TRADE UNIONS SET UP WSSD HEADQUARTERS & ANNOUNCE PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME FOR WORKERS' SUMMIT IN JOHANNESBURG
Tuesday, 3 July, 2002
Trade Unions will take over the 350-room Pereton Hotel as its headquarters for the WSSD, just 15 minutes from the Summit's transportation hub at the UBUNTU Village, in Johannesburg.
The Chairman of the
ICFTU/TUAC Working Party on Occupational Health, Safety and Environment (OHSE), Mr. Marion Hellmann, who is the Assistant General Secretary of the International Federation of Building and Woodworkers (
IFBWW), made the announcement today, while releasing plans to kick of their trade union Summit for Sunday, 25 August at the Pereton Hotel, under the banner of
"FASHIONING A NEW DEAL: ASSESSING OUR PROGRESS" (background document).
A week-long series of trade union meetings will cover sustainable development issues as they relate to work, workers and workplaces (
see Annex) and will be made to feed into activities that are contemplated at the official UN meetings as well as those planned for by Civil Society at the NASREC Centre and by Governments and other stakeholders at the UBUNTU Village. Hellmann said that the trade unions plan to host and be part of quite a number of meetings at the Summit, especially those that relate to integrating the social pillar of sustainable development.
"We aim to strengthen the social and employment provisions of the eventual WSSD texts and to improve provisions for worker participation, corporate accountability, roles of governments, and sector linkages to production/consumption patterns so as to pave the way for realistic and effective workplace-based partnerships, for the next decade", he said
Hellmann said their own meetings would serve as the basis of organizing their input, in collaboration with other Major Groups at the WSSD and he expects a series of discussions with them prior to the opening of the summit to clarify possible joint approaches.
For more information call:
Lucien Royer
ICFTU/TUAC
26 av. De La Grande Armee
75017 Paris
World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg
TRADE UNION PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME
The PERETON Hotel, 35 O'Reilly Road, Berea, Johannesburg
| 24 August 2002, Saturday |
10:00 - 17:30: ILO "Sustainable Development = No Child Labour"
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| 25 August 2002, Sunday |
OPENING OF THE WSSD TRADE UNION SUMMIT
10.00 - 17.30: "Fashioning A New Deal: Assessing Our Progress"
(includes a joint ILO/UNEP Session on "Workplace Assessments")
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| 26 August 2002, Monday |
07.00 - 10.00: Trade Union OHSE Working Meeting and Briefing: "Basic Security Issues"
10.00 - 17.30: ILO "Sustainable Development = No Child Labour"
11.30 - 14.30: Trade Union OHSE Working Meeting and Briefing: "Occupational & Public Health and Safety"
(NOTE: The schedule of agenda items for the Working Party is subject to change each day, depending on the WSSD schedule of events). |
| 27 August 2002, Tuesday |
07.00 - 09.00: Trade Union OHSE Working Meeting and Briefing: "Corporate Accountability"
09.30 - 11.30: Trade Union OHSE Women's Caucus
10.00 - 17.30: ILO "Sustainable Development = No Child Labour"
13.30 - 16.30: IFBWW Women Participants Meeting (International Federation of Building and Woodworkers) |
| 28 August 2002, Wednesday |
07.00 - 09.00: Trade Union OHSE Working Meeting and Briefing
* Climate Change and Sustainability Impact Assessments
* Chemicals and World Ban of Asbestos
09.30 - 11.30: IFBWW Delegation Meeting
13.30 - 16.30: IFBWW Delegation Meeting |
| 29 August 2002, Thursday |
07.00 - 09.00: Trade Union OHSE Working Meeting and Briefing:
*"Production & Consumption Linkages"
*"Trade & Investment"
09.30 - 12.00: Workshop on sustainable industrial development in the building, wood and forestry industries
13.30 - 16.30: Workshop on sustainable industrial development in the building, wood and forestry industries |
| 30 August 2002, Friday |
07.00 - 10.00: Trade Union OHSE Working Meeting and Briefing: " Workplace Assessments for the Next Decade"
10.30 - 12.30: Workshop on sustainable industrial development in the building, wood and forestry industries
14.00 - 17.00: Workshop on sustainable industrial development in the building, wood and forestry industries |
| 31 August 2002, Saturday |
Trade union public event TBA |
| 1 September 2002, Sunday |
Trade union public event TBA |
