Growing fair and sustainable economies for working people

A TUAC Seminar

May 21 to 25, 2012


TUAC is the Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD - the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. The OECD is an international organisation of 34 economically richer countries which was created to stimulate economic progress and world trade.

As the body which acts as an interface for unions with the OECD, TUAC has gained substantial expertise in analyzing economic matters from a union point of view. Many see TUAC as the economic research unit of the international labour movement. Fifty-nine national labour centres are affilated to TUAC. John Evans is TUAC's General-Secretary.

More than 60 Ministers of Finance, Foreign Affairs and Trade from OECD countries are meeting in Paris, May 23-24 to discuss the global economy. To help unionists around the world better understand the issues being discussed TUAC and RadioLabour have partnered to produce a series of audiocasts. During the week the OECD Ministers are meeting RadioLabour will broadcast interviews with TUAC staff members in its daily newscasts. The full versions of the interviews are to be found here.


The sovereign debt crisis

Pierre Habbard

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Unemployment and government austerity programmes

Roland Schneider

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Sustainable development

Anabella Rosemberg

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National development strategies

Matt Simonds

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Holding corporations accountable

Kirstine Drew

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A new model of growth: Jobs not austerity

John Evans

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