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Wednesday, 19 May 2010 |
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On April 26, the IYCW organized a debate on the social protection campaign carried out by the movement. Friends of the movement, former YCW members and current activists took part in the debate, including representatives of several social organizations such as migrant workers organizations in Belgium (the Association of Ecuadoreans living in Belgium (ASERB), the Organization for international development), as well as representatives of the European YCW coordination, the Walloon YCW, the Christian Worker Movement (WSM/Social alert), and a Venezuela YCW activist who was participating in an exchange in Belgium with the Walloon YCW and the CSC (Christian trade union).
 Among the inputs, we could listen to Bart Verstraeten, coordinator of Social Alert – one of WSM’s Belgian organizations taking action on the issue of social protection. He told us about the concept of social protection and actions carried out by the Belgian Christian Worker Movement and other social organizations such as the European working group for social protection. Bart provided us with valuable information on the actions developed to extend social security to more workers and to include this issue in the political agenda of different bodies and institutions.
He placed the accent on the actors involved in the debate and the actions to ensure social protection, focusing on four main actors: the state, society, private companies, and social movements. The state is one of the major actors as an organizer of the system, its form of financing and mechanisms to improve the living and working conditions of the population.
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Thursday, 01 April 2010 |
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The IYCW celebrated the International Women's Day on 6th March 2010 in Brussels. The IYCW International Secretariat, together with the Walloon YCW, the European YCW and the German YCW participated in a march organized in the streets of Brussels with network organisations. Around 5,000 women and men took part in this festive and militant march calling for justice, equality, peace and solidarity.
YCW members were carrying dummies of young workers in this march and handed out the demands of the movement in the streets, as well as the IYCW Women's Day statement.
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Friday, 20 November 2009 |
The Participation of Thailand YCW in the World Day for Decent Work
 On October 7 at 9 o’clock, lots of people arrived from everywhere at King Chulalongkorn Monument. They came to celebrate a wonderful day for all workers in the world: the “World Day for Decent Work”. That day is an opportunity to join in a united mobilization for change. Each country celebrates it in their own way. Sometimes the focus is on more decent working conditions, sometimes on demands regarding rights at the workplace. In Thailand the campaign aimed to pressure the government to sign ILO conventions 87 and 98 as soon as possible. Thailand is one of the few countries which haven't signed these conventions which are related to the protection of the right to organize and the right to collective bargaining.
In Thailand we are well aware of the consequences of the government's failure to sign the conventions. The Thai labor legislation itself has some provisions that are against the principles established in the conventions, i.e. the right to organize and to collective bargaining. Workers are not able to defend their interests. For instance, state enterprise workers cannot get together with private company workers to claim their rights. Or the workers in one workplace cannot put forward demands on behalf of workers in another workplace. In practice, those workers who form a union are always dismissed on legal grounds. And in the same connection, although the law provides for welfare for all (including for subcontracted workers), the problem of low pension and poor welfare quality is a reality in those workplaces without trade unions. Employers also tend to break this law. These are consequences of not signing the conventions. It is essential that trade unions and other workers can get together and fight for the interests of all workers. For the record, only 500,000 out of 35 million workers in the country are members of a union, i.e. only 1.4 percent, which is a very low number.
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Wednesday, 15 July 2009 |
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Honourable Chair,
Distinguished Delegates,
Ladies and Gentleman,
First of all the International Young Christian Workers would like to thank you for allowing us to take the floor in the Committee on Gender Equality. The IYCW is an international movement representing young workers in more than 2,000 grassroots groups in 48 countries across all continents.
We would like to take the floor in order to bring to your attention our experience of work on gender equality. We also agree that gender equality is at the heart of decent work
The economic crisis is expected to increase the number of unemployed women by up to 22 million in 2009, the International Labour Office (ILO) says in its annual Global Employment Trends for Women report (GET), adding that the global job crisis is expected to worsen sharply with the deepening of the recession in 2009.
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Wednesday, 03 October 2007 |
“The day I had waited for had come. I was in front of different organizations and movements, church people, former national and international YCW leaders, families and friends. … Everything was ready. They were just waiting for me to start.” - Andy, Philippines
Manila, Philippines, August 25. It was 1:30 in the afternoon when Andy, the president of the Philippines YCW, launched the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the IYCW. Together with the Filipino national team, Andy had taken care of the planning and preparation of the event. This included the setting-up of committees in charge of the program, the presentation, the refreshments, the making of banners, streamers and placards, as well as rehearsals and finalizations.
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