{"id":11277,"date":"2014-05-20T11:08:30","date_gmt":"2014-05-20T08:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sttk.qa.web-veistamo.fi\/?p=11277\/"},"modified":"2016-12-15T11:10:30","modified_gmt":"2016-12-15T09:10:30","slug":"education-enhances-democracy-and-civil-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sttk.staging.web-veistamo.fi\/en\/2014\/05\/20\/education-enhances-democracy-and-civil-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Education enhances democracy and civil rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All the congress themes of ITUC are important. However, STTK, the Finnish confederation of professionals, thinks that <strong>education must have a stronger presence on ITUC&#8217;s agenda.<\/strong> Education is the best way to support people&#8217;s opportunities to build their lives and promote their careers. It can help to <strong>promote sustainable development and equitable working life.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Good basic and vocational education<\/strong> is a solid foundation for increasing employment and eradicating poverty.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Education enhances democracy and civil rights.<\/strong> Literate, competent people are more prepared to look after their rights. Education, women&#8217;s literacy in particular, is also a central way to affect the excessive population growth.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The rapid technological development and competitiveness <\/strong>need educated employees. People who can learn new things and make progress. When technologies are quickly becoming outdated, <strong>life-long learning<\/strong> must be possible to all employees.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sustainable development requires competence<\/strong>. STTK wants to promote sustainable development <strong>economically, socially and ecologically. <\/strong>We are living in a world where the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. Sixty-five percent of the world&#8217;s population are living in great need, 14 % live in rich countries like Finland, and the gap is growing constantly.<\/p>\n<p>The unequal distribution of economic growth, and the concentration of assets on few do not stimulate growth in poor countries nor give hope to starving people. We must <strong>enhance politics that strives to decrease inequality<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>There is a need for <strong>strong political leaders<\/strong> who are committed to decisions with which environmental problems can be alleviated. We also need <strong>citizens who support<\/strong> these decisions. We need <strong>new kinds of production<\/strong> and we need to <strong>develop old production methods<\/strong> to be in line with sustainable development.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Working life <\/strong>must be developed so that the transition to production that is in line with sustainable development falls equally on employees who will have to change duties and occupations. <strong>A fair transition<\/strong> is the key term.<\/p>\n<p>Rome wasn&#8217;t built in a day, nor can we change over to sustainable development by a snap of fingers. <strong>We need long-term strategies of sustainable development. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>We need education<\/strong>, so that people get enough information to support their activities. Furthermore, we need practical cooperation structures. <strong>The European social dialogue model<\/strong> is well suited to reform working life along the lines of sustainable development. The social dialogue can help us solve problems better and manage the fast structural changes of working life.<\/p>\n<p><strong>STTK President Antti Palolas&#8217; speech\u00a0in the ITUC Congress in Berlin 20.5.2014<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All the congress themes of ITUC are important. 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