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ITUC Founding Report.Indd INTERNATIONAL TRADE UNION CONFEDERATION FOUNDING CONGRESS Vienna (Austria), 1-3 November 2006 CONGRESS PROCEEDINGS INTERNATIONAL TRADE UNIONS CONFEDERATION President Sharan Burrow General Secretary Guy Ryder Head offi ce Boulevard du Roi Albert II, 5, Bte 1 B - 1210 Brussels, Belgium Telephone: ++32 (0) 2224 0211 Fax: ++32 (0) 2201 5815 E-Mail: [email protected] Website: http://www.icftu.org INTERNATIONAL TRADE UNIONS CONFEDERATION FOUNDING CONGRESS 1-3/11/-2006, Vienna CONGERESS PROCEEDINGS CONTENTS Page Wednesday, 1st November 2006 OPENING CEREMONY 1 Wednesday, 1st November 2006 Afternoon Session 20 Thursday, 2nd November 2006 Morning Session 77 Thursday, 2nd November 2006 Afternoon Session 138 Friday, 3rd November 2006 Morning Session 187 COMMITTEE REPORTS FIRST REPORT 243 SECOND REPORT 249 THIRD REPORT 253 Approval of Agreements concerning the Establishment of Unifi ed Regional Organisations of the ITUC (a) DOAWTU/ICFTU-AFRO Resolution on the Establishment of the New Regional Organisation 257 (b) Agreement between the ICFTU-APRO and the BATU On the creation of regional organisation of the ITUC for the Asian and Pacifi c Region 258 (c) Statement of commitment to unifi cation in the Americas 260 DRAFT RESOLUTION TO APPROVE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A PAN EUROPEAN REGIONAL COUNCIL 261 PROGRAMME OF THE ITUC 263 Wednesday, 1st November 2006 FOUNDING CONGRESS OF THE INTERNATIONAL TRADE UNION CONFEDERATION OPENING CEREMONY Congress assembled at 10.15 a.m. THE CHAIRPERSON (Mr. LeRoy Trotman, Chair, Workers’ Group, International Labour Organisation): I now call this meeting to order. Your Excellency the President of the Federal Republic of Aus- tria and members of the Cabinet of the Government of Austria, Ambas- sadors and other Excellencies, including the Director-General of the ILO, Ambassador Juan Somavia, other distinguished visitors, sisters and brothers, ladies and gentlemen, colleagues all, please allow me to introduce the persons who are here with me on the podium. On my left is brother Rudolf Hundstorfer, the Acting President of the ÖGB of Austria, which is generously hosting us here in Vienna. We wish to thank him and through him we wish to thank all of our Austrian colleagues for their generosity to us all. (Applause) On my right is brother Emilio Gabaglio, previously President of the European Trade Union Confederation. (Applause) You will know that he has acted as the facilitator of this unifi cation process, which is reaching its culmination here today. Oh yes, and I forgot somebody. For those of you who do not know him, let me introduce myself. I am LeRoy Trotman. I have been asked to chair this session by virtue of the authority vested in me as Chair of the Workers’ Group in the International Labour Organisation, to which post I have been elected by the total mem- bership of the world trade union membership of the world trade union movement. (Applause) In order to advance these proceedings, I now have the honour to call upon Bro. Gabaglio to take the fl oor. Emilio, just one 1 second. We have changed a little bit and we are going to have the most important thing, the food of life fi rst. Let us have music. 1 (Performance of the Blue Danube waltz) THE CHAIRPERSON: Fittingly, colleagues, the Blue Danube waltz. Can we have another hand for the delightfully rendered music from our orchestra, please? (Applause) Now we have a good second in Emilio. He would not have been as good as the waltz. Emilio, you have the fl oor. MR. EMILIO GABAGLIO (Former General Secretary, Euro- pean Trade Union Confederation, ETUC) (Interpreted): President of the Federal Republic of Austria, Director-General of the ILO, Ambas- sador Juan Somavia, Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, dear brothers and sisters, dear friends, this assembly on November 1st 2006, here in Vienna, I think we would all agree, is a unique event. Never in the life of the international trade union movement has there been an assembly that has been so representative and of this magnitude. As we all know from our own experience in the international trade union movement, our history has been marked more by division than by unity. Unity has always been an aspiration, but it is something that we have not been able to accomplish in practice. The assembly that brings us together here today in Vienna may decide to turn the page of history and leave division behind and may decide to lay the conditions for a newly united international trade union movement. The conditions for this are present and should allow us to fl ourish. Indeed, since all of us are able to identify with the values and practices of democratic and independent trade unionism, there is no longer any reason not to build both a united and pluralistic international