News

Few assumptions die harder than the idea that deregulation is necessary to boost economic growth. On the contrary, TUAC argues that insufficient regulation in the financial sector could trigger another financial crisis and a global economic recession, as happened in 2007-08.  That argument opened ...

TUAC pressed for stronger labour rights throughout the AI value chain at the OECD’s 7th Policy Dialogue on Social Protection and Development on 3 November. Trade unions warn that digital platform workers and data annotation workers face obstacles to freedom of association and collective ...

Raising a labour rights complaint against a company under the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises on Responsible Business Conduct does not require legal counsel and can cover violations anywhere in its supply chain. TUAC’s new Trade Union Guide is practical guidance for workers and ...

TUAC welcomes the OECD Guidance on Reducing Poverty and Inequalities through Development Co-operation, launched on 19 October, which sets out how decent jobs and strong labour institutions should be central to poverty eradication and inequality reduction strategies. Four in ten workers in ...

Thailand’s bid to join the OECD is a real opportunity to advance labour rights, Thai trade unions told OECD delegates at a TUAC briefing on 16 October. At present, barely 1.3% of people in work belong to a union, and Thailand has ratified neither of the ILO conventions on freedom of association ...

By Veronica Nilsson, General Secretary of the Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD (TUAC), and PierPaolo Bombardieri, General Secretary of the Unione Italiana del Lavoro (UIL). From mechanisation to electrification to digitalisation, workers have had to organise and fight for their share of ...

TUAC welcomed economist Steve Keen, Honorary Professor at University College London, to its Working Group on Economic Policy in Paris on 13 October for a discussion on how the economic consequences of climate change are modelled – and what this means for workers. At stake for trade unions is how ...

Only 31% of people across OECD countries believe the political system lets people like them have a say, according to the OECD’s 2026 Trust Survey, and those who feel they have no say trust their national government far less. At the OECD Global Forum on Building Trust and Reinforcing Democracy on ...

The OECD and governments across Latin America and the Caribbean have committed to tackling informality, which keeps nearly half the region’s workers outside the formal economy. This becomes even more urgent as AI advances. ILO and World Bank analysis shows that the jobs most exposed to AI ...

Trade unions are calling on governments to invest in teachers’ pay and working conditions and to tackle inequality in learning, in response to the OECD’s Education at a Glance 2026. The report shows teacher shortages putting education systems under pressure, and inequality persisting ...

The Paris Agreement calls a just transition of the workforce an “imperative” – and a new TUAC policy brief, Responsible Business Conduct for a Just Transition, published today, gives workers and their unions concrete guidance to negotiate one at company level. It shows how the OECD ...

TUAC questions the description of a “resilient” global economy in the OECD’s Interim Economic Outlook, published on 23 September, warning that headline growth hides a narrower, less equal picture: investment is piling into AI while workers’ real incomes face renewed ...