Bureau for Workers' Activities (ACTRAV)

  • Publications for Workers

    ILO Collection of Publications for Workers

    Discover the new Workers digital collection with over 1400 ILO publications dedicated to workers and their organizations.

  • COVID-19 Pandemic

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

    Young workers are over represented in sectors that have been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic. The youth employment must be a priority on the agenda of trade unions. Here is why...

  • 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?

What's new

  1. Press release

    Skills and lifelong learning critical for all workers

    18 November 2020

  2. News

    Effects of COVID-19 on Tajikistan’s Health Care and Health Workers. Pandemic Response, Social Dialogue and Policies to Promote Occupational Safety and Health of Tajikistan’s Health Workers at Work

    03 November 2020

  3. News

    9th BRICS Trade Union Forum

    02 November 2020

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Meetings and events

  1. Webinar on skills development and lifelong learning: The role of trade unions in Asia and Pacific

    11 December 2020

  2. Digitalization: Challenges and Opportunities for Union Documentation Centres

    25 November 2020

  3. Webinar: Skills development and Lifelong Learning: the Role of Trade Unions

    18 November 2020

Multimedia

  1. Video

    Why should workers’ organizations discuss skills development and lifelong learning during Covid-19?

    04 December 2020

  2. COVID-19 and the World of Work

    COVID-19: How to combat stigma and discrimination at the workplace?

    01 December 2020

  3. ILO Ressources

    New ILO Collection of Publications for Workers

    25 November 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