A POSTCAPITALIST PARADIGM: THE COMMON GOOD OF ...

All these themes respond to the immediate needs of workers. Hence,
in its decision to change globalization, the ITUC declared that its priorities
for 2012 included the following:
� intensifying its efforts to avoid a new recession and achieve greater
recovery of jobs, maintaining close ties with its work and the Rio+20
perspectives
� continuing to work with the international financial institutions to ensure
that they give priority to issues of inequality and employment and
turn the high-level declarations into effective changes at the national
level;
� promoting the establishment of floors for social protection in all countries
of the world;
� supporting the creation of a tax on financial transactions and protecting
workers who are currently in precarious employment;
� launching a campaign, together with ILO’s Bureau for Workers’ Activities,
to defend the minimum wage;
� reinforcing the network of the political economy to contribute to social
and economic development through the Global Jobs Pact.
An exceptional testimony
To illustrate the positions of trade-union leaders on the perspectives developed
in the document on the Common Good of Humanity, we asked
the opinion of Rodolfo Romero, former Assistant Secretary of the Latin
American Confederation of Workers (CLAT) and leaders of the Organization
of Workers in Education of Paraguay, Rodolfo Romero. 125
125 Rodolfo Romero (better known as RoRo) was the director of the Institute of Social
Training for the South (INCASUR) of the University of Latin American Workers (UTAL)
and Assistant Secretary General of the CLAT. He is now adviser to various Latin American
trade union organizations, including the Unión Nacional de Educadores (UNE) of
Paraguay
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