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On the eve of the 2026 OECD Ministerial Council Meeting, TUAC convened a high-level dialogue on tackling inequality through fairer taxation, bringing economist Gabriel Zucman together with OECD Secretary-General Mathias Cormann, TUC General Secretary Paul Nowak and Honorary ACV-CSC President Marc ...

TUAC warns that the latest OECD Economic Outlook, released amid the closure of the Strait of Hormuz and the US-Iran conflict, confirms a deeply troubling pattern: for the second time in four years, workers face an energy-driven cost-of-living crisis while governments repeat the same policy ...

TUAC welcomes the launch of a new OECD tool on Responsible Business Conduct for a Just Transition, providing concrete guidance on how multinational enterprises should prevent, address and remedy the potential adverse social impacts of climate action in line with the OECD Guidelines. The stakes ...

Trade unions from G7 countries convened in Paris on 5 May for the 2026 Labour 7 Summit, warning ministers on the eve of the G7 Trade Ministerial: the French presidency’s goal of addressing global imbalances cannot succeed without placing workers’ rights and decent jobs at the centre of ...

At the 6th OECD Skills Summit in Istanbul on 27-28 April, TUAC challenged governments to build skills policy around workers’ participation and social dialogue, warning that responses to structural changes currently underway will only deliver shared prosperity and inclusive growth if they are ...

TUAC and its affiliate KSBSI, with support from the OECD, held a joint workshop in Jakarta on 22–23 April to strengthen Indonesian trade unions’ ability to use the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises to defend workers’ rights, as the country – the first in Southeast ...

Tackling global imbalances means confronting the structural inequalities in income, wealth, and power at their root, trade unions argue in the 2026 Labour 7 (L7) statement launched on 16 April. The statement, released as L7 representatives and other G7 engagement groups met the French Foreign ...

TUAC has criticised the OECD’s new report on structural reforms, Foundations for Growth and Competitiveness 2026 (F4GC), for ignoring the interplay between demand, inequality and growth. Published on 9 April, F4GC replaces the long-standing Going for Growth series (2007–2023, G4G) and aims ...

Trade unions sounded the alarm at the OECD Steel Committee meeting in Paris on 23–24 March 2026, warning that growing global imbalances in the steel sector are putting jobs, industrial capacity and entire regions at risk. Leading a large trade union delegation at the meeting, TUAC, industriALL ...

The looming energy crisis shows that state-owned enterprises are indispensable instruments for tackling energy poverty, advancing just transition, and reducing inequality – and OECD governance frameworks must reflect this, TUAC argued at the OECD Working Party on State Owned Enterprises and ...

TUAC challenges the OECD’s macroeconomic response to the war in Iran, warning that the Interim Economic Outlook published on 26 March repeats the mistakes of the recent cost-of-living crisis by leaning on central banks to manage a supply-side shock that monetary policy cannot fix.  The ...

The Labour 20 (L20) group of unions has warned that the agenda emerging under the United States’ G20 Presidency risks increasing inequalities and undermining democracy and workers’ rights. ...