The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) announced, on March 19, 2007, the creation of a Pan-European Regional Council (PERC) after a founding assembly in Rome. The creation of the PERC results from a resolution adopted at the ITUC Founding Congress in November 2006. John Monks, General Secretary of the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC), will serve as the new organization's General Secretary. (Réf. 070257)
The PERC, which will be presided by Mikhail Shmakov, president of FNPR Russia, has to promote the strategies, priorities and policies of the ITUC at the regional level and will seek to contribute to social development, the consolidation of democracy and to respect for human and unions’ rights at the European level. “Promotion of trade union action, and representation of workers’ interests through the strengthening of the trade union movement and support for bilateral and multilateral cooperatio
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