For Democracy that Delivers: 2025 Strategic Objectives

In 2025, the ITUC is campaigning For Democracy that Delivers. This campaign supports national, sectoral, and local campaigns of workers and their unions, as well as social movement allies, and asserts worker demands at international institutions. Our 2025 strategic objectives are organised into three themes:

FOR DEMOCRACY THAT DELIVERS PEACE AND COLLECTIVE POWER

  • Monitoring freedom of association
  • Fighting autocracy
  • Supporting trade unions under attack
  • Engaging unions in peace, disarmament, and reconstruction processes
  • Exposing corporate capture
  • Raising awareness of the Common Security agenda
  • Building affiliate capacity for worker organising and campaigns
  • Facilitating mutual learning and capacity-building on wages, jobs, and social protection
  • Enhancing women’s representation in leadership and decision-making positions
  • Building international trade union solidarity on women’s rights in targeted countries
  • Enhancing the inclusion of migrant workers in trade unions
  • Enhancing young workers representation in leadership and decision-making positions

FOR DEMOCRACY THAT DELIVERS SOCIAL JUSTICE AND PROSPERITY FOR ALL

  • Securing commitments from governments and international institutions to finance workers’ priorities
  • Developing binding international instruments on supply chains
  • Supporting the development of mandatory due diligence legislation
  • Promoting greater international tax coordination that reflects workers’ views
  • Supporting debt relief efforts and countering harmful international financial institution policies
  • Strengthening multilateral commitments for full employment and decent work, living wages, and social protection
  • Advocacy and capacity-building on trade and investment to support the development of domestic industries for quality jobs
  • Winning strengthened commitment for the implementation of ILO Recommendation 204 and other relevant instruments
  • Ensuring New Social Contract pillars are reflected in the outcome of the 2nd World Summit on Social Development
  • Reflecting ITUC priorities in policy processes on the sustainable development goals and financing for development
  • Reflecting ITUC priorities on gender equality in the political declaration of the UN Commission on the Status of Women
  • Ensuring a strong trade union voice in international governance on migration and at COP30 to address decent work in the context of climate-induced migration

FOR DEMOCRACY THAT DELIVERS A JUST TRANSITION AND WORKER-CENTRED DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION

  • Realising Occupational Health and Safety as a fundamental right
  • Adopting a binding convention and recommendation on platform work at ILC113 that provides decent work for all workers
  • Defending the rights of workers affected by technological and digital transformation
  • Promoting equitable access to skills, education, lifelong learning in response to labour market transitions
  • Engaging more than 50% of countries with trade unions in the update of their national climate plans by the end of 2025
  • Ensuring union engagement with governments and employers in bi/tripartite processes and social dialogue to develop national and sectoral Just Transition plans
  • Winning commitments for strengthened international solidarity to support energy justice and green industrial transformation in developing countries