONAL AND TECHNICAL EMPLOYEES 1834 93 121 0 по esitivitos reer- 18ef * Friedrich- Eber Bonn Stiftung no bhow bn SS Bibliothek Z 4631 30 MOITARKE JAMOITAVEITAL YOUR JAGIMP MOD OBITUARIES CONTENTS OBITUARIES Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION..... 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Chapter 12: INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS .... 121 137 FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987- 1991 1 атиятиоз 23 яти 25 VOD ТЯМ- ОЯЧА ТЯН- ОЯЧА A Estado estado ГИОНТОНА НАЯТ д yucubal ni soyolqm bonele dissH bas IQ EQ нти Ishagan M re EOD duoY Оиноят : 8 orqa ezoqado 131 TEL 2 FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987- 1991 halqad проуд borysidica OBITUARIES, МОЗГДЯЛО, ТИяза myob peopl on the be AGBENYENU ATTIVOR, Treasurer General of the Togolese trade union centre CNTT and former General Secretary of FIET's affiliate SYNBANK, died suddenly on 23 March 1987 at the age of 53. SAIDUL HOQUE SADU, President of FIET's affiliate the Bangladesh Jatio Sramik League, died of a heart attack on 29 May 1987. He had been re- elected President of the BJSL at its conference on 17 April 1987. ая AND IAC NA 20 M.E. JALLOW, veteran trade union leader and Secretary General of the Gambia Workers' Confederation, died suddenly on 23 May 1987. ESMAEL SHERIF, President of FIET's affiliate the Domestic, Commercial, Clerical and General Services Union of Liberia, died on 28 April 1987. A trade unionist of long standing, Esmael Sherif was also President of the Liberia Federation of Labour Unions. STEVEN MUFANEBADZA, trade union official and educator of FIET's affiliate the Commercial Workers' Union of Zimbabwe( CWUZ) died on 30 July 1987. NAT F. PEPPLE died after a long illness on 27 January 1988 at the age of 67. A staunch supporter of the international free trade union movement, he was a member of the FIET World Executive Committee and AFRO- FIET President since 1982. Nat F. Pepple served the Nigerian labour movement in outstanding positions for 32 years. Until his retirement in 1987, he was the General Secretary of the National Union of Banks, Insurance and Financial Institutions Employees( NUBIFIE). es no baib ELIMANE KANE, Deputy Director- General of the International Labour Office, died suddenly in Geneva on 26 October 1988 at the age of 54. He had just returned from a mission to West Africa. At the 21st FIET World Congress in Lomé, Togo, Elimane Kane was the guest speaker on the central Congress theme" Strong Trade Unions for Global Economic and Social Justice." FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987-1991 3 4 BERNT CARLSSON, UN Commissioner of the Council for Namibia and former Secretary General of the Socialist International, died when a terrorist bomb brought down the PAN- AM plane on 21 December 1988. IRVING BROWN, Director of the AFL- CIO Department of International Affairs, died on 10 February 1989. He was director of the office of the ICFTU at the United Nations in New York from 1962 to 1965 and served as executive director of the African- American Labor Centre of the AFL- CIO from 1965 to 1973. From 1973 he served as AFL- CIO International Representative in Paris. He was U.S. Worker Delegate to the ILO and travelled widely for the federation in Europe, Asia and Africa. ALFRED DALLINGER, Austrian Minister of Social and Labour Affairs and President of FIET's affiliate the GPA( Gewerkschaft der Privatangestellten) and RICHARD WONKA, 44, GPA Central Secretary since 1987, lost their lives in a tragic air accident on 23 February 1989. They were on their way to attend to trade union business when the tragedy occurred. Alfred Dallinger was the longest serving member of the FIET World Executive Committee. He spent his working life devoted to the trade union movement, to the Austrian Socialist Party and to the creation of a society based on progress and social justice. Alfred Dallinger took up a seat in the Austrian Parliament on 17 October 1974. On 10 October 1980 he became the seventh Austrian Minister of Social and Labour Affairs since 1945. His tenure as Minister was marked by his determination to protect and expand the Austrian welfare state at a time of world economic crisis and a changing political landscape in Austria. At the time of his death he was guiding new legislation on pensions through Parliament. SVEN JONASSON, former chief of the statistics department( 1943-1977) of FIET's Swedish affiliate SIF, died on 11 March 1989 at the age of 76. He was actively involved in building up the Industry Trade Section of FIET. AARRE HAPPONEN, former President( 1949-1974) of FIET's Finnish affiliate LA, died on 29 March 1989 at the age of 78. ЯЙАМІ EDDIE SWANN, 41, National Officer of British affiliate USDAW, died in September 1989 following a short illness. Eddie Swann participated in the work of the EURO- FIET Insurance Trade Section and was a major force behind the close relations which exist between FIET and the European Association of Co- operative Insurers. FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987- 1991 G. SAMMY MUHANJI died in a road accident on 26 March 1990. He was General Secretary of the Kenya Union of Commercial, Food and Allied Workers and led the union with great distinction for many years. Wider recognition of his abilities and devotion to his people came with his election to Parliament. He served as Vice- President for the East African Region on the AFRO- FIET Executive Committee since the inception of the Regional Organisation in 1981. we have tried to m STANLEY G. CORREA, former General Secretary of the International Federation of Plantation, Agricultural and Allied Workers( IFPAAW) died on 31 May 1990. He served as IFPAAW General Secretary from 1976 to 1982, when he stepped down because of health problems, but continued to serve as IFPAAW consultant in different training programmes conducted by the organisation in the field. HENK VAN EEKERT, General Secretary of the Dutch trade union confederation FNV, died suddenly on 28 August 1990 at the age of 54. He was one of the key promoters of the trade union unity process between the catholic- oriented NKV and the social- democrat NVV. In 1975, he became the first General Secretary of the new organisation that resulted from their merger, the FNV, and remained in that position until his death. Henk van Eekert held important trade union functions at international level throughout his career. HEINZ OSKAR VETTER, President of the German national centre DGB from 1969 to 1982 died on 18 October 1990 shortly before his 73rd birthday. He was also a member of the European Parliament. OVE FREDERIKSSON, President of the Swedish Woodworkers' Union, and BERTIL WHINBERG, President of the Swedish Construction Workers' Union, were brutally murdered on the night of 23 January 1991. The trade union officials were leading figures in the International Federation of Building and Wood Workers and were in Tallin, Estonia, for a meeting. the ian and Pacif he push by rea for more At the same time Sant multinations Philippines, in Nepal global ver 65 million staff. We are FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987-1991 scope 5 6 TUM Y olgoog ud, amsidorg aroubrioo dent died stal odini som anot affiliate LA. ED Insu FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987- 1991 Chapter 1 biciunii( 0090 gumbingo alto bio vadyard/ TXAdv often been said that the bac INTRODUCTION ctions. We now have seven for It is a great privilege to present this report on activities for adoption by the 22nd FIET World Congress. This report differs in appearance from previous reports and is more concise than in the past. In doing so, we have tried to make the report more interesting and visual, whilst not diminishing its political content. The report covers the period 1 May 1987 to 30 April 1991, a period during which we have seen momentous changes in the direction of world history. The context of our work today is much different to that of just four years ago, even though our affiliates the world over continue to be plagued by attacks on their rights and continue to struggle for a better working life for their members, for equality and social justice and, of course, against poverty, unemployment and homelessness. During the past four years, we have seen something of a democratic revolution that has touched all continents. The pressures for democratic freedoms and human and trade union rights building up over decades were released and today union leaders from FIET affiliates are now conducting activities in much changed political and social circumstances. 1989 was the year of peaceful revolution in Central and Eastern Europe. Today the old regimes have been swept from power in Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Rumania and Bulgaria. Germany is unified, the Baltic States are struggling for independence and the USSR is in political and economic turmoil. In the 1980's, the people of Latin and Central America, a continent battered by military dictatorships and small, wealthy elites, won the struggle for democratic freedoms. It is nothing less than tragic that the flower of freedom is being cultivated in Latin and Central America amidst a debt crisis which has savaged living standards and economic policies. In Africa, FIET welcomed the release of Nelson Mandela in February 1990 and the reforms by the South African regime which have hammered nails into the coffin of apartheid. But to date reforms are not yet irreversible and we must remain vigilant in our support for sanctions. Elsewhere in Africa, as a result of the struggle often led by courageous union leaders against one party rule and exploitation by dictatorial leaders, we are seeing the people in all regions push for political reform. In the Asian and Pacific region, the people's revolution in the Philippines, the protests by the people of South Korea for more democracy and the recent free elections in Nepal attest to the global scope of the push by ordinary workers and their families for democracy. dw s At the same time as these changes, we are seeing the emergence of a global economy traversed by the giant multinational corporations that alone employ over 65 million staff. We are also seeing the emergence of new attempts at regional economic integration, such as the European Internal Market FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987- 1991 7 1992, the Pacific Rim initiatives, the Southern Cone agreement in Latin America and the free trade arrangement between Canada and the USA, which is also set in the future to include Mexico. All the while, the halting GATT Uruguay round talks continue, with the promise of an agreement on trade in services. поят All of these developments have had a profound impact on FIET affiliates and on the work and rhythm of activities of FIET itself. As one of the largest and most prestigious Internationals, we have no option but to contribute to the building of strong, independent and democratic unions in the new democracies and to ensure that there is a real social dimension to economic development and economic integration. Economic integration should not be based on principles of laissez faire free market economic thinking. Over reliance on these principles has meant that in many countries we are now picking up the tab for the de- regulatory follies and excesses of the 1980's. In the period under review, FIET's membership has continued to expand and we now represent 10'002'324 members in 322 unions and 102 countries. Membership increased by 19.5 percent from 1987 to 1991; by 30.8 percent from 1979 to 1987 and by 22.1 percent from 1970 to 1979, giving a total increase of 91 percent from 1970 to 1991. The proportion of women in membership is growing and by the year 2000 should be comfortably in the majority. This increase in membership is remarkable by any standards. Our unions have been faced with vicious anti- union campaigns by employers, who have been chipping away at union rights, and right- wing forces, who do not hesitate to claim that the day of unionism is over. begnan FIET and our members are proving them wrong. As employment shifts to the services sector, it is vital that union organisation rates improve. The question we should all be asking is how FIET can contribute to this. The education programme and interprofessional groups for professional and managerial staff, women and youth have organising at the heart of their activities but it should also be a focus of activities everywhere. Hom FIET's finances are finely balanced; the subscription income that comes in goes out in expenditure on activities. On a number of occasions in the 1980's, we recorded deficits and we have no real reserves to speak of. It is important that we have a secure financial base for the future, hence the need to increase affiliation fees. The scope and pace of activities of FIET continue to expand dramatically. The FIET structures build up over the past 20 years or so are proving their worth as work pressures increase. The four regional organisations- AFRO- FIET, APRO- FIET, EURO- FIET and IRO- FIET- enable FIET world activities to take cognisance of regional developments. During the past four years, new offices have been purchased in Singapore and Brussels; we have new offices in Costa Rica and our regional representatives in Africa spread the message of FIET's work there. In each of the regions, we have seen Regional Conferences, the election of Regional Executive Committees and the intensification of education and trade section activities. FIET gains strength from the regional organisations and it should be a responsibility for all of us to ensure the integration and co- ordination of activities of the regions into FIET as a whole. 1A One of the hopes expressed by the 21st World Congress in Lomé was the need to accelerate and expand our education activities and the regions play a key role in the implementation of programmes. In the 8 FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987-1991 period under review, we have conducted over 500 courses in all regions. We are now developing comprehensive projects in Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland and Rumania. The new unions there are in urgent need of help with respect to organising, negotiating and union administrative skills. leb подг It has often been said that the backbone of FIET activities is the trade sections. We now have seven for Banking, Commerce, Hair and Beauty Care, Industry, Insurance, Property Services, Social Insurance and Health Care. During the past four years, two new sections for hair and beauty care and for property services have been created. There has been an impressive growth in membership and activities for property services; in a short time a global presence has been built up, databases established, contacts with multinationals forged and a famous organising victory won in Los Angeles. We look forward to the first world conference for the section in 1992. al The trade sections regularly review collective bargaining developments, working conditions and occupational developments. In 1990 world conferences were held for banks and insurance in Singapore. blow edi ni Further thought and imagination should be given to improve the performance of the trade sections still further. Activities in AFRO- FIET, APRO- FIET and IRO- FIET do run to budgetary constraints, but we have to seek new ways of effecting practical trade section work there. The FIET Technology Group has also been active and it will be presenting a major piece of work to Congress on the living and working environment. If there is a deficit in our work, then it must be that as of today we have no formal international agreements with multinational companies. This must be a priority for the next four years. We have detected a change in recent months. We have been involved in talks with large retailers and banks on building future relations. This is not to undermine in any way our work on multinationals, where activities have been based on three axes: the establishment of databases; co- ordination of organisation campaigns; continuation of the work of the company councils. To buong ad We have had some notable organising successes, notably in retailing in the USA. The FIET/ UFCW Commercial Workers' Summit in Washington D.C. in August 1990 has given a particular impulse to our work in commerce. The FIET Multinational Banks Working Group has also effectively coordinated union co- operation in the sector. Our action must increasingly be practically orientated with respect to multinationals; there should be no hiding place for those that breach union rights. Hardly a day passes without FIET intervention being requested in defence of trade union rights or to support affiliates in disputes with employers or governments. The solidarity chapter in this report is a testament to our work. An attack on union rights anywhere should be of concern to affiliates everywhere. FIET is currently considering how to improve response times to make our action even more efficient. an bas FIET is the voice of our members to international organisations. A number of firsts have been achieved. A FIET delegation met with Michel Camdessus, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, in Washington D.C. in October 1990. The delegation requested a change in IMF lending poliFIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987- 1991 9 cies to take account of social and not just financial conditionalities. Camdessus has since written to FIET offering to sponsor a seminar with us and other ITSS and the ICFTU on its activities. The same delegation met with World Bank leaders where we learned first hand of just how the World Bank has a global programme of reform for banking markets. The refusal- to date- of the World Bank to sponsor a summit with FIET to discuss social consequences of its reforms with those most affected is reprehensible. In another first, in Latin America, FIET and the World Health Organisation launched a programme of AIDS education for affiliates in several countries. In Europe, the EURO- FIET Brussels Office has spearheaded our relations with the European Communities. We are regularly consulted on a wide range of issues and have established a social dialogue with employers in retailing, wholesaling and insurance. EURO- FIET has fully supported the campaign for a Social Europe; indeed the experience gained from this should prove of major benefit when FIET will rightly claim a social dimension to any such examples of regional economic integration anywhere in the world. FIET has continued to contribute to the work of the ICFTU and the ETUC and has strived to have constructive relations with our sister ITSs. The overall work of FIET is under the close direction of the FIET World Executive Committee and the FIET Management Committee. The Regional Executive Committees also play a crucial role in directing work in the regions. The day to day work of the International is executed by the Secretariat and I am proud to say that we have a cohesive and dynamic personnel who are devoted to the further development of FIET. For a number of years now, FIET has had annual Regional Secretaries meetings in Geneva. This has improved communication and co- ordination between the head office and the regions. Investments have been made in modern office technology. All offices in the regions have compatible equipment. We should all be proud of the printing arrangements in Geneva, which enable us to produce the Info and all publications. The past four years have also had a big impact on my own life. Heribert Maier, having been General Secretary since 1973, left us to take up the position of Deputy Director General of the ILO. Without any doubt, the benefits being reaped by FIET today are due to Heribert's efforts. The World Executive Committee appointed me to this position in April 1989 at the Buenos Aires meeting. I would like to thank the Executive Committee for their support and co- operation. It would be wrong of me to name individuals but I would particularly like to thank FIET President Bengt Lloyd for his advice, encouragement and support. The theme of the 22nd FIET World Congress is" Shaping The Future Through International Trade Union Solidarity." This report demonstrates that FIET has the membership, structures, the experience and ambitions to make this a reality in our work. Philip J. Jennings Acting General Secretary 24 May 1991 ties of नाम 10 10 FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987- 1991 Chapter 2 FIET WORLD CONGRESS The World Congress policy, and elects GOVERNING BODIES ur years, it determines delegates The 21st FIET World Congress was held in Lome, Togo, from 24-27 August 1987, presidency of ( UFCW Unit Congross Atter The Congress 21ST WORLD CONGRESS Opening Ceremony Congress Nangbog by FIET WORLD CONGRESS FIET WORLD EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ion on the FIET MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE and 162 organisations in 66 counlong can Trade Union Unity message its Director Gen eral, Francis Blanchard. Conofficially declared open M FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987- 1991 11 cies to trice запоя DARAM they 12 FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987- 1991 has European social ted the benefit tegration and the Geneva. has We Info and having been General of the ILO. Without any Trade social and economic Training FIET WORLD CONGRESS The World Congress is FIET's supreme ruling body. Meeting every four years, it determines policy, and elects the World Executive Committee, President and General Secretary. All affiliates can send delegates and submit motions to the Congress. 21ST WORLD CONGRESS The 21st FIET World Congress was held in Lomé, Togo, from 24-27 August 1987, under the presidency of Tom Whaley ( UFCW, United States). The Congress was the first of its type to be held by any international trade union federation on the continent of Africa. Attendance The Congress was attended by 343 delegates( 300 men, 43 women), 108 observers( 82 men, 26 women) and 162 guests from 154 organisations in 66 countries. FIET 21e CONGRES MONDIAL DE LA FIET Opening Ceremony Congress was addressed by Nangbog Barnabo, General Secretary of Togo's national trade union centre, the CNTT.ICFTU General Secretary John Vanderveken took the floor to emphasise the close and productive relationship that has long existed between FIET and his organisation. Kossi Assih, Assistant General Secretary of the Organisation of African Trade Union Unity also intervened. A representative of the ILO delivered a message from its Director GenLomé, Togo, 24-28 août 1987 eral, Francis Blanchard. ConWhaley. gress was officially declared open by Togolese Minister of Justice, M. Laclé. FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987-1991 Throughout the Congress as well during its two years of preparation, FIET received the full and energetic support of its Togolese affiliates and of the CNTT. The colourful opening ceremony arranged by them was very much appreciated by participants. 13 Theme 2235 03( 10 The Congress met under the theme of" Strong Trade Unions for Global Economic and Social Justice." The debate on the Congress theme and background report was introduced by Eli- sinab mane Kane, ILO Deputy Director- General and Director of the International Institute for Labour Studies. Special sessions were devoted to" The Fight Against Apartheid in South Africa" and to " The Folly of the Nuclear Arms Race." Twenty- two speakers participated in the discussion on South Africa, which was opened and closed by the Presidents of two of FIET's South African affiliates. The session on the nuclear arms race was opened by Admiral Gene La Rocque, Director of the Washington- based Center for Defense Information and formerly a RearAdmiral in the US Navy. AZACTU MAMIN CONFIDEN OF TRADE AFRICA WON'T SLAVES S TAMUSE Pictured are members of the South African delegation. The Congress's unanimous determination to intensify its support of the independent black trade union movement was summed up in a resolution which called for mandatory sanctions against South Africa. It reaffirmed that the fight against apartheid is a central priority for all trade unionists and that it" must not cease until it has achieved its goal; apartheid cannot be reformed, it must be destroyed in its entirety. Resolutions The Resolutions Committee was chaired by Roy Grantham( GMB/ APEX Partnership, United Kingdom). The Congress adopted 24 resolutions on the following subjects: Increase in affiliation subjects: Increase in affiliation fees; South Africa; Peace, disarmament and development; Revision of Article 9 of the FIET Statutes; Human and trade union rights; New technology; Multinational companies; The media and trade union communications; Part- time work; Policies for global employment and The delegates unanimously adopted a resolution on policies for global employment and social and economic justice, the theme of the Congress. The resolution renewed FIET's insistence on the need for urgent and internationally coordinated action to promote growth, full employment and development throughout the world, and outlined policies for achieving this. 14 FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987- 1991 social and economic justice; Training; Aids; Insurance for participants in FIET meetings; Regulation of international financial institutions; Visual display units; Equitable and progressive trade liberalisation; Environmental pollution resulting from energy consumption; Combating youth unemployment; Mergers and takeovers; Support for trade section work in developing countries; Child labour; Information technology and economic development; The divided labour market; Building services industry. Statements In response to situations of critical concern brought to the attention of Congress by delegates, messages of protest were sent to the governments of Paraguay, Bolivia, Argentina and France, and to companies engaged in disputes in Guatemala, Turkey and the US, and a message of support and solidarity was sent to the striking members of the South African National Union of Mineworkers. Elections mar, Monika Weber; Area IV ( Belgium, France, Luxembourg, Monaco and the Netherlands): Karel Boeykens, Yves Simon, Ben Van Zweden; Area V ( Cyprus, Greece, Italy, Malta, Portugal, Spain and Turkey): Sergio Ammannati, Luis Covas, Raffaele Vanni; Area VI( Africa): Doudou Issa Niasse; Area VII( Near and Middle East): Moshe Beit Dagan; Area VIII ( Asia): Yoshiaki Ohta, Mamoru Shibata, Muthusamy M. Vasagam; Area IX( Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific): James B. Maher, John P. Maynes, Anthony Redford; Area X( North America United States and Canada): Richard Cordtz, Lenore Miller, Gary Nebeker, Pat Scarcelli; Area XI( Latin America and the Caribbean): Guerino Adamo Andreoni, Rodolfo Campos Bravo, Edilberto La Riva Blanco, Reginaldo Medeiros de Souza, Juan José Zanola; The President of the FIET Working Women's Group: Helga Stubianek. - President: To succeed Tom Whaley, who did not stand for re- election, the Congress unanimously elected Bengt Lloyd( HF, Sweden). 1st Vice- President: The Congress unanimously elected Jochen Richert( DGB, F.R. Germany). World Executive Committee: Area I( United Kingdom and Ireland): Garfield Davies, Roy Grantham, Leif Mills, Muriel Turner; Area II( Scandinavia): Jorgen Eiberg, Inge Granqvist, Kåre Hansen, Bengt Lloyd, MajLen Remahl; Area III( F.R. Germany, Austria and Switzerland): Siegfried Bleicher, Alfred Dallinger, Herbert Nierhaus, Jochen Richert, Günter Volk- ert Maier. 2nd Vice- President: The Congress unanimously elected Gary Nebeker( UFCW, United States). Auditors: The Congress unanimously elected Gilbert Clajot ( SETCa, Belgium) and Inger Rudholm( SBmf, Sweden). FIET Gold Badges FIET Gold Badges were presented to the outgoing President Tom Whaley and outgoing members of the World Executive Committee: Jinnosuke Ashida, Herman Brandt, Alfred Hubschmid, Jürgen Jöns, Arthur Mobbs, Nat Pepple, Elijahu Reif, Leonardo Romano, William Whatley and Katsuichi Yamamoto. 11-01 Report on the Congress A brief report on the proceedings and resolutions of the Congress was published in all official languages. A separate publication containing the resolutions adopted by the Congress was also issued. Thomas G. Whaley served as President of FIET from 1983 up to the 21st World Congress in1987, when he stood General Secretary: The Congress down from office and was replaced by unanimously re- elected HeribBengt Lloyd of HF, Sweden. FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987-1991 15 The WORLD EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE The World Executive Committee is elected on an area basis to ensure that all parts of the world are represented. It meets once a year and is responsible for the direction of FIET's work between Congresses. During the period under review, the World Executive Committee met five times: * 54th meeting: Lomé, 23 August 1987 * 55th meeting: Lomé, 28 August 1987 * 56th meeting: San Francisco, 26 July 1988 * 57th meeting: Buenos Aires, 10-11 April 1989 * 58th meeting: Singapore, 2425 February 1990 A sixth meeting is scheduled to take place in San Francisco on 18 August 1991, prior to the 22nd FIET World Congress. At 30 April 1991, the FIET World Executive Committee was composed of the following 38 members: - - - - Sergio AMMANNATI( FIBA, Italy) - - - - - - Sidsel BAUCK( HKIN, Norway) Moshe BEIT DAGAN( UCAPSE, Israel) Siegfried BLEICHER( DGB, F.R. Germany) Karel BOEYKENS( SETCa, Belgium) Armando CAVALIERI( FAECYS, Argentina) Richard CORDTZ( SEIU, United States) Garfield DAVIES( USDAW, United Kingdom) Juan DIAZ AGUIRRE( SNTISSSTE, Mexico) Lodewijk DE WAAL( DIENSTENBOND, Netherlands) Jorgen EIBERG( HK, Denmark) Roy GRANTHAM( GMB/ APEX Partnership, United Kingdom) Inge GRANQVIST( SIF, Sweden) Lore HOSTASCH( GPA, Austria) - Edilberto LA RIVA BLANCO( FETRASALUD, Venezuela) Bengt LLOYD( HF, Sweden)- President James MAHER( SDA, Australia) Philip JENNINGS- Acting General Secretary John MAYNES( FCUA, Australia) Reginaldo MEDEIROS DE SOUZA( CNTC, Brazil) 54th Meeting ( Lomé, 23 August 1987) The meeting was held under the chairmanship of FIET President Tom Whaley. The main business concerned preparations for the 21st World Congress. In this connection, it decided that the World Executive Committee should look into the matter of the number of members of the Congress Resolutions Committee in order to ensure that all interests were taken into account. A proposal would - - Lenore MILLER( RWDSU, United States) Leif MILLS( BIFU, United Kingdom) - - - Gary NEBEKER( UFCW, United States)- 2nd Vice- President - Doudou Issa NIASSE( SYTBEFS, Senegal) Herbert NIERHAUS( DAG, F.R. Germany) Maj- Len REMAHL( LA, Finland) Jochen RICHERT( DGB, F.R. Germany)- 1st Vice- President Pat SCARCELLI( UFCW, United States) Victor H. SEQUEIRA( SITESE, Portugal) - Mamoru SHIBATA( JUC, Japan) - Yves SIMON( FEC, France) Irene SUNDELIN( SIF, Sweden) Raffaele VANNI( UILTUCS, Italy) Muthusamy M. VASAGAM( NUCW, Malaysia) Günter VOLKMAR( HBV, F.R. Germany) Monika WEBER( SKV, Switzerland)- Treasurer Tony WHITELEY( MSF, United Kingdom) Juan ZANOLA( AB, Argentina). 16 FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987-1991 then be submitted to the next World Congress. Twenty- six unions from the following countries were accepted into affiliation: Brazil, Denmark, Great Britain, Guinea, Guyana, India, Italy, Malaysia, Monaco, Niger, Nigeria, Norway, Philippines, Portugal, Singapore, Sweden, Togo and Zambia. The Committee approved the removal of three unions from New Zealand, Peru and Portugal from the list of FIET affiliates: The Committee approved the FIET Budget for 1987, and the Finance Reports of AFRO, APRO, EURO and IRO- FIET for 1986. the new FIET Treasurer, to replace Alfred Hubschmid, who had retired. After some discussion, the Executive Committee voted by a large majority in favour of allowing a representative of the Nordic Bank Workers' Union ( NBU) to attend meetings of the World Executive Committee in an observer capacity and at its own expense, having noted that although the unions within the NBU represented more than 90% of bank workers in their countries, their aggregate area membership would not be sufficient to entitle them to a seat on the World Executive Committee. 56th Meeting The Committee agreed to the recommendation of the IRO-( San Francisco, 26 July 1988) FIET Executive Committee that the IRO- FIET office in Curaçao should be moved to Costa Rica. 55th Meeting ( Lomé, 28 August 1987) The meeting, at which the newly elected Executive was constituted, was held under the chairmanship of FIET President Bengt Lloyd. The President of the FIET Working Group for Women Salaried Employees attended the meeting as a full member of the Executive Committee for the first time. The Committee elected Monika Weber( SKV, Switzerland) as The meeting was held under the chairmanship of FIET President Bengt Lloyd. Victor Hugo Sequeira( SITESE, Portugal) and Tony Whiteley ( MSF, Great Britain) were confirmed as members of the World Executive Committee, to replace Luis Covas and Muriel Turner, respectively. The Committee accepted an invitation from the FIET North American affiliates to hold the next FIET World Congress in San Francisco in August 1991. The Committee adopted the Report of the General Secretary covering the period May 1987 to In recognition of the fact that she had been the first woman member on the FIET World Executive Committee, Muriel Turner, who stood down in 1988, was awarded the FIET Gold Badge. The World Executive Committee now counts seven women members, including the President of the FIET Working Women's Group. llow May 1988. In this connection, a number of decisions were taken, including the following: * Anne Gibson( MSF, Great Britain) was ratified as a member of the FIET Working Women's Group. * A cable would be addressed to the new French Prime Minister, requesting the Government to refuse South African capital in the French casino group Barrière. * The first meeting of the EURO- FIET Trade Section for Hairdressers would be convened in Geneva on 1314 September 1988, with the FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987-1991 17 additional participation of the UFCW, United States. * A new Trade Section for Property Service Employees would be created, to cater for cleaning services employees, janitors, porters, security personnel, elevator operators and engineers involved in the servicing of buildings. The inaugural meeting of the section, to which all interested affiliates would be invited, would be convened in Geneva in November 1988. * The Technology Working Group would in future concentrate its work on occupational health and safety and the work environment; work on that as well as the practical applications of new technology would also be done in the Trade Sections. The FIET Finance Report for 1987 and Budget for 1988 were adopted, as were those of the regional organisations. auzib amor The Committee decided on folFIET WORLD ACTION low- up action to the resolutions PROGRAMME adopted by the 21st FIET World Congress, and agreed on a number of amendments to the FIET World Action Programme in line with discussions at the Congress. Thirty- one unions from the following countries were accepted into affiliation: Argentina, Australia, Austria, Burundi, Costa Rica, Denmark, France, Great Britain, Greece, Guinea, India, Italy, Korea, Mauritius, Netherlands, Nigeria, Norway, Peru, Philippines, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Swaziland, Turkey, Uganda, United States, Venezuela. One of the tasks of the FIET World Executive Committee is to update the FIET World Action Programme in the light of discussions at World Congress. The Programme sets out FIET's basic demands on behalf of its affiliated unions in every part of the world. The 1988 meeting of the FIET World Executive Committee in San Francisco was held in conjunction with the 2nd Convention of the UFCW. The picture shows members of the World Executive Committee with officials of the union. blood The Committee decided to postpone consideration of a request for affiliation from Pakistan until such time as the APRO- FIET Regional Secretary undertook a mission to Pakistan later in the year. It rejected requests for affiliation from three unions in India, Philippines and Zambia. The Committee approved the removal of three unions, two from India and one from Venezuela, from the list of FIET affiliates. Reports on activities of the regional organisations were accepted. 18 FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987- 1991 57th Meeting ( Buenos Aires, 10-11 April 1989) At the opening of the meeting, the Committee observed a minute's silence in memory of the late Alfred Dallinger, Austrian Minister of Social and Labour Affairs and a member of the World Executive Committee. The meeting was then addressed by the Argentine Minister of Labour, Ideler Tonelli. The Committee ratified the nomination of Lore Hostasch to fill the vacancy on the World Executive Committee left by Alfred Dallinger. In connection with a background report prepared by the FIET Secretariat on political and trade union developments in Latin America and the Caribbean, the Committee heard first- hand accounts on the situation in Chile and Paraguay given by Ricardo Hormazabal Sanchez, President of the Confederation of bank employees in Chile( CSTEBA), and Victor Baez Mosqueira, Deputy Secretary General of the Federation of bank employees in Paraguay( FETRABAN). The Committee expressed its support and solidarity for brothers and sisters in these two countries. On concluding discussion of this item, the Committee adopted a resolution on" Trade Unions and the Debt Crisis", which the following day was handed over to the President of the Republic of Argentina, Raul Alfonsin, by a delegation representing the Committee. At its meeting in April 1989, the World Executive Committee was informed that General Secretary Heribert Maier would be leaving FIET at the end of May to take up an appointment as Deputy Director General of the International Labour Office( ILO). The Committee unanimously appointed Philip J. Jennings as Acting General Secretary of FIET and Acting Regional Secretary of EUROFIET until the 22nd World Congress, with effect from 1 June 1989. Alfred Dallinger, Austrian Minister of Social and Labour Affairs and President of FIET's affiliate the GPA, was the longest serving member of the FIET World Executive Comittee. The international trade union movement suffered a great loss when he was killed in a tragic air accident on 23 February 1989. The Committee approved the Report of the General Secretary covering the period June 1988 to February 1989. It was decided that the FIET Working Group for Women Salaried Employees should be renamed FIET Working Women's Group. The Committee approved the proposal that a delegation consisting of members of the Management Committee should visit China in September 1989 to establish contacts with the unions there. A resolution on a" FIET Organising Campaign in Technology Industries" was unanimously adopted. The FIET Finance Report for 1988 together with the statement of verification by the Auditors and the FIET Budget for 1989 were adopted. FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987- 1991 19 The Committee accepted fourteen requests for affiliation from unions in the following countries: Benin, Chad, Faroe Islands, Gabon, Greece, Guinea- Bissau, India, Ivory Coast, Mali, Netherlands, Philippines, Senegal and Sweden. Furthermore, the Committee gave mandate to the Management Committee to accept the application from a union in Burkina- Faso if the formalities met the requirements of FIET. The Committee postponed consideration of an application from the Cyprus Turkish Bank, Commerce and Office Employees Trade Union, pending an acceptable and viable settlement of the Cyprus problem. It took note that the FIET- affiliated Association of Professional, Executive, Clerical and Computer Staff ( APEX) and General, Municipal, Boilermakers and Allied Trades Union( GMB) had merged to form the new union GMB. The Committee decided to send a congratulatory message to Lech Walesa, welcoming the official recognition of Solidarnosc. Reports on activities for the regional organisations, as well as their financial reports for 1988 and budgets for 1989 were approved. In this connection, with respect to AFRO- FIET, the Committee approved the resolutions adopted by the 3rd AFROFIET Conference, as well as the creation of a sixth area to cover Central Africa, and endorsed the Resolution on Trade Unions and the Debt Crisis The FIET World Executive Committee, meeting in Buenos Aires on 10-11 April 1989, having reviewed the impact of the continuing debt crisis on developing countries, Expresses its profound concern that the debt crisis is destroying economic and social progress not only in Latin America but also in Africa, Asia and the Pacific, thus leading to widespread social suffering and threatening democracy itself; Considers that the people of developing countries throughout the world have had to make too many sacrifices as their nations have struggled to meet the onerous and unjust terms of debt repayment; Notes that the Baker Plan was a failure since it did not lead to a reversal of the net outflow of capital from the developing countries to the industrialised world; Emphasises that recently published initiatives of industrialised countries also fail to take into account the legitimate concern of the developing countries to promote social advancement as a prerequisite for economic development; Reiterates that any measures taken to overcome the debt crisis must lead to sustained social and economic development and contain measures which improve living standards, employment levels, real wages, the quality of education, health and social welfare; Expresses its full solidarity with FIET affiliates in their struggle for trade union rights, social progress and for a just solution to the debt crisis; Calls for an approach to the solution of the debt crisis which will put the people of indebted nations first. Such an approach should: * include measures of debt relief, including the writing off of debt by banks; * link levels of debt repayment to levels of economic performance and exports; * involve trade unions in a full dialogue with governments, the IMF, World Bank, international debt clubs and private banks on the scope and content of adjustment policies. 