18 June 2013
The Bureau for Workers Activities (ILO-ACTRAV) launches its latest edition of the International Journal of Labour Research (Volume 5, Issue 1) on Meeting the Challenge of Precarious Work: A Workers’ Agenda with a panel discussion with Dan Cunniah, Director of ACTRAV and Sharan Burrow, General Secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC).
25 April 2013
Globalisation has seen an expansion in the number of export processing zones. The ILO estimates that there are some 3500 zones worldwide, employing at least 66 million workers in 130 countries. These zones have become ghettos of poor working conditions. Workers’ rights are often violated and organising workers into trade unions is very difficult. This video presents the situation of workers in export processing zones and shows that even if organizing workers is difficult, it is possible.
10 April 2012
When you think of what trade unions do, rescuing children from illegal child labour is not usually the first thing that comes to mind. But in India's Tamil Nadu State, six trade unions have come together to eradicate child labour, especially in its most hazardous forms. In the district of Erode, nearly a hundred children have been removed from auto and motorcycle repair shop work and are now back in school.
10 April 2012
Eradicating child labour is difficult, but some employers in India are finding a way. And along the way to eliminating child labour, employers are also discovering that it makes good business sense as well.
10 April 2012
In Ghana, the General Agricultural Workers' Union, known as the "G-A-W-U" with support from the ILO, has had a major impact on eliminating the worst forms of child labour. Acting both independently, and using "social dialogue" to collaborate with employers and government, the union fights child labour in three key sectors: fisheries, palm oil production, and cocoa farming.
10 April 2012
One of the keys to successfully fighting child labour is making families aware how they may be putting their own children at risk. But that is especially challenging when the labour of young children has traditionally been considered an extra source of income for the family. The Ghana Employers Association is using social dialogue to prove that traditional attitudes can change, by introducing a code of conduct to help to eradicate the worst forms of child labour.
04 April 2012
Today, all around the world, employers and trade unions are working together with governments to eradicate the worst forms of child labour, and to get child labourers out of work and into school. And they are finding out that through social dialogue, they can be effective in building the consensus to eradicate child labour around the world.
14 June 2011
14 June 2011
13 June 2011
During this panel discussion on DATE, the General Secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), Sharan Burrow, stressed the need for economic policies to be directed towards job creation and the strengthening of social justice.