CONFERENCE on Work-free Sundays and Decent Work

The European Sunday Alliance calls on all it’s Members and Supporters to support the Campaign

“Pledge for a work-free Sunday and decent work ahead of the European elections 2014”

A work-free Sunday and decent working hours are of paramount importance for citizens and workers throughout Europe and are not necessarily in conflict with economic competitiveness.

Especially in the present time of socio-economic crisis, the adoption of legislation extending working hours to late evenings, nights, bank holidays and Sundays has direct consequences for the working conditions of employees and for small and medium sized enterprises. Competitiveness needs innovation, innovation needs creativity and creativity needs recreation!

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Don Bosco International is an international NGO based in Brussels that  provides a platform for a fruitful dialogue between the religious congregation of the Salesians of Don Bosco and the international organizations in Europe, particularly those interacting with the main European institutions. Like all the organisations in the Salesian network the world over, DBI was set up to serve, defend and advocate with and for young people, in particular those who are poor, abandoned and in danger, young migrants, those who are at risk or disadvantaged, securing their right to education and actively addressing issues of poverty, social exclusion and discrimination while promoting children’s rights and the integral development of the human person. Its methods of operation are based on Don Bosco’s preventive system. Don Bosco International is part of a network of Salesian partners present in 14 EU Member States and Croatia, that when taken together run 406 educational centres serving 182,500 students in formal education and countless other young people within the various structures set up for the young people’s benefit. www.sdb.org

The European Sunday Alliance can count on strong support from Spain. 12 new organizations have joined the Alliance:

Justicia y Paz de España, Federación de Movimientos de Acción Católica Española, Acción Católica General (ACG), Juventud Obrera Cristiana (JOC), Juventud Estudiante Católica (JEC), Mujeres Trabajadoras Cristianas (MTC), Profesionales Cristianos (PX), Movimiento de Jóvenes Rurales Cristianos (MJRC), Movimiento Rural Cristiano (MRC), Hermandad Obrera de Acción Católica (HOAC), Fraternidad  Cristiana de personas con discapacidad de España (Frater), Hermandades del Trabajo and the ACO (Acción Católica Obrera).

The European Sunday Alliance welcomes its new members and is looking forward to future cooperation with them!