20 December 2017
The Economics of Trade Unions: Recent Meta-Analysis on the Economic Impact of Trade Unions
A recent publication by Richard Freeman, Hristos Doucouligos and Patrice Laroche summarizes the available economic evidence on the effects of trade unions by using a meta-analysis. The latter allows presenting a median of all the estimated effects of trade unions across the wide range of studies. ...
14 December 2017
TUAC Liaison Committee with the OECD tackles the Future of Work, the Future of the Firm
The Liaison Committee Meeting (LCM) is an opportunity for the TUAC to exchange views with the OECD Council and the Secretariat on key policy issues and OECD initiatives. At the LCM 2017, the discussion centers on today’s and tomorrow’s employment challenges – the Future of Work – and the ...
11 December 2017
OECD Future of Work seminar: Concluding speech by Catelene Passchier
On the 11th of December, the OECD organized, in cooperation with the Dutch Delegation to the OECD, a seminar on the future of work and the future of collective bargaining. Read here the concluding speech from Catelene Passchier, chair of the workers’ group in the ILO and special adviser ...
07 December 2017
Digital Divides
What are digital divides? Digital divides refer to the unequal access (or lack of access) to information and communication technology (ICT) across countries, regions or certain sections of the society like low-income earners, rural populations, women, youth or migrants. The global digital divide ...
28 November 2017
OECD Economic Outlook: Back to Supply-Side Economics?
The key message from the OECD Economic Outlook published today, is for governments to engage “renewed” and “deeper” structural reforms – trade liberalisation and de-regulation, to raise business profitability over so-called “hurdle rates”, which is estimated at no less 14%, and ...
27 November 2017
PISA: Collaborative Problem Solving
Report link Collaborative problem solving was an additional optional assessment introduced for PISA 2015. A large number of countries adopted it as an additional assessment. PISA 2015 defines collaborative problem solving as the capacity of an individual to effectively engage in a process whereby ...
14 November 2017
Shaping the introduction of AI for the benefit of all
TUAC Briefing on the OECD Conference on Artificial Intelligence Paris, 26-27 October 2017 ...
03 November 2017
Trade unions at the OECD DAC High Level Meeting 2017
Trade unions, through TUAC and the TUDCN, recently took part in the annual High Level Meeting (HLM) of the OECD’s Development Assistance Committee (DAC), which took place in Paris on 30-31 October 2017. Trade union participation at the HLM as observers has been standard practice in recent years. ...
28 September 2017
L7 at G7 Labour Summit: Just Transition principles must underpin the Future of Work
Une version française se trouve ci-dessous G7 Labour Ministers are meeting in Turin (29 September – 1 October) to address the Future of Work as global anxieties about jobs and rising inequality between the 1% richest people and the rest of the population continue to grow.The 2017 ITUC Global ...
20 September 2017
The OECD re-affirms the need for stronger wages but fails to draw the necessary conclusions regarding the bargaining power of workers
The OECD’s key messages from its interim forecast published today is that the economic upturn is gaining momentum and becoming more synchronised across countries. Importantly, the OECD recognises that weak wage dynamics is as one of the major obstacles that is holding back growth and demand. ...
14 September 2017
Statement by Global Unions to the 2017 Annual Meetings of the IMF and World Bank
The OECD’s key messages from its interim forecast published today is that the economic upturn is gaining momentum and becoming more synchronised across countries. Importantly, the OECD recognises that weak wage dynamics is as one of the major obstacles that is holding back growth and demand. ...
11 July 2017
Global Unions Reaction to Hamburg G20 Summit
It was 19 to 1 on climate at the conclusion of the G20 Summit in Hamburg. The victory for Chancellor Merkel on securing a majority commitment to the Paris Agreement is a relief for the world, but it requires deep cuts in emissions and a commitment to ensure industrial transformation is accompanied ...
