Track 8 – Trade Unions and Politics

Workshops planned in this track so far include:

  • The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership – pilfering workers rights behind closed doors
  • Building Alliances for campaigning

Experiences learned working with national unions, major NGOs and the Council of Global Unions to build e. g. the Robin Hood Tax and global Tax Justice campaigns

  • Trade Unions and Protests in Turkey
  • Railways, Education, Water: Fighting privatizacion
  • Citizens Income

(aka basic income, basic income guarantee, unconditional basic income, universal basic income): a proposed system of social security in which citizens or residents of a country regularly receive a sum of money unconditionally, either from a government or some other institution able to ensure an equitable distribution of common wealth.

  • Trade Union and Human Rights
  • Trade union power vis-á-vis governments – making trade unions relevant at national level