20 FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987- 1991 FIET President Bengt Lloyd of HF, Sweden was elected at the Lomé Congress in 1987. He will not stand for re- election at the San Francisco Congress. procedure for the nomination of a Vice- President for this area to serve on the AFRO- FIET Executive Committee. With respect to APRO- FIET, the Committee approved the convening of the 6th APRO- FIET Ordinary Conference from 22 to 24 February 1990 in Singapore, under the theme" New Forms of Employment and Employment Relationships- Impact Impact on Industrial Relations and Trade Unions". and endorsed the measures taken to purchase an office in Singapore. Regarding EURO- FIET, the Committee approved moves taken to purchase an office in Brussels located in the vicinity of the European Commission headquarters. Concerning IROFIET, the Committee accepted that since the Finance Report of the Regional Organisation for 1988 had not been finalised, it would be circulated to the members after the meeting. 58th Meeting en ( Singapore, 24-25 February 1990) The meeting was held under the chairmanship of FIET President Bengt Lloyd. Sidsel Bauck( HKIN, Norway), Armando Cavalieri( FAECYS, Argentina), Juan Diaz Aguirre ( SNTISSSTE, Mexico) and Lodewijk de Waal( DIENSTENBOND, Netherlands) were ratified as members of the World Executive Committee, to replace Kåre Hansen, Guerino Andreoni, Rodolfo Campos Bravo and Ben van Zweden, respectively. Kåre Hansen, who was attending for the last time as a member of the Committee, was awarded the FIET Gold Badge. Three resolutions were adopted by the Committee on:( 1) Central and Eastern Europe,( 2) the ILO, and( 3) South Africa. The Committee also adopted statements of solidarity for bank workers' unions in Sweden ( SBmf), Finland( Ptl) and Ard( Ptl) an gentina( AB). The main business concerned preparations for the 22nd FIET World Congress to be held in San Francisco from 19 to 23 August 1991. The Committee agreed that the theme of the Congress should be" Shaping the Future through International Union Solidarity", and approved the draft agenda and draft programme for the Congress. The Committee decided to submit revised Standing Orders to the Congress providing for an increase in the size of the Congress Resolutions Committee from 12 to 18 members. It was also decided to submit a motion to Congress concerning an increase in affiliation fees. The Committee unanimously decided on the following nominations with respect to elections at the Congress: President: Jochen Richert; 1st Vice- President: Gary Nebeker; 2nd Vice- President: Maj- Len Remahl, General Secretary: Philip Jennings. The Committee adopted the Report of the Acting General Secretary covering the period March to December 1989, as well as separate reports on missions of the FIET President and Acting General Secretary to Hungary and Poland. The Committee endorsed the FIET Action Programme for Property Services, endorsed the resolution adopted The FIET World Executive Committee has nominated the present 1st VicePresident Jochen Richert of DGB, Germany for election as FIET President at the San Francisco Congress. FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987- 1991 21 by the FIET Working Women's Group on Ending Wage Discrimination; Equal Pay for Work of Equal Value and approved the themes for discussion by the 4th FIET World Women's Conference( San Francisco, August 1991), and endorsed the conclusions adopted by the 2nd FIET World Conference on Professional and Managerial and Managerial Staff( Madrid, October 1989). The FIET Finance Report for 1989 and Budget for 1990 were adopted, as were those of the regional organisations, subject to the approval of certain reports by the auditors. Twenty unions from the following countries were accepted into affiliation: Argentina, Australia, Botswana, Brazil, Chile, Denmark, France, Hungary, Kenya, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, Niger, Norway, Philippines, Portugal, Senegal and Spain. The Committee also took note of a request from Manufacturing Science Finance( MSF) of Great Britain to affiliate to the FIET Bank Trade Section. The Committee recommended that the EURO- FIET Executive Committee, the FIET Management Committee and subsequently the FIET World Executive Committee should consider the affiliation request when the views of British affiliates were known. The Committee decided to postpone consideration of the request for affiliation of the Federal Resolution on Central and Eastern Europe The FIET World Executive Committee, meeting in Singapore on 2425 February 1990, Welcomes the democratic reforms undertaken in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and salutes those who have contributed to these developments through years of struggle and sacrifice. Emphasises that the people of Central and Eastern Europe must now determine their own democratic and constitutional structures through free and democratic elections. Calls upon governments and the international community to underpin the reforms by introducing packages of economic support to those countries progressing towards democratic freedoms. It is vital that a development programme be established to provide such economic assistance. Stresses that any aid must not be at the expense of developing countries and reaffirms the call for governments to meet in full the UN target for official development aid. Demands that those multinational companies investing in Central and Eastern Europe must operate in accordance with international labour standards, and rejects any attempts by multinationals to undermine union rights. Such enterprises can contribute to the reform process by recognising and collectively bargaining with free and independent trade unions. Any inducements to invest by governments should only be on the condition that workers' rights are fully respected. Recognises that the reform process has enhanced the possibilities for disarmament and for further cuts in defence expenditure and considers that resources so released should be devoted to meeting the social needs of workers in Europe and the developing world. Expresses its deep concern at the levels of environmental pollution and believes that the democratic and economic reforms must now be accompanied by measures to improve the environment. Stresses that genuine free and independent trade unions are a fundamental component of democratic societies and that in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe their labour laws must ensure the right to freedom of association, to collective bargaining, the right to strike and equality for women, in compliance with ILO standards. Calls upon FIET and its affiliates to support the efforts of workers to create genuine free and democratic trade unions in Central and Eastern Europe. FIET should explore the means to assist free and independent unions in FIET sectors of activity to build strong organisations for the promotion and defence of workers' interests. 22 FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987- 1991 Chapter 3 FIET 2nd Vice- President Gary Nebeker of UFCW, United States. countries Council of Retail and Allied Workers of South Africa ( FEDCRAW), in view of the unification of unions in the commerce and catering sector in South Africa. The Committee approved the removal of six unions from Argentina, Bolivia, Monaco, Peru, Netherlands and Turkey from the list of FIET affiliates. The Committee took note that a full report on relations between EURO- FIET and the European Organisation of the World Federation of Clerical workers ( Christians) would be made to the next meeting of the EUROFIET Executive Committee and subsequently to the World Executive Committee. As concerned changes in membership, the Committee took note that the commercial workers' union of Argentina had changed its name to Federacion Argentina de Empleados de Comercio y Servicio( FAECYS). It also took note of a report on the new South African Commercial, Catering and Allied Workers' Union( SACCAWU) and decided that FIET should closely monitor developments. It was decided that legal aid and humanitarian assistance should continue within the previous framework of cooperation and an education project for 1990 would be continued. FIET Treasurer Monika Weber of SKV, Switzerland. On matters pending, the Committee took note of reports on two Egyptian unions and one from Mali. Reports on activities of the regional organisations were accepted. Finally, the Committee accepted an invitation from the GPA, Austria to hold the 23rd FIET World Congress in 1995 in Vienna. FIET MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE The decisions of the Management Committee are submitted to the World Executive Committee for ratification. The Management Committee is responsible for FIET financial and administrative questions and for its general direction between meetings of the Executive. The Management Committee is composed of the FIET Officers, which at the end of April 1991 were the following: the President, Bengt Lloyd; the 1st Vicedent, Bengt Lloyd; the 1st VicePresident, Jochen Richert; the 2nd Vice- President, Gary Nebeker; the Treasurer, Monika Weber, and the Acting General Secretary, Philip Jennings. During the period under review, there have been eight meetings of the Management Committee: - - Lomé, 23 August 1987 Geneva, 5 November 1987 - Tel Aviv, 16 May 1988 - - - - Costa Rica, 25 October 1988 Buenos Aires, 10 April 1989 Reykjavik, 8-9 August 1989 Singapore, 23 February 1990 Geneva, 20 November 1990 Other meetings are scheduled for 28-29 May in Geneva and 18 August 1991 in San Francisco. FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987-1991 23 23 The Com ing OS quod ( WASDCEF) possibilities ting ing world insig имоз DAY! aM adi lo anoizigab sT 24 FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987- 1991 imbs SENAM OUT di to bezogbo Chapter 3 Organisation The And MEMBERSHIP Argenting de la República Argentina de la Repoptica 10000 As of May 1991, FIET's membership stood at just over 10 million in 322 unions and 102 countries. This is an increase of over 1.6 million, of 74 unions and 10 countries since the 1987 World Congress. The FIET World Executive Committee which meets prior to the Congress will be discussing the affiliation of a significant number of new affiliates which will include new and reformed unions from Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland and Rumania. As a matter of interest, it is worth taking a historical look at FIET's membership development. The table shows membership growth since 1921. From an organisation which has its historical origins in Europe, FIET is now unquestionably a world organisation. Year Unions Countries Members 19 1991 20 322 102 10'002'324 1000 1987 248 92 8'369'568 1983 210 86 7'563'819 1979 179 79 6'396'068 1976 146 73 5'933'476 1973 137 71 5'775'764 1970 128 68 5'237'909 1967 112 62 5'022'261 800 1964 87 50 3'890'165 1961 69 38 2'949'998 1958 26 46 26 2'006'229 1955 34 19 2'000'000 1952 21 12 1'468'359 Bots 1949 1937 32 1921 25 222 19 12 822'265 18 607'718 12 854'600 FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987- 1991 25 ЧИНГЯЯЯмам Sot bosanoing SSE ni nollim O novo tej is boota qidados e TBH 100 ysM lo aA od ponizar of bacon Tonoillim d.Inovo lo sa os af airTom long to dowostimo evito boW THE T wan abuloni Ilw Lainst bas basovalvolaodos esglu mod anoinu boable bus sohozid a gablet drow at ties cer sonia wong quzdam zwode older on to tam s aA golovob sinsgno.bliowyldshohsupa won at To ni enigno lupioraid ani and doidw nott M anunuo ASE'500'01 218 anoinU 185Y SOI 1001 28 E8Q1 er ever ET are IT TE! ΕΓΩΙ 200 over Faer 02 18 88 essooo's 8201 000'000's 2201 IS 285-008 ΠΕΡΙ 003+28 20 fser 26 26 FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987- 1991 Country M Organisation moiteainagio Membership Antigua 0001002 Argentina outb 1. 2. The Antigua Workers' Union( AWU) Asociación Agentes de Propaganda Medica de la República Argentina 500 ( AAPM) 1'500 3. Asociación Bancaria( AB) das 225'105 028 4. Asociación Supervisores de la Industria Metalúrgica de la República Argentina( ASIMRA) 10'000 5. Federación Argentina de Empleados de Comercio y Servicio( FAECYS) 215'000 6. Federación Argentina de Trabajadores de Edificios de Renta y ( AB Horizontal( FATERYH) 7. Federación de Asociaciones de Trabajadores de la Sanidad Argentina ( FATSA) 57'280 100'000 020 5600 8. Sindicato de Obreros de Maestranza( SOM) 20'295 9. Sindicato del Seguro de la República Argentina( SSRA) 10'500 10. Sindicato Unico de Trabajadores del Automovil Club Argentino 68( SUTACA) 4'000 Aruba 11. Arubaanse Bond van Werknehmers in Verplegende Instellingen( ABV) 529 Australia 00 MOD13. 223 12. Australian Bank Employees' Union( ABEU) 78'070 Australian Insurance Employees' Union( AIEU) 26'574 14. Commonwealth Bank Officers' Association( CBOA) 31'326 000 15. Federated Clerks Union of Australia( FCUA) 100'958 16. Shop, Distributive& Allied Employees Association( SDA) 209'750 000'T 000 17. The Australian Hairdressers, Wigmakers& Hairworkers Employees' Can Federation( AHWHEF) 3'000 Bangladesh 000 0025 18. ( CU 19. AMA 20. Bangladesh Jatio Sramik League( BJSL) 25'000 19. Bank and Insurance Employees' Federation of Bangladesh( BIEF) Bank Karmachari Federation( BKF) 2'370 1'000 Barbados 21. The Barbados Workers' Union( BWU) 1'600 22. The National Union of Public Workers( NUPW) 2'080 87400 Belgique 23. Syndicat des Employés, Techniciens et Cadres de Belgique( SETCa) 145'090 Bénin 24. Syndicat National de Travailleurs du Secteur Bancaire et Assimilé du Bénin( SYNTRABANC) 800 Bolivia 25 25. 000'S Federación Departamental de Trabajadores de Comercio y R.A.( FDTC) 26. Federación Sindical de Trabajadores Bancarios y Ramas Afines ( FESTBRA) 2'142 450 Botswana 27. Botswana Commercial and General Workers' Union( BCGWU) 300 Brasil 28. 29. Confederaçao Nacional das Profissoes Liberais( CNPL) Confederaçao Nacional dos Trabalhadores em Turismo e Hospitalidade ( CONTRATUH) 100'000 25'000 FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987- 1991 27 27 Country M Organisation noltesinago Membership 00007 00021( 2) 002 30. 31. 200 Burkina- Faso 32. Confederaçao Nacional dos Trabalhadores nas Empresas de Crédito ( CONTEC) Confederaçao Nacional dos Trabalhadores no Comercio( CNTC) Fédération des Employés des Maisons de Commerce des Industries et sadigdes Banques( FEMCIBAN) 33. Fédération Syndicale Burkinabé du Commerce et de l'Industrie ( FESBACI) 500'000 125'000 850 1'045 Burundi 34. Fédération des Travailleurs des Banques et Assurances( FTBA) 1'200 Chile 35. Asociación Gremial Registro Nacional de Agentes Comerciales y Viajantes( RNACV) 950 36. Confederación Nacional de Sindicatos, Federaciones y Asociaciones de on Trabajadores del Sector Privado de Chile( CEPCH) 6'078 0001 37. Confederación de Sindicatos de Trabajadores de Empresas Bancarias y Afines( CSTEBA) 13'900 esz VEA 38. Federación Nacional de Sindicatos de Trabajadores del Comercio ( FENATRADECO) 5'790 ( USA) silasieu A Colombia 39. 40. Sindicato de Empleados del Banco del Comercio( SINTRABANCOM) Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores de la Industria Gastronómica, Hotelera y Similares de Colombia( HOCAR) 400 11'000 41. Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores del Instituto Colombiano de Seguros Sociales( SNTICSS) 7'000 0002 42. Sindicato Unión Nacional de Empleados del Comercio( UNEC) 1'000 Costa Rica 0001 46. 000 Côte d'Ivoire 47. 48. 43. Asociación Nacional de proesionales en Enfermeria( ANPE) 81 44. Federación Costarricense de Trabajadores de la Salud( FECTSALUD) 45. Sindicato de Empleados del Banco Nacional de Costa Rica( SEBANA) Unión del Personal del Instituto Nacional de Seguros( UPINS) obschef of Syndicat des Employés et Cadres du Commerce( SECC) Syndicat National des Travailleurs des Banques, Etablissements Financiers et Assurances de Côte d'Ivoire( SYNABEFA- CI) S dab 1'400 1'000 2'500 1'600 LIS sobedie 5'000 BU9'000 Curaçao 008 49. Curaçao Federation of Workers( CFW) M 2 AS 550 50. Curacaoshe Bond Van Werknemers in Verplegende en Verzorgende Instellingen( CBV) ( OTC) 1'425 sivilod Cyprus 51. Cyprus Union of Bank Employees( ETYK) as 4'267 52. Federation of Clerical Employees of Cyprus Free Trade Unions( OIYK) 2'900 Danmark 53. Centralforening for Danske Assurandorer( CDA) TS A2'078 54. Dansk Frisorforbund( DFf) 5'049 55. Dansk Funktionaerforbund( DF) no 85 9'982 shab56. Danske Bankfunktionaerers Landsforening( DBL) ec 34'843 000: 20 57. Danske Forsikringsfunktionaerers Landsforening( DFL) 7'529 28 FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987-1991 Country M Organisation nolizing 0 Membership 59. Danske Sparekassefunktionaerers Landsforening( DSL) 0 14'261 60. 002 61. Handels- og Kontorfunktionaerernes Forbund i Danmark( HK) Teknisk Landsforbund( TL) 202'949 re 32'584 00019 Deutschland 62. Deutsche Angestellten- Gewerkschaft( DAG) D ER 422'209 63. Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund( DBG) at 720'000 64. Gewerkschaft Handel, Banken und Versicherungen( HBV) 626'325 sbane Dominica 65. Waterfront& Allied Workers Union( WAWU) 240 100/000 Egypt beb66. National Trade Union of Banks, Insurances& Financial Affairs ( NTUBIFA) sisingisu 95'000 El Salvador 67. Sindicato de Trabajadores de la Salud( SITRASALUD) 991'000 000 .ee 50.000 España ab 68. 0001 69. Federación de Empleados y Técnicos( ELA- STV) Federación Estatal de Banca, Ahorro, Seguros y Oficinas ( FEBASO- UGT) .00 14'600 12'000 201'S 70. 002 E 71. Federación Estatal de Trabajadores de Comercio( FETC- UGT) Federación Estatal de Trabajadores de Hosteria( FETH) 2-60'000 16100 Faroe 72. Starvsmannafelagid ICS) 1'188 008 FOT Fijisica 73. Fiji Bank Employees Union( FBEU) 201 1'497 74. Insurance Officers Association( IOA) A legods .00% 200 75. National Union of Factory and Commercial Workers( NUFCW) S 500 Finland 76. Liikealan Ammattiliitto( LA) тог 2114'500 000 77. Pankkitoimihenkilöliitto Bankmannaförbundet( Ptl) 37'854 78. Suomen Teollisuustoimihenkilöiden Liitto r.y.( STL) 45'759 BOME 79. Vakuutusväen Liitto- Försäkringsmannaförbundet r.y.( VvL- Fmf) 8'944 140 France 80. 000'A 81. Fédération des Employés et Cadres Force Ouvrière( FEC- FO) Fédération des Services( FdS- CFDT) 60'000 8'400 001 2 82. Fédération Française des Syndicats de Banques et Sociétés Financières CFDT( SBSF- CFDT) 110'000 asovo nibal ILA SIL 18'000 00010 83. 000'2 Fédération Nationale de la Coiffure, de l'Esthétique et de la Perfumerie Q24M Force Ouvrière( FNCEP- FO) 26 000 1'000 84. 000'0 85. Fédération Nationale FO des VRP et Commerciaux( VRP- FO) Fédération Santé- Sociaux( FSS- CFDT) 1'000 18'000 0020 86. L'Union des Cadres et Ingénieurs de la CGT Force Ouvrière ( L'UCI- FO) 10'000 000128 87. Union Confédérale des Ingénieurs et Cadres( UCC- CFDT) 20'000 Gabon 88. 143 Fédération Syndical des Travailleurs des Banques, Assurances et Etablissements Financiers( FESYEFG) 40.003 1'360 49 Gambia 89. Gambia Commercial& Industrial Workers Union( GCIWU) 2'500 FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987- 1991 29 29 Country M Organisation пойвгілку Membership Ghana 90. Industrial& Commercial Workers' Union( ICU) H.00 83'000 500'000 Greece 0000ST Grenada ONC -am no 91. 92. 93. 94. Federation of the Insurance Associations in Greece( OASE) Greek Federation of Bank Employees( OTOE) Greek Federation of Private Employees( OIYE) Panhellenic Union of Casino Employees( Croupiers)( PUCE) 4'500 49'000 ideaing ethnaldo 64'439 321 95. 96. Commercial and Industrial Workers' Union( CIWU) Grenada Technical and Allied Workers' Union( GTAWU) 773 Burundi minim 875 200 Guatemala 97. 000120 Sindicato de Trabajadores del Instituto Guatemalteco de Seguridad Social( STIGSS) 1'886 Guinée 98. 99. 003 AI 100. Fédération des Syndicats Professionnels du Commerce( FSPC) Fédération Syndicale Professionnelle de la Santé( FSPS) Fédération Syndicale Professionnelle des Banques et Assurances de Guinée( FSPBAG) dobyle 1'500 5'000 131'000 0001 Guinée- Bissau 101. Syndicat des Banques et Assurances( SBA) OT 2'105 001 102. Sindicato Nacional do Comércio e Servicos( SC) 13'500 COM) Guyana 103. Clerical and Commercial Workers' Union( CCWU) 3'200 104. Guyana Bauxite Supervisors' Union( GBSU) 11300 105. Guyana Mine Workers' Union( GMWU) 1'000 005 106. 002 National Association of Agricultural, Commercial and Industrial Employees( NAACIE) NEER 1860 Honduras 107. 44. Sindicato de Trabajadores del Instituto Hondureño de Seguridad Social( SITRAIHSS) bobler 1'000 Hungary 108. Democratic Union of Scientific Workers( TDDSZ) 3'468 India voire 109. 110. 2015111. All India Bank of Baroda Employees' Federation( AIBBEF) 08 All India Dena Bank Staff Federation( AIDBSF) 25'000 4'000 000'81 112. Curaçao obam113. 0001 114. 0001 115. 000 81 All India National Life Insurance Employees' Federation( AINLIEF) All India Overseas Bank Employees' Union( AIOBEU) All India Punjab National Bank Staff Federation( AIPNBSF) Indian Managerial and Professional Employees' Centre( IMPEC) Indian National Shops and Commercial Employees' Federation ( INSCEF) 5'100 20'165 10'000 5'000 20'000 Cyprus 116. 000 01 117. 000'09 National Confederation of Bank of India Staff Unions( NCBOISU) State Bank of India& Subsidiary Bank Employees' Union ( SBISBEU) 2'500 2'900 T8 35'000 Danmark 118. The National Commercial, Technical& Salaried Employees' Association( NCTSEA) 2078 .88 4'525 Indonesia 002'S 119. PB Sesppeka- Gasbiindo orening 32'577 08 30 FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987- 1991 Country M Organisation Membership Ireland( UW/ 120. Irish Bank Officials Association( IBOA) Mode 18'562 121 121. Irish Distributive and Administrative Trade Union( IDATU) 14'500 122. Manufacturing Science Finance( MSF) 3'000 Island 123. Federation of Icelandic Bank Employees( SIB) 3'404 124. Landssamband Islenzkra Verzlunarmanna( LIV) 12'417 Israel 125. Technicians' Union( TU) 10'000 3200 126. Union of Clerical, Administrative and Public Service Employees ( UCAPSE) 100'000 189 Italia 127. Federazione Autonoma Bancari Italiani( FABI) 56'419 ( 930) 128. Federazione Italiana Bancari e Assicurativi( FIBA) 68'000 129. Federazione Italiana Lavoratori Commercio Turismo Servizi ( FILCAMS- CGIL) 50'000 130. Federazione Italiana Sindacale Assicurazioni e Credito 108T IM( FISAC- CGIL) 64'000 131. 810 Federazione Italiana Sindacati, Addetti Servizi, Commerciali Affini e del Turismo( FISASCAT) 50'000 220 132. Unione Italiana Bancari( UIB) 16'000 133. Unione Italiana Lavoratori delle Assicurazioni( UILASS) 2'500 EDE ST 134. Unione Italiana Lavoratori Turismo Commercio Servizi( UILTuCS) 50'000 Jamaica 135. Bustamente Industrial Trade Union( BITU) 5'133 136. National Workers Union of Jamaica( NWU) 2'845 137. Union of Technical Administrative& Supervisory Personnel( UTASP) 500 080 Japan 138. Confederation of Japan Automobile Workers' Unions ( JAW- Jidoshasoren) 80'000 139. Federation of Non- Life Insurance Workers Unions of Japan 202 ( SOMPO- ROREN) 24'000 140. 141. 142. 000'8 Japan Federation of Commercial Workers' Unions( JUC) Japanese Confederation of Aviation Labour( JCAL) The Japanese Federation of Textile, Garment, Chemical, Mercantile and Allied Industry Workers' Unions( ZENSEN) 110'000 3'000 110'000 Kenya 143. 144. Kenya Union of Commercial, Food and Allied Workers( KUCFAW) Kenya Union of Domestic, Hotels, Educational Institutions, 26'000 9138 028 207 Hospitals and Allied Workers( KUDHEIHA) R2'075 020 I 145. Kenya Union of Printing, Publishing, Paper Manufacturers and Allied Workers( KUPRIPUPA) 1'800 22A 210 081 Korea( South) 146. 147. Korean Federation of Bank& Financial Labour Unions( KFBU) Korean Federation of Clerical and Financial Workers' Unions 100'990 000'08 2822( KFCFWU) 40'000 148. Korean Federation of Insurance Labour Unions( KFILU) 12'000 Pakistan 149. 150. Korean Federation of Professional and Technicians Unions( KFPTU) Korean Federation of Hospital Workers' Unions( KFHWU) 11'691 10'000 FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987-1991 31 Country M Organisation noltaxiong O Membership Lesotho 151. 152. 153. Lesotho Industrial, Commercial and Allied Workers Union( LICAWU) Lesotho Union of Bank Employees( LUBE) ( LUBE) dhakrish National Union of Shops, Secretaries, Distributive and Allied Workers ( NUSSDAW) 1'226 151 6'500 EST Liban 154. 155. Fédération des Syndicats des Employés de Banques au Liban( FSEBL) Fédération des Syndicats des Employés de Commerce( FSEC) 2'000 1'000 201 Liberia 156. 000'001 Domestic, Commercial, Clerical and General Services Union( DCCGSU) ( 829AU) 2'500 Luxembourg 157. Association Luxembourgeoise des Employés de Banque et d'Assurance a.s.b.l.( ALEBA) 7'040 158. 159. Fédération des Employés Privés du Grand- Duché de Luxembourg( FEP) Onofhängegen Gewerkschaftsbond Letzeburg( OGB- L) 12'000 7'500 000'02 Malaysia 160. All Malayan Estates Staff Union( AMESU) 2'535 0000 161. Association of Bank Officers- Peninsular Malaysia( ABOM) 1'801 162. Dunlop Industries Employees Union( DIEU) 1'271 163. Employees Provident Fund Board Staff Union( EPFBSU) 2618 164. 165. Genting Highlands Hotel Berhad Employees Union( GBEU) SE National Union of Bank Employees( NUBE) $ 755 in .EED 20'169 2166. National Union of Commercial Workers( NUCW) AET 12'303 167. EEMZ Paper and Paper Products Manufacturing Employees Union ( PPPMEU) 850 168. 002 ( 12A 169. 169. Rubber Research Institute Staff Union( RRISU) Sabah Banking Employees' Union( SBEU) 1'509 1'476 170. 171. 172. 173. 174. Sabah Commercial Employees' Union( SCEU) Sarawak Bank Employees' Union( SBEU) Sarawak Commercial Employees' Union( SCEU) UDA Staff Union( UDA) and oil- no to t Union of Employees in Trade Unions( UETU) 1'030 1'476 711 319 216 000/01 Mali 175. Syndicat National du Commerce des Banques du Crédit et des Assurances 41000 000'01 ( SYNCAB) 8'000 Malta 176. Supervisory, Technical and Professional Staff Association( STPSA) 2'100 5'000 Mauritius 177. Distributive Trade Workers Union( DTWU) 850 178. Plantation Workers' Union( PWU) to ZAI 1'050 008 F 179. Sugar Industry Overseers Association( SIOA) SED) 1'200 180. Tea Industry Staff and Employees Union( TISEU) 453 ( dio México 181. Federación Nacional de Sindicatos Bancarios( FENASIB) 182. Sindicato Nacional de los Trabajadores del ISSSTE( SNTISSSTE) 183. Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores de Banco Obrero C.T.M.18 ( UPPE)( SNTBO) CAT 110'000 60'000 446 000'01 32 FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987- 1991 CountryM Organisation moltziego Membership Monaco 184. 185. 000'2 Syndicat des Employés, Gradés et Cadres de Banque de Monaco ( SEGCM) Syndicat Monegasque des Cadres et des Employés de Jeux de la Société des Bains de Mer de Monaco( SMCEJ- SBMM) 2'800 380 285 Montserrat 186. Montserrat Allied Workers' Union( MAWU) w418 FIS New Zealand 187. Service Workers Federation of Aotearoa( SWFA) 5'000 188. The Finance Sector Union( FinSec) 815 23'000 Nicaragua 189. Federación de Trabajadores Hoteleros, Meseros y Similares de Managua( FETRAHOMESIMA) ins OSS 1'312 000188 250 Niederlande 190. Centrum voor Middengroepen en Hoger Personeel FNV( CMHP) 3'000 0001 191. Dienstenbond FNV 68'859 192. Kappersbond FNV 3'471 5000 Niger 193. ne 194. 195. Syndicat National des Travailleurs de l'Industrie du Niger( SNTIN) Syndicat National de Transport et Mécanique Générale( SYNTRAMEG) Syndicat National des Banques, Assurances et Etablissements A Financiers du Niger( SYNBANK) 800 800 800 Singapore COM 196. Syndicat Unique des Agents des Travaux Publics, de l'Habitat et des Transports( SUATPHT) 2'773 197. 198. 0002 0008 Nigeria 199. Syndicat National des Travailleurs de l'Energie du Niger( SYNATREN) Syndicat National des Travailleurs du Commerce( SYNTRACOM) Syndicat Unique de la Santé et de l'Action Sociale( SUSAS) 725 291'000 1'500 12.000 200. National Union of Banks, Insurance& Financial Institutions Employees ( NUBIFIE) 78'000 000'2 000'S 201. 202. National Union of Shop and Distributive Employees( NUSDE) Precision, Electrical and Related Equipment Senior Staff Association 18'500 noto( PERESSA) CES 1'233 0001 SID 203. Shop and Distributive Trade Senior Staff Association of Nigeria ( SHOPDIS) EES 4'000 Norge 204. Forsikringsfunksjonaerenes Landsforbund( FL) AES 7'100 205. Handel og Kontor i Norge( HKiN) 57'351 206. Norsk Arbeidsmandsforbund( NA) 9'138 207. Norsk Forbund for Arbeidsledere og Tekniske Funksjonaerer( NFATF) 10'697 ar 208. Norsk Kommuneforbund( NK) 750 Sudan 209. Norske Assurandorers Forbund( NAF) RES 1'436 812 FA TA 210. Norske Bankfunksjonaerers Forbund( NBF) 28'259 Österreich 211. Gewerkschaft der Privatangestellten( GPA) 213'100 212. Gewerkschaft Hotel, Gastgewerbe, Persönlicher Dienst( HGPD) 12'800 Pakistan 213. All Pakistan Federation of Trade Unions( APFTU) 32'900 3008 214. Pakistan Bank Employees' Federation( PBEF) CAS 1'018 FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987- 1991 33 Country M Organisation noiseinas10 Membership 215. Pakistan Insurance Employees' Federation( PIEF) 088 Panama 216. Federación Industrial de Trabajadores de Alimentos, Bebidas, ken Hoteles y Afines( FITABHA) 10M 502 03750 5'000 Papua New Guinea 217. Amalgamated General Workers' Union( AGWU) автоном 1'000 Paraguay 218. Federación de Trabajadores Bancarios del Paraguay( FETRABAN) 1'249 Perú 219. Asociación de Agentes Viajeros del Perú( AAVP) 1'000 220. Centro Unión de Trabajadores del Instituto Peruano de Seguridad Social( CUTIPSS) 38'000 000 E 221. Federación de Trabajadores de Cajas de Ahorro y Préstamo para Vivienda( Mutuales)( FECAPV) obashobs 1'000 222. Federación de Trabajadores de Compañías de Seguros del Perú ( FETCOS) 2'000 008 223. 008 ( OCMA Federación Nacional de Trabajadores en Productos Alimenticios, Condimentos y Derivados( FENTRAPACD) 3'000 224. 008 Sindicato de Empleados de la Sociedad Andina de los Grandes Almacenes ( SEMSAGA) 550 225. Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores de la Corporación Peruana de Aeropuertos y Aviación Comercial S.A.( SINTRACOR) 1'400 ( ИНЯТАЙХ Philippines 003 226. Alliance of Filipino Workers( AFW) 7'749 227. 228. Boby 229. Associated Labor Unions- TUCP( ALU) eer 5'000 00018 002 81 230. Federation of Filipino Civilian Employees' Associations( FFCEA) National Union of Bank Employees( NUBE) in lens.000 Philippine Agricultural Commercial& Industrial Workers' Union ( PACIWU) 6'000 6'000 5'000 231. EESTI Philippine Airlines Employees' Association( PALEA) com 232. Philippine Technical, Clerical, Commercial Employees Association ( PTCCEA) 2'000 dode des 805 1'000 000 233. Workers Alliance Trade Unions( WATU) H2) 612 Portugal 234. Sindicato dos Bancarios do Centro( SBC) поч JAOS 5'304 235. Sindicato dos Bancarios do Norte( SBN) 17'331 236. Sindicato dos Bancarios de Sul e Ilhas( SBSI) .00$ 44'624 237. Sindicato dos Engenheiros da Região Sul( SERS) TOS 1'875 238. BEMI 239. 020180 Sindicato dos Quadros e Tecnicos dos Transportes( SIQTER) 800 Sindicato dos Trabalhadores de Escritorio, Comercio, Servicos es Novas Tecnologias( SITESE) 776 1: 200 47'518 240. 241. 008 ST Sindicato dos Trabalhadores de Seguros de Norte( STSN) Sindicato dos Trabalhadores de Seguros do Sul e Regiones Autonomas( STSSRA) 4'564 12'173 República Dominicana A LETS 242. Federación Nacional de Trabajadores de la Salud( FENATRASAL) 1'500 34 FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987- 1991 Country SM Organisation ofteains0 Membership 243. Unión Nacional de Servicios de Enfermería( UNASE) 2'800 Schweiz 244. Gewerkschaft Verkauf, Handel, Transport, Lebensmittel( VHTL) 9'350 245. Schweizerische Kader- Organisation( SKO) 11'705 246. Schweizerischer Kaufmännischer Verband( SKV) 42'000 Sénégal 247. Syndicat des Travailleurs des Banques et Etablissements Financiers du Sénégal( SYTBEFS) 248. Syndicat National des Employés et Cadres des Entreprises d'Assurances( SNECEA) 249. tes Syndicat National des Employés et Cadres du Commerce du Sénégal( SNECCS- CNTS) 2'000 800 15'000 250. Syndicat National des Travailleurs de la Caisse de Sécurité Sociale ( SNTCSS) 600 251. Syndicat National des Travailleurs de la Santé Privée( SNTSP) 507 Seychelles 252. National Workers Union( NWU) 5'000 Sierra Leone 253. Clerical, Insurance, Banks, Accounting, Petroleum, Industrial and Commercial Employees' Union( CIB APICE) 3'900 Singapore 254. Food, Drinks and Allied Workers' Union( FDAWU) 2'500 255. 256. Singapore Airport Terminal Services Workers' Union( SATSWU) Singapore Bank Officers Association( SBOA) 1'920 1'358 257. The Singapore Bank Employees' Union( SBEU) 6'556 258. The Singapore Insurance Employees' Union( SIEU) 1'774 259. The Singapore Manual and Mercantile Workers' Union( SMMWU) 12'000 South Africa 260. 261. Banking, Insurance, Finance and Assurance Workers Union( BIFAWU) National Union of Distributive and Allied Workers( NUDAW) 6'500 10'546 000 262. South African Commercial, Catering and Allied Workers' Union ( SACCAWU) 68'500 263. The Brushes& Cleaners Workers Union( BCWUSA) 3'000 Sri Lanka 264. Ceylon Bank Employees' Union( CBEU) 20'000 St. Lucia T265. Seamen, Waterfront& General Workers Trade Union( SWGWTU) 1'200 St. Vincent 266. Commercial Technical and Allied Workers' Union( CTAWU) 518 Sudan 267. Banks Officials Trade Union( BOTU) 4'500 000$ 1 268. Clerks and Storekeepers Trade Union( CSTU) 5'000 2008 Suriname 269. Algemene Bond van Personeel in Dienst van het Landsbedrijf Academisch Ziekenhuis( ABPAZ) 500 270. 271. Algemene Bond voor Bankpersoneel in Suriname( ABBS) E.B.S. Werknemers Organisatie( OWOS) 500 550 FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987- 1991 35 Country M Organisation Membership 008: 272. Sverige 273. Organisatie van Werknemers in Dienst van de Assurantie- Bedrijven in Suriname( ORWASS) Fastighetsanställdas Förbund( FASTIGHETS) 247 slow be 39'294 274. Försäkringsanställdas Förbund( FF) 20'036 275. Försäkringstjänstemannaförbundet( FTF) 16'992 276. Handelsanställdas Förbund( HF) TAS 160'200 277. Handelstjänstemannaförbundet( HTF) 84'300 278. Statstjänstemannaförbundet( ST) 722 279. Svenska Bankmannaförbundet( SBmf) 48'618 280. Svenska Industritjänstemannaförbundet( SIF) CAS 304'230 Swaziland 281. 282. Swaziland Commercial and Allied Workers Union( SCAWU) 02 Swaziland Union of Financial Institutions and Allied Workers ( SUFIAW) 1'015 949 Tchad 283. Fédératon Nationale des Syndicats des Institutions Financièresas ( FENASIF) 443 284. Fédération Syndicale du Commerce et de l'Industrie du Tchad ( FESCIT) 1'500 Thailand 285. Federation of Bank and Financial Workers Unions of Thailand ( FBFT) 35'000 Togo 286. 287. Syndicat des Employés de Commerce du Togo( SYNECTO) an Syndicat des Employés et Cadres des Banques, des Etablissements Financiers et des Assurances du Togo( SYNBANK) 3'000 1'985 288. Syndicat des Travailleurs de l'Office des Produits Agricoles du Togo ( SYNTOPAT) A 251 289. Syndicat des Travailleurs de la Sécurité Sociale du Togo oint( SYNTRASSTO) 700 290. Syndicat National des Coiffeurs du Togo( SYNACOIFTO) 504 Trinidad 291. Bank Employees Union( BEU) 916 292. Union of Commercial and Industrial Workers( UCIW) 1'538 Tunisie 293. Fédération Générale des Banques et Etablissements Financiers/ UGTT ( FGBEF) 1'000 294. Syndicat Général de la Sécurité Sociale/ UGTT( SGSS) m1'000 Turkey 295. Banka- Sigorta Iscileri Sendikasi( BASISEN) 31'500 296. Banka ve Sigorta Iscileri Sendikasi( BANKSIS) 12'000 297. Banka ve Sigorta Iscileri Sendikasi( BASS) 8'995 298. Türkiye Ticaret, Kooperatif, Egitim, Büro ve Güzel Sanatlar Iscileri Sendikasi( TEZ- KOOP- IS) 23'000 Uganda 299. National Union of Clerical, Commercial, Professional and Technical Employees( NUCCTE) 5'148 36 FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987- 1991 Country Organisation Membership 300. United Kingdom 301. 302. National Union of Cooperative Movement Workers( NUCMW) Association of Clerical, Technical and Supervisory Staffs( ACTS) Banking, Insurance and Finance Union( BIFU) 1'620 3'000 171'101 303. 304. 305. Broadcasting and Entertainment Trades Alliance( BETA) General, Municipal, Boilermakers& Allied Trades Union( GMB) Manufacturing Science Finance( MSF) 5'000 105'000 75'000 306. 307. Society of Graphical and Allied Trades 1982( SOGAT) Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers( USDAW) 25'000 250'000 United States/ 308. Canada International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers ( IFPTE) 3'000 309. Office& Professional Employees International Union( OPEIU) 310. Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union( RWDSU) 311. Service Employees International Union( SEIU) 50'000 50'000 200'000 312. United Food& Commercial Workers International Union( UFCW) 625'000 Uruguay 313. Federación Uruguaya de Agentes Comerciales( FUAC) 3'200 Venezuela 314. Federación de Trabajadores Bancarios y Afines de Venezuela b 26( FETRABANCA) 1'500 315. Federación de Trabajadores de Tiendas, Comercio y Sus Similares de Venezuela( FETRACOMERCIO) 10'000 FIE how no 2525dst 316. Federación Nacional de Empleados( FENADE) 10'000 317. Federación Nacional de Trabajadores de la Salud( FETRASALUD) 40'000 Zambia 318. Guards Union of Zambia( GUZ) 12'800 319. National Union of Commercial and Industrial Workers( NUCIW) 18'000 320. Zambia Union of Financial Institutions and Allied Workers( ZUFIAW) 10'512 Zimbabwe 321. Commercial Workers' Union of Zimbabwe( CWUZ) 322. Zimbabwe Society of Bank Officials( ZISBO) 21'000 1'200 FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987-1991 37 Organisation Chapter 4 M noitezinagio FIET SECRETARIAT AND OFFICES 108 IOLITE The period 1987-1991 has seen some significant changes in terms of the administration and organisational arrangements of the International. On 1 June 1989, Heribert Maier left to take up an appointment as Deputy Director General of the International Labour Office after almost 16 years in office as General Secretary of FIET and Regional Secretary of EUROFIET. The FIET World Executive Committee, at its meeting in Buenos Aires in April 1989, unanimously appointed Philip J. 000 ST $ 1301 Jennings as Acting General Secretary of FIET and Acting Regional Secretary of EUROFIET. He was subsequently elected as Regional Secretary of EURO- FIET at the 6th Regional Conference in November 1990. The IRO- FIET office was moved from Curaçao to San José, Costa Rica, in 1987, and new offices were purchased in Singapore and Brussels in 1989. FIET has also invested in a computer network at headquarters and compatible systems have FIET headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, co- ordinate activities around the world. Ba been installed in Brussels, San José and Singapore, which means that communications between offices are now immediate. The offices are equipped with state of the art technology which has the potential to be further developed in the future. Since the 1987 Congress, the General Secretariat in Geneva has: * computerised all membership records and statistics to complement the accounting system; * developed databases on working conditions and multinational companies; * developed a computer programme for FIET's education activities; * enabled the use of desk top sw publishing for the production of press releases and a new look FIET Info. In addition to the investment in technology, FIET has continued to develop its in- house capacity to produce reports and publications. With desk top publishing and the use of more imaginative graphics, FIET can produce high quality and attractive publications at an economic cost- and all in- house. 38 FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987-1991 There are nineteen full- time and five part- time staff at FIET's Geneva headquarters. яин FIET Headquarters The office structure of the General Secretariat in Geneva is as follows: Bank Trade Section/ Insurance Trade Section/ Social Insurance and Health Care Trade Section/ Property Services Trade Section Nicholas Beck Office of the General Secretary Trade Section Secretary Philip J. Jennings Acting FIET General Secretary EURO- FIET Regional Secretary Responsible for the General Secretariat. Responsible for co- ordination of activities and supervision of the EURO- FIET Brussels Office. Assistants: Sally Chablais- French Liselotte Girou Anne- Françoise Meuris Lilly Pfenninger Ulrike Riva( part- time) Responsible for the above Trade Sections. Responsible for the development of general economic policy. Responsible for co- ordination of the computer network at FIET headquarters. Assistant: Sybille Beyeler Commerce Trade Section( Europe) Croupiers' Section| Women Helga Cammell Trade Section Secretary Secretary for the Working Women's Group. Responsible for the EURO- FIET Commerce Trade Section. Secretary for the FIET Committee for Casino Employees. Assistant: Marilyn Vonlanthen( part- time) Education Activities/ Commerce Trade Section( AFRO, APRO and IRO- FIET) Jan Furstenborg Education Officer Responsible for educational projects, educational literature, liaison with donor organisations, including applications for funds, reports and evaluation. Secretary responsible for Commerce Trade Section activities in AFRO, APRO and IRO- FIET. Assistants: Carin Sjögren- Andersson Jim Wilson( part- time) Finance and Administration Judith Meile Finance Officer Responsible for finance and personnel administration. Assistant( part- time): Regula Khemiri Hair and Beauty Care Trade Section Youth Irene Robadey( part- time) Trade Section Secretary Responsible for the Hair and Beauty Care Trade Section. Secretary for the Youth Committee. FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987- 1991 39 Assistant( part- time): ob Regula Khemiri QUO Multinational Companies/ Professional and Managerial Staff Committee Salaried Employees in Industry Trade Section/ Technology Working Group Gerhard Rohde Trade Section Secretary Responsible for the Industry Trade Section. Secretary for the Technology Working Group.no Secretary of the Professional and Managerial Staff Committee. Responsible for FIET Company Councils and activities on multinationals. Responsible for the co- ordination of relations with the ILO, TUAC and OECD. Assistant: FIET has its own technical and printing department that produces the FIET Info and all FIET publications. Pictured here are FIET's technical staff, Ramon Casanova, Juan Callau and Valentin Callau. Responsible for general services. Secretary for Regional ActiviAssistants: Juan Callau Anna Wolke Ramon Casanova Printing and General Services Valentin Callau W mit Regional Activities Hans J. Schwass Philip J. Jennings, Acting General Secretary since 1st June 1989. inimba Isanozing ties Relations with Regional Organisations( except EURO- FIET) assuring FIET input in these activities in co- operation with the Trade Section and Interprofessional Group Secretaries. Ensuring compliance and regular reporting on FIET Guidelines for Regional Organisations. Monitoring political and trade union developments( including human and trade union rights) in the regions and in individual countries. Responsible for the Regional Activities Fund in co- operation with the Finance Officer. Co- ordination of solidarity actions. Assistants: Patricia Schneiter( part- time) Nilla Widmer 40 FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987- 1991 AAPRO- FIET Office The new APRO- FIET office in Singapore was purchased in 1989. The office is headed by Regional Secretary Christopher Ng, who is assisted in his work by Anthony Wong and C. Benjamin and an administrative assistant, Elsie Juay. The office is at the hub of activities in the region and, in close co- operation with FIET headquarters, is responsible for the implementation of education and trade section activities. Singapore has become the focus of international trade union activities in recent years; the ICFTU- APRO has moved its office to Singapore and several ITSS have opened offices there. Four staff work at the AFRO- FIET office in Singapore, headed by Regional Secretary Christopher Ng. On 21 February 1990 the new APRO- FIET office was officially opened. Pictured left to right are Mamoru Shibata( now APRO- FIET President), Philip J. Jennings( FIET Acting General Secretary), John P. Maynes( then APROFIET President), Bengt Lloyd( FIET President) and Christopher Ng( APROFIET Regional Secretary). EURO- FIET Brussels Office The new EURO- FIET Brussels Office was purchased in 1989. Bernadette Tesch- Ségol is the Director of the Brussels Office, Janet Baillie is the research assistant and Sonya Trekkels is responsible for all secretarial and administrative duties. In view of 1992 and the further adoption of laws to bring about the Internal Market, it is vital that EURO- FIET influences decisions at Community level, and the Brussels Office has been extremely active not only in dealings with the Commission and the ETUC, but also with respect to the different employers' groupings, the Economic and Social Committee and the European Parliament. FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987- 1991 41 The three members of staff of the EURO- FIET Brussels Office, headed by Director Bernadette Tesch- Ségol, moved to their new office in November 1989. The office provides the Secretariat with excellent facilities in the vicinity of the headquarters of the European Community. Responsible 03 IRO- FIET Office C TE African Regional Representatives In Africa, given communications and transport difficulties and the need for cost effectiveness, the region has been working with regional representatives and activities are co- ordinated through the AFRO- FIET Executive Committee. The AFROFIET President and Vice- Presidents have played an important role in building up membership throughout the continent. Africa has been divided into six operational areas: Boooood * Central Africa * East Africa * English- speaking West Africa base of soffio * French- speaking West Africa * North Africa * Southern Africa At the end of 1987 FIET opened a new office in San José, Costa Rica. The office is now headed by Regional Secretary Jimmy Sierra, who replaced Robert Castro, Regional Secretary from May 1987 to September 1989. He is assisted by Education Officer Luis Malma and two administrative staff, Roxania Maria Castro Abarca and Doret Neil Hamilton. The office, in co- operation with FIET headquarters, is responsible for the implementation of trade section and education activities and during 1990-91 has been involved in a new initiative with the joint FIET/ WHO AIDS project. IRO- FIET Regional Secretary Jimmy Sierra was appointed in November 1989 and together with Education Officer Luis Malma moved to Costa Rica in early January 1990. They are assisted by two other staff members. 42 FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987- 1991 At present, Area Education Coordinators have been appointed for English- speaking West Africa: Joseph K. Haywood Daddie( ICU, Ghana); French- speaking West Africa: Bashir M. Chaibou( SYNTRACOM, Niger), and Southern Africa: Shangwa Chifamba( CWUZ, Zimbabwe). These co- ordinators participate in and administrate FIET's education activities in Africa. FIET Education Consultant Alessandro Fogarin is also actively employed in the implementation of FIET programmes in Africa. Activities in Frenchspeaking West Africa have also been co- ordinated by D.I. Niasse( SYTBEFS, Senegal) and T.P. Limazie( SYNTRASSTO, Togo). Activities in East Africa have co- ordinated by B. Nzioka ( KUCFAW, Kenya). Hat die. 6-1/ March 1990 Reunion du Comité Execull de A 51990 Shangwa Chifamba, Doudou Issa Niasse and Alessandro Fogarin. our regiona rations where Inte Co Joseph K. Haywood Daddie.nl and an T.P. Limazie. Benjamin K. Nzioka. Bashir M. Chaibou. FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987- 1991 IE Annual Staff Meetings at FIET Headquarters To enhance co- ordination of activities, annual meetings take place at FIET headquarters involving General Secretariat staff and staff from the regions. 43 The D May Luis 44 9 mon se bas FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987- 1991 -60. A enibro -12 modu A si -IM LC yd botanibo- 09 nosd bas depensa( 2382) 22 MX2) betanibo- 00 ovad X WARDLED ern Africa simmil IT Chapter 5 AFRO- FIET Ten years REGIONAL ORGANISATIONS Membership Mem 1981, Anil egional ation for FIET pend on imports from industrial states for manufactured goods ring in return only at prices FIET is a world- wide organisation. It has four regional components that ensure that it is equipped to meet the needs of its affiliated organisations wherever they are located. * AFRO- FIET is the regional organisation for Africa. * APRO- FIET covers the Asian and Pacific region. deb EURO- FIET is the organisation which caters for the interests of European employees. * IRO- FIET ensures the International's presence in the Americas. Each of FIET's regional organisations has its own statutes and elects its own Executive Committee which meets on an annual basis. The regions also have trade section activities, and an ambitious education programme is in place in Africa, Asia and the Pacific and the Americas. Regional Conferences are held every four years. for The regional organisations are answerable to the World Executive Committee for their actions according to guidelines laid down by that Committee. SixtyPopulation grow many African countries ex xplo Education are FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987- 1991 45 46 ЗИОПТАЗІИАОЯО ЈАЙОЮИЯ a ti ndt ondans 14 monoqo Isnaiget mot and af.noitseinsgio abiw- bhow sai THR bosool bus vodovod znobasinagio botsilme asi to aboon aroom of baqqiups not no TI- OSHLA noigen onlos ban siz od 1 THA 200volque es todo o doid mobingo ads at T- song' lenoitsmon od asquans TH- Oя* ovitupax awo i oslo basi mwo and anozingo Lanoiget a Ta to dos шот gong noitsoube 200nidos na bas blod is assist anoige.asphemA ziedino sonimmo evisual bhow ors of sidewasa enoitinago lanolgo of siamo ayd awob bial asnilobing of gaibroose anotos FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987- 1991 AFRO- FIET ed shif Niger Ten years have passed since the Inaugural Conference of AFRO- FIET on 13-17 July 1981. An illustrated booklet has been published describing how AFRO- FIET came into being, the problems it faced and the organisation as it is today. The booklet also commemorates some of the early pioneers who worked so hard to create a strong and effective regional organisation for FIET in Africa. Membership Membership of AFRO- FIET has developed progressively over the whole period; on 30 April 1991 it stood at 575'496 in 70 unions from 30 countries. In view of this expanding membership, the 3rd AFRO- FIET Conference proposed the creation of a new operational area of Central Africa, in addition to the five operational areas already existing for English- speaking West Africa, French- speaking West Africa, East Africa, Southern Africa and Northern Africa. The Economic and Social Background AFRO- FIET is operating in a continent which is undergoing an economic and social depression on a vast scale: * Poverty: Sixty- nine per cent of Africans have been classified as seriously poor, thirtynine per cent as destitute. Population growth: In AFRO- FIET10 9 AFRO- FIET celebrated its first ten years of existence in 1991. FIET published a commemorative booklet to mark the occasion. sive population growth presents the unions with a problem of increasing unemployment. * Africa has a huge refugee problem. It has been reported that of ten million persons classified as refugees, five million are in Africa. Balance of payments cri* many African countries explo- sis: Most African countries depend on imports from industrial states for manufactured goods while offering in return only primary commodities at prices they have no say in determining. The food crisis: Africa is fighting a losing battle between population growth and food production. Drought and civil wars in parts of Africa have made the situation worse. bhow 20001 0 * The debt crisis: African countries devote a major part of their export earnings to debt interest repayment. The tough aid conditions imposed by international agencies such as the IMF and World Bank have resulted in great hardship for ordinary people in many of the countries afflicted by debt. FIET is trying to secure a more sympathetic approach from these agencies taking account of the social effects of their policies. Education Trade union freedom and participation in development are essential elements in the battle FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987- 1991 47 against Africa's problems. But to be effective, unions must be strong with well informed and educated memberships. Because of this, AFRO- FIET has continued to place a high priority on educational activities. AFRO- FIET education programmes now cover 22 countries. In 1990 alone, altogether 78 courses were held, in addition to those which the unions financed themselves. Impact of the World Congress aal boo The holding of the 21st FIET World Congress in Lomé, Togo in August 1987 was a welcome event for AFRO- FIET and had a stimulating effect on its activities. It helped to focus world One of the early pioneers of AFROFIET was Nat F. Pepple who served as AFRO- FIET President from 1982 until his death on 27 January 1988. Educators' courses in the different African sub- regions, seven of which have been held since 1987, have created a good basis for AFRO- FIET's education activities. The photo shows participants at a course held in Harare in May 1987. attention on the grave economic and social problems which face most African countries and so confront the unions. The Congress rallied massive support for the fight against apartheid in South Africa, which has always been a major concern of AFROFIET. 3rd AFRO- FIET Conference The major African trade union event during the period 1987 to 1991 was the holding of the 3rd AFRO- FIET Conference, in Dakar, Senegal, 30 January- 3 February 1989. The Conference was attended by a record 100 participants representing 60 unions in 32 African countries. A special session on South Africa, which attracted 30 speak-mom gribn 99 ers ended with the adoption of a resolution stressing that" apartheid cannot be reformed, it must be destroyed in its entirety." The resolution called for comprehensive and mandatory sanctions and pledged continued support for the black and independent trade union movement in South Africa. Resolutions were also adopted on the Conference theme: " African trade unions fight for economic and social progress", on Namibia, on organising and education, on the role of trade unions in the economic and social liberation of Africa and on a change of the statutes to enable the women coordinators to be included in the AFRO- FIET Executive Committee. 48 FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987- 1991 AFRICAN TRADE UNIONS FIGHT FOR ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL PROGRESS AFRO- FIET 3rd AFRO- FIET CONFERENCE DAKAR, SENEGAL 30 January- 3 February 1989 In addition to the background paper, the 3rd AFRO- FIET conference heard a brilliant talk on the main theme " African Trade Unions Fight for Economic and Social Justice" by the guest speaker, Professor Kasset of the University of Dakar. -010 AFRO- FIET Executive obs Committee ou Following elections at the 3rd AFRO- FIET Conference, the AFRO- FIET Executive Committee is composed as follows: President: Doudou Issa Niasse, Syndicat des Travailleurs des Banques et Etablissements Financiers du Sénégal( SYTBEFS), Senegal Vice- Presidents: English- speaking West Africa: Emmanuel N. Okongwu, National Union of Shop and Distributive Employees ( NUSDE), Nigeria - Modou K.B. Faal, Gambia Commercial and Industrial Workers Union( GCIWU), The Gambia French- speaking West Africa: T.P. Limazie, Syndicat des Travailleurs de la Securité Sociale du Togo( SYNTRASSTO), Togo - East Africa: - - - Benjamin K. Nzioka, Kenya Union of Commercial, Food and Allied Workers ( KUCFAW), Kenya Southern Africa: Shangwa Chifamba, Commercial Workers' Union of Zimbabwe( CWUZ), Zimbabwe North Africa: Vacant South Africa: Vivian Mtwa, South African to Commercial, Catering and Allied Workers' Union( SACCAWU), South Africa Coordinators for Women Activities: oldw not English- speaking: Annie Mumba, Zambia Union of Financial Institutions Allied Workers brand ( ZUFIAW), Zambia French- speaking: Suzanne Taho, Syndicat National des Travailleurs des Banques, Etablissements Financiers et Assurances de Côte d'Ivoire( SYNABEFA- CI), Ivory Coast Area Education Coordinators: English- speaking West Africa: Joseph K. Haywood Daddie, Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union( ICU), Ghana - - - French- speaking West Africa: Bashir M. Chaibou, Syndicat National des Travailleurs du Commerce( SYNTRACOM), Niger East Africa: Edward Lule, National Union of Clerical, Commercial & Technical Employees ( NUCCTE), Uganda Southern Africa: Shangwa Chifamba, Commercial Workers' Union of Zimbabwe( CWUZ), Zimbabwe During the period under review, the Committee met on the following five occasions: Lomé, 22 and 28 August 1987 These meetings took place in conjunction with the FIET World Congress. Educational activities were discussed and the Committee commended FIET on the organisation of two seminars for trade union educators which had taken place the previous week. Accra, 21 January 1988 The meeting appointed two coordinators for women's activities in French and Englishspeaking Africa and four area education coordinators to help in the increasing educational activities. FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987- 1991 49 Dakar, 29 January 1989 The meeting discussed arrangements for the 3rd AFRO- FIET Conference. Servkes social 20ème Reunion du Comite Exécutif de l'AFRO- FIET for Harare, 16-17 March 1990 The meeting was held on the theme" Organising for the future- Strong unions in the service sector for economic and social development in Africa." S The Committee stressed the importance of union education activities and improved recruitment, information and communication activities to build up strong unions. While welcoming some recent developments in South Africa, as AFRO- FIET President Doudou Issa Niasse was a member of a FIET delegation which met with representatives of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank in October 1990 in Washington D.C. to discuss the social effects of their structural adjustment policies. adi During the Harare meeting of the AFRO- FIET Executive Committee, expert talks were given on the Southern African Development Co- ordination Conference, SADCC, and the social and economic development of Zimbabwe, which celebrated 10 years of independence on 18 April 1990. the Committee demanded the repeal of all apartheid legislarepeal of all apartheid legislation and the removal of obstacles still blocking progress towards a truly democratic South Africa with one person, one vote. In a resolution which was communicated to the authorities in the Sudan and to the ILO, the Committee condemned the continued repression of human and trade union rights in the Sudan and appealed to the Head of State for clemency for Dr. Mamour Ahmed Hussein, who had been condemned to death. It urged the government to fully respect accepted standards of human and trade union rights. The Committee called for FIET and sister ITSs to lodge a complaint at the ILO against the government of Nigeria, which had issued a decree prohibiting Nigerian trade unions from affiliating to ITSs. The Committee also called upon FIET to send a message of protest to the President of the Ivory Coast expressing concern over the reduction of salaries and other measures taken in the context of economic and financial restructuring in the Ivory Coast.LA Meeting on the eve of independence of Namibia on 21 March, the Committee adopted a resolution saluting the Namibian people and their trade union movement which had fought the illegal regime. Nairobi, 12-14 February 1991 This meeting marked the 10th anniversary of AFRO- FIET. 50 FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987- 1991 The Committee addressed a special appeal to the European Community and its member states not to discontinue sanctions against South Africa before the process towards full democracy became irreversible. With regard to the current problems in Liberia, the Committee drew attention to the need for decisive action to prevent further bloodshed and suffering. It expressed its support for the peace efforts by the West African ECOWAS countries and called for massive international financing of relief work. The Committee underlined the need for strong trade unions which are able to bring a social dimension to national and reFIET FIET Participants at the meeting of the AFRO- FIET Executive Committee in Nairobi, 12-14 February 1991, which called for continued sanctions against South Africa and for peace and reconstruction in Liberia. gional development strategies and programmes. It welcomed the contacts established between FIET, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank and stressed the importance of continuing these discussions. create a more favours 7319-0 place in on on equality FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987- 1991 51 553 APRO- FIET immo qe do ssqqa Laisega i basamo ot 100 68 Aisgs This regional organisation was originally known as ASIA- FIET. However, at the 5th ASIA- FIET Conference in 1986 it was decided to change the name to APRO- FIET( Asian and Pacific Regional Organisation) to reflect the fact that its membership extends far beyond Asia. Membership At 30 April 1991 APRO- FIET represented 1'388'969 members in 71 unions and 15 countries. FIET affiliates in Bangladesh, Japan, India, Malaysia, the Philippines and Singapore have each established liaison councils which meet regularly to co- ordinate FIET and APRO- FIET activities in their countries. 6th APRO- FIET Conference The main activity during the period under review was the 6th APRO- FIET Conference which was held in Singapore from 2224 February 1990. The Conference met under the theme" New forms of employment and employment relationships- Impact on industrial relations and trade unions" and was attended by more than 200 participants. The debate on the background report focussed on a number of issues: * Growth of employment in services and the growing number of women in employment. * The need for a higher degree of union penetration. * The growing fragmentation of the workforce into those on part- time, temporary and casual working arrangements. Many of these workers are Economic and Social Background The region includes some of the richest and most highly industrialised countries in the world and some of the poorest. It has a higher diversity of racial, religious and cultural backgrounds than any other region and it covers an enormous geographical area. APRO- FIET therefore operates against a background of contrasts. While some countries in the region accept the co- operation of the unions as a vital contribution to democracy, others pursue a repressive policy particularly concerning the organisation of professional and managerial staff. ry Speakers at the opening ceremony of the 6th APRO- FIET Conference, pictured here, included Oscar Oliveiro, President of the National Trades Union Congress of Singapore, and FIET President Bengt Lloyd, who highlighted the significant growth of APRO- FIET, commenting that APRO- FIET's education and organising work had made a significant contribution to developing strong and democratic unions in the region. New Forma of Employmen and Employment Relationshi Relations REGIONAL CONFERENCE New Forms of Employment and Employment Relationship 52 FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987- 1991 not organised in trade unions and are not covered by protective labour legislation, making them vulnerable to exploitation. * The continuing impact of organisational and technological change on staff. * The need to expand the collective bargaining agenda. In a resolution on the Conference theme, participants expressed their deep concern at the lack of statutory protection for John P. Maynes, President of the FCUA in Australia, stood down as President the new groups of employees of APRO- FIET during the Regional Conference. Regional President since 1986, and expressed opposition to any laws that prevent the rights of workers to join unions, which prevent collective bargaining or prohibit industrial action. The Conference hit out at the multinationals in the region which used their influence to undermine unions and which lobbied governments to weaken laws to create a more favourable investment climate. Affiliates were requested to intensify recruitment activities, expand education programmes and develop the scope and range of union services to their membership. The Conference further requested FIET and APRO- FIET to: * continue to monitor the changes taking place in the world of work. * provide affiliates with information on such changes and on the related issues of work organisation, technology and he was one of the founders of the then ASIA- FIET when it was established in 1973. The Conference adopted a motion in appreciation of his services. The picture shows the new President of APRO- FIET, M. Shibata, making a presentation to out- going President J.P. Maynes. payment systems. * identify and develop policies and organise conferences, seminars, etc. which could be of assistance to affiliates in the development of strategies and action programmes to meet new challenges. support affiliates in their organising campaigns. * assist in the development and strengthening of free and democratic trade unions for employees under FIET membership especially in the developing countries. The Conference adopted a resolution on equality for women at the workplace and in trade unions. Affiliates were called upon to take steps to facilitate women's participation at all levels in the union decision- making structures, to intensify recruitment of women, to increase educational and training activities directed at women and to ensure that their women members are included in delegations to FIET and APROFIET meetings. The Conference also adopted resolutions on revision of the APRO- FIET Statutes, the APRO- FIET Activities Fund and South Africa. The Conference unanimously elected Mamoru Shibata, President of JUC, Japan, as the Regional President, and Vince Higgins, Deputy Federal President of FCUA, Australia, as Regional Vice- President. Christopher Ng was unanimously reelected as the Regional Secretary. FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987-1991 53 APRO- FIET Executive Committee Following elections at the 6th APRO- FIET Conference, the Regional Executive Committee is composed as follows: Area I East Asia - Kim Jai- Yong( KFBU, Korea) Tadayoshi Kusano( JAW- Jidoshasoren, Japan) survey of potential affiliates would be undertaken by the secretariat in co- operation with affiliates, the ICFTU and other ITSs. Assistance would be given to existing and potential affiliates in organising more members. A comprehensive programme of educational activities at regional and national level was adopted. The Committee noted with concern a report on Mamoru Shibata( JUC, Japan), the trade union situation in Fiji APRO- FIET President Area II- South East Asia José P. Umali( NUBE, Philippines) Sakool Zuesongdham( FBFT, Thailand) Area III- South Asia Charles Coutto( SBISBEU, India) Area IV- Pacific Joseph de Bruyn( SDA, Australia) Paul Goulter( NZBOU, New Zealand) Vince Higgins( FCUA, Australia) Regional Secretary Christopher Ng During the period under review, the Committee met on the following four occasions: and reiterated the condemnation by the international trade union movement of the two military coups and the consequential denial of constitutional rights and freedoms, particularly trade union rights in Fiji. The Committee also took note of a report on the situation in South Korea and commended the KFBU for being in the forefront of the probos democracy movement in that country. Singapore, 14 January 1989 The Committee noted that the main objective of APRO- FIET'S activities had continued to be directed at the strengthening of APRO- FIET affiliates. In addition to the annual training programme for youth, organisers and educators, APRO- FIET had initiated a training programme for women. Reports were given on the situation in Fiji, Korea and China. The Committee adopted a programme of activities for 1989 and held discussions on the 6th APRO- FIET Conference to be held in 1990. The Committee approved the action taken by the Regional Amongst the many tasks of APRO- FIET Regional Secretary Christopher Ng is to undertake missions to countries in the region for discussions with existing and potential affiliates and to help them with educational and organising activities. The picture shows him, together with activists of the Financial Institutions Employees' Union of Nepal, during a mission to Nepal in April 1991. bos od golovebl Melbourne, 16-17 March 1988 The meeting took place in conjunction with the ICFTU World Congress. The Committee discussed actions taken to affiliate more unions and underlined the need to affiliate the large potential membership in the region. A 54 FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987-1991 dibista OW Secretary regarding the purchase of an office in Singapore. Singapore, 21 February 1990 The Committee met prior to the 6th APRO- FIET Conference to finalise preparations. A long debate took place on the financial situation of the organisation and measures which would be taken to improve it. 3RD APRO FIET REGIONAL TRAINING COURSE FOR ORGANISERS 7T 19TH AUGUST 989 G 39 875 Tokyo, 25 June 1990 The meeting was held to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the JUC. The Committee discussed follow- up activities to the 6th APRO- FIET Conference as well as the programme up to the next Regional Conference. It was decided that in addition to ongoing educational activities, which would be further expanded to include regional training courses for industrial relations officers and researchers, the programme would provide for the expansion of trade section activities in the form of more regular meetings of the various trade sections and the intensification of information activities. APRO- FIET Management Committee The APRO- FIET Management Committee, which comprises the Participants in the regional training course for organisers held in Singapore from 7 to 19 August 1989. From 1986 training courses for organisers have been held on a regular basis. Regional President, Vice- President and Secretary, is responsible for supervising the affairs of the Regional Organisation between meetings of the Executive Committee and its decisions require ratification by that Committee. During the period under review, the Management Committee met on the following eight occasions: * Singapore, 9-10 February 1988 * San Francisco, 25 July 1988 * Singapore, 13 January 1989 * Buenos Aires, 9 April 1989 * Madrid, 24 October 1989 Singapore, 20 February 1990 * * Tokyo 24 June 1990 * Singapore, 24-25 April 1991 Educational Activities Educators trained by APROFIET now organise an increasing number of courses at national level. During the period under review, a specialised regional seminar on part- time work and new forms of work organisation was implemented. The education project for 1990-93 consists of joint training courses at national level; regional training programmes for the target groups youth, women, organisers and educators and specialised training programmes on a regional level, for example on trade union education, administration and finance, research and industrial advocacy. FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987-1991 55 55 EURO- FIET to In terms of membership, EURO- FIET is the largest of the FIET Regional Organisations. The main activity during the period under review was the 6th Regional Conference, which took place in Sorrento, Italy, from 8 to 10 November 1990. Membership On 30 April 1991, EURO- FIET represented 5'333'893 members in 101 unions and 26 countries. Since the report presented to the 21st FIET World Congress in 1987 membership has increased by more than 8 percent or nearly 400,000. The changes that have occured in Central and Eastern Europe present immense possibilities for increasing membership with the emergence of free and independent trade unions there. The Democratic Union of Scientific Workers from Hungary was accepted into affiliation in 1990, FIET's German affiliates have recruited many members from the former GDR, who are now also members of FIET, and the EURO- FIET Executive Committee has recommended that seventeen potential affiliates from Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland and Romania be accepted into affiliation by the FIET World Executive Committee at its meeting in August 1991. Thus, FIET has renewed links with trade unions in Central and Eastern Europe which existed prior to the Second World War. In the 1934 FIET report on activities, the records show that FIET had affiliates in Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Latvia, Poland, Romania and Yugoslavia. The Economic and Social Background EURO- FIET's activities are conducted against an economic and social background which is undergoing a period of massive and rapid change: * Legislative developments in the European Community proceed at an accelerating pace in the approach to the Internal Market of 1992. * The end of the cold war has led to the transformation of Europe, with dictatorships giving way to democracy and free and independent trade unions emerging in Eastern and Central Europe. The whole political and economic landscape of Europe as we have come to know it during the past 40 years has changed during the course of the past 18 months. A new European architecture will have to be built through which to conduct Towards a New Europe: Delegates and observers from trade unions in Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland and Romania participated in the 6th EUROFIET Conference. ICE OF NALE LA DIMENSION SOCK EURO- FIET ADMINION ચિત્ર નિ EUR UNIO LA EL QI 56 FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987- 1991 international relations, which will also have to go beyond the 12 of the EC and the 6 of EFTA. The CSCE is widely seen as providing the institutional structure for this, but unions should play a full part in this debate, ensuring that priorities are given to human rights, trade union rights, universal suffrage and that there is a clear social dimension to economic development. ( ylall.2MA العاب Since the end of the Second World War, Europe has seen the biggest concentration of military hardware and personnel known to man in peace time. The challenge now is to transfer resources from defence to areas that improve social well- being, such as education, health and the environment. Anti- labour policies of conservative governments and the backlash by employers to undermine hard won trade union rights have marked the whole period. European economy has been characterised by low levels of growth and unacceptable levels of unemployment and poverty. 6th EURO- FIET Conference Over 300 participants from 84 unions attended the 6th EUROFIET Conference held in Sorrento from 8-10 November 1990, under the theme" The Social Dimension to European Integration: Union Priorities in the 6th Regional Conference of EURO- FIET EURO- FIET THE SOCIAL DIMENSION OF EUROPEAN INTEGRATION: UNION PRIORITIES IN THE 1990's Sorrento, 8-10 November 1990 The opening ceremony of the 6th EUROFIET Conference was addressed by Ugo Grippo, Deputy Minister of Labour, and Bruno Bruni, Confederal Secretary of the UIL, who also spoke on behalf of the CGIL and CISL. Gilberto Pascucci of FILCAMS/ CGIL and Sergio Ammannati of FIBA/ CISL brought fraternal greetings on behalf of FIETS eight affiliates in Italy. 