Events and meetings

One of ACTRAV’s main events is the bi-annual International Workers’ Symposium. This is a meeting gathering trade unionists and other specialists from all over the world to discuss a given topic.

In addition ACTRAV organizes other events, meetings and workshops, both at headquarters and in the field, focusing on the areas of activities of the bureau.

ACTRAV is at the service of workers representatives as they participate in different meetings at the ILO. Colleagues do also assist in preparing case files that will help worker representatives develop their positions and arguments for the Annual Conference of the ILO, the Governing Body, regional and sectoral conferences and in the Office's various activities.

October 2017

  1. Free Online Course on Fair Wage Strategies in a Global Economy starts on 24 October 2017 with a live online launch

    Join the new Massive Open Online Course of ILO-ACTRAV and the Global Labour University which offers global networking, theory and practical skills for trade unionists on fair wages, collective bargaining and minimum wages.

April 2015

  1. Asia and Pacific Seminar on Wages and Productivity: Union Strategies for Wage Rise and Improved Living Standards

    The seminar, which was organised by the ILO’s Bureau for Worker Activities (ACTRAV) with the support of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU), was held in Phnom Penh from 27 to 29 April 2015, with 40 participants from 15 countries in Asia and the Pacific. The participants were welcomed by Noriyuki Suzuki (General Secretary, ITUC-AP), Chuanhua Wu (Director of Africa and Western Asia Division, International Department, ACFTU) and Athit Kong (Representative of the Cambodian trade union movement), as well as Tun Sophorn (National Coordinator, ILO Phnom Penh) and Pong-Sul Ahn (Senior Specialist on Workers Activities, ILO DWT).

April 2013

  1. ILO ACTRAV Regional Seminar on Wage Policy

    Extremely low wages for many workers in the formal and the informal economy are keeping millions of workers and their families in poverty. Wage growth in many countries has been lacking productivity growth. Policies in favour of systematic trade surpluses have deprived workers from their fair share of the wealth creation in money countries.

April 2011

  1. Workshop on Wages, the Crisis and Economic Recovery

    ACTRAV’s International Journal of Labour Research is sponsoring a workshop on the theme of “wages, the crisis and economic recovery”. The objective is to stimulate a discussion on the linkages between the growing wage inequality and the crisis of 2008, and to examine how wages though collective bargaining and policies can play a role in bringing the world back onto a sustainable growth path.