Internationalt Fagligt Forbund, ITUC, anklager G20 landenes finansminstre for ikke at tage hensyn til millioner af menneskers desperation over udelukkelsen fra værdigt arbejde og social beskyttelse.
BRUSSELS, 23 March 2011: The union concerns are set out in a letter being sent by national trade union centres in G20 countries to their Finance Ministers.
“Jobs with fair wages are central to achieving economic recovery, but the G20 Finance Ministers are doing nothing to promote employment, focusing instead on keeping financial markets happy and allowing banks to regain control of the economy.”
“They will have to do much better than this when they meet again in Washington in mid-April,” said ITUC General Secretary Sharan Burrow.
“The promises made by the G20 leaders at the beginning of this crisis to avoid a jobless recovery are not being followed through. Ministers dealing with labour and development issues cannot realise the ambition for sustainable job growth while their Finance Ministry colleagues are pushing in the opposite direction”, said John Evans, General Secretary of the Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD.
“We are looking to the French G20 Presidency to help fix this deepening incoherence in international policy. The alternative would be yet more inequality, massive youth unemployment and a stagnating global economy, with terrible social consequences.”
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Hvad er G-20?
Gruppen af Tyve (G-20) finansministre og centralbankchefer blev oprettet i 1999 for at samle vigtige industrilande og udviklingslande om at drøfte centrale spørgsmål i den globale økonomi.
Medlemskab
G-20 består af finansministrene og centralbankcheferne fra 19 lande:
Argentina, Australien, Brasilien, Canada, Frankrig, Indien, Indonesien, Italien, Japan, Kina, Mexico, Rusland, Saudi-Arabien, Storbritannien, Sydafrika, Sydkorea, Tyrkiet, Tyskland og USA.
Den Europæiske Union er det 20. medlem af G-20. Den Internationale Valutafond (IMF) og Verdensbanken er med som observatører. Se mere på www.g20.org
