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Through the articles written by some movements, I would like to highlight the important work done by the forty and nine WMCW movements (affiliated and contacts) around the theme «Land, Housing and Work for a decent life».
This theme has found many echoes in all the continents and has strengthened our mission. We were also encouraged pope Francis’s words that, in the meeting of popular movements on 28th October, 2014, said: «There is a thing that every father, every mother wants for their children; an aspiration that should be at the reach for all, but which unfortunately it escapes it more and more to the most is: the land, the housing and the work. It is strange, but when I say this to some people, they tell that Pope is a communist. They do not understand that love to the poor is at the heart of Gospel. Land, housing and work, for which we fight, are sacred rights. Affirming that it is possible is the Social Doctrine of the Church».
And it is above on the basis of these sacred human rights that this INFOR issue presents testimonies about different ways of action around the right of Land, Housing and Work.
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Describing the reality about the issue «Global inequalities and unemployment» is a great challenge, since the situations around the world are so diverse and varied. Despite the tiredness, the anxiety of tomorrow, the privations, men and women still find energy to involve in the community life, to join social, trade union or political organizations. Driven by a deep faith in humanity, these workers fight together to claim, particularly to governments, rights for a greater justice and social protection.
It is from this reality, around the issue «Global inequalities and unemployment» that activists of WMCW affiliated movements from four continents, testify:
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The globalization is the highest state of internationalisation. The process of exchange among countries, which has marked the development of capitalism from the mercantile era in the XVII and XVIII centuries, was expanded with industrialization, gained new bases with the big industry at the end of XIX century, and today it is acquiring more intensity, more extent and new functionalities. The whole world is involved in all kind of technical, commercial, financial and cultural exchanges. We are living a new period of human history.
The basis of this real revolution is the technical progress, obtained as result of scientific development and based on the importance that technology is achieving, the so-called science of production.
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«Thy kingdom comes. On earth as it is in heaven». For the last one decade we have had various topics discussed at all levels of WMCW. The issues which affect the living and working conditions of workers. They include; use of land and ownership, Basic needs food, clothing and shelter. At international level a cry of decent work was discussed from the declaration of WMCW council of Avila, Spain in 2014. Then followed the highlights of social justice in an economy of life in 2023 Lourdes France. While we regret the source of covid 19 at the same period 2020,2021 and 2022 the level of unemployment has increased. Social protection in many countries particularly in south Are unavailable and general rise of vulnerability mostly affecting women and children. Even the Global Market Economy has not solved the problems of immigration, refugees, and internally displaced persons.
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Do telework and digital work contribute really to a greater working freedom?
Not if the labour legislation remains being what it is, if trade unions are still at company doors, if workers are still persecuted by thinking differently, if the normal working day is not reduced, etc. In this context, teleworking from home can only mean more exploitation and greater subjugation of worker –and his family– to work.
In many places, due to the need to confine our professional activity in our living space, teleworking has been seen as a panacea for many evils, among them the difficulty of reconciling working and professional life.
New forces are transforming in the working world. COVID-19 pandemic has social and political consequences: a «virtualisation of human life» and a social control” has been established. The world as we knew was stopped at the beginning of 2020 and the governments, supporting by science, had to implement measures to save lives.
It is true that life goes on, but undoubtedly we have adopted the most unusual way of working of this generation. The challenge for policy makers is how to remain protecting people’s life and health without, at the same time, causing any irreversible damage to the economy.