Tag: workers

So the International Labor Organization is throwing a party:

More than 3,000 government, worker and employer leaders are to meet here from 28 May to 13 June for the annual Conference of the International Labour Organization (ILO) to discuss a wide range of issues including rural poverty reduction, the latest developments in labor rights and enhancing skills development.
The annual meeting of the ILO will also consider strategic challenges in terms of obtaining decent work, as well as host a high-level panel discussion on 11 June on “Tackling the Food Crisis through investment, production and decent work”.

I’m sure the outcome of the conference will be fantastic, putting into consideration the nature of the participants. For example, the Egyptian workers, according to a message I received from a Socialist source, are “represented” by delegation of more than 30 state-backed General Federation of Trade Unions officials.. those government cronies, whose local officials are unlected, winning their seats by forgery and vote rigging, and during strikes they are either “detained” by their fellow workers to be forced to stay in the occupation (like what happened in Kafr el-Dawar), or simply hospitalized (like what happened in Mahalla with poor Seddiq Siyam:). Those general federation cronies are now in Switzerland together with their fellow cronies from other parts of the world discussing “decent work”.. And what’s even more obscene is that the ILO invites those cronies from Egypt at a time when the regime has just put down a two-day uprising by the workers and urban poor in Mahalla, and is outright repressing the right to strike and peaceful protest, and is keeping the Ghazl el-Mahalla labor organizers in prison under martial law… all crimes where the General Federation of Trade Unions and its head the corrupt Hussein Megawer of the NDP are directly involved in.