[news] Venezuela: Encouraging Steps Forward for Union Movement

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

By Federico Fuentes - July 21, 2008

"As a product of four weeks of meetings between the different currents in the National Union of Workers (UNT), together with important union federations, we have democratically decided, in consultation with the grassroots, that [on September 19-21] we will hold a national congress..."By no later than February next year, we will go towards a transparent, democratic process of internal elections"...These announcements mark an important step forward in forging working class unity and come at a time of an upturn in struggle as well as further steps towards union democratisation.  


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