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Version française à la suite  At their meeting on 26 February, G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors committed to maintain the exceptional support measures in face of the Covid-19 pandemic and took steps toward G20 actions on “equitable access” to vaccine and treatments, on ...

The OECD is about to embark on a new path as it selects its next Secretary General and drafts a vision statement for the decade to come. This is a decisive moment as the organisation could continue to develop its leadership on inclusive and sustainable growth, or fall back to a ‘growth at all ...

Global Unions Joint Statement Ten Global Unions representing more than 200 million workers from across the world call on unions globally to ramp up pressure on governments and corporations to target the commercial interests of the Myanmar military junta. We urge trade unions and workers around the ...

John Joseph Sweeney who served as President of AFL-CIO from 1995-2009 and TUAC President from 2000-2010 died yesterday at the age of 86 years. Born in the Bronx, New York, as a son of Irish immigrants in 1934, he was from a young age committed to trade unionism and the needs of working people. John ...

The Turkish Metal Workers Union, BİRLESİK METAL-İŞ  filed a specific instance with the Sweden National Contact Point of the OECD.  The submission under the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises is the latest NCP complaint to address industrial relations issues arising out of the ...

The National Union of Banking Employees (NUBE) filed a specific instance with the UK National Contact Point of the OECD.  The submission under the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises is the second NCP complaint to address issues arising out of the Covid-19 pandemic. The union alleges ...

Today on 16 December, the TUAC met with OECD Ambassadors and the OECD Secretary General at the annual TUAC-OECD Liaison Committee Meeting (LCM). This year the meeting took place virtually in the shadow of the Covid-19 crisis and the upcoming the leadership transition  at  the OECD in 2021, ...

Today on 16 December, the TUAC met with OECD Ambassadors and the OECD Secretary General at the annual TUAC-OECD Liaison Committee Meeting (LCM). This year the meeting took place virtually in the shadow of the Covid-19 crisis and the upcoming the leadership transition  at  the OECD in 2021, ...

TUAC welcomes the opportunity to contribute to the OECD consultation on Pillar One and Pillar Two Blueprints. This publication follows the November 2019 consultation on a proposed unified approach to address the tax challenges of the digitalisation of the economy, and the December 2019 consultation ...

The TUAC welcomes the launch of the report as part of the OECD commemorating its  the 60th Anniversary,  “National Contact Points Providing Access to Remedy: 20 years later and the road ahead.”  Trade unions acknowledge the potential value in the NCP and take this opportunity to reflect on ...

Meeting in London in November 2018, the TUAC Working Group on Economic Policy (WGEP) discussed the changing nature of globalisation – “a runaway train breaking the post-war social contract”, pushing people towards an inward-looking agenda, populism and general anti-political sentiment. At the ...

(Version française ci-dessous) The Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD (TUAC) joins the ITUC and more than 20 global organisations calling for an urgent commitment to create a global standard for centralised, public beneficial ownership registers.  The Joint Appeal is submitted to the ...