The report Trade Unions in Action for the Rights of Migrant Workers, showcases organising, campaigning, advocacy and direct support activities carried out by trade union organisations from 10 countries...

Trade unions are key in safeguarding migrant workers’ rights, enhancing working conditions through collective bargaining and building a rights-based governance of migration through social dialogue. To achieve this, governments must:

• Place labour standards, such as freedom of association and collective bargaining rights, at the centre of systems governing migration and respect the ILO’s Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work.
• Scale up regular migration pathways, with full workers’ rights and non-discrimination, and create regularisation schemes for migrants in an irregular situation.
• Ensure effective access to justice for migrant workers.
• Remove barriers to access to social security and ensure equal treatment by social security systems of nationals and migrant workers.
• Implement universal minimum living wages.
• Achieve mutual recognition of skills and qualifications in origin and destination countries through social dialogue.