Multinational Enterprises and Trade Union Action in the Americas: The ILO MNEs Declaration and the OECD Guidelines

Since the 1970s, there have been two intergovernmental tools available to the international trade union movement for taking action towards multinational enterprises: the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises (1976) and the ILO Tripartite Declaration of Principles concerning Multinational Enterprises and Social Policy (1977) (hereinafter the MNEs Declaration).