Saturday, February 19, 2005

Norwegian Union Strategy

Strategy for International Solidarity, Democracy and Social Equity
Objective: Democratic and socially equitable societies

Purpose: To contribute to building strong, representative, and democratic trade union organisations at the national, industry and local levels.

Av: Internasjonal avdeling Publisert: 11.01.2005

Introduction

The basic principle of trade unionism is solidarity. This solidarity is based upon mutual support between workers all over the world. Trade unionists remain the most crucial actors in the struggle to improve living and working conditions, and to achieve basic dignity for the world's working population. As a result, LO-Norway's most significant contribution to the international labour movement continues to be support for the organisational development of national trade union movements. However, this is not enough. It is extremely difficult to build up strong trade unions in an unfavourable economic, political, and social environment. The labour movement is constantly facing new challenges.

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