ILO Partnered with NATUC on Negotiation and Mediation Skills Workshop
Port-of-Spain (ILO News) - The International Labour Organization, Decent Work Team and Office for the Caribbean (ILO-DWT), partnered with the National Trade Union Centre of Trinidad and Tobago (NATUC) to provide training to union officials at a four-day Workshop on “negotiation and mediation skills”. The Workshop was held from 14 to 17 May 2013, at the National Union of Government and Federated Workers (NUGFW) conference room in Port of Spain. Eighteen trade unionists benefitted from this training.  The objective of the Workshop was to equip participants with knowledge and skills about negotiation techniques and strategies. (23 May 2013)

ILO Director-General's statement on International Day against Homophobia and Transphobia
On International Day against Homophobia and Transphobia, ILO Director-General, Guy Ryder, says the ILO is stepping up efforts to eradicate workplace discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation or gender identity.

Global Employment Trends for Youth 2013: Youth jobs’ gains wiped out by slow recovery
A new ILO report says the long-term impact of the youth employment crisis could be felt for decades, creating a generation at risk of suffering decent work deficits throughout their lives.  Despite some regional differences, the global youth unemployment rate continues to rise and is projected to reach 12.8 per cent by 2018 – wiping out the gains made at the start of the economic recovery.  According to the ILO’s Global Employment Trends for Youth 2013 report, an estimated 73.4 million young people – 12.6 per cent – are expected to be out of work in 2013, close to the levels reached at the peak of the economic crisis in 2009. This is an increase of 3.5 million between 2007 and 2013. (08 May 2013)

ILO report shows why social protection is crucial to tackle child labour
Measures such as cash transfers or health insurance programmes can sometimes determine whether a child spends the day studying and playing, or working and being deprived of a fair chance at a decent future. (30 April 2013)

ILO calls for urgent global action to fight occupational diseases
According to a new ILO report, prevention is key to tackling the growing number of work-related diseases, which claim an estimated 2 million lives per year.  (26 April 2013)

European crisis: ILO Director-General urges closer cooperation between IMF, EC and ILO
OSLO – Director-General of the International Labour Organization, Guy Ryder, called for closer cooperation between the International Monetary Fund, European Commission and the ILO, recognizing their “different policy goals, since they are all legitimate.”  “We have an enormous amount of common ground between our international agencies, so there is no reason not to work closely together,” he said. (09 April 2013)