Development
Promoting labour rights and decent work is key to achieving Agenda 2030 and the sustainable development goals.
TUAC actively engages with the OECD’s Development Assistant Committee, which gathers some of the world’s biggest donors, to promote the role of trade unions as development partners, and to advocate for key policy priorities such as universal social protection, just transition, gender equality and respect for workers’ fundamental rights. Raising wages by organising workers and through collective bargaining is essential to foster social cohesion and to reduce poverty and inequality.
TUAC’s work in this area is led by Martin Denis. For more information, please contact denis@tuac.org.
Download (1.12 MB)Trade Union Statement: OECD Countries must increase ODA and effective responses to save lives and livelihoods
The severity of the global crisis prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic calls for a strong and urgent response by the OECD. The TUAC and the ITUC Trade Union Development Cooperation Network welcome the Joint Statement of 9 April 2020 on the COVID-19 pandemic by the OECD Development Assistance Committee ...
TUAC on new OECD report: Urgent need to step up Official Development Assistance
On 10 December, the OECD published the 57th edition of the Development Co-operation Report. Despite positive trends like a record low number of people living in poverty, the report depicts a grim picture referencing wearying action in support of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, as well as ...
Trade Union-DAC Forum 2019 deals with Private Sector Finance, Climate Change & Transitioning beyond ODA
On 9 April, the 5th Trade Union–Development Assistance Committee (DAC) Forum was held under the overarching themes of the role of private finance and social dialogue in achieving the SDGs. The Trade Union–DAC Forum meets annually at the OECD and is co-organised by the TUAC and the ITUC Trade ...
Trade Union-DAC Forum 2019 deals with Private Sector Finance, Climate Change & Transitioning beyond ODA
On 9 April, the 5th Trade Union–Development Assistance Committee (DAC) Forum was held under the overarching themes of the role of private finance and social dialogue in achieving the SDGs. The Trade Union–DAC Forum meets annually at the OECD and is co-organised by the TUAC and the ITUC Trade ...
Private finance for development and the Sustainable Development Goals – Maintaining public leadership and ensuring private sector accountability
Last week the OECD hosted the second annual Private Finance for Sustainable Development Week (PF4SD Week). The week brought together stakeholders from the public and private sector, trade unions and civil society to discuss new approaches in using private finance to reach the Sustainable ...
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. ...
