UNI Americas Young Workers’ Committee prepared for Breaking Through
São Paulo. In fulfilment of the expectations of the delegates of the Americas, the 3rd Encounter and the 8th Annual Meeting of UNI Americas Young Workers Regional Committee, was carried out in the City of São Paulo, Brazil.
Actually, on October 20th and 21st, participants of the Americas and the Caribbean gathered at CONTRAF’s union premises to develop a wide agenda among other subjects of equal importance; the agenda included issues as training of young union leaders, and adapting UNI Americas Young Workers’ Action Plan to UNI Breaking Through objectives and strategies.
The meeting was presided over by colleague Adriana Oliveira Magalhaes from CONTRAF-CUT, and in the opening ceremony counted with the presence of Ruben Cortina, President of UNI Americas, who together with representatives of Brazilian Union Centrals, Luis Carlos Mota from Força Sindical and Wagner Freitas from CUT, saluted the participants and expressed that they had been honoured by the invitation to this important event.
In their speeches, young leaders highlighted the actions that had been carried out, and the commitment achieved in the name of all the young workers in terms of training of a new leadership; this task has been carried out in countries like Argentina, Brazil, Chile, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Peru; UNI-ISCOD-UGT has provided fundamental support in this regard. Young workers reaffirmed their commitment laid emphasised on the issue of gender equality as a part of the plan to be carried out during the last stage of the period 2010-2011.
Following the agenda, the young workers devoted themselves to the duty of renovation of the Committee’s authorities. In a relaxed atmosphere of great cordiality, the delegates unanimously approved the changes of the President and Vice-Presidents of the Committee, whose mandates will start from January 1st 2011 and until the end of the next Conference. During that period, the President of the Committee will be colleague Toni Moore from BWU Barbados, and the Vice-presidencies will be held by colleagues Gustavo Triani from FAECyS, Argentina, and Claudio Buendía from FED-CUT, Peru. Toni thanked for the trust and support received from her peers, and assumed the compromise to contribute for a higher presence of the Committee in the region; at the same time her future challenge will be to integrate young workers to the Caribbean, an area she represents.
Contact: briceida.gonzalez@uniglobalunion.org