Bureau for Workers' Activities (ACTRAV)
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3-14 June 2024
112th Session of the International Labour Conference
The 112th Session of the International Labour Conference will take place in Geneva, 3-14 June 2024
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International Journal of Labour Research
Workers’ organizations must play key role in developing effective and sustainable social contract
A new social contract must be anchored in decent work and social justice, with special attention given to the promotion and implementation of International labour standards, according to the latest edition of the International Journal of Labour Research.
Publications and briefs
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Publication
African Trade Unions and the Future of Work Responses, Challenges and Opportunities
21 March 2024
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ILO Working paper 106
Are platform workers willing to unionize? Exploring survey evidence from 14 European countries
06 February 2024
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ILO Working paper 101
An unfinished task? Matching the Platform Work Directive with the EU and international "social acquis"
20 December 2023
News and articles
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Workers’ organizations must play key role in developing effective and sustainable social contract
15 December 2023
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How can Unions enhance workers' education?
21 September 2023
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Trade Unions: What is the future of workers' education?
19 September 2023
Key areas of work
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Trade Unions in Transformation: Actors for Change
The Future of Work is uncertain. The world of work is faced with multiple transformations in the context of changing labour markets, driven by technological advancement and digitalisation, climate and environmental changes, globalization and demographic shifts. ACTRAV’s programme on Trade Unions in Transformation : Actors for Change supports trade unions to engage in this debate and to strengthen transformative action on the future of trade unions.
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.