- Global Unions deplore the fact that over two million women and men die each year from unsustianble froms of work and 160 million more become victims of work-related diseases. They also deplore the conditions fostered by globalisation which induce the replacement of safe and healthy workplaces in one part of the world by more dangerous working environments in others.
- Social dumping inherent in the exporting of technology and work processes, innovation, machines, commodities, and chemicals or chemical products for use in workplaces of recipient countries must be addressed as a matter of priority.
- By adopting social and employment linkages to economic and environment planning for the next decade, the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) has created new opportunities for trade unions to better introduce poverty, equity and workplace issues within national and local plans to address the world’s current destructive production and consumption patterns.
- Trade unions are taking leading roles to better integrate sustainable development with occupational health and safety for workers and to strengthen the bases for promoting forms of Decent Work and the well-being for workers and communities. This is in keeping with the commitment to integrate the three pillars of sustainable development (economic, environmental and social) within public and trade union programmes of work.
- Trade unions are taking leading roles to better integrate sustainable development with occupational health and safety for workers and to strengthen the bases for promoting forms of Decent Work and the well-being for workers and communities. This is in keeping with the commitment to integrate the three pillars of sustainable development (economic, environmental and social) within public and trade union programmes of work.
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