Equal Times - Owen Tudor

23 February 2023

One year on, Ukraine’s trade unions are playing a critical role in the war effort – and will be central to a just peace

Owen Tudor: “Under incredibly difficult circumstances, and frequently at great personal risk, trade unionists have been delivering humanitarian assistance and [...]Read the full article

10 December 2021

Labour

Why the Commonwealth must promote domestic workers’ rights

Owen Tudor: Ten years ago, the International Labour Organization (ILO) adopted Convention 189 and Recommendation 201 on the rights of domestic workers. Since [...]Read the full article

20 May 2021

Labour

Trade unions have an important role to play in combatting vaccine hesitancy

Owen Tudor: “Unions must have no truck with anti-vaxxer conspiracy theories, but we need to address sympathetically those who are worried by that propaganda, [...]Read the full article

Has Fiji's democracy decayed into a police state?

10 June 2019

Labour

Has Fiji’s democracy decayed into a police state?

Owen Tudor: This intimidation by police has been the worst experienced in recent times, according to Fiji’s trade unionists.Read the full article

Are the loss of jobs, rights and lower wages worth the risk of a Brexit?

13 June 2016

Human rights

Are the loss of jobs, rights and lower wages worth the risk of a Brexit?

Owen Tudor: TUC research shows that average wages could be £38 a week lower if the UK left the EURead the full article

1 June 2016

Politics & economy

EU leaders must keep their promise - #thetimeisnow for a European FTT

Owen Tudor: A European FTT could raise billions for people and planet, helping to tackle climate change and poverty at home and [...]Read the full article

15 September 2014

Labour

No decent work without decent wages

Owen Tudor: The world needs a pay rise to deliver more social justice and equality, and also to boost growthRead the full article

The BRICS Bank and Fund – radical for some, not radical enough for others

13 August 2014

Politics & economy

The BRICS Bank and Fund – radical for some, not radical enough for others

Owen Tudor: The BRICS Bank is less of a break from the old world order, than the new post-1970s Washington consensus world orderRead the full article

11 August 2014

Labour

“Vulnerable workers need people like Andy Hall to stand up to exploitation and abuse”

Owen Tudor: The TUC and ITUC joined nearly 100 human rights NGOs and trade union organisations in 20 countries to insist that the Thai Natural Fruit Company [...]Read the full article

23 June 2014

Politics & economy

Robin Hood could send 29 million children to school

Owen Tudor: An EU Robin Hood Tax could raise in a week enough money to send 17 million children to school – more than half of the Global Partnership for [...]Read the full article

19 May 2014

Politics & economy

The new European Parliament should support the Robin Hood Tax - not the money men

Owen Tudor: A Robin Hood Tax could shift the balance of forces between the finance sector and the rest of the economyRead the full article

15 April 2014

Development

Putting Britain back at the head of the international development movement

Owen Tudor: Workers around the world are looking for the successor to the MDGs to deliver real action on povertyRead the full article

11 March 2014

Labour

Bob Crow: in memory of a true working class hero

Owen Tudor: Bob Crow demonstrated day in, day out, that the work people do defines us and gives us honour and valueRead the full article

29 October 2013

Labour

The not-so discreet class war of the French financial elite

Owen Tudor: Christian Noyer’s comments on the Robin Hood tax display a staggering lack of perspectiveRead the full article

20 February 2013

Politics & economy

Fiji: soon to be a one-party state?

Owen Tudor: The pretence that Fiji is returning to democracy gets thinner by the month.Read the full article

23 January 2013

Politics & economy

European unions score crucial tax victory against austerity

Owen Tudor: For the first time, we are seeing co-ordinated action by governments to constrain capital’s footloose ability to escape national decision-making [...]Read the full article

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