It’s a historical process: LO and FTF approved, last week, a joint document on Union Challenges by 2020, which will serve as the foundation for debates involving all the members of the two confederations in 2014. It’s the first time the twp organizations are opening a comprehensive, systematic debate on “what they can obtain together and separately” having regard to the member hemorrhage and globalization. At their respective conventions, planned in the fall 2015, they will take stock on this procedure while calls for a merger are already multiplying within the two organizations. Together, LO (founded in 1899) and FTF (founded in 1952) represent over 1.5 million employees, primarily in the private sector for the former and in the public sector for the latter. (Ref. 130682)
“Wider cooperation between our confederations will lead to a stronger voice. A voice that can strengthen our political influence while having a greater echo among workers,” declared LO leader Harald Børsting on October 31, when he presented the document entitled “Union Challenges by 2020,” which the confederation developed together with FTF. “On certain issues, e.g. the EU, growth, working environment and security, we agree more than we disagree. If we can find political common ground, we ca
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