News

Trade unions from G7 countries convened in Paris on 5 May for the 2026 Labour 7 Summit, warning ministers on the eve of the G7 Trade Ministerial: the French presidency’s goal of addressing global imbalances cannot succeed without placing workers’ rights and decent jobs at the centre of ...

At the 6th OECD Skills Summit in Istanbul on 27-28 April, TUAC challenged governments to build skills policy around workers’ participation and social dialogue, warning that responses to structural changes currently underway will only deliver shared prosperity and inclusive growth if they are ...

TUAC and its affiliate KSBSI, with support from the OECD, held a joint workshop in Jakarta on 22–23 April to strengthen Indonesian trade unions’ ability to use the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises to defend workers’ rights, as the country – the first in Southeast ...

Tackling global imbalances means confronting the structural inequalities in income, wealth, and power at their root, trade unions argue in the 2026 Labour 7 (L7) statement launched on 16 April. The statement, released as L7 representatives and other G7 engagement groups met the French Foreign ...

TUAC has criticised the OECD’s new report on structural reforms, Foundations for Growth and Competitiveness 2026 (F4GC), for ignoring the interplay between demand, inequality and growth. Published on 9 April, F4GC replaces the long-standing Going for Growth series (2007–2023, G4G) and aims ...

Trade unions sounded the alarm at the OECD Steel Committee meeting in Paris on 23–24 March 2026, warning that growing global imbalances in the steel sector are putting jobs, industrial capacity and entire regions at risk. Leading a large trade union delegation at the meeting, TUAC, industriALL ...

The looming energy crisis shows that state-owned enterprises are indispensable instruments for tackling energy poverty, advancing just transition, and reducing inequality – and OECD governance frameworks must reflect this, TUAC argued at the OECD Working Party on State Owned Enterprises and ...

TUAC challenges the OECD’s macroeconomic response to the war in Iran, warning that the Interim Economic Outlook published on 26 March repeats the mistakes of the recent cost-of-living crisis by leaning on central banks to manage a supply-side shock that monetary policy cannot fix.  The ...

The Labour 20 (L20) group of unions has warned that the agenda emerging under the United States’ G20 Presidency risks increasing inequalities and undermining democracy and workers’ rights. ...

Trade unions have long called for active industrial policy to create quality jobs and sustainable growth. With industrial policy at the centre of this year’s OECD Ministerial Council Meeting (MCM), TUAC is pressing to ensure it delivers for workers.   The annual pre-MCM consultation in ...

Workers’ wages in half of OECD countries have yet to recover the ground lost since 2021, at the start of the post-pandemic inflation surge, according to the latest OECD Wage Bulletin published today. In 19 out of 37 countries analysed, real wages remain below their 2021 levels – ...

Trade unions welcome Indonesia’s development of mandatory human rights due diligence (HRDD) legislation as an important step forward for workers’ rights, while insisting on genuine union participation in shaping and implementing the new framework. On 2 February, President Prabowo ...