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:

TUC solidarity with South African miners

TUC Assistant General Secretary Kay Carberry's speech to Action for Southern Africa (ACTSA) on the situation in South Africa's mining industry

PDF version available for download
3 November 2012
ACT NOW! Help the Kenyan trade unionist fined for backing his members on strike

The TUC is backing a global union appeal to help pay a fine and other legal costs imposed on Kenyan union leader Francis Atwoli for backing his members on strike. The Going to Work website provides the chance to make individual donations through Pay-...

PDF version available for download
25 October 2012
Playfair2012 project and campaign Completion Report

This is the formal completion report for the Playfair2012 project and campaign, carried out from 2009-2012 with funding from the Department for International Development

PDF version available for download
10 October 2012
Global civil society letter to World Bank head on Robin Hood Tax

58 civil society organisations - including the TUC - have written to new World Bank head Dr Jim Kim, urging him to support a Robin Hood Tax to help raise funds for international development.

PDF version available for download
9 October 2012
How we made London2012 the most ethical Olympics so far

This document reports on the three-year Playfair2012 project and campaign which concluded when the London Olympics and Paralympic Games ended this summer.

PDF version available for download
9 October 2012
World Bank Jobs Report: detailed analysis

The International Trade Union Confederation has mostly welcomed the World Bank's 2013 World Development Report, launched on 1 October. Here, Peter Bakvis, at the Global Unions Washington office, has produced a more detailed initial analysis.

PDF version available for download
2 October 2012



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