1990's." This was the first time that the Regional Conference had been held in the south of Europe since the founding conference of EURO- FIET in Copenhagen in 1972. Among the priorities highlighted in the 24 resolutions adopted were: * The convening of EUROFIET briefings to advise affiliates on the implementation of the European Commission's Social Action Programme. * Days of action to be organised among affiliates to draw attention to EURO- FIET demands for a Social Europe. * The further elaboration of a programme of assistance by EURO- FIET for unions in Central and Eastern Europe. * To campaign that the Intergovernmental Conferences on Economic and Monetary Union and on Political Union lead to a new European Treaty which ensures that European Integration has a proper social dimension. * The organisation in 1993, in conjunction with the ICFTU and ETUC, of a conference on the trade union contribution to peace and security policy. The resolutions also covered problems of collective bargaining, multinational companies, technology, work organisation, stress and working conditions of employees in the services sector, as well as on environmentally dangerous waste, the environment, genetic engineering and South Africa. The EURO- FIET Executive Committee meeting in Geneva in February 1991 identified priorities for followup action. EURO- FIET Executive Committee Following elections at the 6th EURO- FIET Conference, the EURO- FIET Executive Committee is composed as follows: FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987-1991 57 Pierre GENDRE( FEC- FO, France) boyad og of over als Michel ROUSSELOT( UCClabiw zi 8020 CFDT, France) Area V( Cyprus, Greece, Italy, Malta, Portugal, Spain and Turkey) Jorge DIEZ GOMEZ( FEBASOUGT, Spain) aidan nam Luigi MARMIROLI( FABI, Italy) Gilberto PASCUCCI In elections at the 6th EURO- FIET Conference, Karel Boeykens( centre), President of SETCa, Belgium, was re- elected as President, and Garfield Davies ( right), General Secretary of USDAW, United Kingdom, as Vice- President. Philip J. Jennings( left) was elected as Regional Secretary. Gilbert Clajot, SETCa, Belgium and Inger Rudholm, SBmf, Sweden were re- elected as the Auditors. ( FILCAMS, Italy) Dimitri TSOUKALAS( OTOE, Greece) Area VI( Central and Eastern Europe) Seat to be filled when statutory requirements completed wiredT Area VII( Israel and the Lebanon) Moshe BEIT- DAGAN ( UCAPSE, Israel) Regional Secretary abhow ba Switzerland) Area I( United Kingdom and Area III( Austria, Germany and Ireland) Garfield DAVIES( USDAW, United Kingdom)- Vice- President Roy GRANTHAM( GMB/ APEX Partnership, United Kingdom) Philip J. JENNINGS During the period under review, Siegfried BLEICHER( DGB, the Committee met on the folGermany) lowing five occasions: Lore HOSTASCH( GPA, Austria) Roland ISSEN( DAG, Germany) Jochen RICHERT( DGB, GerLeif MILLS( BIFU, United many) Kingdom) Tel Aviv, 17-18 May 1988 The Committee reviewed a SecDieter STEINBORN( HBV, retariat report which examined Tony WHITELEY( MSF, United Germany) Kingdom) Area II( Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden) Sidsel BAUCK( HKIN, Norway) Jorgen EIBERG( HK, Denmark) Inge GRANQVIST( SIF, Sweden) Bengt LLOYD( HF, Sweden) Maj- Len REMAHL( LA, Finland) Monika WEBER( SKV, Switzerland) Area IV( Belgium, France, Luxembourg, Monaco and the Netherlands) Karel BOEYKENS( SETCa, Belgium)- President Lodewijk DE WAAL( DIENSTENBOND, Netherlands) the likely impact of the Internal Market on EURO- FIET's members in EEC and EFTA countries. During the debate and in a resolution on the Internal Market, the Committee members hit out at the absence of a social dimension to the single market initiatives. The Committee also called upon the Commission to introduce concrete measures to 58 FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987-1991 promote social advance by way of negotiations between EUROFIET and employers at the EEC and sectoral level. The Committee also reviewed the activities of the various EURO- FIET trade sections and of the EURO- FIET Brussels Office. A thorough discussion took place on collective bargaining trends, unemployment and trade union organisation campaigns. Madrid, 23-24 October 1989 The meeting discussed developments in the European Internal Market and agreed proposals for the 6th EURO- FIET Conference. Garfield Davies( USDAW, United Kingdom) was elected Vice- President of EURO- FIET, replacing Muriel Turner, who had retired from her union. The Committee adopted a framework of action for EURO- FIET to follow vis- a- vis the various European Community institutions. The Committee reiterated its call for a Social Europe in a resolution which was also critical of the recently published Social Charter, which it considered insufficient in itself to bring about a Social Europe. The Committee called on the various Trade Sections to identify a target list of multinationals where information and consultation agreements could be adopted. It adopted a model agreement to provide affiliates with guidelines on the contents of any such agreements. A resolution was also adopted on the Delors Report on Economic and Monetary Union. The need for more activities to be undertaken for professional and managerial staff in Europe was stressed and a resolution adopted calling for direct representations to be made to European institutions concerning improving the conditions of professional and managerial staff sent to work abroad. The Committee also agreed on the composition of a delegation to meet with representatives of the European Organisation of the World Federation of Clerical Workers ( Christians) for further discussions. Sorrento, 7 November 1990 The meeting took place in conjunction with the 6th EUROFIET Conference. The Committee discussed arrangements for the Conference and agreed to submit three emergency motions on( 1) co- operation with the ETUC,( 2) EURO- FIET and the reform of the Treaty of Rome, and( 3) South Africa.( These were subsequently adopted by the Conference). The Committee examined applications for affiliation from six unions and decided to recommend their acceptance to the World Executive Committee. Sorrento, 9 November 1990 The newly elected Executive Committee met briefly at the close of the 6th EURO- FIET Conference. Geneva, 26-27 February 1991 In reviewing decisions of the 6th EURO- FIET Conference, the At its meeting in Madrid in November 1989, the EURO- FIET Executive Committee, together with representatives of FIET affiliates FETC and FEBASO, of the UGT and of the UTC, were received by King Juan Carlos. FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987- 1991 59 Committee established an ambitious programme of activity for the next four years. Also on the agenda was a thorough review of developments in the social dialogue with employers at the European Community level across FIET sectors. Whilst welcoming the recent publication of a new Community directive to introduce a European Works Council, the Committee was critical of the size limits below which multinationals would escape provisions in the directive and that no mention is made of trade unions or international trade secretariats. The Committee examined applications for affiliation from seventeen new and reformed unions from Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland and Romania and decided to recommend their acceptance to the World Executive Committee. Statements were adopted on Peace and Security/ International Initiatives on Arms Control and on repression of trade union rights in Turkey. EURO- FIET and the Internal Market EURO- FIET has broadened its capacity to act at the European Commission, European Parliament and the Economic and Social Committee. The EUROFIET Brussels Office, under its Director Bernadette Tesch- Ségol, has played a key role in expanding EURO- FIET's activities in the European Community institutions. The focus of activities with respect to the Internal Market has been threefold: 03. As part of EURO- FIET's efforts to develop a social dialogue, talks were held at the European Commission on 21 March 1991 with Social Affairs Commissioner Vasso Papandreou( centre). The EURO- FIET delegation was composed of leaders of Greek affiliate OTOE, the EURO- FIET Regional Secretary Philip Jennings and Director of the EURO- FIET Brussels Office Bernadette TeschSégol. TOU * to obtain consultation rights with the Commission for the various trade sections to enable them to influence decision- making and directives; * to develop relations with the European Parliament, Economic and Social Committee and enable direct intervention on the various directives; * to develop a social dialogue with employers. The breakthroughs by EUROFIET to establish a social dialogue have also brought new opportunities. The opinions of EURO- FIET are sought on directives, delegations have to be composed and the ETUC is also seeking EURO- FIET's views on a wide range of issues. EUROFIET has played a prominent part in the ETUC campaign for a Social Europe. The adoption of EURO- FIET opinions on technical directives is channelled through the Trade Section Committees, with the EURO- FIET Executive Committee being responsible for areas of general concern, such as the European Works Council. The social dialogue was launched in the retail sector in 1990, following a ten year campaign, and has spread to wholesaling and insurance. The campaign continues in banking. The other Trade Sections are exploring the possibilities of developing a social dialogue with employers. 60 FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987- 1991 ARADA GARRA CIRO- FIET 15 not brez on bib orv the Isho The IRO- FIET region includes the North and South American Continents and the Caribbean islands. It exemplifies the North/ South contrasts which are at the root of so many of the world's problems. The A 001A Membership Committee decided Membership in the region has continued to develop positively and at 30 April 1991 it stood at 2'703'966 members in 80 unions from 31 countries. IRO FIET IRO- FIET For Socially Just Solutions to the Debt Crisis ( saitnog A OVAS Latin America. Measures taken to meet debt interest payments and debt repayments have resulted in greater poverty and living standards in Latin America and the Caribbean have declined, depending on the country, by 10 to 15 percent since 1983. Poverty leads to disease. An outbreak of cholera in Peru is threatening to spread to the whole of the South American continent. The Economic and Social Background The northern part of the region includes some of the world's most stable and long- established democracies while the south has long been characterised by political upheaval, military dictatorships and extreme elements of left and right, leading in many countries to civil strife and violent conflict. Recent years have seen the disappearance of dictatorships and moves towards democracy in the majority of the countries. Anti trade union attitudes have been prevalent in both North and South America. Much therefore remains to be done to achieve full democratic and trade union rights throughout the region and to put an end finally to the persecution of trade unionists. The IRO- FIET seminar on the debt crisis adopted a resolution which noted the deterioration in living standards, the rise in unemployment and decline in both social services and expenditure on infrastructure. Concern was expressed that Latin America has for too long been a net exporter of capital and that service payments since 1982 exceeded the region's foreign debt of over US$ 400 billion. Nearly all the governments in the region are affected by a severe debt crisis. The total Latin American external debt is now over US$ 400 billion. The majority of the world's most seriously indebted countries are in IRO- FIET Seminar on the Debt Crisis More than 80 participants from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Curaçao, Guyana, Jamaica, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Trinidad, Venezuela and the United States took part in the seminar" IROFIET for Socially Just Solutions to the Debt Crisis" which was held from 29 to 31 May 1990 in Mexico City. The discussions were based on a background paper prepared by the Secretariat and on papers by prominent Mexican personalities, including the Director FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987- 1991 61 General of the social security institute ISSSTE, Lic. Emilio Lozoya Thalmann, as well as leading unionists from IRO- FIET affiliates on the Consequences of Structural Adjustment Policies; the IMF and the Debt Crisis and the Social Impact of the Debt Crisis. The seminar called for the writing off of much of the external debt; a linkage of debt service and principal payments to a country's ability to pay; a greater involvement of trade unions at all levels of decision- making and a substantial increase in development aid with resources released from the process of disarmament. The resolution stressed that economic reforms must include a strong social dimension. 6th IRO- FIET Regional Conference The 6th IRO- FIET Regional Conference took place in Ocho Rios, Jamaica, on 21-22 May 1987 under the theme" IROFIET Fights for Economic and Social Justice." The Conference was attended by 150 participants. It was preceded by meetings of the trade section committees and a seminar for participants from the Caribbean area. The Conference elected a new IRO- FIET Executive Committee, with Dr. Rodolfo Mario Campos Bravo( SNTISSSTE, Mexico) as the new IRO- FIET President to replace Ismario Gonzalez( Venezuela), who had retired from his union. Bob Castro was elected as the new Regional The IRO- FIET President Rodolfo Campos Bravo addresses the opening ceremony of the seminar on" IRO- FIET for Socially Just Solutions to the Debt Crisis." The IRO- FIET President was part of the FIET delegation which met representatives of the IMF and World Bank in October 1990 in Washington D.C. to press for social considerations to be taken into account in adjustment policies. Secretary to replace Al Cory, who did not stand for re- election. IRO- FIET Executive Committee At 30 April 1991, the IRO- FIET Executive Board was composed as follows: Humberto AYALA( FETRABAN, Paraguay) Clemencia BAQUERO( SINTRABANCOM, Colombia) Auditor Eva CALDERON( ASIMRA, Argentina) Coordinator for Women's Activities Rodolfo Mario CAMPOS BRAVO( SNTISSSTE, Mexico) - President Maria COLEMAN( UFCW, United States)- Auditor Donald COLLINS( RWDSU, United States) Eduardo IRIAS MORA ( FECTSALUD, Costa Rica) José Efigenio LOPEZ ( FETRASALUD, Venezuela) Lenore MILLER( RWDSU, United States) Eugene MOATS( SEIU, United States) RO- FIET CRISIS DE LA DEUDA FIET Gary R. NEBEKER( UFCW, United States) SOLUCIONES SOCIALMENTE JUSTAS Trinidad REYES ALCARAZ ( SNTISSSTE, Mexico) James A. SIERRA- Regional Secretary SINDICATO 62 FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987- 1991 Wilfred J. SPENCER( CFW, Curaçao) Gordon TODD( CCWU, Guyana) Wilson TORTORO( FECESP, Brazil) Armando ZAPATA( FITABHA, Panama) During the period under review the Committee met on the following four occasions: Lomé, 22 August 1987 The Committee decided to transfer the office of the regional organisation from Curaçao to Costa Rica. This decision was endorsed by the meeting of the World Executive Committee in Lomé on 23 August. FIET has San Francisco, 27 July 1988 The meeting adopted the report on activities as well as a programme of educational activities. Members presented country reports on political and trade union developments and on trends in employment and real wages. this Buenos Aires, 8 April 1989 The Committee approved the report on activities and discussed the programme for 1989. At the request of the IRO- FIET Executive Committee, a resolution on the debt crisis was adopted by the FIET World Executive Committee at its meeting in Buenos Aires on 10-11 April 1989. Mexico City, 28 May 1990 The Executive Committee confirmed the appointment of James A. Sierra as IRO- FIET Regional Secretary. Reports discussed included a report on activities and a report on educational activities. The Committee discussed preparations for the 7th IROFIET Conference and approved the theme and draft agenda. It set up a working group to begin work on this. The Conference will be held in San Francisco from 13 to 15 August 1991 under the theme" IRO- FIET Priorities to the Year 2000- Strong Unions for Social Justice." It will be preceded by a Symposium on the Social Dimension to Economic Integration on 11-12 August. The working group to prepare for the 7th IRO- FIET Conference met in Costa Rica from 7 to 9 March 1991. The main mandate of the working group was a revision of the IRO- FIET Statutes which will be presented to the Regional Conference for adoption. Amongst the amendments is a proposition for an enlarged and geographically more representative executive committee to direct the work of IRO- FIET. The meeting also discussed motions to be submitted to the Conference on Trade Union and Human Rights; The Debt Crisis and Structural Adjustment; Organising, Education and Solidarity, and The Social Dimension to Regional Integration. Education IRO- FIET continues to place a high priority on educational activities and organised a course on planning and administration of education projects in March 1988. Courses for educators have been held as well as trade section seminars and a large number of courses at national level. New ground was broken for IROFIET in December 1990 when a Latin American Seminar on AIDS was organised in San José, Costa Rica. The Seminar was attended by 30 participants from 10 countries and will be followed up with national projects in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico and Venezuela. The Seminar was organised in conjunction with the World Health Organisation. It was the first time that FIET has held a joint project with this organisation. FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987- 1991 63 do bow ad Ing A- 2005 oplane The 6th 7 zional Ocho 000 SAHBATED APASASA id not stand for( mens waiver bau boisq adiganu - B00000gniwol At 30 April 1991 the IRO- 1 $ 2 оя O not neslord aaw brong wok- oqmy2 a snsdw 000 sedmos ni Tot noianomia labo2 odi no mula 01 JeugUA оят -anet of bobiasb satticamo T noitseinsgro immo x bhow Eva Argentina) Women for BRAVO( SN ( SNTISSSTE, Mexico) Boggads betqobs gritom odT M betype Efigenio L LUD, Venezuels) Lenore MILLER( RWDSU ugene M MOATS( SEJU. United abovoiggs con borgob dab pr W Ta ads SP Cu ração) Gordon TODD( CCWU Guyana) Wilson Brazil) RO 64 FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987- 1991 Chapter 6 BANK TRADE SECTION Regional trade section sations. At 30 April unions and 81 countries. TRADE SECTIONS of FIET's regional organi represented 2'655757 members in 116 The A recurrent theme which had been the in labour Bank of acetings pob also job out of the Trade Secti developing Bank FIET has seven Trade Sections to cater for the specific interests of groups of employees in the following sectors: darity was sent to West* ric Banking Commerce Sc A Hair and Beauty Care Insurance Property Services Salaried Employees in Industry * Social Insurance and Health Care bility, espe An important part of the work of the Trade Sections relates to multinational companies and this is reported separately in Chapter 9. FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987- 1991 ing of 65 69 66 ni asevolors to aquor to a novse and TEEL otos gniwollot ads gables& Sonstant asolvis? yoqo19 yuzubni ni asavolam baitals? H bas on 02 bagismolanotenisium or stalen amaito obat ad to show or to risqanoqmi A tqedoni vistaeque boroq ai aids FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987-1991 rean buy BANK TRADE SECTION odt to anot vd bent Regional trade section committees for bank employees exist in all four of FIET's regional organisations. At 30 April 1991 the FIET Bank Trade Section represented 2'655'757 members in 116 unions and 81 countries. The debt crisis A recurrent theme in meetings of the Trade Section has been the burden of the debt crisis in developing countries, which is leading in some cases to general economic collapse. During the 3rd FIET World Bank Conference a statement of solidarity was sent to affiliates in West Africa, who had been fighting bank closures which had been triggered by IMF and World Bank policies. The Conference also adopted a statement which was addressed to the IMF and World Bank. A new perspective on jobs On the subject of the changing world of employment, the Trade Section has noted with concern Management mistakes in what is being called the" Easy Eighties" have weakened the banking industry, at a time when widening recession, continued deregulation and ever fiercer competition are adding to uncertainty and increasing vulnerability across the sector. Bank employees in their thousands are paying for these mistakes with their careers. The period has been marked by widespread FIET campaigns in support of affiliates fighting mass dismissals and seeking job security. 2BW the rise in tensions in labour relations in banking because of job losses and has singled out comprehensive and imaginative employment policies as the only means of tackling the growing threat to job security. Flexibility- on union conditions Another dominant theme has been the need for trade unions to respond to the challenge of flexibility, especially in controlling the dangers of more performance- related or merit pay. Central banks Economic integration in the European Community poses great challenges to central banks both in the field of monetary policy and banking supervision. Whether central bank structures are changed through the result of economic and monetary union as anticipated in the Delors Report or through the more general competition of currencies following the freeing of capital movements, the Trade Section has been pressing for central bank workers and the Photo: International Labour Office FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987- 1991 67 unions which represent them to be fully involved in the negotiation of changes in employment structures and working conditions. A meeting of EURO- FIET affiliates representing employees in Central Banks took place in Geneva on 19-20 September 1989, and the Bank Trade Section has requested a meeting with the Committee of European Bank Governors to discuss the proposals for a European Central Bank. Bank security The Trade Section has been pressing bank employers to devote more attention to the psychological and physical effects on staff affected by bank raids. The section has examined practices in other countries in order to improve standards of bank security and post- trauma care. efforts to stamp out money laundering. 3rd FIET World Bank Conference The main activity during the period under review was the 3rd FIET World Bank Conference, which was held from 26-28 February 1990 in Singapore and brought together 221 delegates and observers from 67 unions in 44 countries. الا The Conference met under the theme" The Trade Union Response to the Financial Services Revolution" and was chaired by Leif Mills( BIFU, United Kingdom). The four vice- presidents for the four FIET regions were: AFRO- FIET Doudou Issa Niasse( SYTBEFS, Senegal), APRO- FIET- K. Sanmugan ( NUBE, Malaysia), EURO- FIET - Fritz Johansen( NBF, Norway), IRO- FIET- José Luis Gozala - Alonso( FENASIB, Mexico). The conclusions of the Conference were drafted by a Conclusions Committee chaired by Keith Westgarth( ABEU, Australia). Папоївзя Concern was expressed by participants at the low number of women present at the Conference. The Secretariat was requested to urge affiliates to include more women in their delegations. The growing number of disputes in the banking industry has put a premium on international trade union solidarity actions and Conference speakers returned again and again to this theme to recount experiences of solidarity actions received in support of their unions. The Conference adopted a number of conclusions on the themes of organising, solidarity and trade union rights; global financial integration; the changing world of employment; working conditions and collective bargaining; central banks; bank security and South Africa, where the statement from the February 1990 World Executive Committee was endorsed. Money laundering Another important issue has been money laundering, where, following EURO- FIET's request, the European Commission launched an inquiry with the member states on their national regulations and a draft directive was subsequently published. The 3rd FIET World Bank Conference called on governments, regional institutions and financial regulatory authorities to intensify their co- ordination of THE TRADE UNION RESPONSE TO THE FINANCIAL SERVICES REVOLUTION 3rd FIET World Conference of Bank Employees 4 Singapore 1990 February 26, 27, 28 FIET INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF COMMERCIAL CLERICAL PROFESSIONAL AND TECHNICAL EMPLOYEES Database on multinationals A database on the leading 200 banks has been established by the FIET Secretariat. Meetings in the regions: During the period under review, the following activities were 68 FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987- 1991 organised by the regional trade APRO- FIET sections: AFRO- FIET The AFRO- FIET Bank Trade Section met during the 3rd AFRO- FIET Conference, Dakar, Senegal, 30 January- 3 February 1989. The meeting drew up conclusions, which were later adopted by the Conference and which set out priorities for the future work of the section concerning improved levels of trade union membership; trade union recognition and collective bargaining; training and retraining; multinational insurers; technology and the working environment; improved working conditions; equality of opportunity; employment security and mergers and takeovers. The APRO- FIET Bank and Insurance Trade Section Committee met in Bangkok in August 1988 and in Singapore in February 1990. The APRO- FIET Bank and Insurance Trade Section Seminar which took place in Bangkok on 29-31 August 1988 brought together over 100 participants under the theme" Trade Unions and the Future of Financial Services." The seminar examined the impact of deregulation, technology and the growing internationalisation of the financial services industry on trade unions. EURO- FIET A campaign had continued within the European Commission to During the 3rd FIET World Bank Conference, AFRO- FIET President DJ. Niasse reported on the difficult situation facing bank workers in Africa as a result of IMF and World Bank restructuring policies. establish a social dialogue with the European employers' organisations in the banking sector. Progress is blocked by the employers' organisations' absence of a mandate on social issues and their refusal to meet, as a group of employers, with EUROFIET. Nevertheless a joint working group has been set up and is focussing on methods of human resource forecasting. Regular consultations take place between the EURO- FIET Bank Trade Section and the Bank Division of the European Commission, during which participants are informed of the state of development of directives to be introduced in the sector and have the opportunity to express their views to the Commission. The main focus of activities has been the second banking directive, where the Trade Section was very active in campaigning for the inclusion of a social clause. Meetings of the EURO- FIET Bank Trade Section Committee, under the chairmanship of Leif Mills( BIFU, United Kingdom) took place in Stockholm on 11 May 1987; Lisbon on 3-4 March 1988; Glasgow, 15 March 1989; Singapore 26 and 28 February 1990, and Geneva, 4-5 March 1991. Subjects included recruitment; collective bargaining trends, with particular emphasis on pay; employment trends, job losses and deregulation of financial markets; central banks; bank security; multinational banks; solidarity actions, and EEC directives and the social dialogue. FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987- 1991 69 On 4 March 1988 in Lisbon the Trade Section held a seminar on Trade Unions and Vocational Training in Banking, and on 14 March 1989 a Conference on Trade Unions and European Financial Integration was held in Glasgow. FEDERA OES EMPLOYE прота TERNATION NICIENS KS dvd bezi beziass AND INSURANCES PORT L/ 1988/ IRO- FIET The IRO- FIET Trade Section for Bank and Insurance Employees, CABS, met in April 1988 in Paraguay and in May 1990 in Mexico. Subjects dealt with included a detailed analysis of the impact of the debt crisis on Latin America and the finance sector in particular, recruitment and solidarity activities. The EURO- FIET seminar on vocational training in the bank sector, held in Lisbon in March 1988, was critical of current training arrangements for being inappropriate to the technologically changing world of banking. Pictured from left to right are Dr. Jarl Bengtsson from the OECD; Dr. Pereira Torres, General Director of the Portuguese Bank Training Institute; Leif Mills, President of the Bank Committee; Dr. Tavares Moreira, Governor of the Portuguese Central Bank; Armenio dos Santos, President of SBSI; Philip Jennings, and Fritz P. Johansen, Vice- President of the Bank Committee. CRY M tio to gidanaanisdə soba II no 70 70 sloot FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987- 1991 COMMERCE TRADE SECTION Regional trade section committees for commercial workers exist in all four of FIET's regional organisations. At 30 April 1991 the FIET Commerce Trade Section represented 3'489'437 members in 121 unions and 77 countries. The Commerce Trade Section represents workers employed in the wholesale and retail trade sectors. There is also a sub- section, the FIET Committee for Casino Employees, which caters for the interests of croupiers. Improving the quality of danilo employment allow the commerce sector are women. Jobs are badly paid and there is a large proportion of part- time workers. Low wages and the trend towards deskilling and the fragmentation of a substantial proportion of jobs in the commerce sector has resulted in giving employment in the sector a bad image. One of the priorities, therefore, in the work of the Trade Section is to correct this trend through strategies which The majority of employees in give priority to the quality of The Commerce Trade Section regularly publishes surveys on the evolution of working conditions in the wholesale and retail trade, including information on part- time work, pay flexibility and the organisation of working time. FIET Sosial 1990 ON THE EVOLUTION OF WORKING CONDITIONS IN THE WHOLESALE AND RETAIL TRADE 0160128 9477924 customer services through improved training, specialisation and staff- customer relations and to improve the quality of employment in the commerce sector with respect to pay, hours of work, working conditions, job security and equality. Shop opening hours In the face of a growing movement towards late night opening and the extension of the trading week, the Trade Section will continue to campaign actively to protect workers' interests. A new look FIET brochure supporting campaigns against extended opening hours was published in 1989 and some 60,000 copies were distributed. FIET EXTENDED SHOP OPENING HOURS? No thank you! Technological change Technology has been rapidly introduced in the commerce sector and this has had a major impact on the quality and quantity of employment, on job design, on work organisation and on the privacy of individuals. The Trade Section has established policies on data protection, ergonomic controls, improved work organisation and has called for initiatives to be taken at international level with respect to monitoring the application of technology and building inter- union co- operation. FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987-1991 71 On Equality for women The Trade Section has devoted considerable attention to the question of equality and has underlined the importance of positive action programmes to improve equality of opportunity for women, including training, promotion and access to better jobs, career breaks and childcare facilities, and that they receive equal pay for work of equal value and are equally covered by social security schemes. The importance of increased recruitment of women members and their involvement at all levels in union activity has also been underlined. Vocational training Another priority in the work of the Trade Section has been the importance of vocational training, further training and retraining to enable employees to cope with the challenges of change. In October 1988, the EUROFIET Trade Section succeeded in obtaining a joint memorandum on vocational training which was adopted by the Confederation for Retail Trade( CECD), EURO- FIET and the European Commission. It sets out recommendations as to the contents of national vocational training programmes in this sector and includes provisions for a European Vocational Training Card. The Section is actively pursuing the implementation of the memorandum at European level. Improving security for retail staff Profound concern has been expressed by the Trade Section at the escalating incidence of criminal attacks against retail establishments. The policy of many retailers to reduce staff on the sales floor is exacerbating the dangers posed to employees and is leading to more stress being placed upon them. The Trade Section is developing guidelines on security, including specific measures to care for staff who have been subject to violent attacks. Commercial travellers The Trade Section is continuing its efforts to support affiliated organisations in ensuring that employers observe adequate negotiated employment and working conditions for commercial travellers. At European level the Trade Section is continuing to press the European Commission to honour EURO- FIET's long- standing request for a draft directive on salaried commercial travellers. Casino employees During the period under review, the FIET Committee for Casino the FIET Committee for Casino Employees met on two occasions: * Spa, Belgium, 22-23 September 1987 0989 * Athens, 5-6 October 1989 FIET The occupational profile of Croupiers A 19 15 32 0 263 The Committee has called for the recognition of the croupier profession at European level, as well as the introduction of international regulations on the training of croupiers, working standards and gaming rules for players. The Committee has adopted a nine- point action programme and has published a brochure on the professional profile of croupiers to provide information to the general public and young people interested in the profession. Activities in the regions During the period under review, FIET sponsored a number of national courses for commercial workers in Africa, Asia and Latin America and the following events took place in the regions: 72 FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987-1991 AFRO- FIET 2801 The AFRO- FIET Commerce Trade Section met under the chairmanship of S.D.R. Chifamba( CWUZ, Zimbabwe) during the 3rd AFRO- FIET Conference, from 30 January- 3 February 1989 in Dakar, Senegal. Unemployment was singled out as the most serious problem, in a situation with low incomes, non- existent social security provisions and a responsibility for each wage earner to support a considerable number of dependents. The meeting adopted a set of conclusions, which were later adopted by the Conference, setting out priorities for the future work of the section. FIFA ET Garfield Davies, President of the EURO- FIET Commerce Trade Section, was one of the lecturers at an AFRO- FIET seminar on research and collective bargaining, held in Harare, Zimbabwe on 22-31 May 1989. His union, USDAW, also provided the participants with complete documentation covering a real round of collective bargaining in commerce in the United Kingdom. Participants in the APRO- FIET Seminar for Commercial workers held in Singapore on 28-30 May 1988, under the chairmanship of James B. Maher ( SDA, Australia). The Seminar concluded that it was important to continue and develop educational activities, which were already well established. Research and the publication of studies were called for with regard to issues such as parttime work, shop opening hours, working hours, health and safety and organising techniques. APRO- FIET SEMINAR FOR TRADE SECTION OF COMMERCIAL WORKERS 28TH- 30TH MAY 1988 PLAZA HOTEL SINGAPORE 88 5 28 APRO- FIET ohioW Isto An APRO- FIET Regional Seminar for Commercial Workers was held in Singapore in May 1988. In its conclusions, the Seminar pointed out the need for employer- provided training and other measures to safeguard employment in connection with technological and structural change in commerce. Part- time work, shop opening hours, health and safety and organising activities were pointed out as main areas of concern. The APRO- FIET Commerce Trade Section met during the APRO- FIET Regional Conference, Singapore, 22-24 February 1990, to identify future priorities. FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987- 1991 33 73 4TH EURO- FIET TRADE SECTION CONFERENCE OF COMMERCIAL WORKERS EURO- FIET THE IMPACT OF EUROPEAN INTEGRATION ON COMMERCIAL WORKERS: UNION PRIORITIES IN THE 1990's SORRENTO, ITALY 5-7 NOVEMBER 1990 CTP EURO- FIET The 4th EURO- FIET Trade Section Conference of Commercial Workers was held in Sorrento, Italy, 5-7 November 1990, under the theme" The impact of European integration on commercial workers: Union priorities in the 1990's." The Conference welcomed the presence of leaders from unions in Bulgaria, Hungary and Poland, as well as from the Japanese Federation of Commercial Workers' Unions. With respect to the creation of a social dialogue in the retail and wholesale trade, the Conference fully endorsed the conclusions of the June 1990 European Social Forum, convened by the European Commission, on the future structure and work programme for a social dialogue in the retail trade. The conclusions adopted by the Conference identified future priorities, including the improvement of the quality of employment by better training, higher pay, humane hours of work, job security and equality between men and women. The Conference urged affiliated organisations to maintain their campaigns against the extension of trading hours. The Conference stressed the need for unions to intensify organising campaigns in multinational companies. With respect to commercial travellers and casino employees, the Conference pledged to support affiliated organisations in ensuring that employers observe adequate negotiated employment and working conditions for these categories of workers. The EURO- FIET Commerce Trade Section Committee, under the chairmanship of Garfield Davies( USDAW, United Kingdom) met in Athens, 8-9 October 1987; in Lisbon, 15-16 Sepber 1987; in Lisbon, 15-16 September 1988, and in Manchester, 12-13 September 1989. The 1989 meeting was combined with a seminar on the subject of" 1992, the European Commerce Sector and the Social Dialogue." Matters discussed during the meetings included pay and working conditions, the need for strong trade union control over structural and technological change, performance and profit related pay systems, resisting the extension of shop opening hours, EEC directives and the internal market, including the demand for an EEC directive for salaried commercial representatives, multinational companies, solidarity actions and collective bargaining trends. The social dialogue in the retail trade was strengthened in 1987, during a meeting between EURO- FIET, the European Confederation for Retail Trade ( CECD) and the European Commission. This led to the The 4th EURO- FIET Commerce Conference was attended by 206 participants from 29 unions and 20 countries. comm 4... EURO- FIET TRADE SECTION CONFERENCE OF COMMERCIAL WORKERS 4. CONFERENZA PROFESSIONALE COMMERCIO DE EIET EURO- FIETSORRENTO 5-10 NOVEMBER 1 " THE IMPACT OF EUROPEAN INTEGRATION ON COMMERCIAL WORKERS. UNION PRIORITIES IN THE 1990. " IMPATTO DELL'INTEGRAZIONE EUROPEA SUI LAVORATORI DEL COMMERCIO: PRIORITA SINDACALLNEGLI ANN 1990* 74 FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987-1991 adoption in 1988 of a joint memorandum on vocational training, which sets out recommendations for the contents of vocational training programmes in the retail trade and for a European Vocational Training Card. A European Social Forum on the retail trade convened by the European Commission took place in 1990, which endorsed the proposals of the European Commission for the future structure of the social dialogue in the retail trade. A steering committee, a" memorandum" working The five- day IRO- FIET Seminar for Commercial Workers held in Mar del Plata group and a" retail image and demographic trends" working group have been created to continue these activities. in April 1988 dealt mainly with education. The opening ceremony took place by candlelight- one of the effects of a series of Argentine strikes protesting against government economic policies. The social dialogue in the whole- IRO- FIET sale trade is pursued through the activities of a working group comprised of representatives from EURO- FIET and the Federation of European Wholesale and International Trade Associations( FEWITA), which is studying new job profiles and the requirements of vocational training in the wholesale trade. abresed diles IRO- FIET Seminars for Commercial Workers were held in Mar del Plata, Argentina from 18-22 April 1988, and in Santiago, Chile, from 7-11 August 1989. The Seminars dealt with educational activities, employment problems and studied legislation, collective bargaining developments and shop opening hours in the different countries. The IRO- FIET Commerce Trade Section Committee met in Mar del Plata in April 1988 to draw up the future priorities of the section. FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987- 1991 75 75 HAIR AND BEAUTY CARE TRADE SECTION The latest area of activity to FIET has been for hairdressers and beauticians. The hair and beauty care trade section was established by a decision of the FIET World Executive Committee in 1988, following the integration of the European Organisation of Hairdressers and its national affiliates into FIET membership. To date, the trade section, under the chairmanship of Arnold Hansen( DFf, Denmark) and vice- chairmanship of Richard Thöndel( HGPD, Austria) has held four meetings: FIET Charter To assist unions to organise these staff and to negotiate better working conditions and a better working environment for them, the trade section has published a * Geneva, 13-14 September Charter for Hairdressers and 1988 * Vienna, 2-3 May 1989 * Elsingore, 8-9 May 1990 * Geneva, 23-24 April 1991. The FIET hair and beauty care trade section represents 97'482 members in 13 unions from 13 countries. Beauticians, which has been widely distributed. Analyses undertaken by the trade section have confirmed that employees in this sector, which includes a large proportion of women and young workers, work long hours for low wages. Staff Participants in the second meeting of the FIET Hair and Beauty Care Trade Section Committee during which a long debate took place on problems with the use of chemicals in the hair and beauty care profession. creation of FIET CHARTER FIET FOR HAIRDRESSERS AND BEAUTICIANS are expected to work in the evening and on Saturdays and without regular breaks. 