Publications

L’absence de convention bilatérale entre le Maroc et l’Italie a fait l’objet d’une attention particulière des membres du Réseau syndical RSMMS. Cette étude a constitué un document de référence lors de l’atelier conjoint UMT, CDT, CGIL & INCA : « La convention bilatérale Maroco-Italienne : état des lieux d’un blocage - Quel rôle des syndicalistes pour le déblocage ? », tenu les 20 – 21 novembre 2017 à Casablanca, avec le soutien technique du Bureau Maroc de la Fondation Friedrich Ebert, en vue d’outiller l’action des syndicats militant pour l’effectivité et la mise en œuvre de cette convention assurant la portabilité des droits sociaux aux migrants en mobilité entre les deux pays. Un plaidoyer a été mené sur cette base auprès des autorités marocaines et italiennes pour réactiver le dialogue autour de la convention.

The main objective of this paper is to present the “Power Resources approach” and explain the potential and the constraints as well as possibilitie for Trade Unions to revitalize. The revitalization of trade unions means also changes in energy and attitudes in addition to knowledge. The Power Resoucres Approch identifies four power resources that can be collectively mobilized by trade unions: associational power, structural power, institutional power and social power. The Power Resources Approch was developed in the Global North but will it work also in non-democratic societies in the Global South. The paper offers some answers and and try to initiate a discussion about the transformation of trade unions in the MENA region.

The workshop with representatives from RSMMS, taking place in Tunis the 6th - 8th of October, aimed to nourish a coordinated inter-regional approach, with the aim of:

- harmonizing the action plan;

- strengthening the presence of unions in the field;

- operationalizing the objectives of the "Casablanca Declaration" that is the founding document of the RSMMS (August 8, 2014).

This work provides a critical analysis of the development process of the "Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration – PMM”. It’s part of RSMMS Advocacy (January 2018) allowing to assess a common voice of the RSMMS members in relation to the PMM. The work was done with the support of the PROMIG-FES project (2017-2020).