That's a wrap on the 2026 OECD Ministerial. The trade union movement carried a workers' agenda for industrial policy into every session: workers need economic security and a level playing field for industrial policy to deliver. An agenda we'll keep fighting for. #OECDMinisterial
Real economic security means supply chains that work for workers, not just for cost. At the OECD Ministerial, TUAC's Filip Stefanovic set out what that takes: reducing trade tensions, and using resilience to deliver a just transition, not replicate old industrial models. #OECDMinisterial
Ahead of the G7 Labour Ministerial, the Labour 7 and Business 7 agreed joint texts on a level playing field for decent work and on workers' safety in extreme weather. The L7 now calls on G7 leaders at Évian to take up the social partners' proposals.
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TUAC taking workers' priorities into the MCM enabling state session: Diana GĂłmez Cely (Gen Sec CTC, Colombia) on investing in education and health and TUAC Gen Sec Veronica Nilsson on Veronica Nilsson on why the real threat to competition is too little regulation, not too much. #OECDMinisterial
Competing for investment by making labour cheap and insecure is self-defeating – it erodes the very demand investment depends on. In the final session of the #OECDMinisterial, TUAC's Veronica Nilsson and Martin Denis argue that quality jobs are the goal of investment, not a cost.
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The Trade Union Advisory Committee (TUAC) to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is the interface for trade unions with the Organisation and its members.
The Trade Union Advisory Committee (TUAC) to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is the interface for trade unions with the Organisation and its members.
