Global Economic Justice Campaigns
What we’re asking of the G8 this summer
This July, the G8 will be meeting in Japan. The TUC is calling on trade unionists to make their voice heard by signing up to the “tanabata” action, which will send four key messages to world leaders on aid, climate change, health and education.
You can make your voice heard online at http://www.tuc.org.uk/international/tuc-14826-f0.cfm or you can do it in Second Life TM – see how at http://www.tuc.org.uk/international/tuc-14871-f0.cfm
By taking part, you will be backing up the demands which the TUC and other campaign groups are lobbying for. More detailed policy asks are set out in the Global Call to Action Against Poverty common position (see www.tuc.org.uk/tuc-14909-f0.cfm) or the trade union-specific demands of the Global Unions at www.tuac.org/en/public/e-docs/00/00/02/30/document_doc.phtml
We are calling on the G8 to:
- Increase the number of teachers in the global south by 18 million by 2015;
- Increase by 4.25 million the number of health workers needed around the world;
- Create green jobs and provide people working in dirty industries with ‘just transition’ to cleaner work;
- Put decent work at the heart of development strategies, including the core labour standards of the ILO; and
- Provide more and better aid, an end to debt, and trade justice.
The most recent documents available on this subject are:
Challenges at the G8: TUC calls for action by Gordon Brown
TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber has asked Prime Minister Gordon Brown to focus on job creation, action on global poverty and on climate change when he goes to the G8 next month in Italy.
PDF version available for download
26 June 2009
Brendan Barber addresses ILO conference on jobs crisis
TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber warned the ILO Conference in Geneva against complacency and urged the building of a green economy out of the ruins of the greed economy. He was speaking in the ILO high level debate on the Global Jobs Pact requested by the London G20 Leaders Summit, alongside President Sarkozy of France and President Kirchner of Argentina.
PDF version available for download
15 June 2009
Sharan Burrow's speech to the Put People First Rally
International Trade Union Confederation President Sharan Burrow addressed the top bankers at the Put People First Rally: 'Here's a news flash from working people around the world: the party is over! The global financial crisis has demonstrated once and for all that unfettered markets don't work. They don't work for the economy, and they do nothing for workers and their families.' (28 March 2009)
28 March 2009
TRADE UNION DELEGATES TO ‘TWEET' BARACK AND BROWN ON EVE OF G20 SUMMIT
Delegates at the North West TUC Annual Conference are to 'tweet' Grodon Brown and Barack Obama, asking the G20 to 'Put People First'
26 March 2009
G20 Summit open letter - Impact on women
On the eve of the G20 summit, we urge world leaders to commit to addressing the disproportionate impact of the financial crisis and global recession on women, in both rich and poor countries.
Without concrete action millions of women will fall into poverty and millions more will see their hard-won rights and legal protections eroded.
Frances O'Grady, TUC Deputy General Secretary, signed this along with many other Put People First supporting organisations
26 March 2009
Brendan Barber: why we are marching for jobs, justice and climate
TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber spoke at a Rights and Humanity Emergency meeting on Monday 23 February calling for radical solutions to the global crisis and explaining why trade unionists and others will be demonstrating ahead of the G20 on 28 March.
PDF version available for download
24 February 2009
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