David Boys, PSI Deputy General Secretary, welcomed participants to this first session of the Global Trade Union Assemble:

"It is clearer than ever before that we don’t want to return to business as usual. The dominant neoliberal model fails to deliver what people and planet need. The #COVID19 pandemic has shown us the deep cracks in our systems"

Part 1: A World to Win, But How?

How might the pandemic experience shape our movement’s political goals and strategy? What changes are needed in the way unions organize on the ground?

• Adolfo Aguirre, Central de Trabajadores de la Argentina Autónoma (CTA-A)

• Sara Nelson, Association of Flight Attendants-CWA (AFA-CWA), USA

• Zwelinzima Vavi, South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU)
  

Part 2: Workers Without Borders: North-South Conversations

As we struggle through and beyond the current crisis, what forms of internationalism and solidarity can help us build the world we want?

• Aira Firdaus, United Workers Union (UWU), Australia, and Josua Mata, Sentro, Philippines

• Samantha Mason, Public and Commercial Services Union, UK, and Catalina Caro Galvis, Mesa Social Minero-Energética, Colombia

• Asbjorn Wahl, Norwegian Union of Municipal and General Employees (NUMGE), Norway, and Maicon Michel Silva, Confederação Nacional dos Metalúrgicos da CUT (CNM/CUT), Brazil

• Kelti Cameron, Candian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), and Justina Jonas-Emvula, Metal and Allied Namibian Workers Union (MANWU)