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  • 18 September 2018

    Workers’ Capital Unites in San Francisco: Summary of the Week of September 10th

    On September 10-11th, more than 115 worker-nominated pension fund trustees and trade union capital strategists from more than 12 countries came together at LiUNA local 261 union hall in San Francisco to improve accountability in the investment chain and to take stock of advances around the (...)

  • 3 October 2017

    A Class of Precarity: Why worker misclassification matters for investors

    When U.S. truck driver Edgardo Villatoro received his paycheck in November 2015 from XPO Logistics Inc., his gross pay was $2,054.05. The number on his paycheck, however, was $337.26. The remainder of his earnings went to expenses such as fuel, insurance, parking, maintenance and administrative (...)

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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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