Labour: Dutch Christian Union: CNV sends a specialist team to work for labor r+

Here's a programmatic statement of the Christian Labour Central of the Netherlands (CNV) regarding that union's goals and principles in its work with labour in developing countries.  I don't agree with every jot and title of the text, but I do support it and the projects for which it presents the underlying principles and strategic policies it has chosen to guide its work on four continents -- Central and East Europe, Latin America, Africa, and South East Asia.

The webpage is titled "CNV International."

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Labour rights worldwide

For more than a hundred years CNV has endeavoured to improve work and income in the Netherlands. In this, CNV always attempts to engage in dialogue to achieve its objectives. Fortunately this is possible in the Netherlands because here, trade union rights are generally respected. Elsewhere in the world, the situation is less rosy.

In many developing countries in Latin America, Africa, Asia and Central and Eastern Europe, workers rights are trodden underfoot . Even if workers rights have been established in the Universal Declaration on Human Rights and treaties of the international labour organisation ILO, for example. This is why CNV supports international trade unions that defend the rights of working women and men in developing countries.

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