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YS (Confederation of Vocational Unions) Norway is conducting several different activities in order to promote the World Day for Decent Work, 7th of October.

Some of the activities to be mentioned are:

YS President Tore Eugen Kvalheim and Unio President Anders Folkestad are in a joint article in the daily newspaper Dagsavisen critical to negotiations on trade agreements with countries with little or no respect for fundamental labour rights. The two organisations want more focus on labour rights in Norwegian trade policy and see this in relation to the Norwegian governments’ otherwise very good strategy for Decent Work, which was launched in 2008.

http://www.dagsavisen.no/meninger/a...

Dissemination of information and promotion of the WDDW day to the 22 of the YS`s trade unions with banner and articles on the webpage www.ys.no. Everyone in the YS secretariat including the Executive Board should wear the t-shirts, made especially for this day to all meetings they are attending on the 7th of October in order to increase awareness of this very important day.

In cooperation with Anti Racist Centre in Oslo where YS`s Youth department is holding the introductory courses in laws and regulations in the working life for multicultural youngsters. A part of the course will be dedicated to the World Day for Decent Work.

We also took part in the presentation of a report about wages in clothing industry in the third world countries. We interviewed Saleena and Jayaram from India about their working conditions and are going to publish an article in our 22 member magazines/websites.