TNGO presents: Alison Tate

Alison Tate, Alison Tate Director of External Relations, International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) and Moynihan TNGO Initiative Fellow, 2014

Climate Change, Labor Standards, Migration and Unions: What will the Future of Work Look Like? 

Alison Tate is undertaking a fellowship at the Transnational NGO Initiative from March 17th-28th. In her talk, she will share the challenges of labor unions and how they appear in strategies and priorities of the international union movement. What role can alliances with civil society play in finding solutions to the many intersecting issues relevant to the future world of work?

Alison Tate has represented unions at the United Nations, the UN's specialist body, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and in other international and intergovernmental fora. She has served as a consultant/expert to a number of international development and human rights NGOs and with the Better Work program of the ILO and the International Finance Corporation (IFC), advising on trade union capacity building and labour standards compliance. Alison is a member of the board of the Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI). Alison has degrees in economics and political science. 

The International Trade Union Confederation, based in Brussels, represents 175 million workers in 156 countries and has 315 national labor union affiliates. The ITUC represents the voice of workers in many economic and social intergovernmental bodies including the United Nations, the G20, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the World Economic Forum (WEF).

Sponsored by the Transnational NGO Initiative at the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs