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TUAC has today published a critical assessment of Argentina’s bid for OECD membership, raising serious concerns about the government’s recent attacks on workers’ rights and social dialogue. Based on extensive consultation with Argentinian trade unions, the report reveals a ...

Two Latin American trade union confederations joined TUAC on the 16th December. The Confederación de Trabajadores Rerum Novarum (CTRN) of Costa Rica and the Central Autónoma de Trabajadores del Perú (CATP) became official TUAC affiliates at the 155th Plenary Session. These new affiliations ...

TUAC and OECD Watch have issued a joint statement welcoming the OECD Investment Committee’s decision that Export Credit Agencies (ECAs) can be held accountable for their links to labour rights, human rights, and environmental rights violations. ECAs — government-backed institutions that ...

TUAC seriously doubts the OECD’s analysis in its latest Economic Outlook and rejects its key recommendations on macroeconomic policy. TUAC is sceptical of the OECD’s assumption that the global economy and labour markets are resilient enough to withstand a return to fiscal austerity and ...

The OECD Pensions Outlook 2024 dives into pensions based on assets, encouraging higher reliance on equity markets, without adequately assessing the risks. Pension assets have increased to USD 56 trillion globally, three times their volume two decades ago, now representing 55% of GDP in advanced ...

The OECD’s recently launched Digital Economy Outlook contains calls for affordable or free training programmes, tackling the digital gender gap and engaging with trade unions on skills. The OECD calls on the governments to: • Provide “access to affordable or free training programmes and ...

Trade unions welcome key elements of the G20 Rio de Janeiro Leaders’ Declaration but call for concrete actions on urgent global challenges. The Declaration includes commitments to multilateralism, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and the fight against inequalities but falls short in ...

TUAC, IndustriALL Global Union and industriAll Europe expressed their profound concern about the cumulative loss of tens of thousands of jobs in the steel sector and related industries, globally, and many more currently on the line. The trade union representatives attending the OECD Steel Committee ...

This year’s OECD How’s Life publication comes at a time when economies and societies have yet to fully recover from the COVID-19 pandemic and cost-of-living crisis, and stresses that traditional economic indicators such as GDP or average income are only part of the whole story. The report ...

A new publication from the OECD highlights that the labour market in Spain showed substantially more resilience during the COVID-19 crisis compared to the global financial crisis. Whereas unemployment in the earlier crisis skyrocketed by 18 percentage points, it only increased modestly by 3 ...

TUAC and national union centres significantly stepped up their engagement with the work of the OECD in Latin America this week. The OECD is increasingly involved in Latin America and the Caribbean, one of the most unequal regions in the world. Almost one in three people in Latin America live in ...

Peruvian trade union leader, Paula Aliaga, General Secretary of the Central Autónoma de Trabajadores del Perú (CATP), today called on the OECD to insist and ensure that Peru joining the OECD leads to respect for fundamental labour rights and results in improvements in employment conditions for ...