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3 Webinars to get ready for the 2013 International Labour Conference discussion on Green Jobs/Just Transition

On April the 23rd, the 24th and the 25th, the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) and Sustainlabour organized 3 Webinars (online seminars) to introduce the issue and the process to union delegates or union experts interested in doing advocacy work in the capitals prior to the next ILO International Labour Conference

Time for a new social accord: Creating employment, protecting the environment. Experiences from South Africa and the European Union and union proposals

20 February Side event at the First Universal Session of the Governing Council/Global Ministerial Environment Forum

Sustainlabour in the world

Asia-Pacific

In 2010 we worked with 41 trade unions in 12 different countries with a total of 84 participants in the training activities held with TUC UK and the BWI. 

Africa

During 2010  we worked with 62 trade union organizations from 25 different countries, with a total of 126 participants in our activities.

Latin America and the Caribbean

During 2010 we worked with 127 trade unions in 12 different countries with a total of 323 participants in our activities. 

Europe

During 2010 148 participants attended our activities in the region, representing 56 trade unions from 16 different countries. 

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June 18, 2013

We have a just transition framework for all: time to mobilize change

The ILC discussed these days on Sustainable Development, Decent Work and Green Jobs. The work was necessary, difficult and innovative. The main demand of the workers group: a framework for all fair transition towards sustainability is recognized throghout the whole conclusions.  How can the struggle for sustainability among the background of discussions on labor rights, on job creation, on collective bargaining?
 
 

May 30, 2013

102nd Session of the International Labour Conference

The International Labour Organization (ILO) organizes the International Labour Conference (ILC) annually. Among other agenda items, general discussion at the 102nd session will take place on "Sustainable development, decent work and green jobs

May 23, 2013

Equality or bust for new global goals

The Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food called for the post-2015 development agenda to be urgently refocused on equality, social protection and accountability, as the efforts of the UN Open Working Group on the Sustainable Development Goals to draft post-2015 targets to succeed the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) entered a crucial phase.

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Sharan Burrow about the GRI. The quest to maximise profit pits corporations against rights and sustainability

Many of the major companies file their sustainability reports without conscience. And their approach to the workers whose labour fuels their profits is criminal.Ask any CEO if they would like their sons or daughters to work in the textile factories in Pakistan, the mines in the Congo, manufacturing plants in Central America, or as beer women in Cambodia, and they shudder.

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The European Federation of Public Service Unions rejects fracking

The decision was adopted in response to EU Commission consultation on unconventional fossil fuels in Europe

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