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:
Global crisis could see women forced out of the workplace, warn European trade union women
Women could be forced out of the workplace and ‘back home' by the global financial crisis, say women trade unionists representing 30 million women workers in 43 countries across Europe. A statement on the global financial and economic crisis was adopted by the founding women's conference of the International Trade Union Confederation's pan-European regional council – stretching from the Azores to the Russian steppes. British trade unionists Gloria Mills (Unison) and Julia Neal (Association of Teachers and Lecturers) were delegates at the conference, along with Elena Crasta from the TUC. The statement challenges the assumption that the crisis will affect everyone equally, and stressed that women would bear the brunt of the damage to jobs, living standards and social protection.
PDF version available for download
31 October 2008
TUC Strategic Framework Partnership Arrangement with DFID: brief update
Three more trade unions have successfully submitted proposals to win funding, advice and training from the TUC's International Development Learning Fund (IDLF). The ALT, TSSA and the GMB's London and South East Region are now beginning projects that will end in the development of credible proposals to either DFID's Development Awareness Fund (DAF) or its Civil Society Challenge Fund (CSCF).
30 October 2008
Register now for “Going Global”, a TUC Union Learn Online course
“fascinating and refreshingly radical”
This course is an engaging introduction to the central role working people play in international development. From export processing zones to ship breaking, it covers practical examples of the problems and opportunities facing workers across the globe.
30 October 2008
WDDW2008: Trade union and human rights - speech by Shane Enright, Amnesty
Trade union rights are human rights, according to a speech by Amnesty International UK's Shane Enright given at the TUC on World Day for Decent Work 2008.
8 October 2008
WDDW2008: Decent Work and Core Labour Standards - Speech by Brendan Barber
Decent work and core labour standards are vital to making poverty history. Unless governments, NGOs and unions place a strong focus on work, all we are doing is providing endless charity. What people in the developing world really want is good jobs at good wages. This is the only long-term solution to global poverty, says TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber in a speech to the Tuesday 7 October 2008 World Day for Decent Work event at the TUC.
6 October 2008
WDDW2008: Decent Work and Development - Speech by Kay Carberry
The UK government's commitment to spend 0.7 percent of Gross National Income on aid cannot be relied on and needs to be defended as the economy enters difficult times, according to the TUC, in a speech by Assistant General Secretary Kay Carberry to the Tuesday 7 October 2008 World Day for Decent Work event at the TUC.
PDF version available for download
6 October 2008
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