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The major outcome the G20 Leaders’ Meeting in Buenos Aires (30 Nov – 1 Dec) is the very existence of a final declaration (“Building consensus for fair and sustainable development”). Considering trade tensions and disagreements on the climate agenda between G20 countries as well as ...

On Monday 3 December 2018, the OECD presented its 2018 Pensions Outlook. The overall message of the outlook is that pension reforms in the OECD over the last decade have left pension systems more financially sustainable. Yet, that has come at a cost for workers and working families, as the OECD ...

The TUAC holds its annual Liaison Committee with the OECD on 10 December. The discussions are based on a discussion paper on “Growth & Accountability Today, Just Transitions Tomorrow” – which can be downloaded in English, French & Spanish here. The debate held with OECD ...

The TUAC holds its annual Liaison Committee with the OECD on 10 December. The discussions are based on a discussion paper on “Growth & Accountability Today, Just Transitions Tomorrow” – which can be downloaded in English, French & Spanish here. The debate held with OECD ...

  The new Jobs Strategy launched today has the advantage of broadening the OECD’s approach. Its focus is no longer only on quantity, but also on the quality of jobs and on more equal outcomes. Besides providing helpful messages on macro-economic demand-side policy, the OECD now explicitly ...

On 29-30 November 2018, the TUAC took part in the OECD Global Forum on Competition and made a case for breaking up the dominant positions of online platforms. As monopsonies, online platforms have adverse effect on workers’ rights, and therefore consumers’ wealth. The TUAC made some ...

The Labour 20 Statement to the G20 sets out policy recommendations for leaders to take action to reduce inequality, raise minimum wages and strengthen collective bargaining and to make the digital economy work for all. The roadmap for the G20 has been set by the G20 Labour Ministers ...

On the 150th anniversary of the TUC and the 70th anniversary of the TUAC, a joint conference was organised in London on the 12th of November. Under the overarching theme of drawing the lessons from the 2008 Financial Crisis, speakers and participants discussed some of the big international economic ...

In its new edition of the Economic Outlook, the OECD is expecting a “soft landing” of the global economy as the latter is believed to already have reached its limits to expand much further. However, the OECD does not exclude a “sharper-than-expected-slowdown” resulting from the combined ...

At a recent meeting of the OECD Working Party on State Ownership and Privatisation Practices (14 November 2018), the TUAC submitted written comments on on-going OECD work on anti-corrution and integrity for state-owned enterprises and on privatisation.   The TUAC supports the OECD work on ...

On the occasion of the 40th session of the OECD Regional Development Policy Committee on 7 and 8 November 2018, the TUAC called upon the OECD to focus on social inclusion and just transitions in the run-up to a Regional Policy Ministerial in Spring 2019 which among others aims at defining broad ...

TUAC welcomes the opportunity to participate into the discussions of the “OECD investment week” (22-23 october). While international trade opening and foreign investment offer opportunities for growth and for job creation, there are a number of well-known downside risks if policies, both ...