Today we are celebrating the First of May, or also called international labour day. This holiday and day of protests was chosen to be International Workers' Day to commemorate and further promote the demands of the 1886 Haymarket affair in Chicago for an 8 hour workday.

Until now it is known as the day of labour, socialist, communist, social democratic, […] movements to raise visibility for worker’s rights with the power of international solidarity. 

• We believe in a world, where everyone has the resources, they need to ensure a high quality of life. Consequently, access to safe, sustainable and valuable work is essential.
• We always take the possibility to celebrate Children’s Right’s, so why not today?
• We are convinced that with a reduction of working hours, labour could be better distributed, unemployment rates would decrease, and people would have more time for themselves and their loved ones.

Currently, we face around 174.3 million unemployed people (projected number) worldwide [source]. Due to the Covid-19 situation, this number even increased. ILO, the International Labour Organization and UN agency, estimates, that more than 25 million people worldwide become unemployed additionally. Sustainable and fair labour and worker’s rights is not a topic of the past but one of the present and the future. Hence, IFM-SEI fights for

• All children have got rights, also in crisis
• Secure working environment for all genders, races, disabilities, sexual orientations, religions
• The right to work including a safe and regular income, always
• Reduction of working hours without reduction of the salary
• Distribution of work and thus decrease in unemployment
• International Solidarity!

Since together we are louder, stronger and will overcome anything, join the path to a better future

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