Bureau for Workers' Activities (ACTRAV)

  • Pandemic of COVID-19

    COVID-19 and Workers’ organisations

    How can workers'organisations contribute to combat the pandemic of COVID-19? Check back here for regular updates...

  • Governing Body

    ILO Governing Body will not hold its March meeting due to Covid-19

    The decision follows a risk assessment and consultations with the Swiss authorities. It means that Governing Body business will be dealt with later in the year.

  • 12-13 March 2020

    A Global Partnership for the Financial Inclusion of Workers

    The overall objective of this meeting is to explore the feasibility of establishing a global partnership of trade union financial institutions and other key trade union organizations to enhance financial inclusion of workers.

  • International Journal of Labour Research

    The Future of Work: Trade Unions in Transformation

    It has become harder for trade unions in both developed and emerging countries to protect the rights of workers and working conditions, as shown not only in the reduction of unionization, but also the fall in the labour share of income in most countries. The question therefore remains, to what extent do trade unions need to transform themselves in order to serve their members as effectively in the future as they have in the past?

  • 24 October – 7 November 2019

    337th Session of the Governing Body

    What are the main topics in the agenda of the 337th Session of the ILO Governing Body? Find out more here...

What's new

  1. International Labour Standards

    Workers’ organizations are essential to promote and put into practice ILO standards on Violence and Harassment

    03 July 2020

  2. COVID-19 and the World of Work

    Responses to COVID-19: International Labour Standards and tripartite cooperation needed, says the ILO

    29 June 2020

  3. New Study

    Launch of "An ILO for All Seasons": Interview with Kari Tapiola

    26 June 2020

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Meetings and events

  1. COVID-19 Crisis: Relying on social dialogue for solutions in the Asia and Pacific

    4 September 2020

  2. Tackling the Covid-19 Pandemic, Climate Disasters and the Locust Plague in East Africa

    13 August 2020

  3. COVID-19 Crisis: Relying on social dialogue for solutions in the Arab States

    30 July 2020

Multimedia

  1. COVID-19 and the World of work

    COVID-19 pandemic: Why youth employment must be a priority for Unions?

    30 July 2020

  2. COVID-19 and the World of work

    COVID-19 pandemic and Migrant workers: What role for Trade Unions?

    30 July 2020

  3. COVID-19 and the Workers' Organisations

    COVID-19 Pandemic and Migrant workers: the experience from Africa...

    30 June 2020

Key resources

  1. International Journal of Labour Research

    The Future of Work: Trade Unions in Transformation

  2. Future of Work

    Trade Unions in the Balance

  3. SDGs

    Trade Union Reference Manual on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development