76 い Health hazards Studies on health hazards undertaken by the medical profession in a number of countries have shown that there is reason for " growing concern on health and safety amongst hairdressers. They work mostly in a standing position, which can lead to damaged posture as well as injury to the spinal column. Respiratory and pulmonary diseases are also a problem. Ventilation systems, FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987-1991 natural light and room temperatures are often not adequate. Frequent contact with water and various products can trigger off skin diseases. The use of chemical products of various compositions represents an additional hazard. Product labelling One of the priorities for the trade section is to advocate the introduction of protective legislation at international and national level and to obtain regulations for the labelling of products, regardless of whether they are considered hazardous or not. Pressure will continue to be exerted to this effect on such bodies as the European Commission, as well as on Colipa, the umbrella organisation of cosmetics manuThe hair and beauty care sector is an important sector of employment which attracts thousands of young workers who are eager to become masters in this skilled and demanding profession. On entering the sector many are unaware of the extent to which they will be subject to exploitation in their employment. facturers in EC countries. The trade section is actively involved in the Economic and Social Committee's working groups examining harmonisation of EEC Training is essential for staff where new techniques and fashions develop quickly. Training must be given a much higher profile by employers in the hair and beauty care sector. FIET's affiliate SYNCOIFTO in Togo trains apprentices for a period of two years in all aspects of the hairdressing profession. The union organises seminars and vocational, introductory and advanced training courses for its members. legislation on cosmetic substances. The trade section has published a study, commissioned by the Danish hairdressers' union and employers' association, on health and safety issues in the hair and beauty care sector and will continue to cooperate closely with the ILO and WHO on these matters. FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987-1991 Franchising Another important issue is the question of franchising. There are signs that the structure of the industry is changing. Traditionally staff- mainly women- were employed in owner- run salons. The situation is changing, for example, in the United States and France, where large chain salons are expanding and have begun to dominate the industryvery often through franchising agreements. 77 R INSURANCE TRADE SECTION silo s 2510) bas bla Regional trade section committees for insurance employees exist in all four of FIET's regional organisations. At 30 April 1991 the FIET Insurance Trade Section represented 710'509 members in 96 unions and 66 countries. 3rd FIET World Insurance Conference The main activity during the period under review was the 3rd FIET World Insurance Conference, which met under the theme "" The Trade Union Response to the Financial Services Revolution" and was chaired by Gilbert Clajot( SETCa, Belgium). The four vice- presidents were: AFRO- FIET- Daniel Nwanyanwu( NUBIFIE, Nigeria), APRO- FIET- Maggie Ferguson ( AIEU, Australia), EURO- FIET - Annette Petersen( DFL, Denmark), IRO- FIET- Beth Shulman ( UFCW, United States). The Conclusions Committee was chaired by Kevin Davern( AIEU, Australia). The conclusions adopted by the Conference covered global financial integration; the changing world of employment; organising, solidarity and trade union rights; the integration of women in trade unions; working conditions and collective bargaining; co- operative insurers; employed insurance agents and the situation in South Africa, where the statement by the February 1990 World Executive Committee was endorsed. THE TRADE UNION RESPONSE TO THE FINANCIAL SERVICES REVOLUTION 3rd FIET World Conference of Insurance Employees Singapore 1990 March 1, 2, 3, FINT INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF COMMERCIAL CLERICAL PROFESSIONAL AND TECHNICAL EMPLOYEES A report on the 3rd FIET World Insurance Conference has been published by the Secretariat. Restructuring, increased competition and deregulation of the insurance industry Particular concern has been expressed by the Trade Section about the effects of mergers and takeovers on the job security of employees in the insurance industry. The Section fully supports the proposal that a binding international code of conduct be drawn up governing mergers, takeovers and sales of subsidiaries including the principles of prior and timely information rights for workers and trade unions about any proposed action and protection for employees' terms and conditions and pension and trade union recognition rights after the change in ownership. Closer co- operation with bank unions In many countries bank and insurance unions are merging to form one union for the financial services sector. The Trade Section believes that the increasing integration in the financial services sector meant that FIET Banking and Insurance Trade Sections should work more closely together, including the planning of joint activities and initiatives. During the period under review, APRO- FIET organised a joint Bank and Insurance Trade Section Seminar in Bangkok on 2931 August 1988. EURO- FIET held a joint Bank and Insurance Trade Section Conference on the Future of Financial Services in 78 FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987-1991 Europe, in Stockholm on 12 May 1987. AFRO- FIET and IROFIET have joint Trade Sections for Bank and Insurance Employees. Changing job conditions On the subject of the changing world of employment, the Trade Section has called for the collective bargaining agenda to be extended to encompass employment policies, job security, work organisation, technological change, career development, job content and equal opportunities. In order better to evaluate the scope and content of employment changes in insurance, the Trade Section has called for a new look at union policy on working time. Database on multinationals A database on the top 200 insurance companies has been established by the FIET Secretariat. tive insurance has been drawn up between EURO- FIET and the Association of European Cooperative Insurers. Meetings in the regions During the period under review, the following activities were organised by the regional trade sections: AFRO- FIET The AFRO- FIET Bank and Insurance Trade Section met during the 3rd AFRO- FIET Conference, Dakar, Senegal, 30 January- 3 February 1989. The meeting drew up conclusions, which were later adopted by the Conference and which set out priorities for the future work of the section concerning improved levels of trade union membership; trade union recognition and collective bargaining; training and retraining; multinational insurers; technology and the working environment; improved working conditions; equality of opportunity; employment security and mergers and takeovers. APRO- FIET The APRO- FIET Bank and Insurance Trade Section Committee met in Bangkok in August 1988 and in Singapore in February 1990. The APRO- FIET Bank and Insurance Trade Section Seminar which took place in Bangkok on 29-31 August 1988 brought together over 100 participants under the theme"" Trade Unions and the Future of Financial Services." The seminar examined the impact of deregulation, techThe 3rd FIET World Insurance Conference brought together 103 delegates and observers from 46 unions in 34 countries in Singapore between 1-3 March 1990. nobo Equal opportunities The Trade Section has called upon affiliates to take concrete steps to increase the recruitment of women members and involve them in union activity. A EURO- FIET Conference on equality of opportunity in insurance was organised on 17 March 1989 in Glasgow, and a statement of best practice concerning equality for women in co- operabre ob FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987- 1991 79 nology and the growing internationalisation of the financial services industry on trade unions. EURO- FIET The EURO- FIET Trade Section Committee has continued in its efforts to establish a social dialogue with insurance employers. Following the meeting of 6 July 1990 when the European Insurers Committee( CEA) expressed its intention to start a social dialogue with EURO- FIET at European level and the other employers for insurance followed suit, EURO- FIET and CEA met in Munich on 17 October 1990. A steering group meeting for this sector convened on 15 November 1990 in Brussels under the auspices of the European Commission to decide the mandate, subjects and procedures for the social dialogue. It was agreed to restrict initial discussions to the issue of vocational training. Regular consultations took place between the EURO- FIET Insurance Trade Section and the Insurance Division of the European Commission. Meetings of the EURO- FIET Insurance Trade Section Committee, under the chairmanship of Gilbert Clajot( SETCa, Belgium) took place in Stockholm on 13 May 1987; Lisbon, 29 February- 1 March 1988; Glasgow, 16-17 March 1989; SinFIST At its meeting in Glasgow in March 1989, the EURO- FIET Insurance Trade Section Committee criticised the absence of an adequate social dimension in the programme for 1992 in insurance. The Committee called upon Jacques Delors to organise a Euro summit between insurers and trade unions to build a social dialogue at European level. no vpilog AECI on the question of equality for women in insurance and is seeking to extend this to the issues of training, qualifications and skill development. gapore 1 and 3 March 1990, and Geneva, 6-7 March 1991. Subjects included recruitment; freedom of services in insurance in Europe and EEC directives on insurance, as well as the social dialogue; collective bargaining developments; insurance agents; IRO- FIET changing patterns of distribution for insurance and financial products; employment trends; multinational insurers and mergers and takeovers. Annual meetings continued to be held between the EURO- FIET Insurance Trade Section and the Association of European Cooperative Insurers( AECI). EURO- FIET has agreed a statement of best practice with the The IRO- FIET Trade Section for Bank and Insurance Employees, CABS, met in April 1988 in Paraguay and in May 1990 in Mexico. Subjects dealt with included a detailed analysis of the impact of the debt crisis on Latin America and the finance sector in particular, recruitment and solidarity activities. 60 80 FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987-1991 PROPERTY SERVICES TRADE SECTION In 1988, following a resolution adopted by the 21st FIET World Congress, FIET created a new trade section for property services workers. These are the people- the clean- the creation of the new trade ers, maintenance staff, security guards, administrative and technical personnel and janitors who take care of buildings, keeping them clean and safe to live and work in. FIET had represented some of these workers indirectly for many years, through the work of other trade sections which cover most of the private service sector. But the plight of property services workers, the exploitation and discrimination they face, with some of the lowest rates of pay and most abysmal working conditions of any industry, prompted section. Membership At 30 April 1991 the FIET property services trade section represented 360'986 members in 25 unions and 21 countries. Membership has expanded rapidly since its foundation. First steps in the regions Meeting in Nairobi, 12-14 February 1991, the AFRO- FIET Executive Committee welcomed FIET's initiative in creating a Participants in the inaugural meeting of the FIET Property Services Trade Section, which took place in Geneva in November 1988. Property Services Trade Section. The Committee drew special attention to the fact that property services workers constituted one of the most repressed groups in the African labour movement. Important advances had already been made in organising these workers all over the continent and the Committee decided to take the first steps towards establishing a trade section for property services workers within the regional organisation. The IRO- FIET Executive Committee also is proposing to establish a regional trade section. In Europe, the secretariat has raised a question with the EuroFIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987-1991 81 pean Parliament concerning the need to license property services companies. Consultations have also taken place with the European Commission and the European employers' association in the sector. It is clear that further activities will need to be developed in Europe. Scope and objectives The FIET property services trade section is intended not only for affiliates and potential affiliates whose members are concentrated largely or wholly in the sector. It is also of interest for FIET affiliates whose membership is concentrated largely in other trade sections. The provision of decent working conditions in increasingly service- based economies are dependent on a professional, decently paid property services sector. Because of low status, meagre pay and poor working conditions, jobs in the property services sector tend to be filled by the weakest groups in society, including women, ethnic minorities and migrant workers, both authorised and illegal. To date, the trade section, under the chairmanship of John Sweeney( SEIU, United States) and Vice- Chairmanship of BertOve Pettersson( FASTIGHETS, Sweden), has held three meetings: * Geneva, 21-22 November 1988 * Copenhagen, 12-13 October 1989 * Frankfurt, 6-7 December 1990. This group of workers, though vital to the smooth functioning of modern service economies, is largely invisible and is often overlooked by fellow workers. The first objective of the property services trade section is therefore to give the" invisible people" a higher profile, to bring them into the view of employers as trade unionists. The aim of the trade section and the objective of the trade unions represented is simply to secure fair and decent wages and conditions for workers in the property services sector. For such a labour intensive industry, property services is interbnationalised to a surprisingly high degree. The prevalence of multinational employers makes international trade union contact and action vital. The work programme The trade section acts an an information exchange on corpoFIET ACTION PROGRAMME FOR PROPERTY SERVICES The second meeting of the trade section adopted an action programme, which sets out the aims and policy for the FIET property services employees section. The action programme identifies the issues of union organisation, multinational companies, training, health and safety, trade union rights and policies for equal opportunities. rate campaigning and organising strategies. In addition, a major priority for the trade section is to aid the compilation and exchange of information on the most significant multinationals in the sector. The trade section has established a database covering such areas as ownership, structure, union organisation and working conditions. The foundations which have been laid over the past three years by the FIET property services trade section world- wide are now supporting a growing structure of international trade union soli82 FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987- 1991 darity action. Strike action by workers organised by the SEIU in Century City, Los Angeles, against ISS brought a dramatic breakthrough in June 1990 with the crucial help of international trade union solidarity from Denmark and around the world. Continuing discussions between FIET and ISS are exploring the possibility for establishing a world trade union information and consultation structure within the company, which has rapidly become the world's largest provider of property services. A FIET World Conference of Property Services Employees is planned to take place in New York in 1992. THE EXILOITS JANITORS SENGER END POVERTY AT THE WORLD BANK JUSTICE FOR JANITORS SERVICE EMOVEES SERVICE EMPLOYEES EMPLOYEES SERVICE KRAER ATVISA Trade unions in the sector are exploring novel and imaginative methods of putting pressure on multinational companies and building owners, making good use of the impact of bad publicity, especially in local media. The SEIU has launched a" Justice for Janitors" campaign to bring fair pay, decent benefits and just treatment to the 6,000 workers who clean commercial offices in Washington, D.C., including the headquarters of the World Bank. diviss ad herp sou lo bu FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987- 1991 83 SALARIED EMPLOYEES IN INDUSTRY TRADE SECTION The Salaried Employees in Industry Trade Section is one of the most long- standing sections in FIET. The trade section represents 2'146'724 clerical, administrative, supervisory and technical staff in industry, which spans manufacturing to the high- tech sector, in 99 unions and 60 countries. The trade unions in the industrialised world have been faced with far- reaching transformations, shifting the structure of industrial sectors as well as the composition of the workforce. In many industries there is a continuing decrease in the number of manual workers, matched by an increasing proportion of white collar workers. It is a trade section that requires close collaboration with other International Trade Secretariats and the Secretariat has made considerable efforts to build effective co- operation with the International Metalworkers' Federation and the European Metalworkers' Federation. Joint activities have been undertaken with respect to a number of multinational companies, including ABB, Honeywell Bull, IBM, and Rank Xerox. In line with the resolution adopted by the FIET World Executive Committee calling for an intensified FIET Organising Campaign in Technology Industries, the trade section conducted a study on union organisation in multinationals in the high- tech sector and will be spearheading a campaign in the multinational electronics industry. A priority for the future will be a much more rigorous analysis of employment and working conditions for computer personnel. Also in the future the trade section will be looking to see how affiliates can be assisted in their organising campaigns; it will be examining how training and retraining arrangements can be improved; it will monitor collective bargaining and working conditions, follow developments of multinational companies, particularly in the high- tech There is a growing proportion of women employees in industry and the section has called on employers to implement comprehensive measures to give women truly equal working conditions and equal opportunities for promotion. Equal opportunities should cover positive action on training, career breaks and development, and child- care facilities. Active measures must ensure that men and women receive equal pay for work of equal value. The section has also emphasised that affiliated unions should take steps to increase recruitment of women members and involve them in union activity. Women employees should have equal access to trade union training and be entitled to adequate representation in the decision- making bodies of trade unions. 84 FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987-1991 sector, and will establish a database on trade union organisation in multinationals. A better working environment Salaried employees are in the frontline of the technological revolution and FIET analysis shows that this is taking place with little emphasis on the human consequences. The section demands that technological innovation must place the human being at the centre of concern. A phenomena of deep concern is the increasing pressure for performance at work. The increased stress resulting from this is leading to a significant rise in health disorders and disease. Intensified efforts are required to fight stress and to create a healthier working environment. The section has stressed that, in introducing new technology and in the modernisation of companies, prior consultation must take place from the outset with trade unions. The section, in seeking to create a better working environment, is stressing that: * employees themselves have to be involved in developing Resolution on a FIET Organising Campaign in Technology Industries The FIET World Executive Committee, meeting in Buenos Aires on 10-11 April 1989, having discussed the world- wide expansion of production, trading and employment in the multinational electronics industry, Expresses concern at the predominantly anti- union policy of these companies, ΟΣ Stresses the need for unions to concentrate organising campaigns in these companies, Recognises the efforts made by FIET in recent years to promote unionisation in these companies by organising international meetings of trade union activists and representatives in IBM( 1987, jointly with the IMF and PTTI), Rank Xerox, Honeywell Bull and others, Instructs the Secretariat to intensify these activities, to identify further target companies in cooperation with other ITS's and to entrust the Industry Trade Section to discharge these responsibilities. solutions to reduce the workload and to avoid harmful stress; A по * trade unions will have to go beyond existing legislation and issues of collective bargaining and actively take part in shaping living and working conditions. Employees must be enabled to improve their abilities and competence at work and work should be organised to the benefit of employees. Activities in the regions During the period under review, in addition to the annual meetings of the EURO- FIET industry trade section committee and various educational activities in the other regions, the industry trade section has organised the following major meetings: APRO- FIET Some 30 participants attended the APRO- FIET seminar for salaried employees in industry held in Penang, Malaysia from 1 to 3 December 1989. The seminar discussed technological and structural changes and their impact on workers, their trade unions and society. Participants adopted specific conclusions on trade union organisational structures; collective bargaining; organising the unorganised and trade union priorities for their activities and services. FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987-1991 85 85 EURO- FIET biove of bos bac A EURO- FIET working party on training and flexibility in working time met in Geneva on 25-26 May 1989. The meeting drew up guidelines on" Improving the quality of working time" and on" Vocational training, further training and re- training." The 5th EURO- FIET trade section conference for salaried employees in industry took place in Brussels from 18-20 June 1990, under the theme" The Industrial Dimension to European Integration." Over 150 participants from 19 European countries attended. A study on Trade Unions and Quality Circles was produced by FIET in recognition of the fact that the increasingly widespread introduction of quality circles is a development of major significance to trade unions. The trade union movement is in the process of building an effective response to this phenomenon and the publication of this document is FIET's contribution to that task. FIET Trade Unions and Quality Circles Participants in the 5th EURO- FIET Trade Section Conference for Salaried Employees in Industry. The Conference re- elected Heinz Vogler( GPA, Austria) and Roy Grantham( APEX Partnership, United Kingdom) as President and Vice- President, respectively, of the EURO- FIET Trade Section Committee. The Conference noted that there was a dramatic shift in employment taking place throughout European industry, with a growing proportion of salaried staff. Concern was expressed that the levels of training, retraining and on- job learning were inadequate to face the competitive challenges of Japan and the USA. Training was therefore highlighted as a key union bargaining priority for the 1990's. The Conference adopted conclusions on how to improve the quality of training and on the following areas: European integration; industry in the 1992 process; social Europe; Eastern and Central Europe; working conditions and collective bargaining; improving the quality of working time; unions for a healthy working environment; equality; multinational companies. The conference called upon FIET to develop a plan of action to combat stress and to improve the working environment and work organisation. The conference pledged its strong support for a social Europe and for the new emerging and independent trade unions in Eastern and Central Europe. IRO- FIET Thirty participants met in Cordoba, Argentina, at the beginning of December 1989 for a seminar organised by the IROFIET industry and tourism trade section. The seminar brought together union organisers from white collar workers in industry to discuss the economic and social problems facing the continent. Particular attention was paid to studying the origins of the debt crisis and the policies which were being advocated to tackle the problem. 86 FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987- 1991 SOCIAL INSURANCE AND HEALTH CARE TRADE SECTION In 1986 FIET created a new world trade section for Social Insurance and Health Care Employees. FIET has been involved in these sectors for many years, notably in EURO- FIET and in IROFIET where the FIATSSS trade section has been particularly active in the struggle to improve standards of health care and the protection of health workers' interests. A first meeting of the AFRO- FIET trade section took place in Dakar, Senegal during the 3rd AFRO- FIET Conference from 30 January to 3 February 1989. The FIET Social Insurance and Health Care Trade Section represents 455'944 members in 60 unions and 49 countries. Protection of social security and health care benefits Developments with respect to social security and health care are not only of interest to affiliates actively working in the sector but to FIET's entire membership. Any government initiative with respect to health and medical care, state pensions, unemployment benefits, social protection and social services which materially affect the fabric and quality of life are of interest to trade unions. Any tampering with the" welfare state" to reduce levels of benefits or health services, as has been the case during the last decade, is of obvious concern to all employees and their unions. The meeting of the EURO- FIET Social Insurance and Health Care Trade Section in October 1987 concluded that the experience since the stock market crash on 19 October 1987 had shown that privatisation was no replacement for social welfare systems. TRIS 080 Internationalisation of private health care services The operation of multinational profit making health care corporations has greatly expanded. FIET is profoundly concerned that their expansion in developing countries has undermined the development of indigenous public health care systems. Private health care providers in exploiting privatisation and deregulatory measures are also undermining established public health care systems. FIET investigates, monitors and publishes regular reports on the activities of multinational health care corporations. FIET is also co- ordinating an international programme to assure collective bargaining and trade union rights of employees. FIST FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987-1991 Activities in the regions: 108 During the period under review, the following activities took place in the regions: 87 seeking to cut levels of public expenditure and social benefits. Government policies had resulted in increased unemployment and poverty which acted as a drain on social security contributions and expenditure. Considering the incursion into Europe of private hospital chains, mainly USA- based, which had FIET's affiliate in Korea, the Federation of Hosptial Workers' Unions, is facing a major struggle to retain bargaining rights in hospitals throughout the country. FIET strongly protested against police brutality and the arrest of sixty strikers at the Seoul National University Hospital Union in October 1990. AFRO- FIET The first meeting of the AFROFIET trade section early in 1989 drew up conclusions which were later adopted by the 3rd AFROFIET Conference. The meeting was held under the chairmanship of Laouali Moutari( SUSAS, Niger) and identified priorities for future action concerning the organisation of social security and health care workers and ensuring for them full trade union rights and satisfactory working conditions; participation of trade unions in the administration of social insurance and health care and consultation with the unions in any review of such services. The trade section resolved to support the public provision of health care services in Africa and to monitor the expansion of private health care corporations. EURO- FIET The President of the Trade Section Committee is Yves Simon ( FEC- FO, France). The ViceChairmen are Börje Johansson ( FF, Sweden) and Anton Prager ( GPA, Austria). Three meetings of the Committee took place during the period under review: T An international union meeting organised by FIET, the PSI and the Service Employees International Union ( SEIU) took place in Washington D.C. on 15 December 1987. The meeting was followed by a report on the privatisation of health care published jointly by the three organisations. The report shows that the trend towards abandoning health care delivery to private financing, private ownership and private control is gaining ground in many countries in a variety of ways. It contained a number of proposals for follow- up action by FIET and the PSI, with emphasis on an examination of the activities of the large US- based private multinational health care providers. FIET * * Geneva, 29-30 October 1987 Paris, 25 October 1988 * Brussels, 7-8 November 1989 * Geneva, 25-26 April 1991. The 1988 meeting was linked to a seminar on the theme" Social insurance and health care trends in the 1990's." During these meetings, subjects discussed included the recent bitter attacks by governments SERVICE EMPLOYEES PSI 10 ÖD International Healthcare Union Conference on Privatization ISKA SP 88 FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987- 1991 Washington, DC April 1986 now established a presence in over 20 countries, the Committee noted that as private hospitals increased in number public hospitals were closing down. The Committee has also considered how demographic changes will affect social insurance and health care services in Europe. Falling birth rates and growing based on purchasing power parities were examined. The Committee also considered policy positions on proposals issued by the European Commission on the convergence of social welfare policies within the European Community and on a guarantee of benefits and resources. life expectancy will shift the IRO- FIET balance of populations towards the more elderly, with clear financial implications for the social insurance and health care systems. In addition, regular reviews were made of collective bargaining trends in the sector. At the meeting held in Geneva in April 1991, new comparisons on working conditions and collective bargaining information The Chairman of the IRO- FIET Trade Section for Social Insurance and Health Care Employees, FIATSSS, is Rodolfo Mario Campos Bravo( SNTISSSTE, Mexico). FIATSSS organised a seminar in conjunction with a trade section committee meeting in Caracas, 16-20 May 1988. Unions from eleven countries were represented. AIDS Following the resolution on AIDS adopted by the 21st FIET World Congress, the Secretariat produced an information pamphlet for distribution to all affiliates. In December 1990 a programme of seminars on AIDS was launched by IRO- FIET in conjunction with the World Health Organisation. 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Cutting across the occupational boundaries of FIET's Trade Sections, these Interprofessional Groups cater for: Solic* mos Professional and Managerial Staff * Women * Youth Particular attention is being directed towards the recruitment of professional and managerial staff, women and young workers, who are fundamental to the future development of the trade union movement. and rights FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987- 1991 91 92 to aquang you to eben ers of bags of to nosini llut basismis ad promo THI to shabod soulsquo ad 20 grid to walassol al THIR of estivitas boaingo and it assvolqms ganoinu boilie on equon bue snoizeoloxistal as anois sharT quor Tha12 IehogansM bos lanoizzator пото duoY ogenem brs fanion to absorbosponib gnied ai honen elite Tommolovsbutut as of latambou onschow goy bus nomow Thaiz lair Jevonoinu oben ods FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987-1991 PROFESSIONAL AND MANAGERIAL STAFF Throughout the period under review FIET and its affiliates have been actively campaigning to bring professional and managerial staff into the trade union movement. It is the task of the FIET Professional and Managerial Staff Committee to co- ordinate this campaign and to look after the interests of these staff within the international trade union movement. Second FIET Professional and Managerial Staff World Conference The main event during the period under review was the Second FIET Professional and Managerial Staff World Conference, which took place in Madrid from 25-27 October 1989 and was attended by over 200 participants from 74 unions. For the first time a representative from Solidarnosc in Poland attended a FIET event. The Conference condemned those governments and employers which prevent professional and managerial staff from joining unions. In many countries they are prevented from so doing because of unfair labour laws whereby as soon as employees This Conference, convened under the theme of" Organising for Tomorrow", paid particular attention to recruitment strategies of affiliated unions towards professional and managerial staff. The Conference urged FIET and its affiliates to make every endeavour to develop new and imaginative ways and means to attract more professional and managerial staff into union membership, recognising that increased membership by these staff benefits the unions, the enterprise and society. Also the special knowledge and aptitudes of these staff can be of immense value in the formulation of trade union policy and putting it into effect. REPORT ON THE FIET PROFESSIONAL AND MANAGERIAL STAFF WORLD CONFERENCE ORGANISING FOR TOMORROW FIET PROFESSIONAL AND MANAGERIAL STAFF Madrid October 25, 26, 27 1989 or repeal, of restrictive legislation to permit professional and managerial staff the same rights as other employees to play an active role in trade unions. The Conference conclusions highlighted the need for job security arrangements and for improved training, the lack of equality for women, the impact of economic integration on job mobility and the impact of modern management methods on company structure and decisionmaking. The conclusions also recognised that professional and managerial staff have an important role to play in ensuring environmentally sound company policies and for them to use their influence to that effect. are promoted to supervisory functions, they no longer have the right to form or join unions. This results in staff being promoted to fictive supervisory functions to break the membership strength of unions. The Conference called for FIET to campaign to secure amendments, The problem of stress and the dangers it posed to the health of employees was also underlined. Many professional and managerial staff are having to work in excess of 50 hours per week, do not take vacation entitlements and are subject to tight corporate performance criteria and irregular working time patterns. Concern was expressed at the trend towards the introduction of flexible pay schemes and FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987-1991 93 " performance related pay" in particular. This was seen as SING FU undermining collective bargain- NORLD CONFERENCE more colleagues and creating with, intense working conditing tee of financial reward. Guidewith, at the end of it, no guaran. lines were proposed for unions to follow when confronted with attempts by companies to introduce performance related pay schemes. The ILO was strongly urged to examine the extent to which governments had implemented the ILO Compendium for Professional Workers, to organise a meeting for that purpose and to increase resources allocated to this sector.