Bureau for Workers' Activities (ACTRAV)
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Interview
How Trade Unions influenced their countries commitment on achieving the SDGs?
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News
Unions Express a Common Perspective for Latin America and the Caribbean Towards a New Social Contract
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Press release
International Labour Organization (ILO) and the All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU) Forge New Agreement to Enhance Trade Union...
News and articles
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Interview
How Trade Unions influenced their countries commitment on achieving the SDGs?
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Training course for Caribbean workers' organizations
Training programme
Ongoing and upcoming events
Training course for Caribbean workers' organizations
Strategic use of ILO supervisory mechanisms for trade unions in the Caribbean
Videos
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Interview
How Trade Unions influenced their countries commitment on achieving the SDGs?
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Workers' Delegates provide their views on the key items on the agenda of the 112th Session of the ILC
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Interview
New Social Contract: The Workers' Perspective (Zimbabwe)
International Journal of Labour Research
Launched in 2009, the International Journal of Labour Research (IJLR) is the flagship publication of the ILO’s Bureau for Workers’ Activities (ACTRAV).
Key resources
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Trade union engagements on the SDGs and union revitalization in five Asian countries
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Using foresight to think and act upon an uncertain future world of work
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Book
African Trade Unions and the Future of Work Responses, Challenges and Opportunities
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ILO Working paper 106
Are platform workers willing to unionize? Exploring survey evidence from 14 European countries
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ILO Working paper 101
An unfinished task? Matching the Platform Work Directive with the EU and international "social acquis"
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International Journal of Labour Research
A new social contract: achieving social justice in an era of accelerating change
Publications
ILO Brief
Emerging Good Practices of Trade Union Engagement in the UN Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework
Working Paper 119
Trade union engagements on the SDGs and union revitalization in five Asian countries
Working Paper 118
Using foresight to think and act upon an uncertain future world of work
Key areas of Work
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Trade Unions as Actors for Change
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ACTRAV Development Cooperation
Related
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Workers' Group of the Governing Body
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The ACTRAV-Turin Labour Education Programme
The Bureau for Workers ‘Activities (ACTRAV) is the main link between the International Labour Office and the world of work through one of its constituents: workers’ organizations.
ACTRAV ensures that the concerns and interests of workers’ organizations are taken into consideration in the policy development and activities of the International Labour Office, both at Headquarter and in the Field.
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