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.
2nd Joint OECD-DAC and Trade Union Forum, Paris, 14 December 2015
The 2nd Joint OECD-DAC and Trade Union Forum took place in Paris on Monday 14 December 2015, on the topic “Donors and labour movement strategies to implement the UN 2030 Agenda”. At the September 2015 UN General Assembly, Heads of State adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The ...
