5-7.9.2016
Caption 1. President Mitrevski on the workshop
Within the project "Promoting of the social dialogue", financed by the European Union, Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance (IPA) and implemented by the International Labour Organization (ILO) in Skopje from 5 to 7 September 2016 a workshop on training for organizing and mobilizing new membership was held.
The workshop objectives and the need for further organizing were presented by Grigor Gradev, senior expert on labor activities, while the workshop was opened by the President of CCM, PhD Zhivko Mitrevski who in his opening speech stressed the importance of the organizing and mobilizing new members as a necessity for further improvement of the labor movement in Macedonia, as well as a global challenge for the unions worldwide.
Caption 2. Participants on the workshop
The need for union organizing in Macedonia is even more complex if we take into consideration that most of the unions are still organizing members based on classical methods, hence the exchange of the experiences and introduction of new techniques and methods as well as new tools for organizing and mobilizing new membership is one of the most urgent priorities in the program of CCM, emphasized the President of CCM, PhD Zhivko Mitrevski. The President Mitrevski in his speech stressed the importance of this issue in the context of the existence of a large number of unorganized workers in the industrial zones. The present members of the branch unions and representatives of the territorial structures of CCM were familiar with the latest methods, concepts and techniques for organizing and mobilizing new membership by the experts from the education sector of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC).
The components of the project and its further implementation were presented by Natasha Mechkaroska- Simjanoski, ILO Project coordinator.
