IUF's Gender Manual, All For One = One For All, has been published in Croatian. If you would like to save a copy, or just to take a look at it (in pdf format), you can find it within the "Documents" section of this web site (for registered users only).
If you still have not registered, or you do not know how to do it, or you have any problems with the registration (lost password, username, etc), please contact our office by email.
We would also like to remind you of the IUF Manual on Outsourcing, Casualization and Contract labour in the food and the beverages sectors, designed for trade unionists who are confronting the growing prevalence of fixed-term contract employment, agency labour, outsourcing and other forms of precarious employment relationships. The manual is available as a PDF download in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Croatian, Romanian and Filipino, and (without graphics) in Bulgarian, Polish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Hindi, Thai, Malaysian, Indonesian and Chinese. An abridged version is available in Serbian. Click here to download the manual in English, or in Croatian, Serbian, Romanian, or in Bulgarian.
Continuation of the ICEM IUF SEE Project
The Final Evaluation Conference of ICEM IUF SEE Education project will take place from 24 to 25 June 2010 in Opatija, Croatia.
The evaluation of the last phase of the project, which was prepared by dr Jochen Tholen of Bremen University, can be found under "About us" section - by clicking on the links of the desired language. The Evaluation study has been written in German, and translated into English, Bulgarian and Serbian.
If you would like to see some of the materials or reports that were used at project's seminars, or to download them or sectoral studies or manuals, be sure to register at our "Documents" section (unless, of course, you are already a registered user).
Equal Treatment for Agency Meat Workers: "Tell M&S to 'Look Behind The Label'"
Members of Croatian IUF affiliates, PPDIV and STUH unions, supported the T&G - Unite campaign for equal rights for agency meat workers in the UK. They picketed Marks and Spencer's stores in Zagreb on February 27, distributing the leaflets with the information on this campaign.
Members of the IUF-affiliated agriculture & food and tourism & services unions in Croatia distributing leaflets at the three Marks & Spencer locations in Zagreb on February 27.
Fourth ICEM World Congress - Contract and Agency Labour - a Global and Negative Phenomenon
Throughout a one-day, 21 November, ICEM conference on Contract and Agency Labour (CAL), taking place prior to the Global Union Federation’s 4th ICEM World Congress in Bangkok, Thailand, speaker after speaker confirmed that the trend of industry subcontracting is rapidly increasing throughout the world.
Predominant is the continuing trend of subcontracting in developing nations. With few exceptions, the 300 trade unionists attending cited specific problems with agency, temporary, short-term contract, or self-employment labour, relating directly to the lack of a (decent) employment relationship.
For many of the world’s workers, affecting most industries, a prior, normal relationship has been reduced to one of much lesser quality. For others, the relationship has changed to a mere commercial one, with workers’ taking the job security risks, and an erosion of social benefits affecting both workers and society.
The ICEM conference produced several examples in which subcontracting is becoming rampant on several continents. In the mining and diamond sector of India, virtually all miners are contract labourers. In Thailand and Korea, examples were cited where CAL work is omnipresent.
ICEM's 28 April Priority: Lobby G8 Summit for Creation of High-Level Working Group on HIV/AIDS
For Workers’ Memorial Day 2007, the ICEM has adopted a campaign encouraging affiliates to sign on to the global trade union lobby for a high-level G8 Working Group on HIV/AIDS as a major part of its comprehensive programme to combat the global pandemic.
The ICEM has urged its affiliates to send letters to the German embassy, or a German consulate in their home countries, requesting creation of such a high-level commission. Germany is host to the G8 Summit this year.
