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Young workers reinventing tomorrow's world of work!
Charter
of demands
Our
society is going through changes so profound that they are completely
transforming the job market. If present trends continue, only a
minority will have access to stable, skilled and well-paid work,
while the majority will go from one badly-paid temporary post to the
next, with little security or social protection. A considerable
proportion of the population will find itself in an even worse
situation, completely excluded from the universe of production and
consumption, with no possibility to ever escape its situation.
The
main problem of our society is that its wealth is concentrated in
ever fewer hands.
We believe it is urgent
that wealth and work should be shared, in order to provide work for
all. Therefore working time should be reduced without loss of wages.
This is based on the principle that everyone has the right to live in
dignity.
The
demands made in this charter have been drawn from the experiences of
thousands of young Europeans, and are the result of the work on our
campaign during the last three years: "Young workers reinventing
tomorrow's world of work!"
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Bill of demands for vocational training |
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 The demands made in this bill have been drawn from the experiences of thousands of young Europeans.
These experiences make us think that it is possible to build a society with a more human face, a society of solidarity in which you, I and others can be happy and develop our abilities. We are young people from working-class backgrounds, aged between 15 and 30. We invite everyone who wishes to contribute to designing better vocational training for the future to join us so that we can reflect on the subject together. We wish to involve the people with political responsibility for vocational training in our discussions. We also want to involve youth organizations, who know how important it is that all should participate in building our common future.
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A. Who we are  The YCW is an international Movement of young workers, for young workers, run by young workers. In the YCW, young people learn through action, to analyse, evaluate, and thus to understand their situations, in order to change them and see them in a wider context.
For the past three years, YCW Europe's work has taken the form of a broad campaign against social exclusion and for an intercultural society. Many of our local actions and projects have been able to identify the problems we, as young people, experience on a day-to-day basis and to develop alternatives. The experience gained through the local actions and projects has been pooled and discussed at national and European level. This process has also helped us to arrive at a more concrete definition of what we mean by social exclusion and an intercultural society. B. What we say The aim of this list of demands is to express our deepest aspirations as young people: The desire for freedom, for friendship, to be an important part of society and to experience intercultural living. Our demands and observations stem from our local actions and projects. We would compare our society to a train rushing ever faster down a track, with many of its passengers fearing that it might be hurtling in the wrong direction. Economy and politics try to find a solution by increasing the speed. We are looking for a new direction, a new track towards the future. We believe in young people's ability to shape their own lives and to contribute to shaping society. Young people are individuals with their own personalities, dreams and aspirations, and they need the chance to translate them into reality. |
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Demands of the JOC-Europe |
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 The YCW is an international Movement of young workers, for young workers, run by young workers. In the YCW, young people learn through action, to analyse, evaluate, and thus to understand their situations so that they can place them in a wider context and take action to change them.
In recent years YCW Europe's work has taken the form of a broad campaign against social exclusion and for an intercultural society. Through many of our local actions and projects, we have been able to identify the problems we young people experience on a day-to-day basis and to develop alternatives. The experience gained through the local actions and projects has been pooled and discussed at national and European levels. This process also helped us to arrive at a more concrete definition of what we mean by social exclusion and an intercultural society. Using the knowledge gained from pooling all our local actions we have developed this Bill of Demands, which voices the aspirations we young workers most cherish. |
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Demands 
