GREETINGS FROM WFTU NORTH AND WFTU CANADA
We greet you and honor you on establishing the first WFTU - TUI for Pensioners and Retirees. This Trade Union International is a perfect fit with the other WFTU TUIs on Energy, Education, Transport, etc. The many trade union comrades who worked their whole lives devoted to their work and trade unions will also
greet this TUI as they continue their struggles to keep and improve their pensions; health benefits; and also fighting for a world free from imperialism and barbarism.
Very often these same trade unionists who helped establish their class oriented trade unions; are in the middle and leadership of the struggle to keep those same trade unions in a class oriented way; this time as leaders of their union's retiree organizations.
The "New Norm" that the neo liberal International Monetary Fund; World Bank and World Trade Organization is trying to establish where defined benefit pensions are being handed off to Wall Street and other profit making stock organizations is and must be stopped. Also, that pensioners should pay more for their medical and health benefits in retirement when they are living on fixed incomes is also being struggled against.
And, of course, class oriented trade unionists, when working, and now in retirement, are fighting against imperial wars and all forms of xenophobia and barbarism.
Good Luck
And we look forward to seeing the Final Documents from the Congress
WFTU North and WFTU Canada
