Highlights
- The ‘generosity’ of pensions for workers in hard jobs: in need of a nuanced debate
- The world(s) of work in transition
- How to prepare for company change
- Endocrine disruptors: an occupational risk in need of recognition
- The country-specific recommendations (CSRs) in the social field. An overview and comparison. Update including the CSRs 2018-2019
- The EU company law package: how it should be improved to strengthen workers' rights and avoid abuse through cross-border company mobility
- Multi-employer bargaining under pressure: decentralisation trends in five European countries
- The digitalisation of work: Industry 4.0
Publication
10/2018
This policy brief examines issues surrounding recent cuts in pensions provision for workers in arduous and hazardous jobs (WAHJ). Such workers have historically enjoyed better provision because of the strong possibility of them having to take early retirement, but historic arrangements are now under threat. The policy brief presents some data on the working conditions and pensions patterns of WAHJ and provides some policy suggestions...
Publication
10/2018
The report of the third joint ETUI-ETUC conference, held on 27-29 June 2018, summarises the three days of discussion that took place when over 500 delegates gathered in Brussels to debate the future of work. The ambition of the 2018 event was to analyse the impact of the four key ‘megatrends’ – globalization, climate change, digitalization and the demographic transition disrupting societies and economies.
Publication
10/2018
This booklet is the third in a series of practical and easy-to-read manuals for European workers’ representatives.
Publication
12/2016
The aim of this publication, which received the 2018 Prescrire Prize, is to raise the awareness of union officials and political decision-makers on workers' exposure to endocrine disruptors. A further aim is to draw attention to the gaps in European legislation on the prevention of this type of workplace risk.
Publication
09/2018
This paper provides an overview of the CSRs in the field of employment and social policies and, in particular, an update of previous similar ETUI research. It provides a brief ‘statistical’ comparison between the CSRs issued in 2018-2019 as adopted by Council in July 2018 and compares them to previous CSRs in the period from 2011 to 2017.
Publication
09/2018
The proposed EU company law package, which was published in April 2018 by the European Commission, seeks to encourage cross-border company mobility while at the same time protecting stakeholder interests. The ETUI’s GOODCORP network of company law experts has identified three areas where the package needs to be revised in the interests of protecting workers’ rights and discouraging corporate abuse and makes thirteen specific recommen...
Publication
Edited by 06/2018
This edited volume maps different trajectories in national collective bargaining systems in Europe since the Great Recession. Since the start of the crisis in 2008, wage setting and collective bargaining systems in many EU countries have been under tremendous pressure to follow the logic of companies and market imperatives. Fostering decentralization of collective bargaining has been one of the key objectives of the New European Econ...
Education
Madrid, Spain
Training course: The Digital economy is already part of our lives. Production and supply chains are being restructured. Work organisation and working conditions as well as labour are constantly changing.It is crucial then to focus on how can trade unions engage in the field of industry 4.0. How can trade unions tackle workers’ issues such as OSH, Skill/training, data privacy and working time?
News
Collective Bargaining October 2018
8 November 2018Find below the highlights of the latest issue of the Collective Bargaining newsletter with the most important developments at European and member state level over the last month:
"Rights at Ryanair": European employee solidarity in practice
8 November 2018On the last day of October, the ETUI held a lunch debate on recent developments at Ryanair. The Irish low-cost airline is infamous for its poor working conditions and dire employment relations, despite net revenues of 1,45 billion € per year. It is also notoriously anti-union, which has hindered pursuit of industrial action in the past. The ETUI audience heard how this is changing, with steadily worsening conditions leading to a succession of strikes across different European countries over recent months.
Trade unions need to cooperate with Green groups to ensure a Just transition, argues new briefing
26 October 2018Cooperation between trade unions and environmental campaigners is vital as they are often in the vanguard of campaigns to persuade national governments to adopt climate change targets, argues ETUI Senior Researcher Béla Galgóczi in a new policy brief for the ILO.
New EU Directive crucial for protecting vulnerable workers
22 October 2018The relentless rise of precarious employment in Europe is one of the challenges that the European trade union movement is trying to deal with at the European level. Various new forms of employment currently fall outside of the scope of protection offered by labour law, as they tend to blur the boundaries between the concepts of ‘worker’ and ‘self-employed’.
Gamification and Foresight: EDU days conference hears about ways of changing the present and preparing for the future
22 October 2018The need to prepare for a world of change and uncertainty was a key theme of the ETUI’s ‘EDU days 2018’ conference for trade union trainers held in Vilnius on 17-19 October. Over 70 participants from across Europe were briefed on future scenarios for the world of work from the ETUI’s Foresight Unit. They were also introduced to the concept of ‘gamification’ – using games as part of training courses to develop collaborative and strategic ways of working.
Employers and unions call on Commission to include reprotoxicants in the Directive on carcinogens and mutagens at work
17 October 2018On 16 October the European chemical industry and trade unions agreed that European Union (EU) workers should be better protected from the risks related to exposure to reprotoxic substances. In a joint declaration, the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC), the industriAll European Trade Union, the European Chemical Employers Group (ECEG) and the European Chemical Industry Council (Cefic) called on the European Commission to extend the scope of the Directive on the protection of workers from carcinogens and mutagens to reprotoxic substances.
Follow LIVE the first day of the EDU Days online
15 October 2018
The EDU Days conference of the ETUI Education department is taking place from 17 to 19 October in Vilnius.
The sessions will be broadcasted live on this page.
Publication of the month
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Endocrine disruptors: an occupational risk in need of recognition
The aim of this publication, which received the 2018 Prescrire Prize, is to raise the awareness of union officials and political decision-makers on workers' exposure to endocrine disruptors. A further aim is to draw attention to the gaps in European legislation on the prevention of this type of workplace risk. Read more
Video of the day
Education
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Course Florence, Italy, 14 Nov - 16 Nov 2018
Climate justice for all: Climate change and "Just Transition"
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Course Brussels, Belgium, 29 Jan - 1 Feb 2019
Eurotrainers Level 1
Events
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22
Nov22 Nov 2018
ITUH, Bd du Roi Albert II, 5; 1210 Brussels, ETUI meeting room 7th floorBoosting unions’ participation to guarantee quality transitions and employment to young people in Europe
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4
Dec4 Dec - 5 Dec 2018
International Trade Union House (ITUH), Bd du Roi Albert II, 5; 1210 BrusselsConference Women, Work and Cancer
Past events
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27
Jun27 Jun - 29 Jun 2018
Hotel Thon Europe, 1040 Brussels, BelgiumETUC/ETUI conference: The World(s) of Work in Transition
Tags
- Sustainable development
- Digitalisation
- Reforms Watch
- Pensions
- Climate change
- Demography
- Economic policy
- Education/training
- Employment
- Energy
- EU enlargement
- EU legislation
- Flexicurity
- Gender
- Globalisation
- Health & Safety
- Industrial relations
- Labour law
- Mobility
- Multinational corporations
- Nanotechnology
- Psychosocial risks
- Restructuring
- Social dumping
- Trade unions
- Wages
- Welfare State
- Work organisation
About ETUI
The European Trade Union Institute is the independent research and training centre of the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) which itself affiliates European trade unions into a single European umbrella organisation. The ETUI places its expertise – acquired in particular in the context of its links with universities, academic and expert networks – in the service of workers’ interests at European level and of the strengthening of the social dimension of the European Union. Read more
The ETUI is financially supported by the European Union
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