SIGTUR: "Southern Initiative on Globalisation and Trade Union Rights"

From LabourStart, <www.labourstart.org>, 19 December 2000

SIGTUR "Southern Initiative on Globalisation and Trade Union Rights" moves to confront the NWO and the WTO by creating a group that is focussed by these statements:

"The struggles of the working class should now be national in form and international in content. Unless strong trade unions and the united struggles of the working class are developed in nation states, it will be difficult for them to defeat the offensives of capitalist globalisation." [TLCWA] fill region

"An alternative vision driven by values of social justice, equity and material security for all is the goal of those involved in the Southern Initiative on Globalisation and Trade Union Rights. Born out of a wish by trade union activists to actively work on practical strategies to protect and promote workers rights in free trade initiatives SIGTUR has become a vehicle for unions to internationalise our movements" [ Ian Thompson, Vice President Community and Public Sector Union, Western Australia ]

Summaries of this Southern Hemisphere initiative can be found at these Union sites:

1- For the Australian perspective. http://www.tlcwa.org.au/sigtur.html

2- For the South East Asian perspective. http://www.china-labour.org.hk/2003e/spec_sigtur.htm

3- For the Indian perspective. http://www.ganashakti.com/old/1999/991108/world.htm