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  • 27 March 2022

    CWC Blog: Bringing workers’ rights to the epicenter of change at SSGA

    Equipped with a high-level commitment to the “S” in “ESG” and new set of stronger policies on social issues, State Street Global Advisors is now better positioned to hold companies to account on fundamental labour rights.
    “The “S” is probably the epicenter of where the greatest change has happened (...)

  • 14 April 2021

    Asset manager perspectives on materiality: how are they reflected in the IFRS sustainability reporting plans?

    See the CWC Secretariat’s article published in Responsible-investor.com (open access) on April 9th 2021.
    https://www.responsible-investor.com/articles/asset-manager-perspectives-on-materiality-how-are-they-reflected-in-the-ifrs-sustainability-reporting-plans

  • 21 April 2020

    Labour risks at Amazon’s operations in Spain

    An update on Amazon’s operations in Spain by Mario Sanchez Richter, Confederación Sindical de Comisiones Obreras (CS CCOO).
    After several people developed symptoms in Amazon centers, management unilaterally implemented a protocol for prevention and action in response to the pandemic. The (...)

  • 11 December 2019

    Asset Manager Accountability in Action: First Super puts Orbis Investment Advisory on watch over ESG concerns at XPO Logistics

    This week, the board of Australian superannuation fund First Super placed Orbis Investment Advisory on a watch list due to its poor investment stewardship at US-based XPO Logistics, Inc (NYSE: XPO).
    Citing concerns that it is exposed to significant legal, regulatory and reputational risks in (...)

  • 1 October 2019

    The 2019 CWC Workers’ Capital Conference: Putting asset owners in the driver’s seat

    The theme of the 2019 CWC Workers’ Capital Conference focused on a concern shared by trustees and trade union delegates from across the world: a need to improve accountability in the investment chain so that workers’ deferred retirement savings are invested in a way that improves workers’ lives (...)
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Documents

  • 21 April 2020

    Labour risks at Amazon’s operations in Spain

    An update on Amazon’s operations in Spain by Mario Sanchez Richter, Confederación Sindical de Comisiones Obreras (CS CCOO).
    After several people developed symptoms in Amazon centers, management unilaterally implemented a protocol for prevention and action in response to the pandemic. The (...)

  • 7 April 2020

    José Meijer on Thérèse Schets’ retirement

    José Meijer, Vice-President Board of Trustees ABP and Chair of the CWC Trustee Leadership Network, pays tribute to Thérèse Schets, who retired after representing the Dutch Union Federation (FNV) on the CWC Networked Secretariat.
    On March 7th 2020, Thérèse Schets retired. On that same day, she was (...)

  • 13 September 2019

    Sharan Burrow: ESG - S and the E key

    ITUC General Secretary Sharan Burrow’s closing words at the 2019 CWC Workers’ Capital Conference in Paris, France.
    Decent work, sustainability and stabilising a global economy in crisis requires a reset of investment priorities, and the role of workers’ capital through the pension funds is (...)

  • 18 October 2018

    Workers’ rights take center stage in San Francisco: Reflections on the CWC Conference, PRI in Person and the Marriott Workers’ Strike

    Labour issues do not usually take centre-stage among ESG priorities at the annual PRI in Person conferences. That changed this year, when Marriott hotel worker Consuelo Escorcia addressed the attendees from the stage during the opening plenary, providing the often-abstract debates on whether (...)

  • 2 February 2018

    Missing links in the investment chain: Asset manager accountability and social issues

    How did global asset managers vote on resolutions targeting workers’ rights and labour standards?
    BlackRock chairman and chief executive Larry Fink’s statement last month to the boards of the companies in which the world’s largest asset manager invests that “every company must not only deliver (...)
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