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.
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