Thailand’s OECD bid: trade unions tell governments the labour rights gap must close
Thailand’s bid to join the OECD is a real opportunity to advance labour rights, Thai trade unions told OECD delegates at a TUAC briefing on 16 October. At present, barely 1.3% of people in work belong to a union, and Thailand has ratified neither of the ILO conventions on freedom of association ...
How collective bargaining is shaping the rules of AI at work
By Veronica Nilsson, General Secretary of the Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD (TUAC), and PierPaolo Bombardieri, General Secretary of the Unione Italiana del Lavoro (UIL). From mechanisation to electrification to digitalisation, workers have had to organise and fight for their share of ...
TUAC hosts Steve Keen on why getting climate risk right matters for workers
TUAC welcomed economist Steve Keen, Honorary Professor at University College London, to its Working Group on Economic Policy in Paris on 13 October for a discussion on how the economic consequences of climate change are modelled – and what this means for workers. At stake for trade unions is how ...
