see pictures here:
http://www.uniglobalunion.org/uniafrican.nsf/0/300708_EN_3B
versión en español: http://www.comfia.net/html/11290.html
Websites for 16 trade unions in 13 African countries go live today (August 1) as part of an eFuture project launched by UNI-Africa - the regional organisation of UNI global union.
UNI-Africa is offering free hosting, content management systemis and training to the first group of 16 affiliates to help them set up or to improve radically their websites.
Technical backing has come from the Spanish union Comfia CC.OO, which represents information technology, professional and managerial workers.
A lack of training and expensive hosting packages with local Internet providers have discouraged many African unions from going on-line up to now.
The eFuture aim is to raise the trade union profile on the Internet in Africa, to improve communications and to get across the democratic message of unions.
In countries like Zimbabwe unions have provided most of the opposition to repressive regimes and offer hope in countries like the Democratic Republic of the Congo where civil war has brutally divided society.
“UNI-Africa eFuture is an exciting project to raise union visibility in their work to improve conditions amongst workers,” says UNI-Africa’s acting Regional Secretary Zakari Koudougou.
“At the moment only five per cent of our 146 affiliated unions are on-line - we want to raise that figure dramatically.
“We will be keeping in touch with experiences among these 16 unions and will then look to extend the project to more affiliates in more countries.”
The first ever UNI-Africa Forum for union communicators was held in Cape Town in April where training of staff in the 16 unions began.
The 16 are: Burkina Faso - FESBACI: Cameroon - SNEGCBEFCAM and SYNACOM: Chad - SYNAPOSTEL: Egypt - NTUBIFA: Ghana - ICU: Guinea - FESABAG: Kenya - COWU and KUPRIPUPA: Mauritius - CAFTEU: Nigeria - SSAUSGOC: DRCongo - FNC and SYNCASS: Uganda - ATGWU: Zambia - ZUFIAW: Zimbabwe - CASWUZ.
For further information please visit:
http://www.africaefuture.org
Or contact:
Zakari Koudougou, UNI-Africa Acting Regional Secretary - zakari.koudougou@uniglobalunion.org
Christine Revkin, UNI Webmaster - christine.revkin@uniglobalunion.org
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Trade unions Collective
Trade unions Collective organizations of workers/employees which aim at promoting the welfare of their members, especially through securing higher wages and shorter working hours. As a rule, they developed in industrializing nations first among skilled workers, who were in relatively short supply and thus had greater bargaining power. Hence, the first workers to organize unions in Britain were engineers (1850), and in Germany printers (1866) and cigarworkers (1865). Unions of unskilled labour, whose members could easily be made redundant if they striked, only became successful and increased in strength after 1900 as unions improved their organization and their political influence. This could be accomplished either directly (the CGT in France) or indirectly through socialist parties (the Labour Party in Britain and Australia, the SPD in Germany). Among the different types of trade unions were the free trade unions (e.g. in Britain, the USA, Australia, and Canada), Communist trade unions (which emerged from the turn of the century in Russia, Czechoslovakia, France, Austria, Spain, and Poland), syndicalist trade unions, and Christian trade unions (e.g. in Belgium, the Netherlands, and Germany).