International Trade Union Confederation Makes Demands On G20

The International Confederation of Trade Unions (ITUC) policy proposals to the G20 governments is making world news headlines. It's a big step when labor demands

1. a coordinated international recovery and sustainable growth plan to create jobs and ensure public investment;

2. nationalisation of insolvent banks and new financial regulations;

3. action to combat the risk of wage deflation and reverse decades of increasing inequality;

4. far-reaching action on climate change;

5. a new international legal framework to regulate the global economy along with reform of the global financial and economic institutions (IMF, World Bank, OECD, WTO).

Read the entire ITUC position here.

What are we going to do here in the US and in Oregon to make this real?