The Fight for a Living Wage!
12 September 2011
War on Want held two days of debate, analysis and group discussions on living wage campaigns across different sectors and countries.
Experts from the South and the North spoke about the challenges of understanding and calculating a living wage.
It was a great chance to learn about effective strategies for campaigning for a living wage from other sectors and applying these strategies to build a powerful campaign for a living wage in the cut-flower sector.
Applying lessons from other sectors to the cut flower sector
The seminar covered the following topics:
- Case studies from trade unions and organizations in the Global South fighting for a living wage in the cut flower and other sectors.
- What is the living wage and how to calculate it? The debate will include initiatives from trade unions, workers, academics and campaigners from across Africa, theUK,Bangladesh,Colombiaand theNetherlands.
- How to effectively campaign for a living wage.
- Applying lessons to the cut flower sector.
Contributors:
- Amirul Haque Amin, National Garment Workers Federation (NGWF),Bangladesh
- Anna Cooper, BananaLink,UK
- Aura E Rodriguez, Corporacion CACTUS, Colombia
- Jane Mills,LondonLiving WageCampaign,UK
- John Hilary , War onWant,UK
- Kees Hoek, OLAA, theNetherlands
- Kunda Mutubele, National Union ofPlantation, Agricultural and Allied Workers (NUPAAW),Zambia
- Phillipina Mosha,TanzaniaPlantationand Agricultural WorkersUnion,Tanzania
- Peter Williams, ETI NGO Co-ordinator,UK
- Sam Maher, Labour Behind the Label
- Sophie Vessel, FIAN,Austria
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