Spanish Minister Enters Race to Lead UN Labour Agency, Amid US Funding Concerns
The bid could make her the first woman to lead the agency as it faces a $315 million U.S. arrears bill and planned funding cuts.
- On Thursday, Spain nominated Labour Minister Yolanda Diaz to head the International Labour Organization, potentially making her the first woman to lead the 187 member states of the Geneva-based agency.
- The agency faces a cash-flow shortfall as the United States owes $315 million in arrears as of July 17. Financial instability has forced the organization to freeze hiring and cut 120 jobs.
- Supporters credit Diaz, who founded the Sumar coalition in 2023, with driving significant reforms through social dialogue resulting in 30 agreements. Her record includes substantially raising the minimum wage, though relations with Spain's business lobby have progressively soured.
- Diaz is expected to challenge incumbent Director-General Gilbert Houngbo of Togo in the November election. Diplomatic sources suggest her candidacy will receive support from many European states.
- The White House recently backed a House spending bill eliminating U.S. funding for the ILO as part of broader cuts affecting UNESCO and the World Health Organization. This threatens the agency's already precarious financial position heading into the November leadership transition.
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The vice president leaves her duties for the return of summer, when she will fully enter the ILO race. Spain risks an EU sanction for non-compliance in wage transparency Read
The two vice-presidencies are given the summer to close the last fringes of the royal decree that previews to harden the schedule registration, after a few advisory reports demolishing with the normThe government proposes to the vice-president Yolanda Díaz as candidate to lead the ILO The vice-presidents Carlos Córdoba and Yolanda Díaz have closed the political course with a preliminary agreement: the reform of the schedule register to harden it…
The Government of Pedro Sánchez has proposed to the second vice-president of Spain and Minister of Labour and Social Economy, Yolanda Díaz, as Director General of the International Labour Organization (ILO), as announced by La Moncloa and Sánchez himself in his X account. What would be his salary? The general management of the ILO has a starting salary equivalent to that of the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP or U…
Spanish minister enters race to lead UN labour agency, amid US funding concerns
By Olivia Le Poidevin and Emma Farge GENEVA, July 23 (Reuters) - Spain on Thursday nominated Labour Minister Yolanda Diaz to head the United Nations labour agency, potentially making her the first woman to lead the organisation, as it faces a financial...
The Minister of Labour and Social Economy will have to compete with Gilbert Houngbo in a process whose vote will depend on government representatives
Madrid, 23 Jul (EFE).- The second vice-president of the Spanish government and Minister of Labor, Yolanda Díaz, is a candidate to lead the International Labour Organization (ILO), announced on Thursday the president of the Executive, Pedro Sánchez. His appointment would mean that "for the first time a woman and our country would be in charge of this fundamental institution for the defense of decent work and social justice", Sánchez said in a mes…
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