Session 2: Towards A Public Future

GTUA2020 Session 2: Towards A Public Future

This session is part of a series of 2-hour virtual meetings "Pandemic and Beyond: Workers Organizing for a Public Future" held during July, August and September 2020.

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This second session of the series helps prepare for the Global Trade Union Assembly’s thematic discussions and frame the issues that are to be explored.

Unions understand that the multi-dimensional crisis set off by the coronavirus presents our movement with opportunities to organize for a “public future”—one that establishes an economy that puts need before profit, advances equality and can tackle the existential dangers of climate instability and ecosystem collapse.

Part 1: Global Perspectives

  • Rosa Pavanelli, General Secretary, PSI

  • Haldis Holst​, Deputy General Secretary, Education International

  • Sue Longley, General Secretary, IUF

Part 2: Solidarity Dialogues

  • Siobhan Endean, National Officer for Education, Unite, UK

  • Mugwena Maluleke, General Secretary, South African Democratic Teachers Union

  • Jean Ross, RN, President, National Nurses United, USA

  • George Poe Williams, Secretary General, National Health Workers' Union of Liberia

  • Bruce Hamilton, Vice President, Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU), USA

  • Angela Mata, National Confederation of Transport Workers Unions, Philippines

This second session will help us prepare for the Global Trade Union Assembly’s thematic discussions and frame the issues that are to be explored.

Unions understand that the multi-dimensional crisis set off by the coronavirus presents our movement with opportunities to organize for a “public future”—one that establishes an economy that puts need before profit, advances equality and can tackle the existential dangers of climate instability and ecosystem collapse.