Bureau for Workers' Activities (ACTRAV)
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Global Symposium, 18-20 September 2023
New Approaches to Strengthen Workers' Education for Trade Union Revitalization
The three-day symposium aims to generate a collective analysis of the current state of workers’ education around the world, recommend and adopt innovative strategies and solutions to the pressing and emerging needs of workers in the context of an ever-transforming world of work through workers’ education, in contribution to the global strategy on workers education.
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International Labour Standards
New ILO Recommendation on Quality Apprenticeships: What benefits for Workers?
The 111th session of the International Labour Conference adopted a new recommendation on quality apprenticeships. Amanda Brown, the workers’ spokesperson of the Standard-Setting Committee on Apprenticeships, explains the benefits of this instrument for apprentices in particular for youth who are the most represented.
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Workers'Voices
Why Workers'Organizations remain important players to advance social justice?
After two decades of service in the ILO, Claude Akpokavie is retired. In this episode of Workers' Voices, Claude who is a former trade unionist and Senior Adviser of the ILO, shares his testimonies. He explains why he is passionate by the ILO and shares his views about the role of workers' organizations in advancing social justice for all.
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13-23 March 2023
347th Session of the Governing Body
The ILO’s Governing Body will meet in Geneva for its 347th Session, between 13 - 23 March. Discussions among the representatives of Governments, Workers and Employers will include the report of the Director-General, developments in Member States, and proposals for a Global Coalition on Social Justice.
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International Journal of Labour Research
Unions must work together and find ways to organize new forms of work
Trade unions need to strengthen their unity, attract more young people and organize workers in the digital economy, according to the 2022 edition of the International Journal of Labour Research.
Publications and briefs
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Trade Union Revitalization
Trade unions navigating and shaping change
20 March 2023
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Trade Union Revitalization
Digital technologies and trade union revitalization in the Arab States region
07 March 2023
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New Technologies
Improving Workers' Data Rights
28 November 2022
News and articles
Key resources
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International Journal of Labour Research
Trade Union Revitalization: Organizing new forms of work including platform workers
This edition highlights the experiences of trade union revitalization worldwide with an emphasis on trade union unity and cooperation and the challenge of organizing new forms of work including platforms workers where young people are over-represented.
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Manual
Dealing with crises arising from conflicts and disasters-ILO training manual for workers’ organizations
This training manual focusses on situations that are at the crossroads of humanitarian assistance, development, peacebuilding and resilience. It contributes to anchoring the role of the ILO and the social partners across this field.
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Guide
Workers’ guide to ILO Conventions concerning minimum standards of social security
The guide aims to help workers’ representatives to promote the ratification of ILO standards, and in particular Convention No. 102, and to ensure their application at national level as a basis for progressively extending adequate and sustainable social protection to all.
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Report
Decent work deficits among rural workers
This report is a summary of the findings of 16 case studies commissioned by the ILO Bureau for Workers’ Activities (ACTRAV) in mid-2021 to examine the situation concerning decent work and existing opportunities for trade union organizing in rural economies in selected countries and economic sectors in Africa, the Americas, Asia and Eastern Europe.
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Report
Social Dialogue Report 2022: Collective bargaining for an inclusive, sustainable and resilient recovery
This first edition of this new ILO flagship report focuses on collective bargaining.