Trade Unionists from Africa and Arab Regions
Call for Solidarity
By GNA
July 15, 2023
Unionists from Africa and Arab regions has reiterated the
importance of union solidarity and collaboration to uphold workers
rights, fight xenophobia, hate crimes, racism, and other attacks
against migrants.
They said union solidarity and collaboration will ensure fair
recruitment practices for migrant workers, particularly dire
situation faced by women migrant workers, especially, domestic
workers, and migrants in an irregular situation.
They affirmed the urgency to contribute to reversing conditions
that push people to migrate out of necessity rather than choice and
expose them to human and labour rights violations.
Alongside decent work gaps in origin countries, inequalities,
and poverty, the unionists highlighted the role of climate change
and conflict as push factors and reiterated the importance of
tripartite social dialogue to overcome these challenges.
A joint communique by the International Trade Union
Confederation-Africa (ITUC-Africa) and Arab Trade Union
Confederation (ATUC) at the just-ended meeting in Algiers, Algeria,
called for continuous campaign to overcome adverse drivers of
migration, including advocacy for deepening, and expanding
democratic spaces and for universal social protection as well as
advocacy to end conflicts.
The International Trade Union Confederation and the Just
Transition Centre supported the meetinghosted by the General Union
of Algerian Workers.
The meeting discussed ways in which unions could contribute to
the achievement of rights-based migration governance that protects
and fulfils migrant workers rights and contributes to sustainable
development goals in both origin and destination countries.
Unionists from Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Tunisia, Morocco, North
Africa, Bahrain, Kuwait, Lebanon, Jordan, Middle East, and Algiers
attended the two-day meeting.
The communique also makes the case for organising migrant
workers into unions both in countries of...
