5 TH ANNUAL GENERAL.CONFERENCE 28 TH – 30 TH DECEMBER 2007 ZAMBEZI SOURCE LODGE, KABWE

1. 5TH ANNUAL GENERAL.CONFERENCE28TH – 30TH DECEMBER 2007ZAMBEZI SOURCE LODGE, KABWE

2. WORKERS EDUCATION Presented by:By Deluxe Bwalya Mwansa Director of Workers Education, Zambia Union of Financial Institutions & Allied Workers (ZUFIAW) E-mail: deluxemwns7@gmail.com 1st floor Room 4 ,Luangwa House, Cairo Road, Lusaka. Phone 0978120918, office 222105 fax 231364 BETUZ General Conference held at Zambezi Source Lodge in Kabwe on 27th December 2007.

3. Objectives • Establishment & functioning of Trd. Unions • Services provided by trade unions • Employer/State/trade Unions relations • International co-operation • Informal Sector • Challenges • Future Prospects

4. Hon. Mr. Geoffrey Mukuma, Minister of Labour

5. Mr. Noah Siasimuna, Labour Commissioner

6. ZAMBIAN LABOUR LAWS • Industrial & Labour Relations Act CAP269 • Factories Act. • Employment & Young Persons Act • Employment Act CAP268 • Minimum Wages Act.CAP 276

7. Industrial & Labour Relations Act • “Provides the legislative framework for the establishment, organisation and management of trade unions, employers organisations and their federations.” • Provides for collective bargaining, settlement of industrial conflicts, consultative mechanism and the establishment and operation of the Industrial Relations Court.

8. FACTORIES ACT • Provides for occupational safety and health in factories, construction sites and other workplaces. It empowersfactory inspectors to enforce occupational safety and health regulations at workplaces.

9. EMPLOYMENT OF YOUNG PERSONS & CHILDREN ACT • Provides protection to young persons particularly in occupations that are harzadous and injurious to their health, safety and development.

10. EMPLOYMENT OF CHILDREN

11. EMPLOYMENT ACT. • Provides for employment relationships, enforcement of contracts of employment, protection of wages and welfare of employees.

12. MINIMUM WAGES ACT • Empowers the State, through the Minister of Labour to prescribe minimum wages and other conditions of employment for sectors where collective bargaining is not possible or effective.

13. Industrial & Labour Relations Act.(Selected provisions) • Right to take part in formation of a trade union and to be a member of a union of a member’s choice • Right to take part in the activities of a t.u including the right to seek and hold trade union office subject only to the rules of such trade union.

14. Industrial & Labour Relations Act.(Selected provisions) • Right to obtain leave of absence from work for the purpose of taking part in trade union activities. • Right not to be prevented, dismissed, penalised, victimised or discriminated against or deterred from exercising the trade union rights

15. Rights to be elected into office

16. Participation in union activitiese.g Conferences deliberations

17. Participation in Trade Union activities-Gender Conferences

18. Participation in Trade Union activities-(African Region )

19. Participation in trade union activities- (Solidarity Songs)

20. Industrial & Labour Relations Act.(some selected provisions) • Right not to be a member of a trade union or be required to relinguish membership. • Right not to be dismissed, victimised or prejudised for exercising the trade union rights. • Right not to do work normally done by an employee lawfully on strike or locked out unless such work constitutes essential service.

21. Services Provided (Signing Collective Agreements)

22. TRADE UNION SERVICES • Collective Bargaining for improved working & living conditions. • Advocacy & campaigns against violation of labour & human rights and bad governance. • Representation at various levels in numerous organs such as work committees, constitutional and labour law reforms.

23. Services T.U Representation at various levels

24. Services - Advocacy Campaigns

25. Services- Advocacy Campaigns

26. Services- Advocacy Campaigns

27. Services - Advocacy Campaigns

28. Services- Advocacy Campaigns

29. TRADE UNION SERVICES • Training of members in a social, economic, political and trade union issues. • Provision of social services such as skills development for informal economy workers, workers education and HIV/AIDS training and awareness.

30. State– Trade Union Relations • Trade unions are independent & free from direct govt. interference. The general policy of trade unions is to support or work with any political party or govt. in power. • However, trade unions play a significant role in the political system of the country. They offer checks and balances.

31. Tripartism (Labour Day Celebrations)

32. Govt / Trade Union Relations(former Vice President)

33. Opposition/ Trade Union Relations

34. Opposition / Trade Union Relations

35. Opposition/ State/Trade Union Relations • Trade unions offer advisory and reconciliatory functions between the ruling party and opposition.

36. Church/Trade Union Relations

37. State- Trade Union Relations • “In a pluralist perspective, autonomyfrom the State is considered essential for trade unions in order to function effectively in the interest of their members”

38. State – Trade Union Relations • However, while the interests of trade unions in pluralist theory are regarded as narrow and economic rather than political, trade unions are assigned an important political role in processes of democratisation. • In authoritarian regimes where political space of interest aggregation is limited, trade unions are seen to engage in strugglesfor democratisation”

39. Democracy.

40. State- Trade Union Relations • “Within a pluralist perspective then, trade unions change towards a political orientation temporarily in defense of their long term economicinterests”

41. State-Trade Union Relations • The end of the alliance between UNIP & ZCTU in 1990’s should be understood as a response to the economic recession and decline and stronger presence of and pressures from external actors such as IMF/World Bank, breaking the post colonial contract between the state and civil society based on the promise of economic development and redistribution.

42. State-Trade Union Relations • As the State no longer was able to deliver its economic promises, the legitimacy of the regime was seriously questioned. • From working together closely and having mutual interests in, among other things, subsidising the cost of living for urban workers, the labour movement was openly contesting the legitimacy of the UNIP regime.

43. International Co-operation • External co-operation with international co-operating partners help trade unions to provide vital services to members.

44. External Co-operating Organisations • Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES) • American Center for International Labour Solidarity (ACILS) • Netherlands Federation of Trade Unions (FNV) • International Labour Organisation (ILO) • Global Unions Federations • Many more

45. International co-operation

46. International Co-operation

47. Bilateral Support • Administrative & Organisational support • Child Labour • Economic Literacy/Budget Analysis • Globalisation/NEPAD/PRSP/ • Research Training • Gender Development • HIV/AIDS • Industrial Relations

48. Capacity Building

49. Capacity Building

50. Capacity Building Support • Governance & Democracy • International Labour Standards & labour legislation • Lobbying skills • Leadership skills • Organisation & Recruitment • Capacity building