Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/301184 
Year of Publication: 
2024
Series/Report no.: 
ILO Working Paper No. 119
Publisher: 
International Labour Organization (ILO), Geneva
Abstract: 
Trade unions play an important role in ensuring that the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are integrated into the development agenda and strategies of countries. The findings from indepth online interviews with trade union officers from seven national labour confederations and senior ILO officials in five Asian countries, complemented by a review of secondary sources, show that, depending on a set of factors, trade unions utilize a variety of strategies in influencing their country's commitments to and progress on achieving the SDGs. The paper argues that both the strategies and outcomes of the SDG-related engagements of the unions in three of the five countries, which are influenced by several important factors, have contributed, albeit to varying degrees, to their revitalization in terms of the development and strengthening of their power resources, particularly the unions' institutional power. The paper identifies several ways that trade unions can sustain successful SDG-related initiatives.
Subjects: 
Sustainable Development Goals
SDGs
trade unions
union revitalization
social dialogue
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ISBN: 
978-92-2-040613-7
Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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