With just one month to go before the World Day for Decent Work, Oct. 7, trade unions across the world are stepping up pressure for decent jobs and social justice. And bloggers can play a big role in spreading the message.

 Bloggers Unite has set up a special World Day for Decent Work site here and is asking bloggers to submit blogs on or before Oct. 7 about events in their areas. Blogs about the hundreds of events planned for Oct. 7 around the world will show world leaders how determined workers are to get decent jobs with good pay, safe working conditions and benefits. Take part by signing up today to submit blogs to Bloggers Unite here. 

Organized by the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), World Day for Decent Work is a day for mobilization around the world: one day when all the trade unions in the world stand up for decent work, at home and abroad.

“Working people are still paying a heavy price for the world economic crisis, as the banking and finance sector returns to business as usual,” says ITUC General Secretary Sharan Burrow.

This year’s World Day for Decent Work will be a peak moment in the global trade union movement’s action for fundamental reform of the global economy. We will be holding political leaders to account on jobs, financial regulation and quality public services, and governments would be well advised to heed the trade union call.

There’s plenty to blog about. Yesterday, millions of workers in India took to the streets in a national strike against national and state government employment and industrial relations policies. In France, unions organized national rallies and strike actions to protest major changes to retirement and pensions proposed by the Sarkozy government. And in the United States, corporate greed at the expense of workers at Mott’s and the efforts by America’s unions to push for job creation are just some of what’s going on here.  

Trade unions across Europe are planning a massive demonstration in Brussels, the capital of the European Union, on Sept. 29 to protest austerity measures. Some 100,000 demonstrators will join the march. The same day a general strike will take place in Spain and protests are also planned in the Czech Republic, Cyprus, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Portugal. Massive protests across Germany are being organized by the ITUC affiliate DGB in the coming weeks over government finance, employment and social security policies.

The ITUC also launched a special interactive website for the World Day for Decent Work, with information from last year’s events and updates on this year’s actions. Organizations planning events can upload their information onto the multi-language site, which also features a Twitter feed, video and photo galleries and other interactive functions. It also will contain information on the main themes for the 2010 events.

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