WORKING MEETINGS SUMMIT2006

The leaders of international trade unions and G8 national trade union centers on the Global Unions are meeting in Moscow for a consultation conference, July 5-6, 2006.

The participants will focus on determining trade union positions on issues within the agenda of Russia's G8 Presidency. They also intend to discuss compliance with essential employee and trade union rights, migration and international workforce mobility, transnational commerce and investment, etc.

A trade union statement timed to the St. Petersburg G8 summit will sum up the conference, to be circulated as international trade union movement leaders meet with Russia's President Vladimir Putin, July 6.

The upcoming forum will not be the only G8 trade union meeting scheduled for this year. A similar conference will be convened in October, preceding the G8 Labor and Employment Ministers' Meeting, to pass a trade union statement, which will be later offered to a ministerial consultative conference with trade union and employer organization spokesmen.

Trade union organizations to take part in the conference:

• The Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Russia (FNPR)
• The All-Russia Confederation of Labor (VKT)
• The Confederation of Labor of Russia (KTR)
• The Congress of Russian Trade Unions (KRP)
• The Trades Union Congress
• German Confederation of Trade Unions
• The Italian General Confederation of Labour (CGIL)
• The Italian Confederation of Workers' Trade Unions (CISL)
• Unione Italiana del Lavoro (UIL)
• The Trades and Labor Congress of Canada
• American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO)
• Confédération Générale du Travail (CGT)
• Confédération Générale du Travail - Force Ouvrière
• Confédération Française Démocratique du Travail
• The Japanese Trade Union Confederation
• The International Confederation of Free Trade Unions
• The World Confederation of Labor (WCL)
• European Trade Union Confederation
• The Trade Union Advisory Committee (TUAC) to the OECD

A news conference on the results of the consultation conference and trade union leaders' meeting with President Vladimir Putin is scheduled for 5 pm, July 6, at the RIA Novosti news agency premises, 4 Zubovsky Boulevard, Moscow.

Information on news conference attendance for mass media representatives is available on the telephones: +7 495 201 5019 and +7 495 981 6472.-0-