28 September 2017
L7 at G7 Labour Summit: Just Transition principles must underpin the Future of Work
Une version française se trouve ci-dessous G7 Labour Ministers are meeting in Turin (29 September – 1 October) to address the Future of Work as global anxieties about jobs and rising inequality between the 1% richest people and the rest of the population continue to grow.The 2017 ITUC Global ...
20 September 2017
The OECD re-affirms the need for stronger wages but fails to draw the necessary conclusions regarding the bargaining power of workers
The OECD’s key messages from its interim forecast published today is that the economic upturn is gaining momentum and becoming more synchronised across countries. Importantly, the OECD recognises that weak wage dynamics is as one of the major obstacles that is holding back growth and demand. ...
14 September 2017
Statement by Global Unions to the 2017 Annual Meetings of the IMF and World Bank
The OECD’s key messages from its interim forecast published today is that the economic upturn is gaining momentum and becoming more synchronised across countries. Importantly, the OECD recognises that weak wage dynamics is as one of the major obstacles that is holding back growth and demand. ...
11 July 2017
Global Unions Reaction to Hamburg G20 Summit
It was 19 to 1 on climate at the conclusion of the G20 Summit in Hamburg. The victory for Chancellor Merkel on securing a majority commitment to the Paris Agreement is a relief for the world, but it requires deep cuts in emissions and a commitment to ensure industrial transformation is accompanied ...
05 July 2017
G20 Hamburg: Secure Jobs and Decent Wages Can Reduce Uncertainty and Stabilise Global Economy
G20 leaders, meeting in Hamburg for their annual Summit as high levels of geo-political uncertainty threaten democracies and working people, must put in place new rules for the global economy that deliver economic growth, secure jobs and decent wages. The Labour 20 Statement from workers and trade ...
04 July 2017
L20 Statement to the G20 Hamburg Summit, 7-8 July 2017
The G20 Hamburg Summit is taking place after a year of backlash by voters against governments, institutions and the very functioning of economic systems, in particular against a global system that has done far more to liberalise and deregulate markets than to share the costs and benefits of ...
13 June 2017
OECD finds that centralised or coordinated collective bargaining strengthens labour markets
The 2017 Employment Outlook the OECD published today concludes that centralised and coordinated collective bargaining systems is one of the only two labour market institutions that work to keep unemployment under control when the economy is hit by a shock. In doing so, the OECD confirms trade union ...
10 June 2017
TUAC comments on the outcome of the MCM
The 2017 Employment Outlook the OECD published today concludes that centralised and coordinated collective bargaining systems is one of the only two labour market institutions that work to keep unemployment under control when the economy is hit by a shock. In doing so, the OECD confirms trade union ...
09 June 2017
Our jobs, our planet – Trade unions confirm their commitment to climate action ahead of the G7 environment summit
Ahead of the G7 environment ministers’ meeting, trade unions have released a declaration confirming their commitment to mobilise and support climate action at all levels, including through the implementation of the Paris Agreement. “Pulling out of the Paris climate agreement from ambitious ...
07 June 2017
Remarks of Richard Trumka President of the Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD and President of the AFL-CIO
Good morning everyone, and thank you to Angel, to Prime Minister Rasmussen and to the Panel. Let me begin by complimenting Catherine Mann and the team here at the OECD. The Economic Outlook for 2017 and the Stocktaking Paper for the Ministerial on Globalization really do grapple with the core ...
07 June 2017
HAS THE OECD JOINED THE CAMPAIGN FOR HIGHER WAGES?
HAS THE OECD JOINED THE CAMPAIGN FOR HIGHER WAGES? Trade unions tend to see wages not as a factor of competitiveness but as engine that drives demand, growth and jobs. The OECD Economic Outlook published today at the start of the Ministerial Council meeting supports this view. It confirms the link ...
31 May 2017
TRADE UNION MESSAGES AND INPUTS TO THE OECD WEEK 2017 / MESSAGES ET CONTRIBUTIONS DES SYNDICATS LORS DE LA SEMAINE 2017 DE L’OCDE
The 2017 Ministerial Council Meeting sets out to “make globalisation work… for all” and the preceding OECD Forum intends to “bridge divides”. This is necessary after a year of backlash against governments, institutions and the very functioning of economic systems. At the root of this ...
