The Secretary General of the International Labour Confederation (ILC), Hamza Öksüz, addressed global trade union leaders at the 21st Ordinary Triennial Conference of Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS) -India’s largest central trade union organisation representing approximately 17 million members -highlighting the structural transformation of work driven by technological, ethical, economic and ecological dynamics.

Abstract
“The global order is undergoing a profound transformation driven by economic instability, geopolitical tensions, technological change, and ecological crisis. Four decades of neoliberal restructuring have produced a structural crisis of labour, marked by deepening inequality, the erosion of collective rights, and the fragmentation of class-based solidarity. Authoritarian neoliberal governance has narrowed democratic space while expanding the global mobility of capital, intensifying precarity and exploitation, particularly in peripheral economies.

As the International Labour Confederation (ILC), we strongly condemn the military intervention carried out by the United States against Venezuela. This intervention constitutes a clear violation of the prohibition on the use of force enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, the principle of sovereign equality of states, and the most fundamental norms of international law.

“Migration Is Not a Crime; It Is a Structural Reality Produced by Global Inequalities and an Expression of the Movement of Labour.”

“Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world… Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind… Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion… Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression… Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association… Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity… Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family… Motherhood and childhood are entitled to special care and assistance… Everyone has the right to education… No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.”