21 November 2018
TUAC comments on integrity in state-owned enterprises and privatisations
At a recent meeting of the OECD Working Party on State Ownership and Privatisation Practices (14 November 2018), the TUAC submitted written comments on on-going OECD work on anti-corrution and integrity for state-owned enterprises and on privatisation. The TUAC supports the OECD work on ...
13 November 2018
Bringing Social Inclusion at the Heart of the OECD Work
On the occasion of the 40th session of the OECD Regional Development Policy Committee on 7 and 8 November 2018, the TUAC called upon the OECD to focus on social inclusion and just transitions in the run-up to a Regional Policy Ministerial in Spring 2019 which among others aims at defining broad ...
02 November 2018
TUAC calls for a sustainable trade and investment agenda at the OECD/ Appel du TUAC à l’OCDE pour un agenda durable sur le commerce et
TUAC welcomes the opportunity to participate into the discussions of the “OECD investment week” (22-23 october). While international trade opening and foreign investment offer opportunities for growth and for job creation, there are a number of well-known downside risks if policies, both ...
02 November 2018
TUAC calls for enhancing the corporate governance agenda at the OECD/ Appel du TUAC à l’OCDE pour un agenda renforcé sur la gouvernance
On 16 october 2018, the TUAC held consultations with the OECD Committee on Corporate Governance and took part in a committee roundtable on compay group structures, together with the business counterpart the BIAC. The TUAC shared the following submission, the key policy messages being: Current ...
26 October 2018
OECD Focus on the Future of Work – TUAC Recommendations
To help frame the upcoming OECD “narrative” on the Future of Work (FoW) and the ongoing Going Digital Horizontal Project, the TUAC has developed a set of policy recommendations. They build on inputs from TUAC affiliates, the revised OECD Jobs Strategy, core ILO standards and OECD work on ...
04 October 2018
National strategies on work 4.0 & the role of trade unions – EESC Study
To help frame the upcoming OECD “narrative” on the Future of Work (FoW) and the ongoing Going Digital Horizontal Project, the TUAC has developed a set of policy recommendations. They build on inputs from TUAC affiliates, the revised OECD Jobs Strategy, core ILO standards and OECD work on ...
04 October 2018
National strategies on work 4.0 & the role of trade unions – EESC Study
To help frame the upcoming OECD “narrative” on the Future of Work (FoW) and the ongoing Going Digital Horizontal Project, the TUAC has developed a set of policy recommendations. They build on inputs from TUAC affiliates, the revised OECD Jobs Strategy, core ILO standards and OECD work on ...
27 September 2018
Artificial Intelligence (AI) – The OECD starts discussing general and policy principles
The OECD is moving ahead with its work on Artificial Intelligence (AI) towards developing a Council Recommendation in the course of 2019 and creating an AI observatory as a pillar of the second phase of the Going Digital project. On 24-25 September, the first meeting of the AI expert Group at the ...
20 September 2018
TUAC Assessment of the OECD Interim Outlook September 2018
Reacting to the OECD Interim Outlook released today, TUAC insists that it is not just high uncertainty from trade disputes but also pronounced inequality in the bargaining position between labour and capital that is weighing on global growth. The time has come for the OECD to include the latter in ...
19 September 2018
Education at a Glance 2018 – A TUAC Assessment
The OECD released its Education at a Glance (EAG) report on September 11 including a wealth of data on educational outcomes, lifelong learning and structural conditions (English: https://bit.ly/OECDEAG2018; French: https://bit.ly/21e9UxC). This year’s volume focussed on equity outcomes which is ...
19 September 2018
10 years ago, TUAC released one of the first international trade union reaction to the financial crisis: “Bailing out financial capitalism: what
The fall of Lehman Brothers on 15 September 2008, precipitated the global financial crisis that had been looming with the “credit crunch” and the disintegration of the US subprime housing market since spring 2007. On 18 September 2008 – 10 years to this day, the TUAC released ...
18 September 2018
TUAC Contributions to the 85th Session of the OECD Steel Committee meeting
TUAC, in partnership with Industri-ALL Global, submitted a written contribution on the OECD’s draft guidelines for subsidies and government support measures in the steel sector. A key message is that an excessive reliance on ‘market discipline’ does not allow to adequately ...
