MESSAGE CONVEYED by WFTU in BARCELONA PENSIONERS organizations MEET.
06-02-2014 மலர் 50
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Dear Friends
The idea of gathering pensioner and retiree workers in an
International Trade Union is no longer a dream, it is a purpose that has come
true with the will of all of you, the WFTU and all the trade unions who
supported this initiative, On behalf of WFTU secretariat we thank the support
of the trade union organizations in Barcelona, especially CSU, which facilitate
the conditions to celebrate this event.
Today, more than ever, unity is very necessary, the struggle
against austerity measures, neoliberal policies, against capitalism and
imperialism becomes stronger, the millions of people who suffer because of
these measures and policies are increasing, and only a minority is benefited by
them.
The world population is getting old rapidly and the workers
arriving at retirement age, added to the retirees already, are a very important
part in society today.
Given the current crisis, the measures being taken by capitalist
governments in many countries are affecting dramatically retirees and
pensioners and they are losing their rights, rights won through struggles,
which many of you were protagonists, so the WFTU has committed to organize and
unite you to defend together what you have earned during hard battles and will
enjoy decent pensions and conditions to live properly.
The World Federation of Trade Unions was founded in 1945 in Paris
after World War II because of the need to unite the workers after the defeat of
fascism. Despite some opposition pressures WFTU imposed its condition as class
oriented, anti-imperialist, anti-capitalist, anti-colonialist, unitary and
democratic organization, principles that it has remained until today, fighting
alongside the working class.
Many of you witnessed the glory days of the working class in the
socialist stage, especially in Europe, the international trade union movement
was strengthened with the strength and struggle of the WFTU and many victories
and rights were achieved by workers worldwide.
After the collapsed of the socialist bloc the FSM was weakened,
many of their European organizations chose to join the former ICFTU, now ITUC,
and others decided to remain independent, but all the ones who remained loyal
to their principles sustained the commitment and continued fighting side by
side with the workers.
Today we can say that, facing the dramatic global economic
situation, the attacks to the class oriented trade union movement, the anti
trade union and anti workers measures applied by many capitalist governments,
WFTU has increased its actions, after the XV Congress in Havana in 2006, the
WFTU began a new stage of recovery, leadership and strengthening, results
demonstrated in the XVI Congress in Athens 2011 and in every action made till
today.
Currently we have 86 million members in 120 countries around the
world, and you will expand that number, we are proud to count with your force,
your experience and your irrevocable desire to continue the defense of your
rights as retirees, this strengthen WFTU even more.
WFTU has 9 Brach International Trade Unions: Food, Hotel and
Tourism, Metal and Mining, Public Administration, Education, Banking,
Construction and Transportation and this TUI of Pensioners and Jubilees would
be the 10th.
The WFTU work is getting stronger the actions that develop
the 6 regional offices in Latin America, Europe, Asia, Francophone Africa,
Anglophone Africa, the Middle East and with the Sub regional Offices in North
America, Middle East, Africa and Asia and it has consultative status at the UN,
ILO, UNESCO and FAO.
In these more than 60 years it has accompanied the workers,
migrants, unemployed, youths, women, retirees and landless in the struggle for
full employment, for living wages, against racism, xenophobia, for gender
equality, for the right of freedom of association, for the right to
strike, for decent pensions and for living as human beings.
We accompany you, who have given much of your lives to work and
have faced great battles for your rights as workers, leaving a proud legacy to
new and future generations, so we must continue this struggle, your effort has
not been in vain, this conference is the continuation of that effort and we are
here to defend our achievements.
Retirees are already part of the WFTU family, we are sure you will
play a very active role within the TUI, you multiply the actions from your
positions and will maintain the TUI functioning permanently, we cannot
constitute this UIS and that everything stays at a conference, we should be
able to keep it alive and very active.
Retirees are starting a new phase of their life, which they should
live it fully, without gaps, without injustice, without harassment.
The austerity measures, the neoliberal policies, capitalist
governments and multinationals have endeavored to shed their obligations to
you, to recover themselves from the crisis -created by themselves-, at the
expense of pensions cuts, eviction of houses, raising prices of medicines,
food, water and services such as electricity, gas and transport, How it is
possible to cover all those needs with miserable pensions? How it is possible
to live a healthy life without having access to the most elementary basic
needs, without social security?
Especially in Europe workers and retirees’ future is very
uncertain, countries like Spain, Greece, Italy, Cyprus, Portugal, France, among
others, suffer the constant cuts in pensions, protests by many retirees and
pensioners in these countries prove it.
The constitution of this TUI is an expression of the continuity of
our struggle, it is an expression of the support of the WFTU and all its
affiliated workers to retirees, it is an expression of the strength of our
organization against capitalism, imperialism and all those policies that are
aimed to exterminate the rich and glorious history of the class oriented trade
union movement, of the workers who have built with their effort our society and
that, at the end of their working life deserve the recognition for their
contribution to the economic development of our countries.
This TUI will become the bastion of the struggle of retirees in
the world, accompanied in every action by the WFTU, by the workers and class
oriented trade unions, never the militant and solidarity support of each one of
us will be missing with the certainty that with this unit we will achieve the
victory.
The WFTU calls for unity in the struggle, only then we can defeat
capitalism and start the path to regain socialism, only system that defends and
respects the real rights of humans.
I wish, on behalf of WFTU, success in this historic event, in the
rich discussions that will take place in these two days of meetings and in the
actions and agreements emanating from this conference, with the confidence that
we always be at your side, supporting you in the struggles that at the end will
become in or victories.
Thank you very much.
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