Joint May Day Statement 2010


 

We stand with the working people of ThailandWe stand with the working people of Thailand

Workers: Organise to win !
Soldiers: Don’t shoot !
No to Abhisit – No to Thaksin



Joint May Day Statement

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May Day 2010
WORKERS WILL WIN

All over the world workers are organising …

We are organising to demand a living wage. For health & safety at work. For compensation &  rehabilitation. For  the  rights  of migrant workers and  refugees, for citizenship rights for migrant workers and their families. For the right to employment on equal terms. Workers are organising against deportations, against racism, against discrimination. Workers are organising against wars that are a disaster to millions of workers.

Workers are organising for secure jobs.
Against  casualisation,  contracting out & outsourcing. Workers are organising for the rights of women workers. For better working conditions, to stop work becoming harder, faster, more stressful and dangerous. For shorter working hours, for paid leave and paid  holidays. For affordable housing and health care. For free education and welfare, against child labour and poverty and inequality. Workers are organising for the rights of Indigenous communities who have been stripped of their land and resources. Workers are organising to fight discrimination against minorities, women, lesbians & gays.

While we struggle against these problems, we see that our planet is being ruined through reckless, wasteful and unsustainable production for proft.

Workers can fix these problems. Workers can reorganise all industry to produce for peoples’ need instead of proft. Resources can be distributed to people and places who need them so that our children will have a future.

To do this workers have to dismantle imperialism and the capitalist system. We need to make decisions together in our own workplaces, unions & political organisations about the way production and sharing need to be restructured. We need this. We have the numbers.
We control production. Capitalists will be defeated.
 

   Click here to endorse the joint May Day statement  

Endorsed by:

All India Association of Inspectors & Assistant Superintendents Posts – AIAIASP, India

All India Federation of University and College Teachers Organisations – AIFUCTO, India

All Pakistan Federation of United Trade Unions – APFUTU, Pakistan

Anadolu Kultur Merkezi (Anatolian Cultural Centre, Australia)

Asia Pacific Workers Solidarity Links – APWSL, Korea

Australia Asia Worker Links – AAWL, Australia

Australian Nursing Federation – ANF (Vic Branch), Australia

Bangladesh Saniukta Tanti Samity – BSTS (National Organisation of Self Employed Handloom Weavers Workers, Bangladesh)

Bangladesh Garment Workers Employees Federation, Bangladesh

Campaign for International Co-operation and Disarmament – CICD, Australia

Cathay Pacific Airways Flight Attendants Union, China Hong Kong

Chennai Metro Construction & Unorganised Workers Union Tamilnadu, India

China Labour Forum (ChinaWorker), China Hong Kong

Committee for Asian Women, Thailand

Committee for a Workers International, Malaysia

Communications Union CEPU (T&S Vic), Australia

Communist Party of Australia – CPA, Australia

The Conch, Australia

Disability Support Pensioners – DSP Australia

Ejaz Ul Haque Siddiqui (Pakistan Workers Federation – PWF), Pakistan

Global Peace Pioneers -GPP, Pakistan

G.R.S.E. Workmen’s Union, India

Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union, Guyana

humanitywatch, Bangladesh

International Migrant Alliance Research Foundation (IMA Bangladesh)

International Textile, Garment and Leather Workers’ Federation Philippines council, Philippines

Jatio Garment Sramik Federation (National Garment Workers Federation, Bangladesh)

Jatiyo Sramik Jote (National Workers Unity, Bangladesh)

Kesatuan Kebangsaan Pekerja-Pekerja Perusahaan Alat-Alat Pengangkutan Dan Sekutu (National Union of Transport Equipment & Allied Industries Workers – NUTEAIW, Malaysia)

Konfederasi Kongres Aliansi Serikat Buruh Indonesia – KASBI (Confederation Congress of Indonesia Unions Alliance), Indonesia

Korea Federation of Construction Industry Trade Unions – KFCITU, Korea

Latin American Solidarity Network – LASNET (Red de Solidaridad con los Pueblos Latinoamericanos), Australia

Lembaga Informasi Perburuhan Sedane – LIPS (Sedane Labour Resource Center, Indonesia)

Maritime Union of Australia – MUA (Vic Branch), Australia

Migrant Workers Solidarity Network, Bangladesh

Migrants Rights Council, India

New Trade Union Initiative, India

Pakistan Labour Federation – PLF, Pakistan

Partai Rakyat Demokratik (Peoples Democratic Party, Indonesia)

Parti Sosialis Malaysia- PSM (Socialist Party of Malaysia)

Partido Lakas ng Masa (Strength of the People Party, Philippines)

Partido ng Manggagawa (Labor Party, Philippines)

Peace and Justice for Colombia, Australia

Perhimpunan Rakyat Pekerja (Working People Association, Indonesia)

Progressive Labour Party, Australia

Red Flag Women’s Movement, Sri Lanka

Revolutionary Socialist Party, Australia

Socialist Alliance, Australia

Socialist Alternative, Australia

Socialist Labour Front, Bangladesh

Socialist Party, Australia

Socialist Worker, Arotearoa New Zealand

Solidarity, Australia

Textile Garments Workers Federation, Bangladesh

Trade Unions of the Philippines and Allied Services, Philippines

Unite, Australia

Workers’ Liberty, Australia

Workers Rights Coalition, Australia

   Click here to endorse the joint May Day statement  


may day gig at trades hall
saturday 1 may  6 pm till late
bands drinks solidarity
entry $10/$5/$2 trades hall lygon st carlton

may day rally, sunday 2 may
1 pm trades hall, lygon st carlton


 

We stand with the working people of ThailandWe stand with the working people of Thailand

Workers: Organise to win !
Soldiers: Don’t shoot !
No to Abhisit – No to Thaksin



Joint May Day Statement

   Click here to endorse the joint May Day statement  

May Day 2010
WORKERS WILL WIN

All over the world workers are organising …

We are organising to demand a living wage. For health & safety at work. For compensation &  rehabilitation. For  the  rights  of migrant workers and  refugees, for citizenship rights for migrant workers and their families. For the right to employment on equal terms. Workers are organising against deportations, against racism, against discrimination. Workers are organising against wars that are a disaster to millions of workers.

