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Related pages:  Contents | Summary | The Role of Trade Unions | Working with Trade Unions | How to work with Trade Unions | Contacts and Links

Links and Contacts

Contacting local unions

If you do not already have details of the local trade union(s) you wish to contact, the UK Trades Union Congress (TUC)  European Union and International Relations Department (EUIRD) in London will facilitate contact with the right person. The TUC can also provide briefings on international and country specific trade union issues.

UK -TUC  European Union and International Relations Department

Congress House, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3LSwww.tuc.org.uk nbsp;

International Confederations

International  and regional Confederations  

• ITUC-African based in Nairobi, Kenya;
• ITUC Asia Pacific (ITUC-AP) based in Singapore;
• the Trade Union Confederation of the Americas (TUCA) based in Sao Paulo, Brazil

ICFTUguide for trade unions participating in the PRSP process

ICFTUguide for trade unions participating in the PRSP process

A full list of ICFTU affiliates

• World Federation of Trade Unions (WCL)
• European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC)

Global Unions

• Global Unions - website of Global Union Federations and OECD Trade Union Advisory Committee
• Education International (EI)
• International Federation of Chemical Energy, Mine & General Workers' Unions (ICEM)
• International Federation of Journalists (IFJ)
• International Textile, Garment & Leather Workers' Federation (ITGLWF)
• Public Services International (PSI)
• International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF)
• Building and Woodworkers International (BWI)
• International Metalworkers' Federation (IMF)
• International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco & Allied Workers’ Associations (IUF)
• Union Network International (UNI)
• International Federation of Musicians (FIM)

Other international trade organisations

• Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD (TUAC)
• Global Labour Institute
• Global Union Research Network - GURN – union policy research initiative jointly run byILO, theITUC, theTUAC, the GUF and theInternational Institute for Labour Studies (IILS).

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Union development initiatives/agencies

• SASK Trade Union Solidarity Centre of Finland
• LO/TCO Council of International Trade Union Co-operation, Sweden
• Danish LO-FTF Council
• FNV Department for International Cooperation (FNV-Mondiaal)
• Instituto Sindical de Cooperación al Desarrollo – Union General de Trabajadores, Spain (ISCOD)
• Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Germany – FES
• American Center for International Labor Solidarity
• Japan International Labour Foundation
• Japan Institute of Labour
• Union Aid Abroad

Informal economy

• Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO)
• StreetNet International
• Self Employed Women’s Association, India SEWA
• HomeNet

Labour-related NGOs/alliances

• ILO Special List of Non-Governmental International Organizations

International labour organisation (ILO)

• International Labour Organisation
• International Labour Organization's APEC awareness raising campaign - Eliminating the worst forms of child labour and providing educational opportunities
• Directory of ILO offices, departments and programmes
• International Institute For Labour Studies (IILS)
• ILOLEX database of international labor standards and reports from ILO supervisory mechanisms (includes Observations from the Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations)
• National Labour Laws – NATLEX database
• ILOTERM database (translations of terminology)

World Bank

• World Bank Core Labor Standards Toolkit for Staff Preparing Country Assistance Strategies
• Trade Union Participation in the PRSP Process – report written by ICFTU-AFRO senior official on secondment to the World Bank
• Labor Markets - Trade Unions

Asian Development Bank (ADB)

• ADB ‘Working with Labor Unions’

Inter-American Development Bank (IADB)

• IADB labour markets team (social development division) sds/soc@iadb.org 

Last updated: 7 January 2008