Bureau for Workers' Activities (ACTRAV)
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Future of Work
Future of Work: ILO calls for more engagement of workers’ organizations
At a high-level meeting in Almaty, the Director of the ILO’s Bureau for Workers’Activities (ACTRAV) calls for more engagement of workers’organisations in the discussion and promotion of the ILO’s future of work initiative.
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Informal Economy
Organizing Workers in the Informal Economy: ILO ACTRAV Policy Brief
The aim of this policy brief is to assist workers’ organizations in understanding and tackling the injustices and decent work deficits associated with employment in the informal economy. It provides information and proposes strategies that can be used to organize, protect and promote the rights and interests of informal economy workers.
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Informal Economy
Asia Pacific: Unions undertake commitment to organize informal workers
Organizing informal workers is crucial to implement ILO Recommendation 204 on the transition from the informal to the formal economy,Unions said.
What's new
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Press release
Future of Work: ILO calls for more engagement of workers’ organizations
14 September 2016
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Asia and Pacific
Unions intensify cooperation to promote decent work for domestic workers and eliminate child labour
11 August 2016
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Informal Economy
Asia Pacific: Unions undertake commitment to organize informal workers
09 August 2016
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Article
Towards Decent Work – Workers take action
02 August 2016
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Article
ILO-Thai Trade Unions meeting on Trade Unions agenda for decent work in Thailand
25 July 2016
Key resources
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Newsletter
ACTRAV INFO: September 2016
30 September 2016
ACTRAV INFO, A monthly newsletter produced by the ILO Bureau for Workers’ Activities (ACTRAV),No. 66, September 2016.
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Manual
Trade Unions and Child Labour: A tool for action
24 March 2016
The eradication of child labour is a necessary step on the path to decent work for all and for sustainable development. It requires political will at the national and global levels, implementation of all ILO conventions (particularly Conventions 138 and 182), investment in education and universal social protection, as well as decent work for adults. Trade unions have a vital role to play in bringing about these changes.
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International Journal of Labour Research
Decent work in global supply chains
12 December 2015
The Rana Plaza tragedy in Bangladesh in April 2013 brought to the attention of the global community the appalling working conditions experienced by workers in global supply chains (GSCs).
Multimedia
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Informal Economy
Organizing Workers in the Informal Economy: ILO ACTRAV Policy Brief
05 September 2016
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Future of Work
How to shape the future of work
04 July 2016
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105th International labour Conference
Global Supply Chains: Lessons from Canada
10 June 2016
Meetings and events
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Trade Union Regional Meeting on Collective Bargaining and Gender clauses
20 - 24 September 2016
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Training of Trainers on Evidence-Based Collective Bargaining
4 - 11 September 2016
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Organizing and Decent Work for Domestic Workers and Elimination of Child Labour in Domestic Work
4 - 6 August 2016