On Saturday 17th of April a  massive demonstration to the Presidential Palace organised by the Initiative for the abolition of the 12% penalty on the pensions of those retiring at 63 and not 65. Among those who addressed the meeting was the General Secretary of the class-based trade union federation of PEO and Costas Skarparis  the General Secretary of the Union of Cypriot Pensioners EKYSY.

The signatures of unions, political parties and all kinds of associations should be sent to:   [email protected].

The WFTU Secretariat on the TUI Pensioners and Retirees campaign

01 Apr 2021

The WFTU Secretariat has been informed by the TUI of Pensioners and Retirees of its current campaign of spreading and extension of its demands.

The First secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, coordinator for the Former Socialist Countries of the International Trade Union of Pensioners and the Retired of the World Federation of Trade Unions, Sergey Skvortsov recorded a video message to pensioners. It can be viewed at links https://sb-skvortsov.livejournal.com/114729.html          and 

Intervention

FSM INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM

SOLIDARITY WITH VENEZUELA

CES and ITUC trade unions support imperialism

I am a leader of the FSM SME UIS and as Head of the FSM in the Spanish state.

We welcome and support the proposals made by George Mavrikos, as S.G. of the FSM, and in particular two of them: 1) the holding of similar symposia by countries and by each of the UIS; and (2) the dissemination of a Memorandum of Solidarity signed by trade unions and anti-imperialist policies.

For our daughters and granddaughters

In the previous manifests we have focused our line of action and we have made a synthesis of the situation of feminization of poverty in the world and the effect on pensions of the impoverishment of older and non-elderly women from disadvantaged sectors.