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Owen Tudor

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Deputy General Secretary Organisation: International Trade Union Confederation and a former Director of ETI
Organisation
ITUC

Blog posts from this author

Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons/Ludovic Courtès.

The 2022 International Labour Conference shows that multilateralism can still deliver

22 July 2022
Owen Tudor reflects on the 2022 International Labour Conference

The next leap forward in regulating supply chains

22 June 2022
Owen Tudor reflects on the extension of the ILO’s fundamental principles and rights at work, and what this means for ETI members and occupational health and safety going forward.
Covid PPE, supermarket, Thailand

Occupational health and safety should be a fundamental right at work

8 March 2021
A guest blog by Owen Tudor, ITUC Deputy General Secretary, on the urgent need to make occupational health and safety a fundamental right at work.
Bangladesh trainee sewing machine operators © ILO-Sarah Jane Saltmarsh

Four years after Rana Plaza, union action prevents a potential repeat

21 April 2017
At 5 pm on Wednesday 5 April, a two-storey brick structure adjoining the Ananta Apparel factory on Elephant Road, Dhaka collapsed.
Man writing 'Living wage'.

Why living wages need collective bargaining

27 April 2016
For a wage to be a living wage, it must meet weekly, monthly and annual costs, not just an hourly amount. That's where collective bargaining with trade unions comes in.

Collective bargaining is central to living wages

4 November 2014
Marking Living Wage Week in the UK, the TUC's Owen Tudor reflects on pay as a key issue for the British trade union movement.

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