Global crisis: ITUC & Global Unions statements and press releases
Updated list of weblinks to statements, press releases and other written crontributions published by ITUC and Global Union Federations following the deepening of the financial crisis in September 2008.
29/03/2009
This list is maintained by the TUAC Secretariat, please inform on any missing document, press release other written contribution at tuac@tuac.org . See also:
- Global crisis: list of trade union statements and press releases (main page)
- Global Crisis: Key websites and documents of the G20 Process
Dedicated webpages / blogs on the financial crisis and/or financialisation
ITUC's webpage http://www.ituc-csi.org/financialcrisis
The
IUF's Private Equity Buyout Watch
UNI's blog on Financial Crisis
PSI's Blog on the
financial crisis-
UNI's webpage on private equity
- 03/04/2009 Global New Deal for a new Fairness and a new respect for the planet
- 03/04/2009 G20 Summit: Progress on Jobs and a Chance for a New Globalisation
- 01/03/2009 G20 Summit: Encouraging Signs on Financial Regulation, Action Needed on Jobs and Global Governance
- 31/03/2009 G20: World’s Unions Call for Far-Reaching Urgent Action
- 30/03/2009 New ITUC Report: Global Food Crisis Set to Worsen
- 24/03/2009 G20: Support on Regulation but stimulus package unclear
- 23/03/2009 Trade Unions to G20: Half Measures Will Not Fix Broken Global Economy
- 30/01/2009 ITUC: Davos: World Unions Call for Action Against Corporate Grand Theft
- 29/01/2009 ITUC: Unions to Davos: Jobs the Missing Link
- 28/01/2009 ITUC: World Social Forum: Trade Unions Call for a
New Growth Model
- 18/01/2009 ITUC: Zoellick and Strauss-Kahn React to Unions’ Demands on Growing Global Employment Crisis
- 14/01/2009 ITUC: Global Trade Unions urge World Bank and IMF
to take further strong action against growing world-wide
unemployment
- 03/12/2008 ITUC: Doha Ministerial Conference Falls Short of Taking Decisive Action on Crises
- 21/11/2008 ITUC: Global Economic Crisis: G20 Declaration Insufficient, But Better News from the ILO
- 15/11/2008 ITUC: G20 Trade Union Leaders Meet with IFIs, Heads of State and Call for Vigorous Action to Counter the Global Economic Crisis
- 13/11/2008 ITUC: Economic Crisis: World’s Trade Unions Put Recovery and Reform Plan to G20
- 09/10/2008 ITUC: International and European union leaders call for crisis action from the G7 Finance Ministers
- 07/10/2008 ITUC-TUCA: Trade Union Statement on the International Financial Crisis and the WTO
- 06/10/2008 ITUC: Trade Unions Demand Effective Responses from the IMF and World Bank to Worsening Financial and Food Crises
- 30/09/2008 ITUC: The time has come
- 26/03/2009 IMF: Workshop on precarious employment urges action as financial crisis hits women, families hardest
- 26/03/2009 UNI's blog on Financial Crisis
- 26/03/2009 EI: Invest in education to mitigate economic crisis, EI leaders say
- 25/03/2009 UNI: Bank workers have the right to give good advice to customers
- 24/03/2009 EI leaders tackle economic crisis, other pressing issues
- 21/03/2009 IUFBuyoutWatch: Buy'em, Bleed'em, Buy'em Again Cheap: Could Debt-for-Equity Swaps Secure Continued PE-Ownership of Bankrupt Portfolio Companies?
- 20/03/2009 UNI Finance Policy on Reforming the Financial System
- 20/03/2009 UNI: Private equity goes under, down under
- 19/03/2009 PSI Global financial collapse highlights need for public water solutions
- 19/03/2009 UNI: Finance workers must be involved...they know why things go wrong!
- 18/03/2009 UNI Finance unions demonstrate around the world for financial reform
- 16/03/2009 EI: Put People First: Join the pre-G20 demonstration in London on 28 March!
- 13/03/2009 UNI: Economic Crisis on Women Workers
- 12/03/2009 UNI: Report on the future of retail banking
- 05/03/2009 EI: Economic crisis spurs fear of “WTO monster”
- 03/03/2009 UNI calls for social pillar in global economic recovery plan
- 02/03/2009 UNI: Private equity up for sale
- 27/02/2009 EI: Education should be in “The Global Deal” at the G20 Summit in London, 2 April 2009
- 25/02/2009 UNI: ILO meeting discusses financial crisis
- 23/02/2009 UNI calls for a social contract for finance workers
- 20/02/2009 IMF Executive discuss global crisis and the automotive industry
- 16/02/2009 UNI: Financial crisis hits the Caribbean
- 06/02/2009 UNI: Will private equity firms cut and run or stay and save during financial crisis?
- 06/02/2009 IUF: The Commissioner, 'Transparency', and Codes
of Conduct: the Last Refuge of a Scoundrel?
- 03/02/2009 UNI: In unprecedented step, UNI-Europa Finance
discusses financial crisis solutions with European private banks
and savings banks
- 30/01/2009 UNI condemns $18 billion in bonuses for ‘two-faced’ Wall Street bankers
- 29/01/2009 IUFBuyoutWatch: 'Wonderful Time, Wish You Were Here': US Buyout Funds Positioning to Profit from Potential New Tax Breaks
- 29/01/2009 UNI: “It’s about jobs, jobs, jobs,” said UNI’s Jennings at the World Economic Forum
- 28/01/2009 IMF: Creating sustainable employment is key to
crisis recovery
- 28/01/2009 EI: Labour movement proposes solutions in Davos
- 27/01/2009 UNI: Global Union message to World Economic Forum: Put people, jobs at centre of economic recovery plans
- 27/01/2009 IMF: "The workers should not pay for the
crisis"
- 26/01/2009 UNI: Global Union message to World Economic Forum:
End 'business as usual' practices
- 18/01/2009 EI: Defend MDGS against the economic crisis, EI
tells World Bank
- 16/12/2008 EI: Teacher unions tackle climate change, financial crisis
- 16/12/2008 UNI: Madoff fraud highlights the need for financial regulation
- 15/12/2008 IUF: The G20 and After – Questions for
Labour
- 03/12/2008 UNI: Lay offs begin in private equity firms
- 19/11/2008 IMF Executive debate financial crisis
- 18/11/2008 BWI World Board and Council in Geneva focus on global financial crisis and congress preparations
- 14/11/2008 PSI: Public Services key to ending the global financial crisis
- 12/11/2008 UNI: Big opportunity for global change
- 03/11/2008 UNI: A complementary bottom-up approach for
financial supervision
- 03/11/2008 UNI: Eyes and ears for new financial regulatory system
- 13/10/2008 UNI Global Union's approach to the financial crisis
- 06/10/2008 PSI: Global Unions call on IFIs to respond to food and financial crises
- 09/10/2008 IMF: International financial crisis and the WTO
- 30/09/2008 UNI: Financial Crisis: Emergency meetings of 51 EWCs demanded
- 30/09/2008 IUF: European Parliament Adopts Eurosocialist Call for Regulation of Private Equity, Hedge Funds
- 21/09/2008 UNI: Financial crisis: the price tag on intervention