World leaders will meet for the September G20
G20
The Group of Twenty, or G20, is a forum for international cooperation on the most important aspects of the international economic and financial agenda. It brings together 19 countries and the European Union, which together represent around 90% of global GDP, 80% of global trade and two thirds of the world’s population.
Summit in Hangzhou China as growth in the global economy contracts and the wage share of national income continues to fall.
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Trade unions call on G20 leaders to boost the wage share of national income -
Brexit put African economies at risk The British vote to cancel the UK’s membership to the European Union, known as Brexit, is being felt in African countries. -
Turkey: ITUC and ETUC Deeply Concerned at Government Purge Brussels, 26 July 2016 (ITUC/ETUC): The ITUC and ETUC have strongly condemned the failed coup in Turkey and offered our deepest condolences to the victims. Unconstitutional attempts – especially involving military force – to seize power and overthrow democracy are unacceptable. We call for the investigation and eventual prosecution of those responsible to be conducted in full respect of the rule of law. -
World Bank should uphold ILO standards in new labour safeguard The World Bank’s updated Environmental and Social Framework, a draft of which will be considered by the Bank’s executive board on 4 August, introduces a new labour standard that would, for the first time, require borrowing countries to comply with some basic workers’ rights and labour conditions in Bank-funded projects. -
Greece Braces for New Troika Onslaught on Workers’ Rights Greek workers are preparing for yet more attacks on their fundamental rights as the IMF/EU/European Central Bank ‘Troika’, at the urging of the IMF, prepares to impose a new round of cuts to minimum wages, weakening of laws protecting workers facing dismissal and further erosion of trade union rights as creditors position themselves in advance of an Autumn review of the “adjustment programme” for Greece.
Documents
Report ITUC Frontlines Poll 2016 - Special Topic: Global Supply Chains Report ITUC Frontlines Poll 2016 - Special Topic: Wages and Inequality Report ITUC Special Briefing - The Global Refugee Crisis Statement Statement by Global Unions’ to the 2016 Spring Meetings of the IMF and World Bank - Washington, 15-17 April 2016 Statement Joint statement on the official assessment of the sustainability compact