Young trade unionists promote the concept of “Decent Work”

On the eve of the World Day for Decent Work, marked annually on 7 October, the Youth Commission of the National Trade Union Confederation of Moldova (CNSM) held meetings earlier this week with students from two educational institutions from the capital to promote the concept of “Decent Work”. Young trade unionists visited the Pedagogical State University “Ion Creanga” and the Centre for Excellence in Informatics and Information Technologies.

The purpose of these meetings was to train and inform trade union leaders, graduates of the educational institutions about the principles of “decent work”, the trade union’s objectives in promoting these principles, to provide information on the basic rules that young people must take when they get the first job, the content of the individual labour contract and the collective agreement, as well as other information that showed interest from young people.

At the end of both meetings, the young people remained satisfied with the useful information and came up with the proposal to hold such wider meetings with all the students of the last year of study at the mentioned institutions.

We note that World Day for Decent Work is marked annually in more than 130 countries where trade unions claim fair and equitable remuneration for work, quality jobs, safe social protection, respect for employees’ rights and freedoms.

This year, at the initiative of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), World Day for Decent Work has the theme “Change the Rules” and aims to raise public awareness, state authorities and the entrepreneurial environment about the need to ensure fairness in the social and economic sphere. CNSM will organize this week a series of activities dedicated to marking the World Day for Decent Work.

Department of mass media and international relations of CNSM