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OECD engagement and accession

As one of the OECD’s two institutional partners, TUAC has access to the OECD and its country delegations. TUAC participates in the annual OECD Ministerial Council Meeting and its pre-consultation organised by the country holding the presidency.

Another key event is the annual OECD-TUAC Liaison Committee Meeting, which is a forum for dialogue between TUAC, the OECD Secretary General and OECD ambassadors.

TUAC closely follows the OECD’s engagement and cooperation with non-members and provides input into the accession process for candidate countries.

MCMconsultation
15 September 2020

OECD Ministerial Council Consultation – TUAC calls for a roadmap for fair and sustainable recovery that people can trust / Consultation du Conseil de

(Version française ci-dessous) (Traducción al español a continuación) Today, a TUAC high-level delegation met with the OECD Secretary General, the Spanish chair of the upcoming Ministerial Council Meeting (MCM) and OECD Ambassadors at the annual MCM Consultations with Business at OECD and ...

10 June 2020

Remarks by Richard Trumka_OECD Ministerial Council Roundtable on Paths to Recovery and Macroeconomic Policies

General Secretary and Ministers, I am Richard Trumka, President of the TUAC, and in my country, the President of the AFL-CIO, America’s labor movement.  TUAC thanks the OECD for this moment to reflect on the Economic Outlook. The OECD Economic Outlook just delivered is sobering.   A decline of ...

COVID19 Statement News
10 June 2020

Delivering a recovery built on trust – TUAC Statement on the COVID-19 crisis and the future of the OECD / Pour une reprise fondée sur la confiance

(Version française ci-dessous) The envisaged GDP forecast for 2020 is dreadful: -7.1% at the global level, down to -9.1% in the OECD area. In these circumstances, unemployment in the OECD will almost double this year, from 5.4% in 2019 to 9.4% at the end of 2020. The recovery will be slow and ...