A little late in the evening UK time but pleased to attend and ask a question. 🌎 Last week, over 20 global asset owner representatives – with a combined AUM of nearly USD 1.8 trillion – engaged collectively with BlackRock to articulate their…Read more…
LGPS Forum: Opportunity to participate in transnational Labour Rights Investor Network
(UNISON are supporting their members who are pension trustees/activists to join)The Global Union’s Committee on Workers’
Capital (CWC) is a network of pension trustees and staff dedicated to ensuring
that employee retirement assets are invested r…Read more…
Trustee workshop: How can pension funds advance the ‘S’ in ESG and raise labour standards?
This year is the 10th anniversary of the Rana Plaza factory collapse disaster. Over 1100 workers died and many more injured. Register https://www.tuc.org.uk/events/trustee-workshop-how-can-pension-funds-advance-s-esg-and-raise-labour-st…Read more…
Committee on Workers’ Capital – Mid Year Virtual Roundtable
CWC Mid-Year Virtual RoundtableBetween June 8-10th, 2021 the CWC will host two 90 minute virtual brainstorming events to engage with its global network.
We will review how leading asset owners are integrating labour rights at a tim…Read more…
Committee Workers Capital (CWC) online Conference 2020 – The Road Ahead
I logged on this evening to the first session of the Conference. The CWC describes itself on its website “WorkersCapital” “With over 700 participants from 25 different countries, the Committee on Workers’ Capital is an internatio…Read more…
Union investors serve notice on XPO
News from the annual Committee on Workers’ Capital conference, which took place in Berlin this year:
Union investors serve notice on XPOTrade union investors meeting in Berlin today served notice on US-based logistics provider XPO that it must reform …Read more…
New guidelines for assessing company behaviour on labour issues
The Committee on Workers’ Capital (CWC) has just published an important new document – the CWC Guidelines for the Evaluation of Workers’ Human Rights and Labour Standards.
Its the product of a couple of years’ work by a global group of trade union exp…Read more…
We need transparency on charges
This is my latest opinion article for Professional Pensions magazine.
“John Gray asks why UK pension schemes do not have access to important information on charges.
Earlier this month I went to the CWC annual conference in Amsterdam. This was f…Read more…
“It’s from workers and it should go back to workers”
Check out this post below by UNISON’s head of bargaining and Campaigns in Scotland, Dave Watson, on the first day of the Workers Capital Conference which took place yesterday.
Also this YouTube video above by the ITF.
“Workers of the world unite to …Read more…
Workers’ Capital Conference 2015
Yesterday was the first day of the 2015 Workers’ Capital Conference, which this year is being held in London and hosted by the International Transport Federation (ITF). This global conference of union pension activists was organised by the Internationa…Read more…
Committee on Workers Capital – Global Proxy Review 2014
Check out this report published last week by the Committee on Workers Capital (CWC).
The CWC has “over 200 members from 25 different countries, the CWC connects labour union organizations around the world to advance the responsible investment …Read more…
When unions meet capital markets…
Anyone interested in the capacity for trade unions to mobilise the capital sitting in our pension funds should take a look at the Global Proxy Review produced by the Committee on Workers’ Capital. The Review is intended as a tool for trade union truste…Read more…