[APWSLMembers 316] Re: formal announcement: Jobs and Justice conference

[Kilusang Mayo Uno]

Dear Umesh,

Thank you very much for your support.  We will continue to give 
updates about the upcoming conference.  Will also relay this during 
the Regional Coordinators Meeting on November.

Hope to see you there and in the Philippines for this conference!

Solidarity,
Tess


At 04:36 PM 8/11/2006, you wrote:

>Dear Tess
>Very good conference you are going to organize, we appreciate your idea.
>
>Best regards
>
>Umesh Upadhyaya
>
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>Subject: [APWSLMembers 313] formal announcement: Jobs and Justice
>conference
>
>Dear friends,
>
>Here's the formal announcement for the labor flexibilization
>conference "Jobs and Justice: An International Conference on
>Neoliberal Labor Market Restructuring, Labor Rights and Workers'
>Resistance".
>
>We hope that you can participate in this conference.  Please
>distribute this widely to your network.
>
>Thank you.
>
>In solidarity,
>Tess Dioquino
>APWSL Philippines
>Secretary, KMU International Department
>
>
>
>
>ANNOUNCEMENT
>JOBS AND JUSTICE
>AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NEOLIBERAL LABOR MARKET RESTRUCTURING,
>LABOR RIGHTS AND WORKERS' RESISTANCE
>DECEMBER 8-10, 2006
>MANILA, PHILIPPINES
>
>I. Background and Rationale
>Neoliberal globalization has been roundly criticized for advancing
>the interests of global
>capital at the expense of the world's majority who are faced with
>falling relative incomes,
>greater economic and social insecurity, diminished social
>entitlements, environmental
>degradation, as well as greater restrictions on the exercise of their
>democratic rights.
>Unable to deny the mounting evidence attesting to the failure of the
>Washington
>consensus to spur development, its unreconstructed advocates are
>blaming the victims
>of their neoliberal policy prescriptions for having poor
>institutions, bad governance and
>corrupt cultures. Jobless growth in particular is being blamed on
>inflexible labor market
>institutions.
>Hence the Washington consensus is now being "augmented" by pushing for a
>more
>aggressive neoliberal restructuring of labor markets both in the
>industrialized North and
>the underdeveloped South. Labor markets are being "liberalized" through
>the
>introduction of "flexibility" in the application and observance of
>mandatory labor
>standards, the minimum wage, job security, the 8-hour workday and
>other so-called
>"rigidities" that hamper the freer operations of capital. Labor
>regulations and fiscal
>policies are being re-written to further encourage outsourcing and
>contingent
>employment within and across national borders. Employers' privilege
>to hire and fire is
>strengthened while the collective rights of labor are being whittled
>down in order to
>dissipate workers' solidarity, impede organizing and undermine
>collective forms of action
>and resistance.
>This CONFERENCE ON JOBS AND JUSTICE aims to provide a venue for workers
>organizations, trade unions, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and
>labor
>advocates to exchange information on current trends in neoliberal labor
>market
>restructuring in the various global regions and share their
>experiences in struggle. By
>deepening the political and technical analysis on which their
>activities are rooted, the
>conference is expected to provide the participants and their
>constituents with more tools
>in resisting the unremitting neoliberal offensive against working
>people, defending
>workers' rights and advancing the struggle for economic and social
>justice.
>
>II. Conference Objectives
>This CONFERENCE ON JOBS AND JUSTICE shall bring together workers
>organizations,
>trade unions, civil society organizations, researchers and labor
>advocates from the
>South and North to:
>1. share information and analyses of the trends and impact of neoliberal
>labor
>market reforms on workers and other social sectors in their
>respective countries
>or regions
>2. share their experiences of struggle against these reforms and
>other threats to
>labor
>3. identify issues and areas for further research, action and
>cooperation among the
>participating organizations
>4. map out a common platform for advocacy and campaigning with the aim
>of
>strengthening workers rights, promoting workers organizing and building
>links
>with the struggle of other marginalized and oppressed sectors in society
>5. express international solidarity and unity with unionists, labor
>organizers and
>other activists in the Philippines who are the targets of an ongoing
>campaign of
>extra-judicial killings, disappearances and other gross human rights
>violations
>perpetrated with impunity under the present regime
>III. Overview of the Conference
>The conference will be held at Manila on December 8-10, 2006. It
>shall consist of six
>thematic panels and two strategy sessions as follows:
>Day 1: Examining Key Trends
>   PANEL 1: Labor Flexibilization, Informalization & unemployment
>   PANEL 2: TNC outsourcing, global supply chains (include EPZs issue) &
>Labor migration
>   PANEL 3: WTO, regional & Bilateral "free trade" agreements
>   Strategy Session 1: research & advocacy agenda
>Day 2: Organizing & Resistance
>   PANEL 4: On Organizing the unorganized, defending the right to
>organize
>   PANEL 5: Struggle for jobs, wages & job security
>   PANEL 6: Struggle of women workers, farmworkers & migrants
>   Strategy Session 2: Organizing & Campaign Strategies
>Day 3: Human Rights Day Mobilization
>The strategy session at the end of Day 1 is expected to result in a
>proposed common
>research agenda for the participants in the conference. The strategy
>session at the end
>of Day 2 is expected to distill the lessons on organizing and
>resistance drawn from the
>sharing of the participants from the day's discussion. It is also
>hoped that the
>participants will come up with a common organizing and/or campaign
>platform.
>On the third day, conference participants shall join local labor and
>other social activists in
>a public demonstration on the occasion of International Human Rights
>Day. The
>extraordinary number of extra-judicial killings, disappearances,
>political harassment and
>other gross human rights violations in the Philippines under the
>present government is
>being likened to the deplorable record of the dark years of the
>Marcos dictatorship,
>earning condemnation from local and international human rights groups
>such as
>Amnesty International and Asia Human Rights Commission. The
>International
>Confederation of Trade Unions (ICFTU) noted that "the number of labor
>related killings in
>the Philippines now places it in a similar category to Colombia,
>which holds the macabre
>record of the highest number of assassinations of trade unionists in
>the world. The
>Philippines appears to be heading rapidly towards second place."
>These violations are
>therefore a grave concern for the international labor movement and
>deserve vigorous
>condemnation.
>IV. Conference Participants
>The conference is open to all those who are engaged in the labor
>movement and
>committed to labor rights advocacy. Around 40-50 international
>participants are
>expected to attend, representing South and North, from workers
>organizations, trade
>unions, NGOs and other labor-related organizations or institutions.
>They will be joined by
>10-20 local participants from various workers organizations, unions and
>NGOs.
>V. Conference Organizers
>The Conference is co-organized by the Asia-Pacific Research Network
>(APRN), Asia
>Monitor Resource Center (AMRC), Asia-Pacific Mission for Migrants (APMM)
>and
>Action, Research and Education Network of Aotearoa (ARENA).
>The Ecumenical Institute for Labor Education and Research (EILER) and
>the Asia-
>Pacific Workers Solidarity Links (APWSL)-Philippines shall serve as
>local host
>organizations.
>VII. Logistics
>Conference organizers shall provide modest food and accommodations for
>all
>participants. Owing to the limited resources of the organizers,
>international participants
>are encouraged to seek other sources of financial support for travel
>costs to and from
>Manila and other incidental expenses.
>Formal invitation letters will be sent upon request and confirmation
>of participation.
>For confirmation and more information, please contact
>apwsl_phils at yahoo.com or
>secretariat at aprnet.org or solidarity at eilerinc.org
>
>
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