WTO - GATS - TRADE:
TRADE UNIONS

All Cancún Information

All Doha Information

WTO: Who wins in the Race to the Bottom 20.12.2005
WTO: Save us from sin.....but not yet 20.12.2005

GATS: 
Unions set priorities for the WTO negotiations 27.03.2006
New alert on GATS trade round 16.03.2006
UNI Global Union Alert to Affiliates for National Action on WTO Negotiations on Trade in Services (Affiliates only) 13.01.2006
Joint statement by COSATU, South Africa and CUT, Brazil 16.12.2005
GATS Negotiations: EU Revised offer 29.06.2005
GATS Alert - Reminder - GATS Negotiations Boosted by WTO July Meeting - Expect More Liberalisation Pressures! 10.08.2004
GATS Alert – Urgent Action Required 05.05.2004
Australia: Postal Services – No thank you to GATS 22.12.2003
OECD-World Bank-IOM Seminar on Trade and Migration - ICFTU report 18.12.2003
GATS a threat to media and cultural diversity, says California State Senator 02.10.2003
UNI - GATS and GATS negotiations in commerce, 6 Aug 2003 - Part I
UNI - GATS and GATS negotiations in commerce, 6 Aug 2003 - Part II
UK union Connect adopts resolution on conditions for remote outsourcing 24.06.2003
GATS Mode 4 - Position paper of the Austrian Federal Chamber of Labour (AK) 06.2003
GATS Mode 4 - Positionspapier der Bundeskammer für Arbeiter und Angestellte (AK) 06.2003
International social dialogue on WTO issues - a FES/WTO seminar 29.04.2003
GATS - new UNI guide 15.04.2003
GATS – ACT NOW ! En - Es - Fr - De - Sv 26.11.2002
GATS – ACT NOW (Follow-Up) 10.01.2003
UNI in Brussels GATS demonstration 13.02.2003
UNI urges joint WTO-ILO initiative over trade round 19.12.2002
CUPW (Canada) - Trade union materials on GATS, NAFTA and FTAA 05.11.2003
STTP (Canada) - Documents d'action syndicale sur AGCS, ALENA et ZLEA 05.11.2003
Übergabe des GATS-Verhandlungsangebotes der EU – ver.di sieht Erfolge 29.04.2003
FGTB-CSC (Belgique) service d'études - Points sur les propositions d'offres de la CE dans le cadre des négociations AGCS (GATS) 03.03.2003
EU launches public consultation on GATS negotiations 18.11.2002
UNI Europa reply to EC consultation document on GATS negotiations 13.01.2003
FGTB-CSC (Belgium) research department - Analysis of the EC consultation document 13.01.2003
UK Government Consulting Civil Society on GATS Negotiations 15.10.2002
TUC (UK) - Response to UK government consultation document on GATS 19.10.2002
General Secretaries of eight British trade unions call for halt to GATS negotiations 08.01.2003
Global Unions statement on GATS negotiations 06.06.2002
Déclaration "Global Unions" sur les négociations AGCS 19.06.02
Declaración de la agrupación Global Unions sobre las negociaciones AGCS-OMC 22.08.02
Global Unions call for consultations on GATS 13.02.2002

• UNI briefing paper on GATS  – April 2002 revision and update

• UNI - Questions & Answers on the GATS

• Essential GATS Quotations 29.07.2005

• UNI World Executive Statement on WTO-GATS - En - Fr - Es - De

• UNI MEI Assembly backs cultural diversity and opposes GATS

• UNI MEI Assembly - GATS threat to media and cultural diversity raised

• UNI note on the cross-border movement of labour under GATS

• UNI Europa reply to EC consultation document on GATS negotiations

• UNI Europa statement on GATS negotiations

• UNI - GATS and GATS negotiations in commerce, 6 Aug 2003 - Part I

• UNI - GATS and GATS negotiations in commerce, 6 Aug 2003 - Part II

• UNI Commerce - The impact of GATS on retail and wholesale trade - 2

• UNI Commerce -The impact of GATS on retail and wholesale trade - 1

• UNI Graphical Conference - adopted motion on national strategies concerning GATS

• CUPW (Canada) - Trade union materials on GATS, NAFTA and FTAA
  STTP (Canada) - Documents d'action syndicale sur AGCS, ALENA et ZLEA
• ASU (Australia) - Submission to Senate on GATS and the Australia-USA trade agreement
• TUC (UK) - Response to UK government consultation document on GATS
• SINEBACCR (Costa Rica) - Negociaciones OMC-AGCS (GATS)

• AFL-CIO (USA) - Statement on the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS)

• LO (Denmark) - Views on WTO negotiations on trade in services

• DGB (Germany) – Liberalisation of world trade in services must respect human needs

• DGB: Die Welthandelsliberalisierung der Dienstleistungen (GATS) darf die Bedürfnisse der Menschen nicht vergessen

• CUPW / STTP - Submission to the Canadian government on public postal services and GATS

• STTP / CUPW - Mémoire au gouvernment canadien sur les services postaux publics et l'AGCS

• CUPW / STTP - Comments on study of impact of GATS on Canadian postal services

Social Dimension:

• ICFTU - Trade and Labour Standards
• LO Norway – Evaluation of ICFTU campaign for core labour standards in WTO
• Developing country unionists support trade-labour standards link
• Austrian Federal Chamber of Labour - For core labour standards in the WTO
• HKCTU (Hong Kong) - China and the WTO
• MTUC (Malaysia) - Making the Doha Declaration work for all countries
• AFL-CIO (USA) - Comments on the 4th Ministerial Conference of the WTO
• DGB - ATTAC - VENRO (Germany) - Making globalisation equitable
• DGB (Germany) – For sustainable development and social justice in a new round of global trade negotiations
• DGB: Die nächste WTO-Runde muss nachhaltige Entwicklung und soziale Gerechtigkeit auf ihre politische Agenda setzen
• Déclaration syndicale (France) - OMC, enjeux d'un nouveau cycle de négociations
• TUC (UK) - Globalisation web site
• UGT (España) - Sitio web globalización