( This point was emphasised by the FIET Acting General Secretary in his address to the 1989 ILO Conference, as well as by the FIET World Executive Committee in a resolution adopted in 1990.) STAFF IZAR PARA EL FUTURO" RELOS PROFESIONALE lemoizolov RENCIA MUNDIAL DE LA FIET Madri 27 Octu 1989 The Second FIET Professional and Managerial Staff Conference was chaired by FIET President Bengt Lloyd and was addressed at the opening by AFRO- FIET President DJ. Niasse, APRO- FIET President J.P. Maynes, EURO- FIET President K. Boeykens, and G.D. Oliveri on behalf of IRO- FIET President R. Campos Bravo. Professional and Managerial Staff Committee During the period under review, the Professional and Managerial Staff Committee met on the following occasions: * Geneva, 24-25 September 1987 * Florence, 28-29 September 1988 * Madrid, 25 October 1989 * Geneva, 19-20 November 1990 The 1987 meeting of the FIET Professional and Managerial Staff Committee capped a decade of FIET activity in this field. FIET The 1987 meeting launched an initiative to boost union membership among professional and managerial staff. A report " Organising for Tomorrow" was presented to the meeting. It considered the cases of twentyfour unions which had conducted successful campaigns to recruit professional and managerial staff. The meeting also reviewed a FIET study on pay and working conditions of professional and managerial staff, which examined pay flexibility and attempts by employers to link pay to performance and profits. The 94 44 FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987-1991 Committee also drew attention VNALLY to the excessive hours worked by many professional and managerial staff. It called on the ILO to commence an immediate world- wide investigation into abuses of trade union rights of professional and managerial staff. During its 1988 meeting, the Committee agreed to step up its efforts to recruit more professional and managerial staff into union membership. It was reported that unions in a number of countries had decided to launch recruitment initiatives during 1988-89. The Committee also agreed to launch an international enquiry amongst affiliates on the pay of managers to assist in national negotiations.( The survey was launched in February 1989 and the results were presented to the World Conference.) Much union criticism was expressed over the quality of consultants' reports on managers' pay and the accuracy of their purchasing power comparisons. The initiatives of the EEC to bring about the harmonisation of professional qualifications were also examined. The 1989 meeting discussed the agenda and final arrangements in preparation for the World Conference. At its 1990 meeting, the Committee reiterated its concern that conditions for staff sent abroad left them open to exploitation ΓΕ M 25-27 Core 1 Evert Brandgard( left) from SIF of Sweden served as President of the Committee from 1983 to 1990, when he stood down and was replaced by Michel Rousselot from UCC- CFDT of France. and many uncertainties. Employers were not taking into account the need to guarantee quality of life, family responsibilities, salaries and pensions. The Committee called for companies to develop comprehensive working abroad packages, emphasising that when transferring staff abroad insufficient attention was being given to training and retraining. The Committee called upon the European Community to ensure that the free movement of labour was to the benefit of both European industry and the workers concerned. The meeting also reviewed trade union organising and recruitment campaigns. On 17 April 1991, a drafting group met in Geneva to begin work on the revision of the FIET Action Programme for Professional and Managerial Staff in the light of discussions at the World Conference, in preparation for the Committee meeting on 14-15 October 1991. Professional and Managerial Staff in Europe European members of the FIET Professional and Managerial Staff Committee have been actively involved in campaigning for an EC directive for engineers in view of the fact that the EC directive adopted on 21 December 1988 on general recognition of diplomas includes no specific provision for engineers. Following a number of consultation meetings including EURO- FIET and other interested European FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987- 1991 95 organisations, a consensus was reached on a set of proposals to be included in such a directive. Another issue of concern is that a new organisation, which is not in the mainstream of the union movement, is seeking representation within the European Community institutions with the stated object of defending the interests of professional and managerial staff in Europe. EURO- FIET members of the Professional and Managerial Staff Committee are attempting to ensure that the authority of the ETUC and EURO- FIET in the Community are not diminished by recognition of this organisation in the discussions on the social dialogue or by official recognition by the European Commission. The Work Programme The priorities for FIET's activities for professional and managerial staff in the 1990's will be: FIRT WORKING ABROAD: FIET Guidelines INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF COMMERCIAL CLERICAL, PROFESSIONAL AND TECHNICAL EMPLOYEES The Second FIET Professional and Managerial Staff Conference adopted a new FIET programme on" Working Abroad', which provides guidelines to unions when they are negotiating conditions for staff sent to work abroad. The text is intended as a basis for concluding collective agreements or drafting individual contracts of employment for those called upon to work abroad so that their interests, both at home and abroad, may be adequately protected. * improved recruitment of professional and managerial staff into unions and the development of information exchanges between unions about strategies and successful means to this end. * the removal of all legislation preventing professional and managerial staff from organising or benefitting from collective agreements. * better conditions of mobility and for working abroad. * improved training and retraining. * the development of union policies to alleviate stress. * proper levels of pay. * continued pressure on the ILO for a survey on and meeting oto discuss the practical implementation of the ILO Compendium on Professional al Workers. 96 FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987- 1991 Organising ed to WOMEN upp swans of suenom bedail Almost half of FIET's members are women. FIET has continued to act on their behalf in the struggle to secure for them the position of equality to which they are entitled on the labour market, in society and in the trade unions. FIET Working Women's Group At the FIET World Congress in Lomé in 1987, the FIET Statutes were amended to provide for the President of the FIET Working Women's Group to be a member of the FIET World Executive Committee. The President of the Working Group is Irene Sundelin( SIF, Sweden), who replaced Helga Stubianek( GPA, Austria) in 1988. The Vice- President is Suzanne Taho( SYNABEFA- CI, Ivory Coast), who was elected in 1988. FIET During the period under review, the Group met four times: * Lomé, 22-23 August 1987 * Lisbon, 13-14 September 1988 * Amsterdam, 26-27 September 1989 * Vienna, 11-12 September 1990 ACTION PROGRAMME FOR WOMEN SALARIED EMPLOYEES The FIET Working Women's Group looks after the interests of women workers in the services sector and industry at world level. The photo shows, from left to right, Suzanne Taho, Vice- President of the Group; Helga Cammell, Secretary; Helga Stubianek, former President; Irene Sundelin, President and Eva Calderon, IRO- FIET co- ordinator for women's questions. NATIONALE ECH ENS ES GAL At its Lomé meeting, the Group discussed a report on the situation of women workers in Africa and prepared discussions by Congress of the FIET brochure on" Integration of women in trade union activities." The Group underlined the need for greater participation by women in trade union decision- making bodies. SCARY FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987-1991 Atits Lisbon meeting, the Group reviewed social security systems in different countries and adopted a declaration on equality in social security systems between men and women, underlining that 97 2ND APRO- FIET WOMEN LEADERSHIP TRAINING URSE 11 SEPTE R 1989 ORE 85 Thirty- three women trade unionists from 28 unions in 12 Asian/ Pacific countries completed a leadership course held in Singapore, 11-16 September 1989. This course, the second of its kind, was organised in response to the affiliates' requests, following the implementation of the experimental course the previous year. much work remained to be done to eliminate discrimination against women in these systems. The Group demanded the right for women to appropriate benefits in cases of unemployment, sickness, accident, social distress, care of dependent persons living in the family unit, old age pensions and invalidity. The Group also examined progress in achieving equal pay for work of equal value and emphasised that, even with legislative and collective bargaining improvements, further advancements were required. At its Amsterdam meeting, a discussion on equal pay for work of equal value was based on a Secretariat report, which exposed the continuing exploitation of women in their employment through low pay and discriminatory wage practices. In a resolution, which was later endorsed the the FIET World Executive Committee, the Group expressed its profound concern that even where governments have established measures to ensure equal value treatment with provisions to bring sanctions and appeals for dealing with direct and indirect wage discrimination, this has still not prevented large differences appearing in the average wages of men and women. The resolution went on to point to various measures that unions could take to eliminate pay discrimination. The Group also discussed the practical application of the declaration adopted by the Group in 1988 on equality in social security systems, integration of women in unions, as well as arrangements for the 4th FIET World Women's Conference. The main focus of the Vienna meeting of the Group was the preparation of the 4th FIET World Women's Conference. A group of twelve women trade unionists from six West African countries visited Germany and Geneva on a study trip from 14-23 August 1989. The programme included seminars, as well as discussions at the ILO and FIET headquarters. 98 FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987- 1991 4th FIET World Women's Conference FIET Declaration on Equality in Social Security Systems Between Men and Women WOMEN AT WORK, IN SOCIETY: FIET FIGHTS FOR EQUALITY 4th FIET World Women's Conference The 4th FIET World Women's Conference is scheduled to take place in San Francisco from 15 to 18 August 1991, prior to the 22nd FIET World Congress. The theme for the Conference is " Women at Work, Women in Society, FIET Fights for Equality." In addition to standard items of the agenda, including implementation of the FIET Action Programme for Working Women and the report on activities, the Conference will split into working groups to discuss the following themes: Women at Work, Women in Society: Improving Conditions Through Union Action, under the sub- themes: harmonisation of professional and family responsibilities, equal pay for work of equal value, training and further training, equal acThe FIET Working Group of Women Salaried Employees at its 19th meeting from 13th to 14th September 1988 in Lisbon welcomed the ILO Convention No. 168 on Employment Promotion and Social Security. The meeting recognized that social security systems which exist in countries where FIET is represented are at very different stages of development. It also recognised and welcomed the extensive collective bargaining work which many trade unions have undertaken to improve on basic legal provisions. The meeting recognised that much work still remains to be done in eliminating direct and indirect discrimination against women and ensuring true equality of treatment in social security provisions. The working group requested individual legal rights to appropriate benefits in case of, inter alia: - - - unemployment illness accident social distress care of dependants( children/ persons needing care) retirement pension disability pension The group noted the negative impact on social security benefits for working women of: low salaries career interruptions part- time work unstable employment unemployment and underemployment which is greater among women shortcomings in national legislation The group considered that taken as a whole these restrictions, which were tolerated by societies lacking a sense of equality of the sexes, resulted in the social inequality and even poverty of women. The working group called upon the World Executive Committee of the FIET to support the drawing up of legal and general guidelines in the field of social security. FriedrichFIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987- 1991 * Bonn ung Bibliothek 99 cess to job opportunities, women and the organisation of work, for a healthier working environment. - Building Strong Unions through Organising Women, under the sub- themes: organising techniques, assertiveness training, union education, improving participation; Activities in the Regions Women's coordinators have been appointed for the regions as follows: Asia: Maureen Jap( SBEU, Malaysia) who in 1990 succeeded Lucille Gasper Lim( NUCW, Malaysia). English- speaking Africa: Annie Mumba( ZUFIAW, Zambia). French- speaking Africa: Suzanne Taho( SYNABEFA- CI, Ivory Coast). The Americas: Eva Calderon ( ASIMRA, Argentina) who in 1988 succeeded Clemencia Baquero( SINTRABANCOM, Colombia). In addition to the activities of the FIET Working Women's Group, FIET has sponsored a number of national courses for women trade unionists in Africa, Asia and Latin America and the following events have taken place in the regions: Ending Wage Discrimination Equal Pay for Work of Equal Value The FIET Working Women's Group meeting in Amsterdam on September 26-27 1989, Having discussed a report on equal pay for work of equal value which exposed the continuing exploitation of women in their employment through low pay and discriminatory wage practices, Expresses its deep concern that employers throughout FIET sectors practice sex specific wage discrimination even where it is prohibited by legislation and in collective agreements, Rejects the practices of employers to establish salary structures which do not ensure equal pay for work of equal value, Expresses its profond concern that even where governments have established commissions to ensure equal wage treatment, with provisions to bring sanctions and appeals for dealing with direct and indirect wage discrimination, they have not prevented large differences appearing in the average wages of men and women and that women are still unfairly treated with respect to the wage earned and the work carried out, Notes that the unequal treatment of women doing work of equal value to men is mainly attributable to society placing a low value on the work carried out by women, with the consequence that much of women's employment is concentrated in lower paid wage groups and in part- time and temporary work, Calls for trade unions to develop policies to eliminate wage discrimination both at law and in collective bargaining and to introduce union education and training programmes to give negotiators the skills to end unequal wage treatment, 200 Calls upon the FIET World Executive through its affiliates to press governments to pursue the following: - ratify ILO Convention No. 100; eliminate legislative delays in the taking of equal value cases; provide statistics which disclose the actual levels of pay of women and men; reverse the burden of proof in wage discrimination cases to place it on the employer and not the employee; introduce sanctions against employers who intimidate 100 FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987- 1991 - - and victimise employees who take up equal value cases; allow for class actions to be taken to ensure the more rapid application of legal decisions; the criteria and mechanisms adopted by governments relating to minimum wage provisions should also take account of the principles and practice of equal pay, Calls upon the FIET World Executive through its affiliates to launch a campaign to eliminate wage discrimination by pursuing the following: - - ensuring the active participation of women at every stage of the union's work to eradicate sex bias including the formation of wage claims, involvement in job evaluation/ wage structuring and in the negotiating process; in collective bargaining there be no deviation from the application in principle and practice of equal pay for work of equal value; to eliminate the unequal treatment of women in gaining access to company entitlements in enterprises; reviewing and improving job classifications and job descriptions to end unequal treatment; the introduction of non- gender specific advertisements for job vacancies; ensuring that job evaluation schemes should be based on the principles of equal pay for work of equal value, that they eliminate sex bias in wage structures and that in any schemes women's skills and competence are fully recogConised; - - - - - unions to be fully involved in the construction and application of job evaluation schemes with union representations to include men and women; monitoring by the company and the union of the application of job evaluation schemes to eliminate any wage discrimination; encourage affiliates to work with companies to positively promote the employment of women; the advancement and progression of women in the company to more qualified positions in the enterprise to end the concentration of women in lower wage groups; unions to provide support networks which give moral and technical assistance to women who have taken up equal value cases; union education and training policies to draw attention to wage discrimination and measures to overcome it, Recommends that each FIET trade section and interprofessional group should in their research and subsequent discussions review and take steps to eradicate wage discrimination in their respective areas of interest. AFRO- FIET TS17-01 * AFRO- FIET women educators' course, Lomé, Togo, 1721 August 1987 * AFRO- FIET workshop for Southern African women trade unionists, Lusaka, Zambia, 21-24 March 1988 * AFRO- FIET seminar for East and Southern African women trade unionists, Harare, Zimbabwe, 12-16 September 1988 * AFRO- FIET meeting of women trade unionists, Dakar, Senegal, 30 January- 3 February 1989 * Study visit of West African women unionists to Germany and to the ILO and FIET in Geneva, 14-23 August 1989 * AFRO- FIET workshop for women unionists in Southern Africa, Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, January 1990 APRO- FIET * APRO- FIET regional women leadership training course, Singapore, 29 April- 4 May 1987 * APRO- FIET training course for women trade unionists, Singapore, 23-29 October 1988 * APRO- FIET regional women leadership training course, Singapore, 11-16 September 1989 EURO- FIET * EURO- FIET seminar for vocational training for women, Brussels, 5-6 May 1987 FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987-1991 101 IRO- FIET * IRO- FIET seminar for Caribbean women trade unionmists, Barbados, 7-11 Novem10 ber 1988 _ * IRO- FIET regional women educators' course, Brasilia, 22-26 May 1989 A ICFTU and ETUC Women's Committees 10 The Secretariat continued to follow closely activities for women of the ICFTU and ETUC and was represented at meetings of the women's committees of both organisations. Thirty- nine participants from 24 unions in 15 countries took part in the IROFIET regional seminar for Caribbean women trade unionists, Barbados, 7-11 November 1988. The seminar was structured around plenary sessions and working groups which covered: negotiating skills, health and safety, equal rights and pay, and organising unorganised women workers. ILO The Secretariat continued to follow closely activities for women of the ILO and was represented at the ILO meeting of experts on the social protection of homeworkers and the ILO tripartite symposium on equality of opportunity for men and women in employment in industrialised countries, held in Geneva in October and November 1990 respectively. At the AFRO- FIET Seminar for East and Southern African women trade unionists, which took place in Zimbabwe in September 1988, Mrs. T.S. Chikara ( on the left) lectured on family planning. Here she is talking with AFRO- FIET women's coordinator for English- speaking Africa, Annie C. Mumba. ( Ab 102 FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987-1991 YOUTH FIET activities for youth are under the general guidance of the EURO- FIET Youth Committee and the Youth Co- ordinators for AFRO- FIET, APRO- FIET and IRO- FIET. 5th EURO- FIET Youth Conference The main event during the period under review was the 5th EURO- FIET Youth Conference, which took place in Athens from 17-21 April 1989. It was attended by over 100 trade unionists from all over Europe and by the Regional Youth Co- ordinators for Asia and Latin America. The major themes of the Conference were tackling the rising tide of racism and the continuing problem of youth unemployment. The Conference was also designed to stimulate the trade union organisation of young workers. The Conference examined attacks on trade union rights and how the debt crisis is putting new democracies in Latin America under great pressure. The FIET Youth Committee has made a special investigation of the situation in Paraguay, and the Conference received a first hand account from the General Secretary of FIET's Paraguayan affiliate FETRABAN, Ronald Orrego Verdun, of the changes there since the demise of General Stroessner. Following the A demonstration against apartheid followed the EURO- FIET Youth Conference. Participants are pictured marching towards the South African Embassy in Athens APARTHEITING ΑΣ ΟΛΟΥΣ ΤΟ NETAL PACE -FIET FIET FIGHT AGAINST R AND YOUTH UNEMP 5th EURO- FIET YOUTH CO ATHENS ED NCE PRIL 198 BLACK AND WHITE OGETHER FIET FIET FIGHTS AGAINST RACISM AND YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT 5th EURO- FIET YOUTH CONFERENCE ATHENS 17-21 APRIL 1989 Conference, Brother Verdun was invited to visit a number of FIET affiliates in the Nordic region where a publicity campaign on Paraguay had been mounted. A working group on racism and xenophobia discussed the growth of far- right political parties which play on prejudice and social divisions. Campaign materials were designed for use in the demonstration at the South African Embassy which followed the Conference, and for union campaigns on the issue. In the working group on youth unemployment, delegates drew up profiles of what it is like to be FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987-1991 103 young and unemployed. These profiles were then presented to the full Conference for debate. Resolutions were passed on the issues of racism, youth unemployment, environmental policies and South Africa. The resolution on South Africa, protesting at the continued detention without trial and oppression of trade unionists by the apartheid ALL POLIC FIET NOAMATHEID FIET's Paraguayan affiliate FETRABAN was targeted by EUROFIET Youth in 1986 for solidarity campaign work. Recognising that Paraguay's independent unions, with FETRABAN at their head, were having to work in conditions of harshest repression from a dictatorship in place since 1954, EURO- FIET Youth decided to act to make the situation known more widely among their members and to the public generally. The report served as a basis for campaign work and presented information gathered during a factfinding mission to Paraguay by EUROFIET youth representatives. EURO- FIET YOUTH REPORT ON PARAGUAY EURO- FIET Youth Conference participants outside the South African Embassy in Athens. Members from graphic and design unions helped to create posters and banners used in the demonstration. regime, was delivered in person at the South African Embassy by Benny Wiklund from HF Sweden, the new FIET Youth Committee President. APRO- FIET Youth Training Programme The implementation of the APRO- FIET Regional Youth Leadership Training Programme continued. The courses were always split into two phases, the first course taking place in Asia and the second in the DAG Training Centre in Walsrode, Germany. The youth leadership programme has been in operation since 1978. Many participants have risen to leadership functions in their unions and they also form a resource pool and BizA are frequently called upon to address FIET education seminars in their own countries. EURO- FIET Youth Committee sbA The President of the Youth Committee is Benny Wiklund ( HF, Sweden), who replaced Lothar Neuenkamp in April 1989. The latter had replaced Grethe Fössli( HK, Norway) as President in May 1988. The VicePresident is Franz Benthaler ( GPA, Austria), who was elected in April 1989. During the period under review the Youth Committee met on the following occasions: * Stockholm, 18 May 1988 104 FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987- 1991 * Geneva, 13 January 1989 * Athens, 21 April 1989 * Brussels, 12 September 1990 EC EURO- FIET Youth Seminars * Stockholm, 16-18 May 1988 * Brussels, 10-12 September 1990 The Stockholm Seminar, attended by some 75 representatives from 15 countries, met under the theme of discrimination and divided its discussions into consideration of the problems facing ethnic minorities, women and youth. A representative of the French- based SOS Racisme gave the seminar an account of his organisation's work. In adopting conclusions, participants underlined the need for trade unions to mobilise their members in the fight against the rising tide of racist and xenophobic feeling in many European societies. The seminar discussed the unacceptably high levels of youth unemployment and expressed the conviction that these could be and had to be overcome, and that the principle of equal pay for work of equal value had to be applied. The problems of discrimination against women at work and action to counter it were also included in the seminar's conclusions. All previous levels of participation were beaten in Stockholm where some 75 representatives from 15 countries took part in the 1988 EURO- FIET Youth Seminar. The Brussels Seminar brought together over 50 participants, including representatives from Solidarnosc, Poland and a participant from the GDR who was a member of the DAG delegation. The seminar reviewed developments in the Internal Market, economic and monetary union and the social action programme of the Commission. The seminar adopted a statement calling for a social Europe. IRO- FIET Youth Seminar An IRO- FIET Youth Seminar was held in Lima from 24 to 28 July 1989. It brought together 50 young trade unionists from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru and Venezuela to discuss employment, education, participation in union work and the drug problem. ICFTU and ETUC The Secretariat continued to maintain contacts with the ICFTU and ETUC on young workers' questions and participated in the work of the youth committees in these organisations. FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987- 1991 105 106 PARAGUAY od to ovisninger Ay 202 bead- don OVER aid -agslob DAC ad bowsiven en oidodqonox bass boot FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987- 1991 dgid inago 1988 Chapter 8 di sebulan 元 of anoitasggua -vil zamed a samoin bax nanoxine gabbow be gui ods no yovia AS FIET TECHNOLOGY WORKING GROUP Recognising that technological change can have either beneficial or deleterious effects on working conditions and on the living and working environment, FIET set up the Technology Working Group to monitor technological changes and their effects. The Group has met on the following three occasions during the period under review: * Oslo, 13-14 October 1987 * Geneva, 19-20 April 1990 * Geneva, 30-31 January 1991 of At the meeting in 1987, the Group considered a report from a guest speaker on electronic remote and Sidsel Bauck of HKIN in Norway was elected as President of the FIET Technology Working Group at its 1990 meeting in Geneva. Photo: International Labour Office The Technology Group has expressed concern that insufficient attention has been given to improving the quality of the working environment in offices. homeworking with a view to drawing up firm policy recommendations. On the subject of articifical intelligence, the Group discussed a report which described its basic elements and capabilities and assessed its implications for trade unionists. Discussions also took place on methods of promoting the use of computer technologies by trade union organisations and on training of trade union representatives in the field of new technologies. Further consideration was given to a variety of health and safety issues, such as VDUS, stress and repetitive strain injury. At its meeting in 1990, the Group received a request from the FIET World Executive Committee to prepare a major report to be presented to the FIET World Congress in 1991 under the title FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987- 1991 107 "" Trade unions for a better living and working environment." Results of a FIET survey on the health problems presented by ozone levels in offices forms part of the report. The 1991 meeting was largely devoted to a final review of the draft for the report" Trade unions for a better living and working environment" being prepared for presentation to the 22nd FIET World Congress. The report contains a number of trade union claims with respect to environment protection policies and recommendations for action in order to create the preconditions for ecological strategies, such as extended participation rights, and FIET TRADE UNIONS for a better it concludes with a number of suggestions for follow- up action. HOV Олон living and working environment 22ND FIET WORLD CONGRESS Shaping the Future though I Notes San Francisco, 19-23 August 1991 The report covers a wide area, ranging issues related not only to the general from technology issues to ecological environment but also to the world of work. Future Priorities The FIET Technology Working Group has decided to give priority in its future work programme to artificial intelligence, updating of FIET's publications on technology issues, new technology and work organisation, the potential for electronic social dumping, the working environment and visual display units. 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To this end, FIET has continued to play an active part in the activities of the international trade union movement relating to multinational companies. In addition to FIET involvement to overcome labour relations problems with multinational companies, one of the features of activities during the past four years has been the focus on organising campaigns to boost union membership in the foreign locations of multinationals. ownership, structure, union organisation and working conditions. Databases are also being set up for the other trade sections. Mechanisms of action in cases of conflict Throughout the period under review, the Secretariat has frequently provided and facilitated the exchange of information and assistance requested by affiliates in respect of multinational companies( see Chapter 11 on Solidarity). In responding to particular problems relating to multinationals, the Secretariat acts in accordance with the" Mechanisms of Action" adopted by the World Executive Committee: a) Action by the General Secretary on complaints by affiliates against a multinational company: At its meeting in Brussels in December 1987, the FIET Multinational Banks Working Group examined a study on the labour practices of multinational banks in seventeen countries. FIET databases The Secretariat has established databases on the most significant multinationals in the bank, insurance and property services sectors, covering such area as FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987-1991 109 - - - - the General Secretary invites affiliates in other countries where the company also operates to send messages of support to the national management of the company; the General Secretary, on behalf of FIET, expresses solidarity for the affiliated organisation directly involved in the conflict by sending a message to the international management of the company; the General Secretary, in consultation with the FIET President and the Chairman of the trade section concerned, calls upon affiliated organisations to carry out solidarity actions; the General Secretary calls on other ITSS for co- operation in support measures; the General Secretary informs the ICFTU and the ETUC of a specific case and invites these organisations to support it through publicity and other appropriate measures; the General Secretary lodges official complaints with the OECD, ILO, UN Centre for Transnational Corporations, etc.; the General Secretary issues press releases on the case concerned and organises press conferences where appropriate to rally public support. FIET SUMMIT WASHINGTON DC AL Addressing the FIET/ UFCW Commercial Workers' Summit in Washington D.C. in August 1990, UFCW International President William H. Wynn stated:" The assistance provided by our brothers and sisters in Germany, the United Kingdom and Japan was instrumental in the UFCW's organizing victories in these companies... It is this level of concrete co- operation that will be institutionalized globally as a result of this summit." Company Councils, with the bpurpose of exchanging expebrience and seeking meetings with the international management. Activities of the Trade A Sections Bank Trade Section Multinational Banks Working Group: The Bank Trade Section has established a Multinational Banks Working Group which meets annually. The work of the Group has included a study on the labour practices of multinational banks in seventeen countries as well as profiles on certain specific banks. The Group has mapped out how the multib) Constitution by FIET of national database developed by the Secretariat can be fine- tuned towards practical solidarity actions in the sector. Following the success of the Seafirst campaign for trade union recognition in the US, the Group has decided to target European banks in the US which may be willing to sign neutrality agreements to allow union organising campaigns. Certain US banks, such as Citicorp will be the subject of closer examination at future meetings of the Group. Commerce Trade Section Summit: A Commercial Workers' Summit, sponsored by FIET and the UFCW, took place in Washington D.C. on 6-7 August 1990. The sixty participants representing FIET commercial 110 FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987- 1991 workers' affiliates from six continents planned co- ordinated strategies for organising workers, combating union- busting and negotiating collective bargaining agreements with specific multinational companies in the commerce sector. The statement adopted at the conclusion of the summit sets out a number of concrete steps to be taken by FIET and its affiliates, including: * the establishment by FIET of an easily accessible database with information about the structure, activities and trade union situation within multinational retailers; * world- wide comprehensive corporate campaigns to organise and to establish collective agreements; * the establishment of company councils where continuous international co- operation is needed. Company Councils: Specific Company Councils on Ikea and Metro/ Makro were set up some years ago and meet regularly to exchange information on terms and conditions of employment and industrial relations practiced by the companies in the different countries. Both Councils, in planning their future work, have decided to carefully monitor the activities of their companies in East and Central Europe, to improve the flow of information between the members of the Councils, and to make a considered and serious attempt to start talks with the respective managements in order to obtain information and consultation agreements with the companies at international level. EURO- FIET/ ERA EURO- FIET/ ERA Working Group: The European Retail Alliance is comprised of three retail traders in France, Great Britain and the Netherlands. EURO- FIET has set up a Working Group of representatives of unions in the three countries to exchange views on developments and working conditions. Industry Trade Section The special position of the Industry Trade Section, which has many common affiliates with other International Trade Secretariats, makes co- operation with them vital. Joint activities have been undertaken with the International Metalworkers' Federation( IMF), the European Metalworkers' Federation( EMF) and the Postal, Telegraph and Telephone International( PTTI) in respect of specific companies, and continuing efforts are being made to extend the scope of this field of co- operation. To date, meetings have been held on ABB, Bull, IBM and Rank Xerox. Insurance Trade Section Allianz Company Council: Meetings of the Allianz Company Council have developed over a period of ten years and have proved very useful in terms of exchanging information in the areas of collective bargaining, equal opportunities for women, personnel development policies and the social policies of the company across its operations. FIET Acting General Secretary Philip J. Jennings in discussions with IMF General Secretary Marcello Malentacchi. The importance of co- operation between the International Trade Secretariats becomes particularly apparent in the face of the power of multinational companies. Joint meetings on specific companies will be a growing practice in future activities. apments with ze 111 FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987-1991 At the meeting held in 1990 the senior Allianz management had seemed positive towards the idea of formalising the social dialogue with the company at international level. However, at the 1991 meeting, senior management replied to FIET proposals by stating that no formal arrangements for informing and consulting workers' representatives would be instituted in the company unless obligatory under European Community law. AECI: The Insurance Trade Section has also instigated a process of holding regular meetings with the Association of European Co- operative Insurers ( AECI), which represents the largest co- operative insurance companies in Europe. During these meetings the trade union Participants in the June 1988 meeting of the FIET Allianz Company Council. The Personnel Director of Allianz, Dr. von Blomberg, addressed the meeting and outlined the strategy of the company in the run- up to 1992. representatives have an opportunity to exchange information on employment and collective bargaining trends in the various At its second meeting, in 1989, the FIET Property Services Trade Section had a positive exchange with Poul Andreassen, Chief Executive of International Service Systems, the world's leading cleaning company. The FIET Acting General Secretary, together with Danish affiliates, are in consultation with ISS about an international labour- management consultation agreement. Pictured from left to right are Philip Jennings, John Sweeney, Poul Andreassen and two other representatives of ISS, Henrik Slepsager and Svend Ipsen. ev SAN JOSE companies, followed by sessions with the employers' side on questions such as financial integration, technological change, the development of co- operative insurers around the world, and equality for women. Property Services Trade Section From the outset the Property Services Trade Section has devoted considerable attention to multinational companies and corporate organising campaigns. Though it is often hidden by layers of sub- contracting and subsidiary companies, many property services workers are employed by large multinational firms. The clients of many property services are also often multinational investors with property portfolios spanning the globe. 