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TUAC called on policy makers to put care workers at the centre of technology decisions in healthcare at the OECD Forum on Gender Equality, held in Paris on 8–9 July. In a session on digital technologies, data and the future of the care economy, trade unions warned that new tools are no quick fix ...

Workers’ rights across Latin America and the Caribbean are in alarming decline. At the Ministerial Dialogue in Madrid on 1 July, TUAC challenged governments to ensure the OECD’s Regional Programme becomes a genuine force for protecting workers and tackling inequality.  Trade unions ...

The average unemployment rate across the OECD remains at a low of 4.9% in May 2026, according to the latest OECD Employment Outlook. TUAC warns that this apparent strength masks deeper challenges for workers. Signs of cooling are already emerging: unemployment rates are ticking up in many ...

Fifty years after governments committed to the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises, trade unions are making concrete and urgent demands to strengthen them. At the Anniversary Week on Responsible Business Conduct, the TUAC delegation – with delegates from the Americas and Europe – ...

TUAC has published a comprehensive policy brief dismantling the resurgent push for labour market deregulation across the OECD, marshalling a wide body of evidence, including the OECD’s own research, to contest the claim that weakening employment protection delivers growth. Trade unions argue ...

The Confédération des syndicats nationaux (CSN), a TUAC affiliate, filed a complaint with the Canadian National Contact Point (NCP) in November 2025 against Amazon Canada Fulfillment Services under the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises, with the support of Oxfam. Amazon had closed all ...

G7 labour ministers met on 9 June on the sidelines of the International Labour Conference to discuss coordinated responses to critical challenges including the development of artificial intelligence, extreme weather events, and decent work deficits in critical minerals supply chains. The Labour 7 ...

On the eve of the 2026 OECD Ministerial Council Meeting, TUAC convened a high-level dialogue on tackling inequality through fairer taxation, bringing economist Gabriel Zucman together with OECD Secretary-General Mathias Cormann, TUC General Secretary Paul Nowak and Honorary ACV-CSC President Marc ...

TUAC warns that the latest OECD Economic Outlook, released amid the closure of the Strait of Hormuz and the US-Iran conflict, confirms a deeply troubling pattern: for the second time in four years, workers face an energy-driven cost-of-living crisis while governments repeat the same policy ...

TUAC welcomes the launch of a new OECD tool on Responsible Business Conduct for a Just Transition, providing concrete guidance on how multinational enterprises should prevent, address and remedy the potential adverse social impacts of climate action in line with the OECD Guidelines. The stakes ...

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 ...