The Welfare Conference 2010 – Our Welfare Policies – is held at the Oslo Congress Centre 13-14 September 2010.
The Welfare Conference 2010 – Programme
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Articles in English
Responding to climate change
Resolution adopted at The International Transport Federation (ITF) 42nd Congress, meeting in Mexico City from 5-12 August 2010.
Twelve theses on a socially just climate change policy
Contribution made at the ITF Climate Change conference in Mexico 4 August 2010. Asbjørn Wahl, Adviser, Norwegian Union of Municipal and General Employees.
Corporate Interests behind New Public Management
At the ESF2010 The Campaign for the Welfare State held several seminars. One of them was on the topic of New Public Management and the Corporate Interests behind it. Here you can download the presentation made by Helene Bank.
The crisis and the future of the ESF
The processes which started with the first World Social Forum in Porto Alegre in Brazil in January 2001 injected new energy into the broad left. After twenty years of neo-liberal globalisation, set-backs, pessimism and demobilisation on the left in many countries and areas, the social forums created new enthusiasm, new working methods, new mobilisations and new inspiration for hundreds of thousands of people.
Statement of the “Forum Social Europe – European Network of Trade Unionists”
Statement on the political and social consequences of the economic crisis in Europe and the need for trade unions and other social forces to respond. 10. June 2010
Global turn around!
Our world is not for sale» (OWINS) network statement. «A call to unite and confront the converging global crises of our times, replace the trade and investment pacts and related juggernauts of the corporate-driven global economy, and start building a sustainable economic future together.
Climate change and labour
Could the trade union movement benefit from measures to tackle climate change? By Asbjørn Wahl, National co-ordinator, Campain for the Welfare State
EU Trade negotiations with Colombia and Peru
The Executive Committee of the European Trade Union Confederation expresses its outrage at the continued killings of trade unionists in Colombia where at least ten trade unionists were assassinated over the last eight weeks. It reiterates its opposition to ongoing negotiations between the European Union and the governments of Colombia and Peru aimed at concluding bilateral trade agreements.