Pravin SINHA
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Migrant labour - setting our agenda - 24/07/2007 13:23
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Trade Unions needs to redefine its Constituency & Strategies
It was enlightening to read Tolby's artical, although the same is in abridged form. We sure are in a globalised world where exploitation too have been globalised. We talk a lot about the exploitation faced by migrant workers in Gulf Countries but the situation seems not different in the so called developed world. Time and again, our political leaders [ as also trade union leaders] have vouched to remove the same, now, through the instrumentality of WTO. In the last few years the policies and programmes of individual nations have focused on globalising Capital and the experience indicate that the same had been at the cost of labour as they are focer to work under 'indecent conditions'. The only dividing line between North and South seems to be degree of exploitation.
Trade unions' over occupation with the workers in the formal sector had been One of the primary reason for the same. The workers employed in the informal economy as also including illegal workers are outside the scope of the trade unions. With the changing fundametals caused by the 21st Century globalisation, the trade unions needs to redefine, not only its constituency, but also method so as to bring under its fold those who are in need of its services. In this connection the global union federations have a major role to play.
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