This page contains information from ITUC affiliates, Global Union Federations and LabourStart about the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic.
Blogs from Sharan Burrow:
- A New Social Contract can rebuild our workplaces and economies after COVID-19 (18 March)
- Climate and Employment Proof Our Future - A vision for a post-pandemic world (19 March)
- The $5 trillion commitment by the G20: Now, Make it Happen, Make it Work (28 March)
- Key workers can only protect us if we protect them (with Stephen Cotton) (30 March)
- The Greatest Display of Solidarity in Human History (30 March)
- Social protection systems underpin the most successful government responses to COVID-19 (8 April)
- We can applaud the women workers on the pandemic frontline but we also owe them the recognition of equal pay (17 April)
- Tackling the Covid-19 pandemic at the workplace (30 June)
ITUC News and Statements:
- G20 COVID: Trade Unions Call for Coordinated Action for Public Health, Jobs and Incomes (23 March)
- ITUC Global COVID-19 Survey: Half of countries in lock down as COVID-19 pandemic wreaks health and economic havoc on working people and their families (24 March)
- G20 Summit Shows Global Leadership: Now to Make it Work (26 March)
- Putting people first – 12 governments show the world how to protect lives, jobs and incomes (27 March)
- IMF/World Bank Spring Meetings Must Provide Global Leadership and Coordination (06 April)
- ITUC Global Covid-19 Survey: Regional differences exposed in government responses to the Covid-19 pandemic – millions of workers in Africa, Asia-Pacific and the Americas at risk of economic devastation (7 April)
- ITUC Global COVID-19 Survey: Global gaps in adequate provision of PPE and preparation of safe workplaces to protect workers from spread of Covid-19 in spotlight (28 April)
- ITUC - Key issues on the return to work (15 May)
- -* Social Protection with Health Care - Data from Selected Countries (May 2020)
- Covid-19 and Migrant Workers ‘ Rights (June 2020)
Other Resources:
- The Business & Human Rights Resource Centre (BHRRC): Union busting and unfair dismissals: garment workers during COVID-19
- Confederación Sindical de Comisiones Obreras (CC.OO.): Agreement on Equality at Work
- Building and Wood Workers’ International (BWI): COVID 19 News
- Education International (EI): COVID-19 tracker and COVID-19 Information Hub
- European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC): Trade unions and coronavirus
- IndustriALL: Union responses to the Covid-19 crisis
- International Federation of Journalists (IFJ): Covid-19: Report Safely
- International Federation of Musicians (FIM):Covid-19
- International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF): Covid-19 updates
- International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers’ Associations (IUF): COVID-19 Information and Resources
- LabourStart: News from the world’s trade unions
- Public Services International (PSI): Public Health, Once and for All! and Safe Workers Save Lives campaign
- Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD (TUAC): Mapping out trade union and social partners’ responses
- UNI Global Union (UNI): Unions global response to #COVID19