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John Evans is General Secretary of the Paris-based Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD (TUAC). Prior to joining TUAC, John has worked as Research Officer at the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI), Industry Secretary at the International Federation of Commercial, Clerical and Technical Employees (FIET) and Economist in the Economic Department of the TUC. He is currently a member of the Board of the Global Reporting Initiative, and member of the Helsinki Group. TUAC was founded in 1948, and following the creation of the OECD, it was recognised as an independent body entitled to represent the views of trade unions with the OECD. It comprises 56 national trade union centres in OECD Member countries.
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John Evans
In his Financial Times article (£) yesterday, Labour Leader Ed Miliband MP has echoed the demand made a month ago by the global trade union movement for an emergency G20 summit. The economic case for G20 priorities to shift up a gear to create jobs and re-stimulate growth in the short term is overwhelming, especially given that Europe and North America are below what Martin Wolf called (£) “escape velocity” earlier in the week.
John Evans
Last week, the OECD’s Secretary General, Angel Gurría, issued a statement on the UK’s Comprehensive Spending Review, calling it “courageous”, “a necessary step to achieving long-term fiscal stability” and “the best way to secure better public finances and bolster future growth”. At TUAC, we think his quotes are both ill-advised and inconsistent with the OECD’s stated objective of prioritizing job growth coming out of the crisis.
TUAC (the Trade Union Advisory Committee to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development to use our full name) is an international union organisation, with consultative status to the OECD and its different committees. We exist to help the OECD balance the interests of global markets with an effective social dimension, and we think this is one of those occasions where the balance is distinctly off.
