Labour and Trade Unions in the globalisation era
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Name of Event
Labour and Trade Unions in the globalisation era
Organizers
ACLI institute for peace Development and Innovation
Number of Participants
Male 35 Female 32 Total 67
Key speakers profile
● ACLI member of the presidency
● Andria(FRom IPSA-ACLI for peace Devt and Innovations
● Stephen Kanyari-Kenyan trade Unionist
● Kenyan Lawyer/Lecturer-catholic University
Summary of Issues covered
● Gobalisation Ignore social implications and costs.Its is driven safely by profits.Kenyans have issues the brunt of globalisation through World Bank and International monetary Fund instigations that forced legislation removing involvement of trade unions when declaring workers redundant.
● There are issues such as outsourcing,an umbrella organisation that support Government and capital owners.
● Changes have taken place in the production process that lead to loss of jobs whereby employees look for lower costs where as workers lose out because they are localised.
● Labour is the only factor of production that is the only factor of production that is not free to move from place to place.
● Companies do not have a social responsible as they answer to their shareholders who are interested in earnings per share(EPS) ● To match the challenges,trade unions must globalise
Recommendations
● Interpretation gadgets were facility resulting in the non-understanding of the Italian presenters.Otherwise the activities and presentations were qualitative
