A new trade union Sustainable Development Unit has just been launched by the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU), Global Unions Research Network (GURN), Sustainlabour and Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD (TUAC).

The Unit website makes available the Trade Union ‘country by country’ profiles on a wide range of sustainable development issues: energy, climate change, occupational health & safety, 28 April International Commemoration Day (ICD) for Dead and Injured Workers, asbestos, HIV/AIDS, trade union rights, as well as corporate accountability.

The new Unit will manage the growing demand for the now well-known trade union ‘country-by-country’ information profiling and help coordinate activities that relate to them. However, the Unit sees its role mainly as conceiving and producing internationally-linked, country-level information to facilitate trade union campaigns and lobbying efforts.

• The web-site