Economic policy
TUAC represents the voice of labour in the international economic policy debate. Through its engagement at the OECD, TUAC fights for economic policies that create full employment and that give working people a fair share of the wealth they create.
This is done through our engagement on fiscal and monetary policy at the Economic Policy Committee and its Working Party on Macroeconomic and Structural Policy Analysis.
This work is led by Ronald Janssen, Filip Stefanovic and Adnan Habibija. For more information, please contact janssen@tuac.org, stefanovic@tuac.org and habibija@tuac.org.
10 years ago, TUAC released one of the first international trade union reaction to the financial crisis: “Bailing out financial capitalism: what
The fall of Lehman Brothers on 15 September 2008, precipitated the global financial crisis that had been looming with the “credit crunch” and the disintegration of the US subprime housing market since spring 2007. On 18 September 2008 – 10 years to this day, the TUAC released ...
Download (49.51 KB)TUAC Contributions to the 85th Session of the OECD Steel Committee meeting
TUAC, in partnership with Industri-ALL Global, submitted a written contribution on the OECD’s draft guidelines for subsidies and government support measures in the steel sector. A key message is that an excessive reliance on ‘market discipline’ does not allow to adequately ...
Implementation of the BEPS Action Plan – TUAC calls for action on the digital economy and for new tools on public reporting and measuring
Represented by Nolberto Diaz, General Secretary of the CUT Chile, the TUAC took part in stakeholder consultations at the meeting of the Inclusive Framework on BEPS, In Lima 27-28 June. The TUAC delivered four key messages: The need for better participation of trade union and civil society ...
Release of the OECD Economic Outlook 2018
The engines of sustainable growth are still missing: Time to change the Reform Agenda The OECD Economic Outlook released on the occasion of the 2018 Ministerial Council meeting carries the key message that we need “a different way to grow”. As the recovery in investment is not strong enough and ...
