Global union steps up precarious work campaign

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The global union IndustriALL is calling on its affiliates worldwide to mobilise their members to ‘STOP Precarious Work.’ It says regular, permanent and direct employment remains under constant attack from multinationals and other forces that are promoting precarious work, linked to higher rates of occupational injury and ill-health.

The global union IndustriALL is calling on its affiliates worldwide to mobilise their members to ‘STOP Precarious Work.’ It says regular, permanent and direct employment remains under constant attack from multinationals and other forces that are promoting precarious work, linked to higher rates of occupational injury and ill-health.

Calling on its affiliated unions worldwide to highlight the campaign on the 7 October World Day for Decent Work, IndustriALL said: “We strongly encourage affiliates to take action and denounce precarious employment and the insecurity, which is becoming everyday life for more and more workers around the world.”

It says some plans are already in place. In Canada, UNIFOR is to run a national Good Job Summit from 3-5 October as part of its ‘Join the Revolution for Good Jobs’ campaign. The summit will form part of a national dialogue between workers, students, government, employers and communities, aimed at finding new approaches to jobs and the economy.

The Rio Tinto Global Union Network will hold a global day of action against precarious work as part of its employment rights campaign at the mining giant. And IndustriALL affiliates in Cambodia will target Export Process Zones (EPZs) where workers’ rights are largely undermined. Workers in a bus and on motorcycles, holding IndustriALL flags, will do rounds in the EPZs as part of a “caravan for decent work.”