Trade unions’ daily work is aimed at ending poverty in all its forms. Around 700 million people live in extreme poverty today. Most of them are workers, particularly women workers. Trade unions know that decent work and universal social protection are the surest way to reduce poverty and inequality. To support this goal we need gender-transformative just transition policies, progressive tax systems, living wages and equal pay. We also need democratic institutions and workplaces, where everyone has a say in ending and preventing poverty.

Trade unions are ready to lead the way for social justice

Our priorities on SDG 1: No poverty

• Invest in decent and climate-friendly jobs as a key method for tackling poverty.
• Achieve universal social protection in line with ILO standards.
• Support developing countries by
  • allocating at least 7 per cent of ODA to social protection, and
  • setting up a Global Social Protection Fund.
• Respect workers’ rights and minimum living wages with equal pay.
• Advance gender equality to elevate women out of poverty.
• Establish social dialogue on poverty eradication policies.
• Reform international tax architecture and support progressive taxation.

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