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This Policy Brief considers the lessons to be drawn from the crisis for both public and private pensions in Europe. The author, Agnes Streissler, points out that both pay-as-you-go and funded systems are dependent on economic growth and are under pressure because of demographic changes. At the same time, private systems are considerably more risky in terms of the entitlements of successive cohorts leaving the labour market.
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(December 2009)

Little systematic theorising about EWCs has taken place to date. The aim of the volume European Works Councils in complementary perspectives is to expand the prevailing research perspectives on EWCs by drawing on theoretical findings from industrial relations research, organisational sociology and international management studies. The theoretical approach is completed by case studies.
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(December 2009)

The next ETUI monthly forum will take place on 24th February.
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(February 2010)

Brian Bercusson was a leading European labour law academic and a true defender of European trade union and workers' rights. As a legacy for future generations but also as the expression of the trade union’s heartfelt gratitude for his unstinting attachment to defending workers’ rights, the ETUI Experts Group has gathered a selection of the most important writings of Brian Bercusson on Labour Law and Social Europe.
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(December 2009)

ETUI launched the first issue of a sustainable development newsletter at the end of November. Titled Just Transition, the new monthly e-zine reports on what European trade unions are doing to help build a more sustainable society. It puts a special focus on initiatives that combine climate change issues with concerns for jobs and social justice.
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(December 2009)

This report on Maltese trade unions forms part of a wide-ranging ETUI project which aims to map changes in unionisation and the varying organisational structures of unions in the ‘New Member States’ (NMS). The author, Godfrey Baldacchino, indicates that Maltese trade unions still enjoy significant membership rates. More than one in two workers in Malta is a trade union member, one of the highest unionisation rates in the EU.
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(November 2009)

This brochure takes stock of trade union participation in European standardisation over the twenty years since the Machinery Directive was adopted. Since 1989, the ETUI has helped to develop ways and means by which to give workers an active say in technical standards development. It is highly complex work, but work that is vital to their safety because poorly-designed machines cause injury, illness and death.
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(October 2009)

The ETUI monthly forum will take place on 28th January with speaker Guy Standing, of the University of Bath.
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(January 2010)

From 7 December 2009 until 8 January 2010, the ETUI Documentation Center hosts Giovanni Buzi's painting exhibition "Faces 1979-2009".
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(November 2009)

To coincide with the UN Climate Change Conference taking place in Copenhagen in December, the ETUI and the Hans Böckler Foundation are organising two events linked to the issue of sustainable development.
The first, entitled “The sustainable company – how can worker participation foster the concept in company boardrooms?” takes place on 15-17 December and seeks to examine how worker representatives in company boardrooms inside European companies can contribute to future company performance, innovation and the future industrial workplace.
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The second, on 16th December entitled “The sustainable company – importance and role for workers interest representation”, forms part of the “World of Work Pavilion - unions have solutions initiatives” event that takes place on 14-16 December.
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(November 2009)