Workshop on the Strategy of Organizing Women Workers in the 21C: The

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Workshop on the Strategy of Organizing Women Workers in the 21C: The
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Workshop on the Strategies of Organizing Women Workers in the 21C : The Experiences of the Women Trade Union and its Future Tasks

Host : Korean Women Workers Associations United, Korean Women Trade Union

Background :
1. The first women's trade union was established in 1999.  It was to confront with the worsening women workers' situation of prior dismissal of women workers since IMF economic crisis and the rapid expansion of women workers' transferring to irregular working status and to extend the labor right and the right of uniting force of women workers.  The existing trade union, which focuses on the regular based workers in big workplace, has excluded the majority of women workers, and the organizing rate of the women workers has dropped to 5.6%.
2. The women workers in Korea have occupied irregular based working posts, daily working posts, the dispatched working posts, etc. that are out of legal protection.  The situation has been worsened since the IMF economic crisis.  The women workers have suffered from serious employment situation that they have been prior to dismiss on the restructurization process and to transfer to irregular based working posts.  Under these circumstance, the women workers' rate of less than one year contract has increased to 70%.
3. The Korean Women's Trade Union has been established in order to improve the rights and consolidate the unity of women workers.  The Korean Women's Trade Union has opted for the improvement of the women workers in irregular bases and in small scale of workplace.  It has 7 regional secretariat all over the country.
4. Here we are going to organize the international exchange program in which we can learn from different organizing experiences of other countries, and the program contributes towards the development of the Korean Women's Trade Union which has a short experience of one year only.  We also expect to promote more concerns and solidarity towards the international women's trade union movement.

Objectives :
1. To broaden up perspectives of the women' trade union movement through the exchange of organizing experiences and future tasks of women trade unions from other countries
2. To establish exchange network and to consolidate solidarity amongst women's trade unions
3. To promote more concerns and interests towards women's trade union in national and international societies.
4. To seek for the vision and common tasks of the women's trade union

Date : August 27 - August 30, 2000

Participating women trade unions (expected) :

Korean women trade union
Korean women workers associations united
Denmark women trade union,
Tokyo women trade union,
Osaka women trade union,
promotion committee for Hongkong women trade union


Program
Saturday, 26 August / Day 0
Arrival of Participants

Sunday, 27 August / Day 1
8:00 - 9:00 AM                Breakfast
9:00 - 9:30 AM                 Introduction and Orientation
9:30 - 11:00 AM         Sharing of country experience 1
11:00 - 11:30 AM        Break
11:30 - 13:00 PM         Sharing of country experience 2
13:00 - 14:00 PM         Launch
14:00 - 15:30 PM         Sharing of country experience 3
15:30 - 16:00 PM         Break
16:00 - 19:00 PM         Sharing of country experience 4

Monday, 28 August / Day 2
8:00 - 9:00 AM                Breakfast
9:00 - 11:00 AM         Discussion
                        1. future prospect of women trade union
                        2. organizing strategies
                        3. how to build network
11:00 - 11:30 AM         Break
11:30 - 13:00 PM        Discussion (Con't)
13:00 - 14:00 PM         Launch
14:00 - 16:00 PM         Evaluation and follow-up
16:00 -                         Free time

Tuesday, 29 August / Day 3
8:00 - 9:00 AM                Breakfast
10:00 - 13:00 PM         Visit of KWTU branch
13:00 - 15:00 PM         Launch
15:00 - 18:00 PM         Open Forum
                        "Vision and Solidarity of Women Trade Union Movement"
18:00 - 21:00 PM         Dinner

Wednesday, 30 August / Day 4
Exposure

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