Back from berlin: Youth Action for Decent Work

This week-end, the Global Progressive Youth Forum co-organized (together with the ITUC, Solidar, Social Alert and GPF) a Youth Action on Decent Work in Berlin. More than 250 activists gathered in Berlin to discuss labour issues. GPYF brings together more than 50 activits (ECOSY, IUSY, IFM-SEI).

During these two days, trade-unionists, policitical activists and member of the civil society adopted a declaration including 10 claims to the G8. This declaration was given to the German Deputy Minister of Labour and Social Affairs, Kajo Wasserhövel. You will find this declaration.

The lists of speakers included Guy Rider, ITUC secretary General, Josep Borell, President of the GPF and former president of the EU Parliament, Harlem Desir, vice-president of the GPF and MEP, Dieter Scholz, DBG Berlin-Brandenburg President, and lots of young leaders of trade unions. Within GPYF: IUSY and ECOSY secretaries general chaired two plenaries; IFM-SEI secretary general and me spoke during two others plenaries. GPYF also led a workshop on 'networking for change' and presented the campaigns on the three organizations related to decent work: Rights@work (IUSY), More and Better Jobs (ECOSY) and Stop child labour (IFM-SEI / GPYF).

For more information about the conference, you can consult the new GPYF website : www.gpyf.org or the youth blog created for the conference : www.decentwork.org/youthblog. And, thanks to ECOSY (a great thanks to the ECOSY secretariat that helps a lot for the organizations), you can see pictures of the event here :

http://ecosy.org/Youth_Action_for_Decent_Work.382.0.html

We will continue the work within the alliance for decent work, with the suggestion of a common international action day on decent work. More information soon.