Workers are organising for secure jobs.
Against  casualisation,  contracting out & outsourcing. Workers are organising for the rights of women workers. For better working conditions, to stop work becoming harder, faster, more stressful and dangerous. For shorter working hours, for paid leave and paid  holidays. For affordable housing and health care. For free education and welfare, against child labour and poverty and inequality. Workers are organising for the rights of Indigenous communities who have been stripped of their land and resources. Workers are organising to fight discrimination against minorities, women, lesbians & gays.

While we struggle against these problems, we see that our planet is being ruined through reckless, wasteful and unsustainable production for proft.

Workers can fix these problems. Workers can reorganise all industry to produce for peoples’ need instead of proft. Resources can be distributed to people and places who need them so that our children will have a future.

To do this workers have to dismantle imperialism and the capitalist system. We need to make decisions together in our own workplaces, unions & political organisations about the way production and sharing need to be restructured. We need this. We have the numbers.
We control production. Capitalists will be defeated.
 

   Click here to endorse the joint May Day statement  

Endorsed by:

All India Association of Inspectors & Assistant Superintendents Posts – AIAIASP, India

All India Federation of University and College Teachers Organisations – AIFUCTO, India

All Pakistan Federation of United Trade Unions – APFUTU, Pakistan

Anadolu Kultur Merkezi (Anatolian Cultural Centre, Australia)

Asia Pacific Workers Solidarity Links – APWSL, Korea

Australia Asia Worker Links – AAWL, Australia

Australian Nursing Federation – ANF (Vic Branch), Australia

Bangladesh Saniukta Tanti Samity – BSTS (National Organisation of Self Employed Handloom Weavers Workers, Bangladesh)

Bangladesh Garment Workers Employees Federation, Bangladesh

Campaign for International Co-operation and Disarmament – CICD, Australia

Cathay Pacific Airways Flight Attendants Union, China Hong Kong

Chennai Metro Construction & Unorganised Workers Union Tamilnadu, India

China Labour Forum (ChinaWorker), China Hong Kong

Committee for Asian Women, Thailand

Committee for a Workers International, Malaysia

Communications Union CEPU (T&S Vic), Australia

Communist Party of Australia – CPA, Australia

The Conch, Australia

Disability Support Pensioners – DSP Australia

Ejaz Ul Haque Siddiqui (Pakistan Workers Federation – PWF), Pakistan

Global Peace Pioneers -GPP, Pakistan

G.R.S.E. Workmen’s Union, India

Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union, Guyana

humanitywatch, Bangladesh

International Migrant Alliance Research Foundation (IMA Bangladesh)

International Textile, Garment and Leather Workers’ Federation Philippines council, Philippines

Jatio Garment Sramik Federation (National Garment Workers Federation, Bangladesh)

Jatiyo Sramik Jote (National Workers Unity, Bangladesh)

Kesatuan Kebangsaan Pekerja-Pekerja Perusahaan Alat-Alat Pengangkutan Dan Sekutu (National Union of Transport Equipment & Allied Industries Workers – NUTEAIW, Malaysia)

Konfederasi Kongres Aliansi Serikat Buruh Indonesia – KASBI (Confederation Congress of Indonesia Unions Alliance), Indonesia

Korea Federation of Construction Industry Trade Unions – KFCITU, Korea

Latin American Solidarity Network – LASNET (Red de Solidaridad con los Pueblos Latinoamericanos), Australia

Lembaga Informasi Perburuhan Sedane – LIPS (Sedane Labour Resource Center, Indonesia)

Maritime Union of Australia – MUA (Vic Branch), Australia

Migrant Workers Solidarity Network, Bangladesh

Migrants Rights Council, India

New Trade Union Initiative, India

Pakistan Labour Federation – PLF, Pakistan

Partai Rakyat Demokratik (Peoples Democratic Party, Indonesia)

Parti Sosialis Malaysia- PSM (Socialist Party of Malaysia)

Partido Lakas ng Masa (Strength of the People Party, Philippines)

Partido ng Manggagawa (Labor Party, Philippines)

Peace and Justice for Colombia, Australia

Perhimpunan Rakyat Pekerja (Working People Association, Indonesia)

Progressive Labour Party, Australia

Red Flag Women’s Movement, Sri Lanka

Revolutionary Socialist Party, Australia

Socialist Alliance, Australia

Socialist Alternative, Australia

Socialist Labour Front, Bangladesh

Socialist Party, Australia

Socialist Worker, Arotearoa New Zealand

Solidarity, Australia

Textile Garments Workers Federation, Bangladesh

Trade Unions of the Philippines and Allied Services, Philippines

Unite, Australia

Workers’ Liberty, Australia

Workers Rights Coalition, Australia

   Click here to endorse the joint May Day statement  


may day gig at trades hall
saturday 1 may  6 pm till late
bands drinks solidarity
entry $10/$5/$2 trades hall lygon st carlton

may day rally, sunday 2 may
1 pm trades hall, lygon st carlton