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:
G20 Finance Ministers urged to put jobs and climate first
TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber has written to the Chancellor of the Exchequer Alastair Darling MP calling on him to use the G20 Finance Ministers' meeting in St Andrews this weekend to push for further change to prevent any return to business as usual. As part of a global trade union lobbying campaign, the TUC has endorsed the statement of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) and the Trade Union Advisory Committee (TUAC).
PDF version available for download
3 November 2009
TUC and DFID sign Programme Partnership Arrangement
On 3 July, the TUC signed a £2.4 million Programme Partnership Arrangement (PPA) with the Department for International Development (DFID) which will run until 31 March 2011.
The TUC's PPA purpose is to achieve:
Reduced poverty and increased rights of workers in developing countries through greater support for and strengthened capacity of developing country trade unions.
4 August 2009
Just transformation: for jobs, justice, climate (summary)
Today, Monday 6 July, the Department for International Development will launch its White Paper. In May, the TUC submitted a comprehensive input to the consultation exercise. The summary sets out a twelve-point plan for turning DFID from an aid department to a development department, transforming the lives of poor people globally by tackling the challenges of global economic crisis, climate change and conflict, and by reforming the world's international institutions.
PDF version available for download
6 July 2009
Just transformation: for jobs, justice, climate
The full TUC submission to the Department for International Development's white paper consultation exercise. Submitted in May 2009, it sets out twelve crucial steps that DFID could take to address the global economic crisis, climate change, conflict and the international institutions.
PDF version available for download
6 July 2009
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
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