OEA/Ser.W/IV

CEPCIDI/doc.838/08

3 April 2008

Original: Spanish

CONSULTATIVE MEETING BETWEEN SEDI, COSATE, AND THE ILO ON THE POSSIBLE NATURE AND CHARACTERISTICS OF THE DIALOGUE AMONG REPRESENTATIVES OF WORKERS AND MINISTERSOF FOREIGN AFFAIRS IN THE CONTEXT OF THE

thirty-seventh regular session OF THE oas General Assembly,

AS PROVIDEDINRESOLUTION AG/RES. 2315 (XXXVII-O/07)

  1. As provided in operative paragraph 2 of resolution AG/RES. 2315 (XXXVII-O/07), “Participation of Workers’ Representatives in Activities of the Organization of American States,”the Executive Secretariat for Integral Development (SEDI)is to hold consultations regarding the possible nature and characteristics of the dialogue among workers’ representatives and the Ministers of Foreign Affairs, for which it is to request the support and assistance of the Trade Union Technical Advisory Council (COSATE).
  1. Resolution AG/RES. 2315 (XXXVII-O/07) also refers to the recommendationsof the International Labour Organization (ILO) on the criteria used by the ILO to define the meaning of the expression workers’ representatives.
  1. Accordingly, SEDI proposes to convene COSATE and the ILO to a consultativemeeting in April 2008. The meeting will be one day long and financed with the additional funds assigned to the Department of Social Development and Employment to support theparticipationof workers’ representatives in OAS activities (CP/INF.5561/07).
  1. Invitations will be sent to the eight officers of COSATEfor 2007-2009, elected at the 15th Inter-American Conference of Ministers of Labor, and to the worker’s activities specialist (ACTRAV) of the ILO Office for Latin America and the Caribbean (see attached list).
  1. A proposed program for the consultative meeting is attached.
  1. The expected outcome of the meeting will be a report on the results of the consultation on the possible nature and characteristics of the dialogue among workers’ representatives and the ministers of foreign affairs, which could include a possible list of workers’ representatives to be invited to the dialogue. Two or three specific items COSATE considers important could be included as well, to frame the dialogue within the theme of the General Assembly session. This report would be presented to the Permanent Executive Committee of CIDI.

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APPENDIXI

Officers of COSATE for 2007-2009

Chairman

Robert Giuseppi

National Trade Union Centre of Trinidad and Tobago

Trinidad & Tobago

Phone (1868) 645 0651/6633405. Cell: (1868) 688-7207

E-mail:

ViceChairmen

Marta Pujadas

Confederación General del Trabajo (CGT)

Argentina

Phone: (5411) 4379-0539; 4384 7140 through 7146, ext. 7529

E-mail

Salvador Medina

Confederación de Trabajadores de Mexico (CTM)

Mexico

Phone: (5255) 5592-4088; 5566 8407; Cell: 52155 5967 1579

E-mail:

Eulogia Familia

Confederación Nacional de la Unidad Sindical (CNUS)

Dominican Republic

Phone: (1809) 221-2158, 221-0072, 689-2267. Cell (1809) 453-9050

E-mail:

Stanley Gacek

AFL-CIO

United States

Phone (202) 5086916, 637 5000

E-mail:

José Elías Torres

Confederación de Trabajadores de Venezuela (CTV)

Venezuela

Phone: (58 414) 3284415/ (58 212) 5760022

E-mail: ;

Nilton Sossa

Força Sindical (FS)

Brazil

Phone: (5551) 92458046 / 3277 5877

E-mail:

Coordinator

Hassan Yussuf

Canadian Labour Congress (CLC)

Canada

Phone: (613) 526-7401 / 07

E-mail: ;

ILO Representative

Oscar Valverde

Workers’ Activities Specialist (ACTRAV)

ILO Officefor Latin America and the Caribbean

E-mail:

Phone: (511) 6150344

ANNEX II

TENTATIVE AGENDA

CONSULTATIVEMEETING BETWEEN SEDI, COSATE, ILO

(April 2008)

  1. Opening remarks
  1. Introductionand scope of resolution AG/RES. 2315 (XXXVII-O/07), ¨Participation of Workers’ Representatives in Activities of the Organization of American States”
  1. Presentationof organizational and protocolary aspectsof the OAS General Assembly session and of the dialogueswith the Ministers of Foreign Affairs
  1. Consultation on the possible nature and characteristicsof the dialogueamong workers’ representatives and the Ministers of Foreign Affairs
  1. Preparation of proposed list of workers’ representatives from each OAS member state who, in the judgment of COSATE and the ILO, could be invited to enter into adialoguewith the ministers of foreign affairs, before the inaugural session of the General Assembly session
  1. Identificationof specific points in the context of the theme of the General Assembly session that COSATE considers important, to frame the dialoguewith the ministers of foreign affairs
  1. Preparation of a proposal for the Permanent Executive Committee of CIDI
  1. Closing remarks