112 FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987-1991 The Secretariat has established a database on the major multinationals active in the sector. I Social Insurance and Health Care Trade Section The Social Insurance and Health Care Trade Section is carefully monitoring the growing expansion of for- profit hospital chains by the major private US health corporations which have now established a presence in over 20 countries. Model Agreement At its meeting in Madrid in October 1989, the EURO- FIET Executive Committee adopted a Model Agreement to be used in the conclusion of European information and consultation agreements with companies. The purpose of the agreement is not to replace national collective agreements but to open the possibility for trade unions from various countries to compare social conditions, to obtain information on the company and to meet management responsible for the planning and implemen- OECD, UN and European tation of decisions. Commission. The Trade Sections are in the process of identifying the companies with which such agreements could be negotiated and when such agreements are considered in companies which have operations outside Europe, it will be necessary to involve unions organising in that company from AFRO- FIET, APRO- FIET and IRO- FIET in the work of such committees. Codes of Conduct FIET has continued to press for respect of international guidelines on corporate behaviour established by the ILO and OECD. When complaints are submitted to the Secretariat, the practices of the multinational are compared to these guidelines and corrective measures proposed. International Organisations The Secretariat follows developments with respect to multinational companies at the ILO, The UN is developing its own database on multinationals, to which FIET is seeking access. The European Commission has published a draft directive on information and consultation rights in multinationals and, if adopted, this will enable works councils to be established in companies above a certain size. The directive would have force of law and would enable unions to introduce such councils. FIET has submitted its views on the proposal. At the OECD, the Secretariat is represented in the TUAC subcommittee on multinationals to review practical application of the OECD guidelines. In addition to the tripartite declaration on multinationals, the ILO has conducted specific research on certain sectors. During the course of 1990 a study was published on multinational banks, to which FIET and its affiliates contributed. FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987-1991 113 Chapter 10 ojem odi no canderb EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES 9 dini vidos zlenois The period since the 21st World Congress in Lomé in 1987 has been one of growth and development of FIET's education projects with affiliates in developing countries. During these four years, the number of yearly activities has more than tripled and the quality of both projects and courses has improved significantly. More and more unions are systematically using the FIET projects to support their own development efforts. In all regions, results of this can be seen as affiliated unions have intensified their work and strengthened their positions in collective bargaining and other functions. Many FIET affiliates have been and are still in the forefront within the democratisation processes of their countries, a role which they can play only because of the cohesion and membership support created by trade union education activities. to the national levels only; the investments in education are also showing results in terms of increased activities within the regional organisations concerned. Today, AFRO- FIET plays a leading role within African trade unionism and contributes to FIET's world level activities much more than ever before. In APRO- FIET and IRO- FIET, the participation of trade unions from But gains have not been restricted developing countries has inThe transport problem is always something to count with when holding a course in Africa. Public transport is unreliable and overcrowded which makes ordinary Africans walk distances which are unbelievable for outsiders. It is not entirely uncommon that participants from faraway places travel for several days or even a week to reach a trade union course. MARK 25 TRANSFORT COMMUN creased dramatically, positively influencing the work of these regional organisations. All this would not have been possible without project activities. FIET's education projects in developing countries are not meant to keep up permanent union structures, but they must add to the union's capabilities to independently protect and advance the interests of its members. The main input in all projects comes from the unions themselves, in the form of work and membership participation in activities. Within FIET's project structures, every union is responsible for its own activities within the education programmes. FIET's role is 114 FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987- 1991 to back up the union through financial and consultancy support and to act as an intermediary with the donor organisations and agencies. It is always foreseen that the union concerned will eventually have to stand on its own feet and assume total responsibility for its education activities. But in many parts of the world, the general economic situation is such that this can be a very long process. It is good to remember that FIET- supported education projects are very successfully implemented in some of the poorest countries of the world, such as Burkina Faso, Niger and Bangladesh, to mention only a few. In these countries, there would not be any trade union education without outside support and solidarity. FIET has continued its efforts to develop its education proFIET SOLIDARNOS FIET's education projects have now been extended to countries in East and Central Europe. The first major seminars were held in Warsaw, Poland in October 1990 with the Solidarity trade unions in commerce and insurance. Together with experts from FIET affiliates in Western Europe, the Polish unionists discussed the implications of economic change for their members. grammes. An education department was set up at FIET Headquarters in January 1987 and a Handbook for Trade Union Educators was published in April, For a number of years, APRO- FIET has been running a systematic programme to train educators and organisers for affiliated trade unions in Asia and the Pacific. Youth and women have been major target groups for these programmes, which have provided unions with qualified leaders and officials to take over the challenges of a fast industrialisation and development of the economies in this region. comprising new stringent regulations for project administration and accounting. A series of Regional Educators' Courses was also launched, covering all project countries. Affiliated unions have been advised on education contents and procedures through extensive correspondence and direct contacts. Internal project administration routines have also been developed and communications between FIET headquarters and the regional offices intensified. An important part of building up effective project activities within FIET has been the increasing involvement of the regional executive committees in this work. Education activities, which form a major part of the overall work in AFRO- FIET, APROFIET and IRO- FIET, are discussed at all meetings of the FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987- 1991 115 regional executives and priorities are set both for national projects and regional activities. Unions themselves are required to integrate the education activities in their overall work. FIETsupported projects are increasingly seen as a tool to help the unions develop their structures and activities. The unions have also been strongly encouraged to ensure an equal participation of men and women in their education activities and to implement specific women's activities where it is considered necessary to attain this goal. FIET has tried to ensure the availability of trained women educators by requiring unions to send women participants to regional educators' courses and through specific courses for women educators. In countries where there are many small FIET affiliates, unions have been encouraged to launch joint national projects under the auspices of coordinating committees. Such committees have been created in a number of countries in all regions, enabling unions to cooperate also in other respects when it comes to their contacts with FIET. To ensure proper and effective planning, supervision and administration of national projects, a series of regional workshops on project administration, education planning, accounting and reporting for FIET regional representatives and key education officers has been initiated in all regions. noin Project assessment is an integral part of FIET's education programmes. Here, a delegation from the Swedish donor organisation, the LO/ TCO Council, visits the office of AFRO- FIET President D.I. Niasse in Dakar to discuss the large FIET project that has been running since 1987 with the Senegalese affiliates. This growth and development would not have been possible without the support of FIET affiliates in a number of industrialised countries. In 1991, the main donor organisations for FIET's worldwide education projects, and their proportional participation, are the following: Donor LOITCO( Sweden) LOIFTF( Denmark) Friedrich Ebert Stiftung( Germany) Friedrich Naumann Stiftung( Germany) Finnish unions LA, PTL and TVK FNV( Netherlands) Per cent of total 35 25 10 5 10 15 In addition, APRO- FIET and IRO- FIET receive major financial support for education activities within their own regions from unions such as the UFCW( North America) as well as Australian and Japanese affiliates. There would be possibilities to further increase these activities if other affiliates in the industrialised world acted as donors for education projects. 116 FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987-1991 geer FIET- SUPPORTED NATIONAL COURSES, TOTAL: T Project year 0801 1986 88 1987 1988 88 1989 1990 AFR Number of courses 63 66 124 147 das 209 sibal NOTE: For some countries, the figures refer to a project year starting 1.7.of the previous calendar year and ending 31.6. of the calendar year that is indicated. Some countries, in which projects have been terminated before 1990, do not appear in this list even if the courses held are included in the totals. Therefore the individual numbers by country as listed below do not necessarily add up to the indicated total amounts. 18 1987 FIET- supported national courses in Africa 1986-1990 JATOT 1986 1987 1988 1989 Botswana Burkina Faso 1 Ghana Ivory Coast 1 Guinea( Conakry) Kenya 1 Mauritius 1 1 Niger E 1 Senegal 2 123112154 1990 - 12.) 1 - 5 4 1 - 8891 2 35 10 1519 12 32 Sierra Leone 2 Swaziland 3 3 3 1 Togo 4 6 5 Uganda 1 2 3 1 Zambia 6 7 14 13 Zimbabwe 13 14 19 16 36 31 18 TOTAL 34 33 57 59 92 South Africa: During the period under review, an intensive education programme was carried out in South Africa. BIFAWU, the bank and insurance workers' union, ran weekly evening courses, labour clinics and seminars on organising and collective bargaining. SACCAWU( formerly CCAWUSA), the commercial and catering workers' union, ran basic courses for rank and file membership and has a seminar programme for branch officials and shop- stewards. BCWUSA, the cleaning workers' union, started a small- scale project in 1988. FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987-1991 117 regional FIET- supported national courses in Asia and the Pacific 1986-1990 081 1986 1987 89 1988 Bangladesh Fiji 5 I India 1 Korea Malaysia 5 9 17 927 17 1989 SV 1990 7 12 17 14 14 2 14 20 Pakistan Philippines 1 1 60 11 Sri Lanka 2 Thailand 2 4 4 6 27512 TOTAL 6 19 46 57 He81 cil, visits cuss the large dese affiliates Argentina Bolivia Chile Colombia Costa Rica 8801 F891 FIET- supported national courses in the Americas 1986-1990 0287 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 72 I 2 * Donor 3 I om1 A Friedric 213112111 5 9 10 3 1993 1 3 9906 2 1 4 -- 1 FA PTZ 2 1326. 8 13 ewded 13 1 20 14 21 31 46 1 1 Mexico Panama Paraguay 1 Peru ar 4 Uruguay TOTAL 118 FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987- 1991 Chapter 11 Regional courses 1987-90 how 1987 AFRO- FIET Commercial Workers' Seminar, Niamey, Niger( 16-21.2.) Trade Union Educators' Course, First Stage, Harare, Zimbabwe ( 18-29.5.) Trade Union Educators' Course, Lomé, Togo( 17-21.8.) Educators' Course for Women Trade Unionists, Lomé, Togo ( 17-21.8.) 1987 APRO- FIET Leadership Course for Youth, Singapore( 9-27.3.) Seminar on Wage Determination, Singapore( 15-18.6.) Trade Union Educators' Course, Singapore( 6-17.7.) Advanced Trade Union Educators' Course, Australia( 30.8.25.9.) Advanced Youth Leadership Course, Germany( 24.9.- 14.10.) Organisers' Course, Malaysia ( 15-28.11.) 1988 AFRO- FIET Trade Union Educators' Course, Second Stage, Mbabane, Swaziland( 16-24.5.) Conference on Trade Unions and Education in Southern Africa, Harare, Zimbabwe( 19-22.9.) Seminar for Women Trade Unionists in Southern Africa, Harare, Zimbabwe( 12-16.9.) Workshop on Education and Project Planning, Abidjan, Ivory Coast( 7-9.11.) 1988 APRO- FIET Leadership Course for Youth, Singapore( 18.1.- 6.2.) Trade Union Educators' Course, Singapore( 16-27.5.) Workshop on Trade Union Education, Singapore( 22-27.5.) Commercial Workers' Trade Section Seminar, Singapore( 2830.5.) Bank and Insurance Workers' Trade Section Seminar, Thailand( 29-31.8.) Advanced Trade Union Educators' Course, Australia( 38.8.24.9.) Advanced Youth Leadership Course, Germany( 14.9.- 5.10.) Leadership Course for Women Trade Unionists, Singapore( 2329.10.) Organisers' Course, Singapore ( 14-26.11.) 1988 IRO- FIET Trade Union Educators' Course, San José, Costa Rica( 3-7.4.) Commercial Workers' Trade Section Seminar, Mar del Plata, Argentina( 18-22.4.) Social Security and Health Workers' Trade Section Seminar, Caracas, Venezuela( 16-20.5.) Seminar for Women Trade Unionists, Barbados( 7-11.11.) Industry and Tourism Trade Section Seminar, Cordoba, Argentina( 28.11.- 2.12.) Some unions, even if small and poor, have been able to get their own offices with facilities for education. The Peruvian airport workers' union SINTRACOR have built their small house at Lima airport practically speaking with their own hands, without outside support. The union can now help also others who are in need of course facilities. FIET's project in Peru is one of the largest and most successful ones, providing for some 40 courses to be held in 1991. SINTRAC FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987-1991 119 1989 AFRO- FIET Workshop on Trade Union Information and Communications, Lusaka, Zambia( 13-20.5.) Seminar on Research for Collective Bargaining, Harare, Zimbabwe( 22-31.5.) Trade Union Educators' Course, First Stage, Lomé, Togo( 29.5.6.6.) 1989 APRO- FIET Review and Planning Workshop for the Youth Leadership Training Programme, Singapore( 1517.9.) Youth Leadership Course, Singapore( 20.2.- 4.3.) V Seminar on Part- Time Work, Singapore( 15-18.5.) ainoi Trade Union Educators' Course, Singapore( 10-22.7.) 2 Organisers' Course, Singapore ( 7-19.8.) supporte Leadership Course for Women Trade Unionists, Singapore( 1116.9.) Advanced Youth Leadership Course, Germany( 20.9.- 11.10.) Workshop for Trade Union Educators, Malaysia( 29-30.11.) Industry Trade Section Seminar, Malaysia( 1-3.12.) 1989 IRO- FIET Trade Union Educators' Course, Buenos Aires, Argentina( 3-7.4.) Educators' Course for Women Trade Unionists, Brasilia, Brazil( 20-25.5.) Youth Seminar, Lima, Peru( 2428.7.) Commercial Workers' Trade FIET Section Seminar, Santiago, Chile ( 7-11.8.) 1990 AFRO- FIET Women's Workshop for Southern Africa, Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe( 15-17.1.) Workshop for Trade Union Educators, Banjul, The Gambia ( 22-25.1.) Regional Course on Information and Communication, Harare, Zimbabwe( 19-30.3.)) bal Trade Union Educators' Course, gideobsa duo) ( 0 FIET HANDBOOK FOR TRADE UNION EDUCATORS The FIET Handbook for Trade Union Second Stage, Niamey, Niger Educators, published in English, French and Spanish, is the main and ( 10-14.9.) indispensable tool for conducting education projects. It contains advice for education secretaries of affiliated unions as well as for course leaders and educators. It also sets the rules for financial support from FIET making it possible to administer the world- wide activities in an efficient manner. om 1990 APRO- FIET Leadership Course for Women Trade Unionists, Singapore( 1220.2.) Youth Leadership Training Course, Singapore( 14-26.5.) Training Course for Organisers, Singapore( 2-14.7) Training Course for Educators, Singapore( 20.8-1.9) Training Course on Trade Union Administration, Australia( 2- 21.9) Training Course for Negotiators, Auckland, New Zealand( 1524.9) Training Course for Researchers, Madras, India( 11-24.11) 1990 IRO- FIET Seminar on the Debt Crisis, Mexico( 29-31.5) Central American Seminar on Education Projects( 22-24.8) Seminar on Education Projects ( 27-28.8) Training Course for Educators, Aruba( 29.10-3.11) Seminar on AIDS( 3-7.12) 120 FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987- 1991 bne nosuba no codeshow poylabidA animal por ( IL) 12800 Le Chapter 11 dom: SOLIDARITY alsool 3800 ow M An important part of FIET's work is the support of individual affiliates facing problems, either from governments or employers. Problems range from industrial disputes and the refusal of trade union rights to serious and direct persecution. FIET continually receives requests for solidarity action in support of affiliates from all over the world and, during the period under review, FIET was called upon to show solidarity and took the necessary action in the following cases: May 1987 Germany: HBV( DGB) and DAG negotiations for a new collective agreement in the bank sector. Greece: OTOE conflict with Bank of America over planned job cuts. Swaziland: SUFIAW dispute with Standard Chartered Bank over unfair labour practices. United States: UFCW recognition campaign in Leibbrand retail takeover. June 1987 Greece: Attempt by terrorists on life of G. Raftopoulos, General Secretary of the GSEE. Kenya: KUCFAW conflict with Standard Chartered concerning misapprehensions over job losses. United Kingdom: BIFU campaign for recognition at Mitsubishi Bank. United States: UFCW strike at Occidental Petroleum subsidiary over wage cuts and health and security standards. United States: UFCW strike at Scan Furniture stores following the breakdown of negotiations. United States: RWDSU dispute with the US Playing Card Corporation following its refusal to negotiate. UFCW achieves goal of recognition by French multinational Carrefour after long struggle A 30 month campaign backed by FIET has led to the French multinational Carrefour finally agreeing to recognise the UFCW. The dispute began in February 1988 when the retailing giant opened a non- union hypermarket in Philadelphia. Until then shopworkers in the area had been 100 percent organised. Pickets, rallies and a boycott of the store led to harassment by company security agents. In 1989 a union trailer was firebombed by an unidentified assailant. At the outset of the dispute, FIET strongly criticised the aid anti- union namoeuvering of the company and publicised Carrefour's activities around the world, particularly among the company's workers in France where normal union relations existed. It was only on entering the US that Carrefour had tried to get the competitive o2 edge through discount pricing based on low wages, anti- unionism and the absence of collective agreements. FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987- 1991 121 July 1987 Argentina: Intervention of the Ministry of Labour in the affairs of two CGEC locals. Chile: CSTEBA action to obtain a new agreement in the Banco Exterior. Cyprus: ETYK strike action to obtain a new collective agreement in the bank sector. Banking declared " essential service" to break strike. France: SBSF- CFDT conflict with the Banco de la Nacion Argentina over the dismissal of a trade union activist. South Africa: BIFAWU conflict with the Mutual and Federal Insurance Co. Ltd. over union recognition. August 1987 France: FEC- FO campaign against the takeover bid for the casino group Barrière by South African interests. South Africa: NUM strike for a living wage, destruction of the hostel and migrant labour system and higher standards of health and safety. Turkey: Tez- Koop- Is strike against Migros, involving more than 1,000 workers. September 1987 Fiji: Detention of leaders of Fiji Trade Union Congress and FIET affiliates following military coup. France: FEC- FO campaign to protect jobs and opening hours at Banco de Bilbao. Guatemala: STIGSS conflict with the Banco Internacional S.A. and Bancos del Cafe S.A. during its bank organising campaign. Portugal: Union of Civil Aviation dispute with TAP over the suspension of ten members. October 1987 Guyana: NAACIE court case against the Labour Amendment Act of 1984. Philippines: TUCP strike, including all FIET affiliates, in support of an increase in the daily minimum wage. November 1987 France: FEC- FO dispute with the Banco di Roma over its decision to cision close branches in France. France: FEC- FO and SBSF- CFDT national strike in the banking sector over the refusal of employers to increase wages in line with inflation. Paraguay: FETRABAN conflict with Bank of America over its refusal to honour existing employment contracts. Peru: Kidnap of Flavio Rojas, General Secretary of CUTIPSS, during strike action against the Social Security Institute. Trinidad: BEU dispute with the Republic Bank over wages and benefits. United States: UFCW campaign for recognition by Delhaize. December 1987 France: FEC- FO solidarity campaign for workers of Shrimp Boat Management in Guyana. Foqmi#A точ January 1988 Bangladesh: BIEF dispute with the Bank of Credit and Commerce International over the dismissal of union leaders. Sweden: SIF dispute with the metal trades employers' federation, DAR South Africa Apartheid remains a cancer at the heart of Africa. FIET and its affiliates have been engaged in the prolonged and bitter struggle against the system. FIET has attempted to keep the South African problem s in the forefront of the minds of its affiliates in all parts of the world. Every AFRO- FIET meeting and most FIET meetings have included items on South Africa. Many resolutions have been adopted detailing FIET policy and attempting to translate it into action. Bodmodozi zaw solis FIET's two- pronged strategy aims at supporting sanctions until apartheid has been destroyed in its entirety and giving all possible assistance to its affiliates in South Africa who are involved in the struggle to abolish apartheid and to build strong trade union organisations to defend workers' rights. FIET has given support for humanitarian assistance, legal aid and education activities to its affiliates in South Africa and has co- operated with the international trade union movement in the fight against apartheid. batial 122 FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987- 1991 involving strike action and a lockout by employers. Turkey: BANKSIS dispute with Akbank, following a deadlock in negotiations. United Kingdom: BIFU campaign against redundancies at Hongkong and Shanghai Bank. February 1988 South Africa: Appeal for clemency for" the Sharpeville Six", including the trade unionist Theresa Ramashomole. United Kingdom: BIFU campaign to organise multi- national banks in the City of London. March 1988 Costa Rica: SEBANA strike action to defend basic services, maintain purchasing power, democratise health services and reject the new labour legislation. France: FEC- FO/ SBSF- CFDT campaign to save jobs at Crédit du Nord. Malaysia: Detention of V. David, General Secretary of the Malaysian Trades Union Congress and Member of Parliament. Portugal: UGT- P general strike in protest against the Government's proposed labour laws. Sri Lanka: CBEU dispute with the state- owned banks over revision of terms and conditions of employment. United States: UFCW campaign to obtain recogntion by Carrefour. April 1988 Germany: HBV- organised mass demonstration to protest against the Government's intention to extend regulated shop opening hours. Greece: OTOE campaign for wage increases, consultation procedures, revision of work statutes and discussions on the impact of EEC banking laws in Greece. South Africa: Bill to amend the Labour Relations Act. по FIET co- ordinated Belgian- US solidarity strike action A historic breakthrough in international trade union action was achieved when Belgian shop workers went on strike in support of US shop workers in their fight for trade union recognition. Shopworkers from SETCa held a one- day strike and occupied a supermarket in Brussels on 28 October 1988 in support of US colleagues from the UFCW fighting for union recognition in the Food Lion retail chain, owned by the Belgian multinational Delhaize. The FIET campaign was launched in November 1987 during a press conference in Brussels at which representatives of FIET and the UFCW as well as EURO- FIET President Karel Boeykens of SETCa were present. SETCa, which organises workers at Delhaize in Belgium has repeatedly intervened with the management of the parent company. SELFIET has led the international trade union approach to the OECD concerning the activities of the Delhaize subsidiary in the US. CE SIEGE EST EN GREVE! DEZE WINKEL IS IN STAKING! THIS STORE IS ON STRIKE! SETC UFCW LE MEME SYNDICATI DELMAIZE LE LION FOOD LION BELGIQUE- USA: SOLIDARITE CE SIEGE EST EN GREVE! DEZE WINKED IS IN STAKING! THIS STORE IS ON STRIKE! SETCa members striking in support of the UFCW. FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987- 1991 123 May 1988 Bangladesh: BIEF dispute with the Bank of Credit and Commerce International over the dismissal of union leaders. Brazil: CONTEC campaign against reform of the banking system. Germany: DAG- organised mass demonstration to protest against the Government's proposals to extend legal shop opening hours. Korea: KFBU conflict with the Westpac Banking Corporation following their instransigent attitude in negotiations. Malaysia: NUBE industrial action following deadlock in negotiations with the Malayan Commercial Bankers' Association. Philippines: NUBE dispute with Standard Chartered Bank following its refusal to comply with an award handed down by the labour relations board. United Kingdom: BIFU dispute with Banco do Brasil over union recognition and redundancies. United States: Start of international support for SEIU" Justice for Janitors" campaign to organise the cleaning staff at the Washington D.C. headquarters of the World Bank. June 1988 Philippines: NUBE dispute with Standard Chartered Bank following its refusal to comply with the award handed down by the Minister of Labour. South Africa: COSATU/ NACTU protest action against the Labour Relations Amendment Bill and restrictions on the trade union movement in South Africa. United States: UFCW dispute with John Morrell Co. over unsafe working conditions and company demands for wage and benefit concessions. July 1988 Brazil: CONTEC strike action 1987 Crack- down against Korean trade unionists Korea has continued to display scant regard for human and trade union rights. There has been a wave of labour unrest in the face of an increasingly authoritarian rule of the government. President Roh appears to have embarked on an all- out campaign to crush the unions. The democratic openings achieved in 1987 are being reversed by employers and government alike. The period under review has been marked by victimisation and repression by management, encouraged by government attitudes. In 1989 a female organiser was W badly beaten by a Banque Parisbas manager and leaders of the National Pension Corporation were detained or during a legal strike. - two, In 1990 riot police were in action again against strikers, and female workers on a peaceful picket outside Westpac bank were assaulted by male managers including the local union's president, were hospitalised. FIET urged the Labour Minister to take action against smol those responsible and FIET's Australian affiliate ABEU intervened at the multinational's Australian headquarters. The bank, in contravention of recognised international guidelines, then threatened to quit Korea. With the threat of withdrawal of Westpac, Australia's number one bank, from Korea, there are signs that them multinational dream is turning sour. Korea appeared to offer high- tech opportunities to invest, with high productivity coupled with passive labour willing to work for sweat shop wages. By actions such as a hunger strike by 103 leaders of unions affiliated to the KFCFWU, the Korean trade unionists are demonstrating that they are no longer prepared to pay the price of an industrial development based on the denial of human rights, including freedom av of association and collective bargaining rights. FIET will continue to do everything in its power to help them. 124 FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987-1991 against Banco do Brazil over a delay increases. in pay Malaysia: NUCW dispute with Robert Bosch( SEA) Pte. Ltd. over negotiations for a new collective agreement. Malaysia: NUBE dispute with Malayan Banking Berhad over wages. Malta: GWU industrial action at the Bank Valletta involving police violence against pickets. Turkey: Tez- Koop- Is strike action at the state- owned enterprise TMO. August 1988 Colombia: International trade union campaign against wave of terror and violence confronting trade unionists. New Zealand: NZBOU dispute with Barclays Bank over the unilateral dismissal of 37 employees. Pakistan: PBEF dispute with Grindlays Bank over negotiations and compliance with the existing collective agreement. United Kingdom: BIFU negotiations to ensure respect of British labour relations practices by new Bank of Cyprus branch. United Kingdom: BIFU dispute at Standard Chartered Bank over working hours and threats of dismissal. September 1988 Bangladesh: Relief fund for flood victims. Chile: Internal exile of leaders of the new national centre CUT, Manuel Bustos and Arturo Martinez. Colombia: SINTRABANCOM dispute with Banco de Comercio following dismissal of trade union activists. Kenya: KUCFAW conflict with Standard Chartered Bank over unfair dismissals. South Africa: CCAWUSA campaign for the release of two organisers detained in Pretoria. South Africa: Protest against detention of anti- apartheid activists and restrictions on trade unionists to coincide with the attempted holding of an anti- apartheid conference. Turkey: Mexican Government urged to renounce coinage contract awarded by the Turkish Government to break strike at the Turkish Mint and Stamp Printing Office. United States: SEIU campaign to represent the World Bank Building Service workers as part of its" Justice for Janitors" campaign. October 1988 1282 gumo Argentina: AAPM dispute with Laboratorio Organon over the sale of harmful anabolics. Finland: Ptl dispute with Citibank over unilateral dismissal of staff. Greece: OTOE strike against Chase Manhattan Bank over dismissals. India: Banking affiliates' strike against the Indian Banks Association over claims for a new agreement on wages and working conditions. Korea: KFBU dispute with the Banque Nationale de Paris. Monaco: SEGCM dispute with Lloyds Bank over dismissal of staff. Support for organising campaign in foreign banks in Chile FIET has mounted a campaign to help its affiliate, the confederation of Chilean bank workers' unions ( CSTEBA) to organise workers in foreign banks. These banks have so far refused any talks with the Confederation which has some 15,000 members and which has repeatedly tried to meet local management to discuss trade union organisation and collective bargaining arrangements. Plans for the campaign were discussed during the 3rd FIET World Conference of Bank Employees in February 1990. Timed to coincide with the inauguration of the elected President Patricio Aylwin, FIET issued a press release and wrote to the presidents of thirteen foreign banks and to their offices in Chile demanding recognition and bargaining rights for CSTEBA from these banks. As the majority of the banks concerned are US based, FIET's affiliate the UFCW, which has recently won recognition rights in the Bank of America subsidiary SeaFirst, is lending its weight to this recognition struggle. FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987-1991 125 Portugal: SBSI campaign to prevent Banco Totta e Acores from operating on Saturdays. United States: Start of FIET coordinated action in support of UFCW recognition campaign in Food Lion/ Delhaize. November 1988 Australia: AIEU dispute with AMEV over attempts to unilaterally enforce new working practices. Costa Rica: Relief fund for hurricane disaster victims. Jamaica: Relief fund for hurricane disaster victims. Mauritius: Dispute over anomalies in the salary structure between supervisors in the public and private sector. Norway: NBF campaign to save 5,000 jobs in the Norwegian banking sector. United Kingdom: BIFU dispute with Bank Bumiputra over the payment of bonuses. United States: SEIU demonstration against John S. Portman's trade union hostility as part of its" Justice for Janitors" campaign. December 1988 Pakistan: PIEF dispute with the Norwich Union Fire Insurance Society Ltd. over anti- union policies. Paraguay: Arrest of three trade union leaders following a Government crack- down aimed at preventing a march by opposition groups. Turkey: BASISEN conflict with Banco di Roma following deadlock in negotiations for a new collective agreement. January 1989 Costa Rica: ICFTU complaint to ILO against Government support of bogus unions led by the Solidarismo movement. South Africa: CCAWUSA dispute with JSE following termination of the recognition agreement. ibli bisrings- ins to nonstab 29289 Peruvian union leader abducted and threatened with death, other officers held by government, in social security strike die stugelb Pablo Segundo Ponce de Leon, General Secretary of M long- time FIET affiliate Centro de Trabajadores del w Instituto Peruano de Seguridad Social( CUTIPSS), was violently seized by four masked gunmen who said they were from the security police at 10 p.m. on 19 November 1990 as he emerged from his union's office in downtown Lima, Peru. Ponce de Leon was held by his abductors in an unknown place for three days where he was interrogated hourly. He was told that if he did not call off a strike in progress he and his family would be ma killed. On his release, he returned to assume his regular position in the leadership of the strike. The strike against IPSS, the para- statal social security administration and the hospital and health system run by 0 it, involved all CUTIPSS 50,000 members. Repeated ant my efforts had failed to get the employer to follow an bns existing collective agreement. On 12 November the 5,500 members of the Nurses' Union also joined the strike, making the work stoppage total, except for the of doctors. On 14 November the government declared the strike illegal and announced that any workers who did not return to their jobs within 72 hours were automati190cally discharged. At the same time twenty- four leaders of CUTIPSS were arrested. FIET sent protests to Peru's President Fujimori, other governmental authorities and the IPSS itself. FIET also requested the intervention of the ILO and the ICFTU to seek immediate action in defence of Ponce de Leon and the other union leaders. All FIET affiliates were reabquested to do likewise and to send messages of supportloc for the union's position in the strike. The response was quit overwhelming. The situation was further escalated with wollo the Supreme Decree No. 070- TR- 90 concerning the ivo right to strike and No. 029-90- SA concerning the reorORUganisation of the Institute. Upon the request of CUad TIPSS, FIET requested former President, Dr. Alan Garcia Perez to be a mediator between the government and the union. shots aimal 126 FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987- 1991 Graz OTU SEIU Justice for Janitors Campaign FIET is supporting the Service Employees' International Union( SEIU) in the" Justice for Janitors" campaign it has launched to bring fair pay, decent benefits and just treatment to property services workers. The efforts of the SEIU to organise the cleaning staff at the Washington D.C. headquarters of the World Bank have been backed by an international trade union campaign involving FIET, the ICFTU, TUAC and the AFLCIO. Some 250 workers are involved, most of them women, Blacks and Hispanics earning poverty- level wages. The importance of international trade union solidarity where multinational companies dominate markets was exemplified by the outcome of the dispute with ISS in Los Angeles. After four weeks on strike, ISS staff in Century City won an agreement which recognises the SEIU as the collective bargaining agent for the workers. From the beginning the dispute had an international dimension, with FIET co- ordinating support and solidarity pressure among other affiliates in the Property Services Employees Trade Section and especially with FIET's Danish affiliates. ISS is Danish- based and is now the largest contract cleaning company, both worldwide and in the USA. JUSTICE FOR ANITORS LOCAL 525 Avero TEDNATIONA Potter FIET Bank Workers lend a hand to the SEIU Justice for Janitors namCampaign in Washington D.C. during a strike to win union Barch contracts. A few weeks after the demonstration, the SEIU succeeded in gaining union recognition in the buildings being picketed. South Africa: Appeal for commuting of the death sentence of William Ntombela, member of CCAWUSA and former shop steward at Nels Dairy. Turkey: BASS campaign to conclude a collective agreement with Ottoman Bank. United Kingdom: BIFU conflict with Arab Bank Ltd over union recognition and policies adopted by the Bank which infringed basic trade union rights. February 1989 South Africa: Withholding passports of Mary Ntseka and Sam Ndou to prevent their attendance at 3rd AFRO- FIET Conference. March 1989 Mauritius: DTWU campaign to prevent the extension of shop opening hours to provide for late night and Sunday opening intended by the Government. United States: UFCW campaign to organise and represent workers in Bank of America. April 1989 Bangladesh: BIEF conflict with the Bank of Credit and Commerce International over its anti- union attitude and the dismissal of employees. Chile: Campaign of Chilean unions for" no" vote of October 1988 to lead to a process of democratisation with full respect for human and trade union rights. Paraguay: FETRABAN and CUT campaign for the commencement of a process of democratisation and full respect for human and trade union rights. Turkey: BANKS dispute with the Yapi ve Kredi Bank over the terms of a new collective agreement. May 1989 Argentina: AB conflict with the Banca Nazionale del Lavoro over FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987- 1991 127 arbitrary dismissals. Guyana: CCWU campaign against the dismissal of 300 members at four Guyana Government state corporations in the wake of conditions demanded by the IMF for a structural adjustment programme. Korea: KFBU dispute with Barclays Bank over a new collective agreement and the threat of dismissal of union members. United States: UFCW campaign for recognition at Food Lion/ Delhaize. Venezuela: CTV national strike in protest at the harsh economic adjustment programme announced by the Government. June 1989 ОЯЧА China: Crack- down on prodemocracy demonstrators. FIET mission cancelled. Germany: HBV and DAG widespread strike action to protect retail working hours and in pursuit of other claims. Norway: NBF protest against closure of Norwegian Bank Academy. South Africa: Campaign of international support for BIFAWU on the occasion of its conference. Swaziland: Detention of David Mncina, SUFIAW General Secretary following strike call in bank dispute. United Kingdom: BIFU dispute in Barclays Bank computer centre over pay rates. July 1989 Portugal: SBC/ SBN/ SBSI strike to obtain wage increases in the banking sector. August 1989 Turkey: FIET complaint to ILO concerning the Yapi ve Kredi Bank campaign of intimidation against staff to force them to resign from BANKS. Strong- arm tactics used in Uganda Industrial action inevitably means some temporary economic hardship for the workers concerned- but in some countries the consequences are particularly brutal. When members of the National Union of Clerical, Commercial and Technical Employees( NUCCTE) were on picket lines in a dispute with the state- run National Insurance Corporation, thugs hired by the company attacked their homes. They tore the rooves off houses as terrified children cowered inside. But the corporation's action only strengthened the resolve of the strikers in their pursuit of a 75 percent pay claim which- with a new irony- included demands for a large increase in the housing allowance. The Ministry of Labour finally intervened, instructing the corporation to grant a 60 percent backdated increase, medical cover and an undertaking that no employee should be victimised as a result of the strike. On 12 December 1989 NUCCTE General Secretary M.K. Mukasa visited FIET headquarters to thank the International for its crucial support in this action and in a separate dispute in the banking sector, where employers had refused to implement previously negotiated demands. This baby was inside one of the houses as the roof was torn off by thugs hired by the employers. 