Highlights
- 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 untapped possibilities of YouTube as a trade union tool
- Plus ça change… the Commission’s budget proposals for 2021-27
- Trade unions and Facebook: the need to improve dialogue and expand networks
- Developing workers’ education through social dialogue - realities and ways forward
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. Furthermore it contains a country-by-country overview of the ‘social recommendations’ received by Member States and of their clarifying...
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...
Publication
08/2018
This policy brief examines how trade unions can use YouTube videos as a tool for organising and informing trade unionists and workers. Although often expensive to produce, YouTube content offers an effective way for trade unions to reach out to young people who are less likely to be union members.
Publication
07/2018
This policy brief evaluates the backdrop to the European Commission’s proposals for the EU’s coming seven-year budget round, or Multi-annual Financial Framework. As usual, the negotiations are a careful balancing act between net contributors to the EU budget and its main beneficiaries and are expected to extend well into 2019.
Publication
06/2018
This policy brief assesses the presence and the relationships brokered by trade union confederations through their online channels, in order to, first, find out who they are engaging with and, second, to consider whether these virtual connections have any implications for the wider discussion about union revitalisation.
Education
Madrid, Spain
ETUI training: Social Dialogue (SD) differs in member countries depending on their economy, legal system, unionisation and organised labour tradition. The 2008 crisis had a negative impact on social dialogue and collective bargaining at all levels, but the effects varied between countries: some of them were slightly undermined while others suffered severe dismantling and decentralising. Meanwhile, the demand for skilled and competent workers is increasing; it is therefore necessary to promote and strengthen collective bargaining and social dialogue involved in training as the tool that promotes learning and the development of workers in the new economies.
News
Experts gather in Brussels to debate our ‘post-growth’ future
19 September 2018
Experts are meeting this week in Brussels to discuss alternatives to the current economic model in the light of climate change. The Post-Growth 2018 Conference starting from 18 September will bring stakeholders together to explore and debate how to fairly manage the transition to an economy based on low or even zero growth.
TUC joins growing calls for a shorter working week
13 September 2018The UK’s Trade Union Congress (TUC) has become the latest European trade union confederation to call for a reduced working week, which ETUI researchers argue would deliver benefits of less stress, higher worker satisfaction and increased gender equality.
Western Balkans failing to converge with EU, say researchers
7 September 2018Economic and social convergence between poorer and richer countries in the EU since the crisis is slowing and, in some cases, has gone into reverse, according to experts. Research articles in the latest issue of the SEER Journal for Labour and Social Affairs in Eastern Europe, which focus on the Western Balkans, find numerous causes for concern about the slow pace of ‘catch-up’ in the region.
Collective Bargaining July/August 2018
6 September 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 summer:
New issue of Transfer on "work and employment grey zones" out now
7 August 2018The August 2018 edition of Transfer, the European Review of Labour and Research, has just been published with a focus on ‘work and employment grey zones: new ways to apprehend emerging labour market norms.’
New study shows that female-dominated sectors pay lower than average
13 July 2018Low pay is a major problem in certain parts of the public services - particularly those where women make up the majority of workers.
ETUI seminar on carcinogens at work and chemical risks
6 July 2018The 14th edition of the ETUI’s annual seminar on workers’ protection and chemicals took place in Brussels on 21 and 22 June 2018. It brought together some 40 trade union members from across Europe with a view to coordinating trade union action on the fight against occupational cancers.
Publication of the month
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Trade unions and Facebook: the need to improve dialogue and expand networks
This policy brief assesses the presence and the relationships brokered by trade union confederations through their online channels, in order to, first, find out who they are engaging with and, second, to consider whether these virtual connections have any implications for the wider discussion about union revitalisation. 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 on-line, 17 Sep - 26 Oct 2018
EWCs: the rules of the game
Events
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20
Sep20 Sep 2018
ITUH, Boulevard du Roi Albert II, 5, Brussels; 9h15-13hPost-Growth 2018 Conference Wrap-up session
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25
Sep25 Sep 2018
ITUH, Bd du Roi Albert II, 5; 1210 Brussels, ETUI meeting room 7th floorWhat can workers in Europe expect from a post-Brexit EU Budget that declares itself to be more social, more innovative and more flexible?
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22
Oct22 Oct 2018
ITUH, Bd du Roi Albert II, 5; 1210 Brussels, ETUI meeting room 7th floorNew Trade Union Strategies for New Forms of Employment
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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
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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
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