The International Labor Organization welcomes the global initiative between the United States and Brazil on Decent Work

New York (ILO News) – The Director-General of the International Labor Organization, Gilbert F. Houngbo, with the new initiative launched by the United States and Brazil to protect decent work in a rapidly changing labor market.

The U.S.-Brazil Partnership for Workers’ Rights was launched by the presidents of both countries, Joseph Biden and Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, and the Director-General of the International Labor Organization, during the United Nations General Assembly in New York on September 20. .

The new association identifies five priority areas of action:

• Protecting workers’ rightsWhich includes combating forced labour, child labor and worker exploitation.
• Promoting safe and decent workEnsure that countries and companies are held accountable for the impact of their investments on workers’ health, wages and rights.
• We support a worker-centered clean energy transitionEnsure that the transition to cleaner technologies is equitable and benefits all workers.
• Ensuring the emergence of new technologies, such as artificial intelligence and advanced platformsIt benefits workers while preserving their rights.
• Addressing discrimination in the workplaceEnsuring that no one is left behind, and creating an inclusive and fair work environment for all.

“Whether it’s auto workers or any other union workers, record profits for companies must mean record contracts for union workers. Today, I’m proud to stand alongside a group of leaders who think exactly the same way we do as we launch our new coalition for workers,” Biden said. “Rights.” “This declaration is also a call to all world leaders and all trade union organizations to join us and commit to a better future, a future in which workers in all countries are treated with dignity and respect. Our economies and countries will be stronger for it, he added.

“This initiative will be implemented by the President of the United States, and through me, in all the international forums in which we participate. Next year, Brazil will chair the G20, and then, in 2025, the BRICS process. After that, Lula da Silva stressed: We will have a COP30 conference in 2026 in the heart of the Amazon region. “In all these forums, I can reassure workers and assure you all that we will work and try to create conditions for all world rulers to accept the Protocol. Because all human beings – men and women, black and white – have the right to a decent job.”

“The ILO has been advancing the cause of social justice and decent work for more than 100 years. Its unique tripartite governance structure gives workers, employers and governments equal standing in our work. We have an unparalleled understanding of how to ‘deliver decent work’ and build better lives,” said Houngbo. Better economies and societies. “That is why we unequivocally welcome this partnership between the United States and Brazil on workers’ rights.”