TUAC - TRADE UNION ADVISORY COMMITTEE TO THE OECD

08/09/2008

UK union group "Unions 21" has published a TUAC discussion paper on "Organising  workers globally, the need for public policy to regulate investment". The paper was launched at the TUC Congress in Brighton at a fringe meeting on 9 September that included John Monks of the ETUC, Denise Morgan of UNI-Europa and John Evans of TUAC.

The paper points to growing income inequality globally and links this to weakened bargaining power of unions as a result of financialisation and the growth of global supply chains. The response must be to strengthen the instruments to protect workers' rights such as the OECD Guidelines on Multinational Enterprises.

The report is attached.