General Federation of Nepalese Trade Unions

GEFONT to ITUC World Congress-Rascal-Out and make history to the cold-war legacy from our movement !

Posted On - 25/06/2010

June25 - GEFONT President Com. Bishnu Rimal addressed to the 2nd ITUC World Congress in Vancouver, Canada 23 June 2010.

“We thought our engine- the global trade union body won't be effective as- it- is to cope the looming great crisis in near future. Thus, we created our very own ITUC, claiming that it is neither mere merger of two international trade union bodies nor the "United Nation" of all trade unions! It is a new trade union movement, which will garner solidarity to the comrades in difficulty and mobilise a strong peoples' movement challenging all odds everywhere from east to west or north to south; which will say Rascal-Out and make HISTORY to the cold-war legacy from our movement. We declared that a new history has began- as a new dawn in the labour movement, where there will be sufficient access of the working people in the decision making bodies from the developing world as well! “Said Com.Bishnu Rimal, President of GEFONT delivering his speech.

President further stated “There is a famous quote in my country- taajaa prasna ko baasi uttar  or outdated solutions for fresh challenges! No doubt we are facing series of fresh challenges- however, if we try to satisfy ourselves with outdated traditional rhetoric- it will never-ever work, I am sure!

Our leadership composition, documents & policies, our activities and the outcomes are the complete package of solution in this regard. If these all are frozen at status quo, then it is too hard to prove that we have had Change!”

ITUC 2nd World Congress has been taking place in Vancouver, Canada from 21-25 June 2010. The theme of the World Congress was "Now the People From the Crisis to Global Justice.” Altogether 1400 delegates from 311 affiliated organization  of 155 countries participated in that Congress .

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