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Title: Future of the International Labour Question from the Inside Looking out (ILO Conference, 1993).
Author : Labour/Le Travail
Release Date : January 22, 1996
Genre: Business & Personal Finance,Books,
Pages : * pages
Size : 263 KB

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SENSING THAT A NEW ERA in global labour history -- like it or not -- was upon us, we attended the June 1993 annual conference of the International Labor Organization (ILO, officially, the 80th session of the International Labor Conference) in Geneva, Switzerland. Aside from the well-documented formal proceedings, these annual gatherings of delegates from 130-plus member countries -- each represented by a tripartite delegation of labour, business, and government officials -- provide an exceptional forum to assess the state of labour relations and worker welfare around the world. In addition to the regular delegations, the proximity of the conference to the international offices of the major trade union federations (officially, the International Trade Secretariats, or ITS's), mostly centred in Geneva, offers the student of contemporary labour affairs an especially rich set of contacts. (1) The atmosphere at the 1993 ILO conference was notable for the air of uncertainty which hung over the proceedings. Uncertainty about the future of the ILO in a post-Cold War world. Uncertainty among "northern" trade unionists about the strategies for protecting earlier gains amidst a global capitalist shift of investment towards cheaper "southern" labour. Could a combination of international statutory regulation, trade sanctions, and trans-national labour solidarity again put a floor under meaningful, minimal "labour standards?" For the United States' delegates, in particular, the demise of the Communist menace had clearly had a centrifugal impact: business, labour, and governmental voices, once united in an effort to blunt Soviet-bloc "mischief" in the convention-setting agenda of the international body, now openly split over the very need for trade unions within the nation's post-industrial future. (2) Overall, it was hard to escape the conclusion that a new era of world-wide social conflict was opening on the labour front.