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G20 Hamburg: Secure Jobs and Decent Wages Can Reduce Uncertainty and Stabilise Global Economy
05-07-2017
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. leaders, meeting in Hamburg for their annual Summit as high levels of geo-political uncertainty threaten democracies and working people, must put in place new rules for the global economy that deliver economic growth, secure jobs and decent wages.
L20 Unions Call for G20 Commitment to Fair Globalisation
17-05-2017
The 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 July must finally agree on conditions for fair globalisation, according to the inter-national trade union movement.
Labour 20: High expectations for the German G20 Presidency
09-01-2017
This Monday, shortly after the start of the German 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. Presidency, trade union representatives from the 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. countries officially kick off the accompanying Labour 20 (L20) process.
International Union Bodies Welcome G7 Pledges on Supply Chains, Climate and Tax
09-06-2015
International trade unions have welcomed key pledges made by the leaders of major global economies at the 2015 G7 Summit, while warning that public confidence in governments and business is waning and stronger action for sustainable economic growth is needed on a number of fronts.
German Food Workers fighting to end meat industry abuses
22-08-2013
The German Food and Allied Workers Union NGG has long demanded a legal minimum wage of EUR 8.50 in its campaign to end wage dumping. Meat packing companies, in particular, exploit the absence of a legal minimum wage by hiring workers from eastern Europe through agencies which pay poverty wages.

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04-07-2017 Statement L20 Statement to the G20 Hamburg Summit, 7-8 July 2017
17-05-2017 Statement L20 Statement to the G20 Labour and Employment Ministers’ meeting - Bad Neuenahr, Germany, 18-19 May 2017
17-05-2017 Letter Joint AFL-CIO/DGB letter about T-Mobile USA’s union-busting
29-03-2017 Statement L20 Proposals for German G20 Presidency, 2017
29-03-2017 Statement L20 Priorities for German G20 Presidency, 2017

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T-Mobile USA Workers Tell German Colleagues "We Expect Better from Deutsche Telekom"
21-04-2011
Workers from T-Mobile USA visit Germany to explain to their Deutsche Telekom/T-Mobile colleagues how the company treats its workforce - stress, illness and fear at work while T-Mobile USA continues its campaign to deny them union representation.
World Day for Decent Work 2009 Berlin
12-10-2009
World union leaders mobilisation at the Brandenburg Tor
WDDW 2009 in Berlin (7 October 2009)

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