Exiting from the Crisis, the report of a Global Unions alternative growth strategy, was released at a public forum at the AFL-CIO in April, featuring AFL-CIO President Richard L. Trumka and Nobel Prize winner Joseph Stiglitz. The event was co-hosted by the federation and the Washington, D.C., office of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation.
Exiting from the Crisis is a volume of essays from global trade union leaders and economists on achieving a more just and sustainable model of global economic growth. It is the product of the Global Unions Task Force on a New Growth Model, a joint project of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), the Trade Union Advisory Committee (TUAC) to the OECD, the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI) and the Global Union Research Network (GURN).
The task force involves more than 30 global trade union economists from a wide array of advanced, emerging and developing countries.
Some of the report's key proposals include:
Measuring economic growth in terms of how well it serves the needs of citizens.
Building sustainable, responsible corporations that recognize their duties to the workers they employ and the communities in which they operate.
Using fiscal and monetary policy to achieve full employment and raise living standards and making sure workers' income keeps pace with increases in productivity.
Videos
Watch presentations by Stiglitz and other participants from the April forum.
Joseph Stiglitz, University Professor, Columbia University
John Evans, General Secretary, Trade Union Advisory Committee, OECD
