Video interviews

October 2012

Take a Stand for Teachers

03 October 2012

A Video Message from Guy Ryder, Director-General of the International Labour Office on the occasion of World Teachers’ Day.

September 2012

ILO Director-General addresses European employment conference

06 September 2012

Juan Somavia, the ILO Director-General, addressed the "Jobs for Europe" conference organized by the European Commission on 6 and 7 September 2012 in a special video message. “The challenge is to achieve socially responsible fiscal consolidation in the medium term, while stimulating growth of the real economy in the short term, and to pave the way to the expansion of decent employment”, Juan Somavia said.

August 2012

Social protection is essential for our future, says the Haitian Minister of Labour

23 August 2012

Interview with Haitian Minister of Labour and Social Affairs recorded in June 2012. Mr Léon Ronsard St-Cyr, told ILO TV that his country has no choice but to invest in social protection as his country slowly recovers from the earthquake that destroyed parts of the island in 2010 (In French with English subtitles).

July 2012

Migrant workers: Hidden victims of the economic crisis

19 July 2012

Migrant workers are the hidden victims of the economic crisis, especially in the Eurozone. Thousands have lost jobs in construction and other sectors that were heavily dependent on them in boom times. Now unable to send enough money back home,growing numbers rely on the informal economy to get by, according to Steven Tobin, Senior Economist at the International Institute for Labour Studies.
Employment far from recovery in the Eurozone, warns the ILO

10 July 2012

An ILO report warns that millions of jobs could be lost in the Eurozone. Unemployment in the single-currency area could reach almost 22 million over the next four years, according to the "Eurozone jobs crisis: trends and policy responses". ILO TV interviewed Vincenzo Spiezia, Senior Economist at ILO's International Institute for Labour Studies, which authored the report.

June 2012

The impact of public sector adjustments in Europe

28 June 2012

Fuelled by the economic crisis, budget deficits have plunged the public sector in Europe into an unprecedented wave of ‘adjustments’, leading to significant cuts in expenditure, jobs and wages. Interview with Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead, author of a new ILO study* on Public Sector Adjustments in Europe – Scope, Effects and Policy Issues
ILO Director-General Elect Guy Ryder about the next priorities of the ILO

25 June 2012

The UN Regional Information Centre interviewed Guy Ryder, Director-General Elect of the International Labour Organization (ILO), about the next priorities of the ILO. Guy Ryder stressed the urgent need for the Organization to play its role in constructing effective responses to the current jobs crisis, and to ensure that the social protection floor become a real vehicle for providing people with the most basic protection in their work lives.
ILO Director-General Elect Guy Ryder about the ILO-EU partnership

25 June 2012

"The ILO and the EU have an essential partnership", says Guy Ryder in an interview with the UN Regional Information Centre in Brussels. Emphasizing the historical aspects of the cooperation of the ILO and the EU, he also considers tomorrow's challenges for both the ILO and the EU. "We will have to work together to find answers to questions at the practical level, like the youth employment crisis that is hitting Europe particularly hard", Ryder says. "Tackling these issues can be done at EU-wide and at national levels", he concludes.
RIO+20: On the scene with the ILO

18 June 2012

An interview with Peter Poschen, Director of the ILO's Job Creation and Enterprise Development Department, and Head of the Green Jobs Programme
G20 Los Cabos: First Impressions from an ILO perspective

18 June 2012

ILO's Stephen Pursey sets the scene at the G20 Leaders Summit in Los Cabos, Mexico where ILO Director General Juan Somavia will present a joint report along with the heads of the OECD, IMF and World Bank on "Boosting Jobs and Living Standards in G20 countries".