Guy Rider has been elected today, 28 May 2012, new director general of the International Labour Organization.

Guy Rider was executive director of ILO and has been General Secretary of the ITUC, the International Trade Union Confederation, from 2002 to 2010. He initiated and led the process of global reunification of the democratic international trade union movement. He also promoted very strongly a cooperation between trade unions and social movements at the World Social Forum.