Though the meeting discussed imperialism and inter-imperialist conflict it was limited by the horizon of Europe, maybe because the trade unionists from developing countries could not participate in an adequate number to articulate their concerns with strength. The global restructuring is being done in the framework of the global commodity chain - a network of the labour and production processes whose end result is the finished commodity. Capitalism today entails the detailed desegregation of stages of production and consumption across national boundaries, under the organizational structure of densely networked firms or enterprises. It is over this network and not necessarily in each firm or enterprise, in each global commodity chain, that the metropolitan capital is seeking control. The IMF, WB and WTO have put together a global system that allows flexibility to reorganize the global business along the global commodity chain.
Labour flexibility is an important component that is a concern of the trade unions.
In the first place this flexibility is possible because the dominant characteristic of labour is segmentation. Low global mobility of labour has restricted and so segmented labour within the political boundaries of countries. Within nations, various social institutions, both traditional and modern have a segmenting influence over the labour market. International capital needs labour flexibility to build a multi-tiered production chain with progressive low wages using the segmented labour market. This flexibility is required for the deployment of human resources in working practice and in wages.