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7 - 9 of May 2010
EUROPEAN CIVIC DAYS 2010
On the 7th to 9th of May 2010, 650 people from the European Union will meet in Malaga, Spain, with the goal to bring the process of building the European Union closer to its citizens. The organisers, 13 Spanish organisations and social platforms, are committed to achieving this goal by promoting an active and participatory European social citizenship, strengthening the role of NGOs in integration and social cohesion, and encouraging the active participation of these bodies in defining, implementing and assessing public policies in the context of the Union.
This initiative covers issues that SOLIDAR is involved in concerning the future of a genuine civil dialogue on European and national level. The organizers, amongst which are Spanish members SOLIDARIDAD INTERNACIONAL, MPDL and the Spanish League, generously offered 30 places for SOLIDAR member organizations from abroad. The costs of the stay will be covered; the travel costs will be supported with 250€ maximum. Please contact Conny Reuter (conny.reuter@solidar.org) if you are interest and please find more information under the following link: http://www.jornadascivicaseuropeas2010.com/en/menu/european-civic-days-2010

3 – 5 June 2010
HOW CLASS WORKS
The Center for Study of Working Class Life announced a conference, How Class Works – 2010 Conference, to be held at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, 3 – 5 June 2010. The conference seeks to explore ways in which an explicit recognition of class helps to understand the social world in which we live, and ways in which analysis of society can deepen our understanding of class as a social relationship. Presentations should take as their point of reference the lived experience of class; proposed theoretical contributions should be rooted in and illuminate social realities. Presentations are welcome from people outside academic life when they sum up social experience in a way that contributes to the themes of the conference. All presentations should be accessible to an interdisciplinary audience. For more information, visit: http://uale.org

28 April 2010
WORLD DAY FOR SAFETY AND HEALTH AT WORK
World Day for Safety and Health at Work is an international annual campaign to promote safe, healthy and decent work held on 28 April each year.
Since 2003, the International Labour Organization (ILO) observed World Day, stressing the prevention of accidents and illnesses at work and capitalizing on its traditional strengths of tripartism and social dialogue. This celebration is an integral part of the Global Strategy on Occupational Safety and Health of the ILO, as documented in the Conclusions of the International Labour Conference in June 2003. One of the main pillars of the Global Strategy is advocacy, and World Day for Safety and Health at Work is vital in raising awareness about how to make work safe and healthy and the need to raise the political profile of occupational safety and health. 28 April is also the day that the world's trade union movement commemorates victims of occupational accidents and diseases.
The ILO supports organizations and institutions by making its materials available for downloading from the Internet and by encouraging its use. For more information go to: http://www.ilo.org/safework/events/safeday/lang--en/index.htm

9 -10 April 2010
GLOBAL ECONOMIC CRISIS
THE INTERNATIONAL LABOUR AND RESEARCH AND INFORMATION GROUP will be hosting the 2010 ILRIG-Rosa Luxemburg Cape Partners seminar, entitled ‘The Global Economic Crisis: Challenges and Possibilities for trade unions and social movements’ at Community House, Salt River, Cape Town, South Africa, 9 -10 April 2010. Activists and analysts will debate the causes of the current global economic crisis, why it took the specific form of a financial crisis, the responses by governments and the opportunities for alternatives to neo-liberal globalisation that these present. For more information, visit ILRIG website: http://www.ilrigsa.org.za

March 24 - 27, 2010, San Diego
United Association for Labor Education Conference 2010
The experience of work today is shaped by shifting forces that are at once geographic, economic, political and national. This is a conference for labor educators and labor movement activists who want to learn and share their efforts to act effectively in this rapidly changing arena.

15 – 17 March 2010
WORK MATTERS
World Day for Safety and Health at Work is an international annual campaign to promote safe, healthy and decent work held on 28 April each year.

The 28th International Labour Process Conference will be hosted for the first time in North America, for 15 – 17 March 2010. It will be organised at Rutgers University by an experienced team at one of the leading labour studies departments in the country. The 2010 event provides a great opportunity for diverse groups of labour-oriented workplace researchers from different continents to communicate and collaborate. We urge you all to attend and support the conference. The ILPC web site has all the information, as well as the call for papers and papers from the 27th conference. Visit: http://www.ilpc.org.uk

22 October 2009
Sahra Ryklief

IFWEA International Conference 2009
Professor David Finegold (Dean SMLR, Rutgers University) welcomes participants to the conference at the university campus. Karl-Petter Thorwaldson (ABF Sweden) opens the conference by emphasising the importance of international meetings especially for workers education associations...

2 October 2009, The Mitchell Library, Glasgow , Scotland
WEA-United Kingdom Conference 2009: Skills for Social Justice
What is the role of learning in a just society? Who should get access to learning? What skills do people, communities and societies need - and how can we work together better to provide them? These are just some of the questions which will be a point of discussion at conference on the theme of 'Skills for Social Justice'...

19-20 August 2009 Manila, Philippines
Forum on Trade Union Unification and Current Trends in Workers Education: Building Trade Union Strength and Power
Labour Education And Research Network (LEARN) Philippines
Trade union unification -- this remains to be one of the biggest challenges to the Philippine trade unions. Currently divided into more than 10 confederations and several hundreds of federations, the Philippine trade union movement is simply unable to effectively address the issues of the working people and the onslaught of capitalist-driven globalization.

16-17 August 2009, Hong Kong
Regional Conference on the ILO Convention for Domestic Workers’ Advocacy
IFWEA Asian affiliates will meet in August 2009 to discuss the campaign for an ILO convention for domestic workers at the Global Network Regional Conference in Hong Kong. The conference will review the status of the Domestic Worker’s convention following the recent International Labour Conference of the ILO in June 2009.

26 March 2009
Speech for 40th Confederal Congress of the Union General de Trabajadores de España (UGT-E), Madrid, 1-4 April 2009
My name is Hasan Barghouthi, I am the General Director of the Democracy and Workers’ Rights Center in Palestine and one of the vice-presidents of the International Federation of Workers’ Education Associations (IFWEA), as well as the General Secretary of the IFWEA in the Arab Region. Allow me first to thank you for giving me the opportunity to participate in your Congress as a representative of the IFWEA, of which the UGT Spain has been a valuable member.

23 March 2009
BOM DIA
O meu nome é Sahra Ryklief e sou Secretária-geral da Federação Internacional de Associações de Educação dos Trabalhadores (FIAET).

Em nome do Comité Executivo e dos membros da minha Federação, gostaria de saudar a UGT-Portugal pelo seu XI Congresso e 30º Aniversário, saudando igualmente o João Proença pela sua liderança durante estes últimos 4 anos e realçando o seu trabalho enquanto Presidente da FIAET, no precedente mandato.

23 March 2009
Speech Made At The Conference Of UGT Portugal
Boa tarde sisters, brothers, comrades. My name is Sahra Ryklief and I am the General Secretary of the International Federation of Workers’ Education Associations ( IFWEA) . On behalf of the executive committee and members of my organisation, I would like to congratulate the UGT Portugal on the convocation of your eleventh congress, and achievement of your thirtieth anniversary.

24 February 2009
Indicators International Seminar, Monday 23 – Tuesday 24 February 2009
Beyond the rhetoric: measuring progress in trade union strategic development through using indicators. Aim of seminar: to discuss, compare and develop monitoring systems to aid trade union strategic and organisation capacity and performance.

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