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Working Paper 127

Trade Unions, Labour Governance and Economic Upgradation in Value Chains

The paper examines possible mechanisms for trade union engagement in global value chains, especially in the context of emerging human rights due diligence frameworks. By examining existing literature on value chain analysis, trade policy, and...

Trade unions actions towards climate change and a just transition

The aim of this document is to offer practical guidance to trade union leaders and their representatives in developing countries on how to integrate environmental and low-carbon sustainability and a just transition into their daily work. The guide...

Workers’ organizations responding to the needs of refugees and other forcibly displaced persons

This report explores the role of workers' organizations in supporting refugees and forcibly displaced persons within the framework of the ILO PROSPECTS programme. It highlights the organisations' efforts to promote decent work, non-discrimination,...

Report

Violence and harassment in the world of work-Trade union initiatives, strategies and negotiations since the adoption of the Convention on...

This report is a collection of trade union initiatives and strategies preventing, addressing, and eliminating violence and harassment in the world of work. It focuses on measures introduced since the adoption of the Convention on Violence and...

Publication

Workers' organizations and development cooperation - A Workers’ guide to effective participation in ILO development cooperation

This guide is intended as a resource to help workers' organizations become centrally involved in the co-creation of ILO development cooperation interventions, to ensure that workers benefit from the programmes and projects. It provides accessible...

Policy Brief

Recommendation No. 208 on Quality Apprenticeships: What Role for Trade Unions?

This Policy Brief is designed to inform and guide workers’ organisations on questions surrounding apprenticeships by briefly introducing them to ILO Recommendation 208 on Quality Apprenticeships (R208), adopted by the International Labour Conference...

ILO Brief

Emerging Good Practices of Trade Union Engagement in the UN Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework

This booklet documents emerging good practices of trade union engagement in the Cooperation Framework to showcase the lasting benefit and value of social dialogue to institution-building and policymaking.

Working Paper 119

Trade union engagements on the SDGs and union revitalization in five Asian countries

This working paper examines how trade unions in five Asian countries integrate Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into national agendas. Through interviews and reviews, it highlights strategies and outcomes of union engagements, showing their...

Working Paper 118

Using foresight to think and act upon an uncertain future world of work

This working paper explores how trade unions worldwide are adapting to transformations in the world of work through strategic foresight. Documenting experiences from 2019-2023, it offers examples and lessons from foresight workshops conducted...

Policy Brief

The African Continental Free Trade Area: An Opportunity to Promote Social and Labour Issues across the Continent?

This Policy Brief discusses the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) in terms of its design, legal instruments, and the obligations of the State Parties. It looks at the impact of AfCFTA’s institutional structure on existing intra-African...

African Trade Unions and the Future of Work Responses, Challenges and Opportunities

This book serves the purpose of unveiling the causes and effects of violations of workers’ and trade unions’ rights, and larger implications in the world of work. It brings together perspectives of African trade unionists, researchers and academics...

Report

Workers’ representatives in selected Central and Eastern European countries: Filling a gap in labour rights protection or trade union...

International Journal of Labour Research

A new social contract for the social media platforms: prioritizing rights and working conditions for content creators and moderators

This paper describes the special challenges faced by content moderators and creators on digital labour platforms, including isolation, high workload, exposure to disturbing content, abuse and harassment and lack of job security. A new social...

International Journal of Labour Research

Why a new social contract is urgent?

This article summarizes key aspects of the new social contract adopted by the ITUC 5th World Congress in Melbourne, Australia, in November 2022. The world needs the new social contract to replace the failing, inequitable and unsustainable economic...

International Journal of Labour Research

Social protection as a key component of the new social contract: a leading role for trade unions

While social protection is recognized as a basic human right by virtually all governments and international institutions, in reality most of the global population still has no social protection coverage. The ILO Social Protection Floors...

International Journal of Labour Research

A new social contract: achieving social justice in an era of accelerating change in the agricultural sector

Smart farming is predicted to solve global problems of food security by introducing digital technology to save production costs; however, by switching to the full use of technology it is displacing labour, as evidenced by several country studies...

International Journal of Labour Research

Reflections on the new social contract

This paper describes the pressures imposed on people and the planet by climate change, global conflict and the complex issues of inequality generated by past economic models. On the labour front, technological development and increasing automation...

International Journal of Labour Research

The world of work and the new social contract

The social contract of the 1940s and 1950s followed the principle that citizens contributed to the common good – whether economically, socially or culturally – on the assumption that the state would ensure a minimum standard of living, provision of...

International Journal of Labour Research

Towards a European socio-ecological contract

The paradigm change in our economic model that is needed to put human activity back within planetary boundaries requires a reparation of entrenched existing inequalities. It is also essential to avoid creating new inequalities on top of the old...

Executive Summary

A new social contract: achieving social justice in an era of accelerating change (Executive Summary)