Core Labor Standards
Labor Standards and the World Trade Organization
Executive Summary: The World Trade Organization (WTO) is the organization most suited for implementing and regulating core labor standards compared to other international labor organizations like the IMF and the World Bank since it has the power to enforce its regulations, to treat its members evenly, and can impose multilateral solutions. For a long time, the WTO has debated about the incorporation of core labor standards, but there has been no action taken to make it so.
The International Labour Organization (ILO) has outlined five core labor standards that have been universally accepted, but countries are not obligated to follow through since the ILO …show more content…
The first recommendation is for the WTO to nurture a good relationship with the ILO by creating its own agency that deals with labor and human rights. The second recommendation is for the WTO to improve its system to allow civil society participation.
The purpose of this paper is to discuss the incorporation of core labor standards into the WTO. The paper first discusses why the WTO should be the organization that enforces adherence to the core labor standards. It then defines the core labor standards and goes on to the benefits that the core labor standards bring. After that it goes on to talk about the barriers to promoting core labor standards. The paper then concludes with a set of possible recommendations to incorporate labor standards into the WTO.
The World Trade Organization …show more content…
Currently, the WTO Secretariat maintains technical exchanges with the ILO in order to help members’ global economic policies. The WTO and ILO compile statistics, research and technical assistance, and training. However, these are the only activities that have been going on between the WTO and the ILO. There have not been actual actions taken by the WTO to incorporate core labor standards as the WTO states “the role of the WTO and the relationship between WTO agreements and ILO labor standards have been debated, sometimes intensively” (“Work With Other International Organizations”). As mentioned before, the ILO doesn’t have any enforcement power, but the WTO does, so having a WTO labor organization would make it easier for the WTO to enforce core labor standards. By having the ILO and WTO’s labor agency collaborate, it can help improve labor standards and may quicken the incorporation of core labor standards into the
Executive Summary: The World Trade Organization (WTO) is the organization most suited for implementing and regulating core labor standards compared to other international labor organizations like the IMF and the World Bank since it has the power to enforce its regulations, to treat its members evenly, and can impose multilateral solutions. For a long time, the WTO has debated about the incorporation of core labor standards, but there has been no action taken to make it so.
The International Labour Organization (ILO) has outlined five core labor standards that have been universally accepted, but countries are not obligated to follow through since the ILO …show more content…
The first recommendation is for the WTO to nurture a good relationship with the ILO by creating its own agency that deals with labor and human rights. The second recommendation is for the WTO to improve its system to allow civil society participation.
The purpose of this paper is to discuss the incorporation of core labor standards into the WTO. The paper first discusses why the WTO should be the organization that enforces adherence to the core labor standards. It then defines the core labor standards and goes on to the benefits that the core labor standards bring. After that it goes on to talk about the barriers to promoting core labor standards. The paper then concludes with a set of possible recommendations to incorporate labor standards into the WTO.
The World Trade Organization …show more content…
Currently, the WTO Secretariat maintains technical exchanges with the ILO in order to help members’ global economic policies. The WTO and ILO compile statistics, research and technical assistance, and training. However, these are the only activities that have been going on between the WTO and the ILO. There have not been actual actions taken by the WTO to incorporate core labor standards as the WTO states “the role of the WTO and the relationship between WTO agreements and ILO labor standards have been debated, sometimes intensively” (“Work With Other International Organizations”). As mentioned before, the ILO doesn’t have any enforcement power, but the WTO does, so having a WTO labor organization would make it easier for the WTO to enforce core labor standards. By having the ILO and WTO’s labor agency collaborate, it can help improve labor standards and may quicken the incorporation of core labor standards into the