The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC): Insights from the Second World Congress
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Abstract
Confederal international trade unionism has, in recent years, undertaken an in-depth reorganization of its structures and a review of its action strategies.Major changes over the last few years, led in particular by the implementation of strategies aimed at reinforcing trade union unity and the negotiating process at the global level, have affected the structuring and operating mode of the main international union organizations.This contribution is divided into two parts and examines some aspects of this transformation.First, we will describe briefly the role of confederal international trade unionism and its recent evolution in light of discussions which took place during the Second World Congress of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) held in Vancouver from June 21-25, 2010.We will then discuss some of the main challenges that the ITUC will have to overcome if it is to play an important role in the future in regulating the global economy. WHAT'S NEW WITH CONFEDERAL INTERNATIONAL TRADE UNIONISM?The international trade union confederations, which include national trade union confederations from around the world, have always made it their duty to intervene with intergovernmental organizations such as the ILO, the OECD and the UN on issues relating to the recognition of union rights and the respect of international labour standards.To this end, from the 1970s onwards, the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) pressed intergovernmental organizations to develop rules of conduct for multinational corporations.For example, the ICFTU was behind the first tripartite meeting in 1972 which led to the adoption by the ILO Governing Body in 1977 of the Tripartite Declaration of Principles concerning Multinational Enterprises and Social Policy.During the 1980s, which were marked by a major economic crisis in the industrialized countries, the ICFTU focused on issues related to inequalities in global economic development.The main ICFTU campaigns during this period related to the debt burden and the increasing pauperization of countries in the South, rising interest rates, the harmful effects of trade and financial liberalization, and the policies of international financial institutions with regard to developing countries.The ICFTU's interventions with
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.006 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.004 | 0.008 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.011 | 0.011 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.020 | 0.007 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.006 |
| Research integrity | 0.006 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".