In advance of the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, scheduled to start in Washington this Friday, the ITUC and its Global Unions partner organisations call on the international financial institutions (IFIs) to support a vigorous and coordinated strategy of public investment in services and infrastructure and strengthening of labour market institutions to secure wage growth.

On October 2, in a closely contested plebiscite on the peace accord, the Colombian people voted to reject the peace accord. In an unexpected result, the people voted 50.21% in favour of rejecting the peace accord and 49.78 in favour of accepting it. 

UNI Global Union General Secretary, Philp Jennings tells thousands of peace activists in Berlin that the trade union and peace movements must work together for change

“I just don’t get it. On the one hand governments across the world are currently negotiating and implementing post-crisis regulation aimed at preventing another financial crisis of the 2008 magnitude. On the other hand, these very same governments are negotiating, behind closed doors, the TiSA agreement, which will roll back financial regulation, remove safeguards against new and risky financial services and products, and liberalise the finance sector like never before. It doesn’t make sense.”

WTO Public Forum gathers specialists