TUAC NEWS
Trade unions call for more effective implementation of OECD MNE Guidelines by National Contact Points
20/06/2007
In preparation of the 2007 Annual Meeting of National Contact Points (NCPs), TUAC has submitted an analysis of NCPs focusing on the US, Dutch, French, Korean, UK and Japanese NCPs given that they have received almost two thirds of the more than 80 cases raised by trade unions under the OECD Guidelines for MNEs since 2000.
The NCPs in Japan, Korea and the US account for about one third of the cases submitted by trade unions. However, these NCPs have not managed to help resolve one single case to the satisfaction of the trade union raising the case.
The paper argues that the most effective NCPs are those that are tri- or quadripartite (ie they include unions, business and in some case NGOs).