If you think the system is working
...ask someone who isn't
NEARLY ONE out of three workers in the world's labour force either
has no job or is earning too little to live decently, the
International Labour Organisation reports. The United Nations
organisation calls the situation "the worst global employment criosis
since the Great Depression of the 1930s". The ILO said 120 million
people are registered as unemployed around the world and millions
more are either tired of looking for work or never bothered to
register.
"Practically half of the 35 million unemployed workers in Western
Europe have been off the employment rolls for a year or more", said
ILO Director General, Michael Hansenne. His report estimates another
700 million are underemployed, earning less than needed to support a
minimum standard of living.
According to UN figures, the average income of the world's 5.5
billion people may have fallen slightly in 1993 - for the fourth year
in a row.
Source: Industrial Worker
From Workers Solidarity No43, 1994