THE TRADE UNION ADVISORY COMMITTEE OF THE OECD (TUAC)

Like its corporate counterpart, the Trade Union Advisory Committee (TUAC) has consultative status within the OECD and has a small secretariat in Paris. TUAC represents over 55 trade union organizations in the industrialized world and counts a total membership of 70 million workers. TUAC sees its role as "ensuring that global markets are balanced by an effective social dimension".32 Accordingly, TUAC has stressed the need for binding social and environmental standards in the MAI since consultations during the feasibility studies in the early 1990s.33 Although OECD negotiators have never taken these recommendations seriously, Roy Jones of the TUAC Secretariat points out that the recent difficulties in the negotiations show that TUAC was right: "labour and environment can blow the treaty apart".34
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