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Sharan Burrow


Sharan Burrow is general secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation.

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How to restore workers’ rights

Sharan Burrow 19th July 2022

The grim statistics on workers’ rights will only be righted if global standards are properly enforced.

Jobs and a just transition can deliver climate ambition

Sharan Burrow 9th November 2021

As COP26 continues, global social ambition will have to match that for the climate to secure a liveable world for all.

For workers, another year of living dangerously

Sharan Burrow 5th July 2021

Workers have stood on the frontline of the pandemic, but the ITUC Global Rights Index documents an anti-worker agenda.

Vaccine nationalism won’t defeat the pandemic

Sharan Burrow 23rd February 2021

International co-operation is vital to make vaccination, as a public good, available to all.

A new social contract

Sharan Burrow 24th June 2020

The 2020 ITUC Global Rights Index exposes the failings of the world’s economic model—a new social contract can help us build a new one.

UN treaty on business and human rights vital for economic and social justice

Sharan Burrow 28th October 2019

How can transnational corporations be held to account in a world of nation states? A binding UN treaty would be an important step.

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Spring Issues

The Spring issue of The Progressive Post is out!


Since President Trump’s inauguration, the US – hitherto the cornerstone of Western security – is destabilising the world order it helped to build. The US security umbrella is apparently closing on Europe, Ukraine finds itself less and less protected, and the traditional defender of free trade is now shutting the door to foreign goods, sending stock markets on a rollercoaster. How will the European Union respond to this dramatic landscape change? .


Among this issue’s highlights, we discuss European defence strategies, assess how the US president's recent announcements will impact international trade and explore the risks  and opportunities that algorithms pose for workers.


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WSI Minimum Wage Report 2025

The trend towards significant nominal minimum wage increases is continuing this year. In view of falling inflation rates, this translates into a sizeable increase in purchasing power for minimum wage earners in most European countries. The background to this is the implementation of the European Minimum Wage Directive, which has led to a reorientation of minimum wage policy in many countries and is thus boosting the dynamics of minimum wages. Most EU countries are now following the reference values for adequate minimum wages enshrined in the directive, which are 60% of the median wage or 50 % of the average wage. However, for Germany, a structural increase is still necessary to make progress towards an adequate minimum wage.

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S&D Position Paper on Cohesion Policy post-2027: a resilient future for European territorial equity”,

Cohesion Policy aims to promote harmonious development and reduce economic, social and territorial disparities between the regions of the Union, and the backwardness of the least favoured regions with a particular focus on rural areas, areas affected by industrial transition and regions suffering from severe and permanent natural or demographic handicaps, such as outermost regions, regions with very low population density, islands, cross-border and mountain regions.

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