trade union movement. Moreover, as we all know, this is an imperative in our day. If the international trade union movement wishes to meet the challenges posed by a globalised economy and the challenges of an increasingly interdependent world, if we wish to continue our everyday struggles to become more effective and to take the offensive in order to ensure the universal rights to dignity and respect of working men and women, if we wish to ensure equality and peace if we want a fairer type of development with greater solidarity, allowing everyone access to a decent job, then we must continue our struggle. Turning to the agenda of today’s meeting, we must recognise that this is the outcome of lengthy negotiations and discussions and our brothers and sisters and friends have demonstrated extraordinary co-operation. It has been a great privilege for me to participate and I would like to thank all of you for the confi dence you have placed in me 2 and for your friendship. There have been lengthy discussions between the ICFTU and the WCL, of course, but also discussions with a number of national centres which are not currently international affi liates. They have expressed a desire to become involved with this process of both a uniting and a refounding of the international trade union movement. These centres are amongst us today. We welcome them. We welcome them as partners in this endeavour. That having been done, Chair, I suggest now that we give the fl oor to the General Secretary general of the WCL, Willy Thys, and also the General Secretary of the ICFTU, Guy Ryder. (Applause) THE CHAIRPERSON: Thank you very much, Emilio. Now colleagues we should like to ask Willy Thys and Guy Ryder to join us on the podium. (Applause) We should like to ask Willy Thys, the former General Secretary of the WCL, to take the lectern. (Applause) MR. WILLY THYS (Former General Secretary, World Confed- eraton of Labour, WCL) (Interpreted): President of the Federal Repub- lic of Austria, Mr. Juan Somavia, Director-General of the ILO, Presi- dent of the ÖGB, honoured guests, dear friends. First of all I have some news to announce. The WCL Congress met yesterday morning. It was our 27th Congress. Its objective was the dissolution of the WCL and approval of the creation of the new organisation. In order to do so we needed a quorum of 75% and a ma- jority of 66%. The WCL Congress approved dissolution with a major- ity of 95%, 2% against, 3% abstaining. (Applause) At the same time we agreed that our affi liates should join the new organisation and we agreed to ratify the Constitution and support the Programme of Action which will be presented and discussed during this Congress. We also examined the regional unifi cation agreements. Consequently, I am very happy to present this morning to this Congress the affi liation of 90 WCL affi liates as ordinary members of the International Trade Union Confederation. (Applause) We also have six organisations which will be Associated Organisations. It is with a deal of emotion that we have turned the page of his- tory and we have done this with great hope as well. We know that history is made of organisations, but organisations are comprised of women and men who are active trade unionists, so we have turned the page of history but at the same time we have decided to write a new page of history and I am entirely persuaded that we are going to create a great new history. 3 Dear brothers and sisters, the new organisation will benefi t from our rich experience, our values, our cultures, and the contradictions of independent democratic organisations who are joining us today at this Congress. We will be united in our diversity. We shall be tolerant of one another. We shall act in the pluralistic structure. The assembly that brings us together today, as Emilio has said, has no precedent in the history of the international trade union move- ment. For the fi rst time democratic and independent institutions around the world are united. Thus, we shall be stronger in facing the great challenges of the 21st Century: universal respect for human rights; the defence of trade union freedoms -- which of course is one of our major objectives, without trade union freedom we cannot struggle for social justice; redistribution of wealth -- we are living in a time when we have never seen such a great concentration of the world’s wealth; decent em- ployment or work whilst respecting the environment; harmonious de- velopment around the world and the elimination of this scourge of child labour; the fi ght against all types of discrimination, in particular gender discrimination. Thanks to all of your work the characteristic of the new organisa- tion will be our capacity to mobilise and to carry out our actions and of course our strength lies in our unity.
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