07 December 2017
Digital Divides
What are digital divides? Digital divides refer to the unequal access (or lack of access) to information and communication technology (ICT) across countries, regions or certain sections of the society like low-income earners, rural populations, women, youth or migrants. The global digital divide ...
28 November 2017
OECD Economic Outlook: Back to Supply-Side Economics?
The key message from the OECD Economic Outlook published today, is for governments to engage “renewed” and “deeper” structural reforms – trade liberalisation and de-regulation, to raise business profitability over so-called “hurdle rates”, which is estimated at no less 14%, and ...
27 November 2017
PISA: Collaborative Problem Solving
Report link Collaborative problem solving was an additional optional assessment introduced for PISA 2015. A large number of countries adopted it as an additional assessment. PISA 2015 defines collaborative problem solving as the capacity of an individual to effectively engage in a process whereby ...
14 November 2017
Shaping the introduction of AI for the benefit of all
TUAC Briefing on the OECD Conference on Artificial Intelligence Paris, 26-27 October 2017 ...
03 November 2017
Trade unions at the OECD DAC High Level Meeting 2017
Trade unions, through TUAC and the TUDCN, recently took part in the annual High Level Meeting (HLM) of the OECD’s Development Assistance Committee (DAC), which took place in Paris on 30-31 October 2017. Trade union participation at the HLM as observers has been standard practice in recent years. ...
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 ...
