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  • 21 June 2019

    From Words to Action: CWC Asset Manager Accountability Initiative launches with meeting at State Street

    The CWC Asset Manager Accountability Initiative supports trustees and unions in raising workers’ issues with asset managers. We need your participation to build momentum, up to and beyond our 2019 conference in Paris. Click here or email the CWC Secretariat to find out more or get involved. (...)

  • 10 May 2019

    Sharan Burrow: As Uber goes public, the fight against its broken business model continues

    This piece was originally published on Equal Times
    Uber markets itself as a “disruptive innovation” that is reconfiguring global transportation markets as it extends across countries and sectors.
    The hallmark of platform businesses, Uber announced it would be going public this Friday in what (...)

  • 9 April 2019

    Opinion: Debates in Australia about superannuation funds raising labour practices at BHP are 15 years behind

    On March 3, Australian Treasurer Josh Frydenberg wrote a letter to the national prudential authority about the Australian Council of Trade Unions’ request that superannuation funds engage mining giant BHP on a pressing labour issue.
    "In disregard for the law, militant unions are acting like big (...)

  • 2 November 2018

    The role of labour trustees in driving a just transition

    Investors are recognizing that they must participate actively in the transition to a low-carbon economy. This is apparent in the growing inventory of investor responses to climate change risks and opportunities.
    Until now, a consideration of the social dimension of this transition has been (...)

  • 26 September 2018

    Did asset managers walk the workers’ rights talk in their submissions to the UK Corporate Governance Code review ?

    Through 2018, the Committee on Workers’ Capital has been working to expose the discrepancies between the statements and the actions of asset managers around the topic of sustainability – particularly the human and labour rights dimension. In this installment of the CWC Blog series on asset (...)
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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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