#Timefor8: the clock is ticking for a New Social Contract      Issue 5 / 2023 -  Sign Up 

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Social dialogue must be at the centre of the transition to democratic, inclusive and sustainable societies. It is one of the strategic pillars of the International Labour Organization’s Decent Work Agenda and a key element of the organisation’s Just Transition Guidelines.

Through their work to promote and defend the decent work agenda, trade unions are making a major contribution to building a world that aligns with the Sustainable Development Goals of the 2030 Agenda. This is why investing in SDG 17 on global partnerships to achieve the Goals is a major trade union issue! Workers are champions of the SDGs and must be involved in all sustainable development processes because, as ITUC President Akiko Gono says:  

“Workers are the backbone of global efforts to save the planet.”

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To be able to contribute to the 2030 Agenda workers are calling for a gender-transformative, SDG 8-led New Social Contract with six key workers’ demands: (1) decent, climate-friendly jobs with just transition; (2) rights for all workers; (3) minimum living wages; (4) universal social protection for all; (5) equality in income, gender and race; and (6) inclusion within and among countries, based on social dialogue and renewed multilateralism.

Workers’ priorities for Goal 17

• Reinforce the role of social dialogue as a key means of implementation of the 2030 Agenda.
  
  
• Ensure the implementation of adequate
  financing strategies.
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• A new model of global governance to redress
  the current imbalance of power and uneven distribution of wealth.

➡️Read all workers' priorities for Goal 17

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📅 UPCOMING HLPF EVENTS, 10-19 JULY 2023

• 10 July Opening of the HLPF
• 11 July Review of SDG 6
• 12 July Review of SDG 7 and SDG 9
• 13 July Review of SDG 11
• 14 to 19 July Voluntary National Reviews (VNR) sessions
• 19 July Conclusion of the HLPF 

➡️Consult the official programme of the HLPF

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