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Decent work

ILO Head and Danish Prime Minister discuss EU employment and workers’ rights

Danish Prime Minister announces additional funds for the ILO’s work on improving workers’ rights in developing countries during a meeting with the ILO Director-General.

Workers’ rights in the Asia Pacific Region

Helen Kelly: "In many countries, being a trade union activist is risky"

Unions in Asia and the Pacific must use the ILO’s supervisory mechanisms to demand respect of freedom of association and collective bargaining in their countries. This is the opinion of Helen Kelly who chairs the New Zealand Council of Trade Union...

South-South Cooperation

ILO-ACTRAV sign agreement with All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU)

Dialogue Social

Egypt: Bipartite agreement signed between unions and employers in Port Said

Labour Standards

Somalia ratifies three fundamental ILO Conventions

Somalia ratifies the Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948 (No. 87), the Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention, 1949 (No. 98) and the Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, 1999 (No. 182)

Labour Standards

Tunisia ratifies three international labour Conventions, including the Tripartite Consultation (International Labour Standards) Convention,...

Kazakh parliament starts working on ratification of two ILO wage conventions

On January 29, the Majilis, lower house of Kazakhstan’s parliament, started working on ratification of two ILO conventions – the Minimum Wage-Fixing Machinery Convention, 1928 (No. 26) and the Protection of Wages Convention, 1949 (No. 95).

Interview

Challenges and opportunities for trade unions in 2014

Sharan Burrow, General Secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), discusses achievements of the global trade union movement in 2013 and new challenges coming up this year. She stresses the role of the ILO in the fight for...

Viet Nam garment industry

Better talk leads to better work

As Viet Nam prepares for a major expansion of international trade a new system for worker-employer relations in garment factories is helping to pave the way for improved working conditions and competitiveness.

Income inequality

Collective bargaining essential to overcome global income inequalities

An international workers’ meeting ended in Geneva on 13 December with a call for strengthening workers’ rights to reduce growing inequalities.

High-level conference

The role of economic and social councils in the global job crisis

ILO/AICESIS International Conference on “The role and impact of the Economic and Social Councils, and Similar Institutions (ESC-SIs) in the response to the global financial, economic and job crisis”.

319th Governing Body of the ILO

Interview with Luc Cortebeeck, Chair of the Workers’ Group of the ILO Governing Body

The 319th session of the ILO Governing Body recently drew to a close in Geneva. Tackled at this session were several issues concerning the economic crisis in Europe, workers’ rights and international migration. In this interview the Chair of the...

Social dialogue

More rights for Jordan’s garment workers

Workers in Jordan’s Qualified Industrial Zones have held numerous strikes over the past years to protest against what they perceive as labour rights violations. A new collective bargaining agreement is now aiming to improve the situation.

Labour standards

ILO Deputy Director General calls for faster implementation of the new labour law in Bangladesh

Opening the conference “Bangladesh 2013: The Rising Demand for Labour Standards”, ILO Deputy Director General Gilbert Houngbo called for faster implementation of the new labour law to protect workers after the Rana Plaza building collapse...

Statement of the Workers Group on the Unlawful Deregistration of the Korean Teachers and Education Workers Union (KTU)

New bill on trade unions to meet international standards – Kazakhstan’s Labour Ministry

Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Labour and Social Protection of Population is drafting a new bill on trade unions.

Labour standards and Social Dialogue

Georgia : A new start to promote ILO Standards and strengthen Social Dialogue

Georgian Trade Union Confederation (GTUC) launched a new program for the promotion and the ratification of ILO Conventions for the period 2013-2017 and strengthening social dialogue.

Trade union training on how to conduct negotiations with employers in Karaganda, Kazakhstan

How to keep disagreements from escalating into riots? Experts from the International Labour Organization – Magnus Berge, Chief Technical Adviser of the ILO’s Bureau for Workers' Activities (ACTRAV), and Sergeyus Glovackas, ILO Moscow Senior...

Fixing the minimum wage hike: Does it matter?

An opinion-editorial by Tauvik Muhamad, Programme Officer, ILO-Jakarta, responding to the controversial debate on minimum wage fixing and to the recent issuance of the Presidential Instruction on minimum wage. The opinion article was published by...

The ILO – Bureau for Workers’ Activities (ACTRAV) and the Trade Unions in India

Asia Pacific Regional Symposium on the follow up to the Campaign for Ratification and Application of ILO Conventions 87 (Freedom of Association)and 98 (Collective Bargaining)