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The working paper from OECD’s Well-being, Inclusion, Sustainability and Equal Opportunity Centre (WISE) that was released on 24 April 2023 compares the different methodologies that are being used to calculate a living wage, in other words a wage that allows workers to reach a basic decent ...

G7 Employment and Labour Ministers met in Kurashiki, Japan, on 22-23 April 2023 to negotiate and adopt the Declaration ‘Investing in Human Capital’. In a context of high geopolitical uncertainty, the cost-of-living crisis, and a global economic slowdown affecting millions of workers, it is ...

The CGU, on behalf of the 200 million workers around the world we represent, expresses its unwavering solidarity with Elizabeth Tang, General Secretary of the International Domestic Workers’ Federation (IDWF), who has been subjected to alleged charges of collusion and arrest by the Hong ...

The OECD recently published its interim report on the economic outlook, expecting economic growth to gradually recover from the negative shocks suffered over the last year. A closer analysis of the interim report  by TUAC reveals that, two years after the pandemic, OECD economies are still ...

Labour 7 urges the G7 to support wage increases and access to social protection Trade unions from Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, UK and USA met in Tokyo yesterday and today, ahead of the G7 Labour and Employment Ministerial Meeting to present their concerns and proposals to the Japanese ...

The cost-of-living crisis is hitting workers hard. Wages are having a hard even impossible time in trying to catch up with inflation. Real wages are falling across all OECD countries. Hiding behind the cost-of-living crisis is a deeper story. It is the story of businesses using shocks in energy and ...

Trade unions representing millions of workers took part in discussions with the OECD on responsible business conduct on 27-28 March. Union officials from eleven OECD countries and global union federations representing workers in transportation, manufacturing, mining, infrastructure and construction ...

Trade unions representing millions of workers took part in discussions with the OECD on responsible business conduct on 27-28 March. Union officials from eleven OECD countries and global union federations representing workers in transportation, manufacturing, mining, infrastructure and construction ...

TUAC, IndustriALL Global, and industriAll Europe insist that the impact on steel workers must be at the centre of the debate whether discussing the condition of the steel industry in Ukraine, the decarbonisation of the steel sector globally or the state of international trade. Steel workers must be ...

On International Women’s Day OECD rightly point to the gender pay gap of over 11% across OECD countries . What they don’t point is fact that collective bargaining – negotiations between unions and employers – reduces the gender pay gap. But other OECD publications do confirm ...

TUAC calls on the Government of Tunisia, in a joint action with the Global Council of Unions, to end immediately its persecution of trade union leaders and members respect trade union rights and the international conventions ratified by the Tunisian State as well as the provisions of the Tunisian ...

Ahead of the OECD Ministerial meeting on responsible business conduct on 14-15 February, trade unions call on Ministers to empower workers to end poverty pay and unacceptable working conditions. The Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD (TUAC) encourages governments to back the updates ...