128 FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987- 1991 September 1989ute in the bank Germany, Great Britain, United States: International trade union campaign against the attempted takeover of British American Tobacco( BAT). South Africa: Police raids on COSATU headquarters and detention of COSATU and NACTU officials. Brutal action taken by the security forces against peaceful demonstrators defying apartheid legislation. October 1989 Belgium: SETCa campaign for reinstatement of a member dismissed by the Spa casino for trade union activities. Greece: PUCE campaign for the creation of a public company responsible for casinos in Greece. Grenada: Irregularities in trial and brutal conditions of imprisonment of John Ventour, a trade unionist under death sentence. India: AISBISF strike against the State Bank of India over failure to implement the wage revision agreements. South Africa: Government's refusal to issue passport to enable Mary Ntseke, BCWUSA General Secretary, to attend FIET meeting. Spain: Anti- trade union attitude of " Gran Madrid" casino. Call for reinstatement of dismissed trade union representatives. Expression of support for casino works council. Sudan: Complaint to the ILO against the authorities of Sudan for violation of basic principles of freedom of association. Sudan: Detention of Omer Ahmed El Amin, General Secretary of BOTU, and other trade unionists. Uganda: NUCCTE strike against the National Insurance Corporation over wage increments and other collective bargaining issues. Uganda: NUCCTE strike against Barclays, Grindlays, Libyan Arab Uganda Bank and Bank of Baroda in support of collective bargaining demands. November 1989 China: Detention of Han Dongfang, leader of the Beijing Workers' Autonomous Federation( WAF) and other WAF members. El Salvador: Bombing of the headquarters of the national trade union federation FENASTRAS, in which nine people were killed. El Salvador: Continued suppression of trade unionists. Korea: Campaign of the Federation of Foreign Banking Agency Unions and the KFBU against unfair labour practices and union oppression by multinational banks. Korea: KFBU case of union victimisation by Banque Parisbas, involving the intimidation and beating of a female union organiser. December 1989 Belgium: SETCa campaign against the bank employers' federation for job guarantees, an increase in real earnings and to prevent unilateral implementation of flexible working arrangements. Korea: KFCFWU protest against the detention of three members of the National Pension Corporation Labour Union. Korea: KFCFWU campaign for union recognition and internationally accepted standards of industrial relations, involving hunger strikes by leaders of 103 unions. noind FIET and East and Central Europe At its meeting in February 1990 the FIET World Executive Committee adopted a resolution on East and Cenno tral Europe and pledged its support to the further development of free, independent and democratic trade zlunions there. The Secretariat has sent contact missions to Bulgaria, amb Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland and Romania. Representatives of East and Central European unions have been invited to attend FIET meetings as observers. Affiliates, in addition to existing contributions to the Regional Activities Fund, have been asked to make donations to enable FIET to organise educational activities in East and Central Europe. Projects of educational and infrastructural assistance have been launched with potential affiliates in Hungary and Poland and will be developed with unions in other countries where FIET has established contacts. FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987-1991 129 Romania: Violent suppression of inse peaceful demonstration for democracy and the respect of human rights. January 1990 El Salvador: SITRASALUD protest against detention of trade union leaders including its organising secretary Oscar Portillo, and continued repression of trade union rights. France: FEC- FO and SBSF- CFDT breakdown in negotiations with Banque Nationale de Paris, followed by strike in whole of French banking sector. Greece: OTOE strike against Credit Bank over refusal to negotiate with the union and victimisation of union members. Pakistan: PIEF dispute with Norwich Union Fire Insurance over dismissal of four senior union members. Pakistan: PNFTU and PBEF complaint to ILO against anti- union policy of multinational financial institutions, including artificial promotions at ANZ Grindlays and Deutsche Bank. Spain: FEBASO- UGT strike against the Banco Cantabrico, part of the Banco Exterior de Espana, over the loss of 200 jobs and other grievances. Sweden: SBmf campaign for 15 percent basic increase redistributed toward the lower paid, followed by strike action and lockout. United Kingdom: MSF campaign against derecognition by the Zurich Insurance Group. February 1990 Argentina: AB campaign, including strike action, to preserve jobs in the face of restructuring of the bank sector imposed by the World Bank. Belgium: SETCa conflict with Lloyds Bank over the threat of a 20 percent reduction in staff at the Brussels branch. The right to strike in Turkish banks FIET has launched an international campaign to help Turkish affiliates obtain the right to strike in banks and the right to organise in public sector banks- both of which are forbidden by law. Turkey is the only European country which has not ratified ILO Convention 87 on freedom of association. It has ratified, but fails to implement, Convention 98 on the right to organise and collective bargaining. Since the military coup of September 1980, the ILO has examined on twenty- two occasions cases of abuses of trade union rights in Turkey. The negative environment in which Turkish bank unions operate was illustrated in 1989 by the all- out employer campaign to destroy FIET's affiliate BANKS. Under government restrictions, a union must represent at least 10 percent of the workers employed in the sector. As a result of intimidation by the Yapi ve Kredi Bank management, 80 percent of the union's members were forced to resign. BANKS later merged with FIET's affiliate BASISEN to counter the union- busting attempts. Throughout the dispute a massive campaign of solidarity was organised by FIET and its banking affiliBates. During a FIET mission to Turkey in April 1991, the abni Minister of Labour agreed to call bank employers and unions together for talks about changing the law. All three political parties say they want to comply with ILO standards and EC practices but employers' organisations are firmly resisting change. FIET's affiliates are convinced that only international pressure will make the government act. 01 Following the mission, FIET sent more protests to the Turkish President, Prime Minister and Minister of Labour. FEIRA further complaint has been submitted to the ILO, no representations have been made to the International sist Monetary Fund and World Bank, as well as to the European Commission. FIET affiliates in the bank sechoitor have also been requested to send messages of support 21000 to the unions and protests to the government authorities. 203 colbal amb UTO bnog 130 FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987- 1991 Finland: Ptl dispute in the bank sector over pay and job security, involving total lockout by employers. France: SBSF- CFDT conflict with the Société Financière Européene in Paris over the dismissal of 60 employees. Nigeria: Campaign against the Government's ban on international trade union affiliations. South Africa: Release of Nelson Mandela and unbanning of the ANC. Call for lifting of all apartheid legislation. Turkey: Bomb attack on the headquarters of the trade union federation Türk- Is. United Kingdom: BIFU campaign for trade union recognition at Société Générale. Venezuela: CTV demonstration against the ecomonic crisis and for better working conditions. March 1990 Chile: CSTEBA campaign for trade union organisation and collective bargaining arrangements in foreign banks. Greece: OIYE conflict with the Société Générale de Surveillance over labour relations practices and dismissals. Ivory Coast: SYNABEFA- CI campaign against reduction of salaries of bank employees in the context of economic and financial restructuring. West Africa: Campaign for the maintenance by Banque Nationale de Paris of the Afribank network and for restructuring of the bank sector to result in improvements for the African workers. Sudan: Campaign for the respect of human and trade union rights and appeal for clemency for lifting of the death sentence on the vicechairman of the doctors' union, Dr. Mamour Ahmed Hussein, and the release of all detained trade unionists. Missions During the period under review, the following missions were undertaken by the FIET President Bengt Lloyd fod and the General Secretary Heribert Maier( until May 1989) and Acting General Secretary Philip J. Jennings ( from June 1989): Mexico: The FIET General Secretary Heribert Maier visited Mexico City from 19 to 21 October 1987 for discussions with leaders of FIET affiliates in that country. Argentina, Costa Rica, Paraguay and Venezuela: The newly elected FIET President, Bengt Lloyd, and General Secretary Heribert Maier visited affiliated organisations in Argentina, Costa Rica, Paraguay and Venezuela from 30 November to 12 December 1987. While in Costa Rica they opened the new IRO- FIET Secretariat in San José. The visit to Paraguay included a meeting with members of the Paraguayan Supreme Court, during which they requested the immediate release of Eduardo Morales, a labour lawyer, who had been in detention for 33 days without any formal charges being made against him. Turkey: The FIET General Secretary, accompanied by the Secretary for Regional Activities Hans J. Schwass, undertook a mission to Turkey from 14 to 16 January 1988, during which they met with representatives of FIET affiliates and held discussions with two unions in the finance sector which were seeking affiliation to FIET. FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987- 1991 131 April 1990 Ivory Coast: SYNABEFA- CI strike in the banking sector to protest against salary cuts and bank closures. Netherlands: Dienstenbond FNV campaign and strike action against the extension of shop opening hours. South Africa: SACCAWU strike at Pick n' Pay to demand the dismissal of a security guard accused of racist behaviour. United States: UFCW complaint to the ILO against US government over freedom of association, arising from organising campaign in Food Lion/ Delhaize. United States: SEIU strike of ISS staff at Century City, Los Angeles over union recognition. May 1990 Dominican Republic: UNASE stike of hospital staff to press for salary increases, hostels for nurses and better insurance cover. Spain: FEBASO- UGT strike over the refusal of the bank employers' association to continue negotiations on salaries, working hours, holidays, social benefits and job security. Thailand: FBFT conflict with Standard Chartered Bank over its anti- union policy. June 1990 Brazil: CONTEC campaign to protect bank workers' standards of living. Colombia: SINTRABANCOM conflict with the Banco del Comercio over mass dismissals and continuous violation of the collective agreement and established industrial relations practices. Greece: OTOE and OASE campaign to protect the industrial relations system, collective bargaining and social benefits. Greece: OIYE campaign against Parliament bill to extend shop opening hours and to legalise parttime work and the sale of state enterprises. Missions Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand: The FIET President and General Secretary visited FIET affiliates in Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand from 19 to 25 March 1988. While in Kuala Lumpur, they also met the Minister of Labour, Lee Kim Sai, and raised with him the continued detention of Dr. V. David, General Secrtary of the national centre, MTUC. Singapore: The FIET General Secretary undertook a mission to Singapore from 28 to 30 April 1988 during which he addressed the 6th SNTUC Triennial Delegates' Conference. Together with the APRO- FIET President, he took part in the auguration of the FIET Singapore Liaison Council. China: The FIET General Secretary undertook a mission to China from 15 to 26 September 1988 as part of a four- member delegation of the Austrian Government. Meetings were held with a number of Ministers and with leaders of the All China Federation of Trade Unions. Paraguay: The FIET General Secretary, accompanied by the FIET 2nd Vice- President Gary Nebeker and Executive Secretary Philip J. Jennings, visited Paraguay from 3 to 6 April 1989 in a solidarity mission undertaken at the request of FIET bank affiliate FETRABAN, which had been in the vanguard of the struggle for democracy in Paraguay. Chile: The FIET President, General Secretary and IROFIET Regional Secretary Robert Castro visited Santiago de Chile from 13 to 15 April 1989, during which they had discussions with the FIET- affiliated bank employees' union CSTEBA and attended a general assembly meeting of the national trade union centre CUT. 132 FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987-1991 Missions Mexico: From 17 to 19 April 1989 the FIET President and General Secretary, accompanied by IRO- FIET Regional Secretary Robert Castro, visited Mexico for discussions with the IRO- FIET President Rodolfo Campos Bravo and representatives of FIET's affiliates in that country. Australia and New Zealand: The FIET Acting General Secretary Philip J. Jennings and APRO- FIET Regional Secretary Christopher Ng visited Australia and New Zealand from 1 to 8 September 1989 for meetings with the APRO- FIET President John P. Maynes and other trade union leaders. While in Australia, they addressed a joint meeting of the executives of FIET's affiliates ABEU and AEIU. Hungary and Poland: The FIET President and Acting General Secretary visited Hungary and Poland from 11 to 26 January 1990 to make contact with free and independent unions there. Argentina, Brazil, Mexico and Venezuela: The FIET Acting General Secretary and IRO- FIET Regional Secretary James Sierra undertook a mission to Argentina, Brazil, Mexico and Venezuela from 31 January to 10 February 1990. Discussions took place with affiliates on future activities and on the IRO- FIET seminar on the debt crisis to be held in May 1990. Malaysia: The FIET President, 2nd Vice- President, APRO- FIET President and Acting General Secretary undertook a mission to Malaysia from 17 to 20 February 1990 just prior to the FIET World Executive Committee meeting in Singapore. Niger: USTN general strike in protest against the government's austerity measures demanded by the World Bank and IMF, including a two- year freeze on wages. United States: SEIU strike of nurses at Kaiser Permanente Health Maintenance Co. Los Angeles to preserve hard- won rights. July 1990 Greece: OASE campaign for equal pay and working conditions for insurance employees to those enjoyed by employees in companies owned by banks. Guatemala: Attempted kidnapping of two leaders of a union being formed at the El Pilar factory. Philippines: TUCP relief fund for earthquake disaster victims. Senegal: SYTBEFS conflict with the Banque Internationale pour le Commerce et l'Industrie over refusal to negotiate outstanding problems. Zambia: ZUFIAW strike in protest against charges against and dismissal of union members by the Zambia State Insurance Corporation. August 1990 Cyprus: ETYK industrial action against the Cyprus Banking Employers' Association over cost of living allowances and pensions. Greece: OTOE campaign against mass dismissals in the National Mortgage Bank, Ionian Bank and the Commercial Bank on the pretext that they were only employed as temporary workers. Korea: KFBU conflict with Westpac Banking Corporation over unfair labour practices and delay in renewal of the collective agreement. Monaco: SEGCBM conflict with Chase Manhattan and Lloyds over forced dismissals and the imposition of precarious, part- time or temporary work contracts. Turkey: BASISEN conflict with Yapi Kredi and Pamukbank. Campaign to achieve the right to FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987- 1991 133 strike for Turkish bank workers. September 1990 Belgium: SETCa conflict with Commerzbank over the dismissal of a trade union representative. Greece: OTOE strike in bank sector to protest against the government's legislative proposals on pensions and social insurance. Korea: Violent repression of strikers at Westpac Banking Corporation. October 1990 Israel: General strike over minimum wages and cuts in social services. Korea: Police brutality and arrest of sixty strikers at the Seoul National University Hospital Union. United States: SEIU strike to win union contracts in Washington D.C. as part of its Justice for Janitors Campaign. November 1990 Chile: CSTEBA strike against Banco Santander over its refusal to negotiate salary increases. Greece: Dismissal of OIYE former President George Alexandrou in a case of union victimisation. Peru: Kidnap of CUTIPSS General Secretary Pablo Segundo Ponde de Leon Avila in conjunction with strike at the Instituto Peruano de Seguridad Social. Senegal: SYTBEFS protest action against the Banque SénégaloKoweitienne to defend the rights of employees. Tunisia: FGBEF dispute with Best Bank over its refusal to recognise the union and the dismissal of five union activists. December 1990 Greece: OASE/ OIYE/ OTOE campaign against draft law to curtail the right of strike and to engage in industrial action in pursuit of collective bargaining objectives. Swaziland: SUFIAW conflicts with Barclays Bank, Standard Chartered Missions Korea: The FIET Acting General Secretary and APROFIET Regional Secretary undertook a mission to Korea in September 1990 to meet with affiliates. During their visit they met with representatives of all five Korean affiliates and the trade union centre FKTU, and addressed the conference of the Federation of Professional and Technicians Union. They spoke to strikers at Westpac and at the Seoul National University Hospital. Following the mission, FIET proposed that the ICFTU should undertake a mission to Korea as a matter of urgency. Japan: The FIET Acting General Secretary and APROFIET Regional Secretary visited Japan in September 1990 to take part in the 20th Anniversary Conference of FIET affiliate ZENSEN. They held consultations with representatives of five Japanese affiliates and with the APRO- FIET President Mamoru Shibata. Namibia and South Africa: The FIET President and Acting General Secretary, accompanied by the Secretary for Regional Activities, visited Namibia and South Africa between 26 November and 3 December 1990 for talks with union leaders and to demonstrate solidarity with the African unions in their struggle for freedom, justice an democracy. Czechoslovakia: Upon invitation of potential FIET affiliates in Czechoslovakia, the EURO- FIET President Karel Boeykens and FIET Acting General Secretary visited Prague from 4 to 6 February 1991. They met with representatives of six unions organising in banks, insurance, commerce, services, social organisations and white collar workers in industry. 134 FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987- 1991 fulgninsom omi otroo CIULIAZARTSH Missions Turkey: From 4-7 April 1990, the FIET President and Acting General Secretary undertook a mission to Turkey. The mission was requested by FIET's Turkish affiliates in banking with the express purpose of launching an international campaign to support their struggle to obtain the right to strike in banking and the right to organise workers in public sector banks, both of which are forbidden by law. The programme for the mission was heavily charged, meetings taking place with all affiliates at their headquarters, with the trade union centre TURK IS, the employers' federation TISK, all three major political parties: the governing party ANAP and the two opposition parties SHP and True Path Party. A meeting was also held with the Minister of Labour, Imren Aykut, and two press conferences were organised. The visit received widespread press, TV and radio coverage. On 7 April the mission also visited ent picketing members of TEZ- KOOP- IS in Istanbul, who were on the fifth day of their strike at one of the largest hypermarkets in the city. In addition to these missions, the APRO- FIET and IROFIET Regional Secretaries, the AFRO- FIET Regional cote Representatives and officials of the Geneva Secretariat wire undertook a large number of missions during the period under review to maintain contacts and to assist with various activities of affiliates and to establish contacts with potential affiliates. and Bank of Credit and Commerce International over re- negotiation of the collective agreement. United States: UFCW dispute with Giant, an American subsidiary of Ahold, over union recognition and health insurance contributions. January 1991 Baltic States: Repression of independence movements in the Baltic States and violent interventions by Soviet authorities in Lithuania and Latvia. Burma: opposition groups and the prevention by the army of the convening of the National Assembly. Pakistan: PIEF conflict with Norwich Union Insurance Company. Turkey: Miners' strike following breakdown in negotiations accompanied by detentions and repressive measures. Turkey: Türk- Is general strike in protest against declining wage levels in the face of high inflation and persistent suppression of human and trade union rights. Turkey: BASS conflict with Ottoman Bank following the breakdown of collective bargaining. February 1991 Liberia: Protest over bloodshed and call for peace, reconstruction and massive international relief work. South Africa: Support for continued sanctions until the complete removal of the apartheid system. Turkey: Campaign for the full restoration of human and trade union rights in Turkey. March 1991 South Africa: SACCAWU strike at Metropolitan Life Insurance to support demands for a single national bargaining unit. Swaziland: SUFIAW conflict with Swaziland Development and Savings Bank, following the dismissal of Vincent Ncongwane, the union's second assistant secretary. Turkey: BASISEN conflict with Nordstern Insurance Company over intimidation to force workers to resign from the union and refusal to negotiate a new collective agreement. April 1991 Bangladesh: BIEU conflict with the Bank of Credit and Commerce International over victimisation of Wave of arrests of union leaders. FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987- 1991 135 France: FEC- FO/ FBSF- CFDT action to defend the scope of their collective agreement, particularly with respect to job security. Greece: OIYE campaign against the extension of shop opening hours. New Zealand: Campaign against Employment Contract Bill which would promote mass de- unionisation and eliminate collective bargaining. Portugal: SBSI conflict with the Banco Comercial Portugues( BCP) and Banco Borges& Irmao( BBI) over their policy of active discrimination against women employees. Thailand: Campaign against law banning unions for employees in state enterprises and amendment of the Labour Relations Act adopted by the military junta. Turkey: Campaign for the right to strike in the Turkish banking sector. Turkey: Tez- Koop- Is strike at Beltas Hypermarket over the intransigent attitude of the owners and the authorities of Istanbul and refusal to enter into meaningful negotiations. Venezuela: FETRASALUD conflict in the health sector over nonimplementation of contractual obligations, including the payment of arrears in salaries and salary adjustments. boun GN Plesi Goorge adf HA sq gnimisvog s AUTO insqlsobilog som s zoiaq nobizoqqo ow: sdt bas APROS9 ni ayd Namibia and South dnotk stilio Jonatog with ins& bhe lo sibiadua neohomA de inslo bas nobingos nolau novo, blon A to 2125716 10 136 FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987- 1991 Chapter 12 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS FIET: Part of the international free trade union movement FIET, as an International Trade Secretariat( ITS), operates as an integral part of the international free and democratic trade union movement. Relationships between the ITSs and the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions( ICFTU) are governed by the" Milan Agreement,'' ratified by the ICFTU in 1951 and subsequently amended in 1966 and 1967. In the agreement, the ICFTU recognises the autonomy of the ITSs and both the ICFTU and ITSs recognise that they are part of the same international trade union movement. At its meeting in 1990 the ICFTU Executive Board accepted that each ITS would be invited to attend meetings of the Board; previously, attendance had been limited to four elected representatives of the ITSs. During the period under review, FIET representatives regularly participated in meetings of the ICFTU Executive Board and its Committees: on South Africa, Women Workers, Human and Trade Union Rights in Latin America, Multinational Companies, Young Workers, Occupational Health and Safety and working relations with the other Trade Union Education. In addition, representatives of APRO- FIET attended meetings convened by ICFTU- APRO, and representatives of IRO- FIET those convened by ICFTU- ORIT. Meetings which bring together the General Secretaries of the fifteen ITSS and the ICFTU, known as ITS General Conferences, are held twice a year, in January and in June. In addition to these Conferences, FIET continued to maintain excellent ITSS through the exchange of correspondence, discussions on subjects of common concern and representation in various meetings. FIET and the International Labour Organisation FIET enjoys consultative status with the International Labour Organisation( ILO). The ILO was frequently represented at FIET meetings, and all major FIET meetings held in Geneva took The ICFTU has championed the cause for human and trade union rights throughout the world. FIET co- operates with the ICFTU and with the other International Trade Secretariats. John Vanderveken, General Secretary of the ICFTU, addressing the FIET World Congress in 1987. FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987- 1991 137 place at the ILO building. FIET sent delegations to all the International Labour Conferences as well as to all ILO meetings of direct concern. Former FIET General Secretary Heribert Maier was a Workers' Member of the ILO Governing Body until his election as Deputy Director General of the ILO, an appointment he took up in June 1989. FIET, whilst recognising the important role that the ILO plays in promoting and defending trade union rights, developing constructive labour relations' policies and conducting research into issues of concern to workers everywhere, has expressed its concern about the lack of ILO activities for white collar workers in the private sector. In a resolution adopted at its meeting in April 1990, the FIET World Executive Committee requested the ILO that in its planning for the biennium 1992-1993 provisions should be made as a minimum to convene the ILO Advisory Committee on Salaried Employees and Professional Workers in 1992, and to convene a tripartite meeting to review the application of the ILO Compendium on the Conditions of Work and Employment of Professional Workers. During the period under review, FIET submitted to the ILO a number of complaints concerning abuses of human and trade union rights. Photo: International Labour Office " Let us walk the last mile together" was Nelson Mandela's message to the June 1990 International Labour Conference as he looked ahead to the birth of a democratic, multi- racial South Africa. The Conference received Poland's Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki, debated the environment problem and adopted new labour standards on night work and industrial safety. FIET and the International Monetary Fund Following on from a statement adopted by the Third FIET World Bank Conference in Singapore in February 1990 and a major Seminar on the Debt Crisis held by IRO- FIET in Mexico in May 1990, Mr. Michel Camdessus, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund agreed to meet a delegation from FIET in Washington D.C. on 25 October. The fact that the meeting took place at all reflects growing concerns on all sides that structural adjustment policies are being forced through with insufficient thought being given to their social effects. on ylineupozdurabas 1201 ar al NOQI bas del mi Austerity measures imposed on the finance sectors of many debtor countries by the IMF and World Bank have been particularly damaging, leading to drastic bank closures and massive job losses. The consultations concerned issues relating to the debt crisis and focussed in particular on the need for adjustment programmes to be drawn up and implemented through a process of social dialogue between governments, the social partners and multilateral agencies such as the IMF and World Bank. The FIET delegation stressed that social conditionalities were as 138 FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987- 1991 important as financial conditionalities in IMF adjustment programmes. Since the meeting, Camdessus has written to FIET proposing that the IMF would sponsor a conference for the international trade union movement on the activities of the IMF. FIET and the World Bank 25 10/80 The FIET delegation that met with IMF Managing Director M. Camdessus on 25 October 1990 in Washington D.C. comprised representatives from FIET affiliates in Argentina, Brazil, Malaysia, Mexico, Norway, Senegal and the United States. In discussions with the World Bank at their headquarters on 26 October 1990, a FIET delegation explained how it was trade union members who were often the ones most severely affected by the impact of adjustment policies. This had been the case particularly in the finance sectori where thousands of job losses had resulted directly from conditions laid down by the World Bank in its structural adjustment lending. Trade unions needed to be consulted when lending programmes were being drawn up and implemented so that the negative consequences for workers could be minimised. modmsxu. In reply, the World Bank confirmed that structural adjustment lending was undertaken on the condition that the finance sector was reformed. The officials of the World Bank explained that in most cases the finance sectors of developing countries were too small and indeed under- developed. Many banks in developing countries were insolvent, weighed down with bad loans, and seeking to operate in a financial environment without essential components, such as competitive interest rates. Structural adjustment lending for the finance sector was intended to support necessary changes and put banking and financial services on a sound footing for development. In conclusion, it was agreed that the dialogue between FIET and the World Bank should continue and that ways of considering in more detail the problems created by structural adjustment lending to the finance sector should be explored. FIET has called for a FIET/ World FIET has called for a FIET/ World Bank Summit on the impact of World Bank policies on the banking sector. -iluM FIET and the World Health Organisation The World Health Organisation ( WHO) is coordinating the UN's Global Programme on AIDS and has recognised the important role of unions in desseminating information. FIET participated in trade union consultations with the WHO on 17 October 1989 and is now collaborating in a joint project with this organisation. The first of a series of seminars on AIDS was organised by IRO- FIET, with the support of the WHO, in Costa Rica in December 1990, and affiliates in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico and Venezuela are now working on national programmes on AIDS education and prevention. FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987-1991 139 FIET and the World Intellectual Property Organisation FIET acts as the specialist advisor to the ICFTU on matters relating to intellectual property ( patents, trade marks, copyrights, etc.) and attends meetings organised by the World Intellectual Property Organisation ( WIPO) on the ICFTU's behalf. FIET and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development In addition to the regular Secretariat activities in relation to the OECD's Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises, FIET follows activities in the OECD through its close relations with the Trade Union Advisory Committee( TUAC) to the OECD. FIET and the International Organization for Standardization In 1984 FIET requested and obtained a Category A liaison with Sub Committee 4( Signals and Control) of the ISO Technical Committee 159( Ergonomics). FIET receives papers and invitations to meetings of the Sub Committee and all its Working Groups. FIET and Amnesty International FIET maintains relations with the Secretariat of Amnesty In17,000 trade unionists from throughout Western Europe assembled in Brussels on 18 October 1989 to support the ETUC call for a Social Europe. In addition to a march and rally, there was a large display area. During the course of the day the stand presented by EURO- FIET was visited by many unionists and thousands of the International's publications were distributed. BURO- FIET EURO- FIET BURO FIETS AFFILIATES EURO RET MITGLIEDSORGANISATIONEN LES AFFILES DE LEURO- FIET #M# 11= ternational and makes a donation to the organisation. AFRO- FIET and the Organisation for African Trade Union Unity Throughout the period good relations continued between AFRO- FIET and OATUU and representatives of this organisation regularly participated in AFRO- FIET meetings. EURO- FIET and the European Trade Union ob Confederation EURO- FIET is a recognised Industry Committee of the ETUC and plays an active role in its activities, participating in meetings of the Executive Committee, various standing committees and special conferences. The ETUC is undergoing a period of reform, with a view to a complete structural change of the organisation. The 7th ETUC Congress, to take place in May 1991 in Luxembourg, will elect a new President, a new General Secretary and will vote on a new structure to expand participation in the executive and create a smaller management committee that will meet more frequently. The new structure, which will become operational after the ETUC Congress, also seeks to integrate further the various Industry Committees. ansof bad diw nwob The EURO- FIET Executive condition 140 FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987- 1991 TET REPORT ON Committee, in discussing these reforms, have stated their preparedness to play a more active role but at the same time have stressed the independence and professional autonomy of EUROFIET. EURO- FIET also contributes to the work of the European Trade Union Institute( ETUI), which conducts research on labour markets, and the European Trade Union Academy, which organises education programmes for workers on a wide range of themes. EURO- FIET and the European Communities EURO- FIET has rapidly expanded its activities vis- a- vis the European Community in recent years and has played a growing role in the international struggle for a Social Europe. Progress has been made in terms of obtaining consultation rights Philip Jennings, Jacques Delors and Hans Engelberts, General Secretary of the PSI. Jacques Delors is President of the European Commission. In May 1991 he addressed the 7th ETUC Congress and once again stressed his support for the creation of a Social Europe. EURO- FIET has repeatedly underlined that the Industry Committees have a fundamental role to play in this process. with the European Commission, holding joint talks with employholding joint talks with employers, placing experts in the Economic and Social Committee and raising questions in the European Parliament. The thrust of these activities has been to obtain more rights for EURO- FIET affiliates to influence decision- making and ensuring that Community institutions involve EURO- FIET in their work which is of direct interest to EURO- FIET affiliates. FIET CH- 4218 Suisse FIET REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1987- 1991 141 Enterpri hizo zi vols Caspool 129 zaingo sono ba stosga sod 131-03 Stor foinsmobato sva assim FIET and Amnesty International si boshbo loipo o to nois bal al- ovlovni anois josib to al doinw show riads ums TH- OFUEL of 12 the bas saimmo Isis02 bas simon -owl od ni enoitzoup gaizis ovito com& vaiq of abou oved emit arse or is tud plo Trad Misulong Unity THI lo ogne obiw a no show EURO- FIET and the gemont European Trad Confederation odi bag Tax C Industry Com that The more frequently. 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