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
● Kenyanya - Kenyan Lawyer/Lecturer-catholic University
Summary of Issues covered
● Gobalisation Ignores social implications and costs.Its is driven safely by profits.Kenyans have borne 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 employers look for lower costs whereas workers lose out because they are localised.
● Labour is the only factor of production that is not free to move from place to place.
● Companies do not have a social responsibility as they answer to their shareholders who are interested in earnings per share(EPS) ● To match the challenges,trade unions must globalise.
The interpretation gadgets failed to operate resulting in the non-understanding of the Italian presenters.Otherwise the activities and presentations were qualitative
Recommendations
● Globalization is the way for trade unions if they have to win international legislation that hamper labour's movement while other factors of production can easily and in order to handle multinational corporations so as not to give them room to exploit the poor in developing countires through low pay while paying, for equivalent work,better pay in developed countries.
Documentalist's name
Fred Kachero
Date and Time
11.30am-2.30pm
