Trade unions’ role in achieving decent wages
On December 17-18, Moscow hosted a subregional conference focusing on trade unions’ role in achieving decent wages. It was organized by the Pan-European Regional Council of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC-PERC) and the ILO.
18 December 2013
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Eighty-five delegates from 17 countries discussed effective wage-setting mechanisms and put forward trade union initiatives to ensure decent wages in CIS member-states in compliance with the ILO recommendations.
The chairman of the Federation of Trade Unions of Russia, Mikhail Shmakov, emphasized that a decent wage was one of the key elements in the fight for decent work.
Anna Biondi, Deputy Director of the ILO Bureau for Workers Activities (ACTRAV), addressed delegates with opening remarks, stressing the need for joint fruitful actions of trade unions towards ensuring decent wages.
Senior Social Security Specialist of the ILO Decent Work Technical Support Team and Country Office for Eastern Europe and Central Asia Mariko Ouchi briefed conference participants on the Global Wage Report 2012-13 that the ILO had published biennially since 2008. The new report demonstrated that the labour income share was declining both in industrialized and developing countries. “To restore balance” it was necessary to strengthen the labour market and social security at the national and global levels, Ouchi said.
Participants also considered examples of conducting wage negotiations at the branch and enterprise levels.
One of the conference’s sessions was devoted to the ILO Termination of Employment Convention, 1982 (No. 158) and the process of its ratification and implementation in countries of the region.
Source: fnpr.ru
The chairman of the Federation of Trade Unions of Russia, Mikhail Shmakov, emphasized that a decent wage was one of the key elements in the fight for decent work.
Anna Biondi, Deputy Director of the ILO Bureau for Workers Activities (ACTRAV), addressed delegates with opening remarks, stressing the need for joint fruitful actions of trade unions towards ensuring decent wages.
Senior Social Security Specialist of the ILO Decent Work Technical Support Team and Country Office for Eastern Europe and Central Asia Mariko Ouchi briefed conference participants on the Global Wage Report 2012-13 that the ILO had published biennially since 2008. The new report demonstrated that the labour income share was declining both in industrialized and developing countries. “To restore balance” it was necessary to strengthen the labour market and social security at the national and global levels, Ouchi said.
Participants also considered examples of conducting wage negotiations at the branch and enterprise levels.
One of the conference’s sessions was devoted to the ILO Termination of Employment Convention, 1982 (No. 158) and the process of its ratification and implementation in countries of the region.
Source: fnpr.ru