Highlights
- The power of social media as a labour campaigning tool: lessons from OUR Walmart and the Fight for 15
- 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
- From Paris to Katowice: the EU needs to step up its game on climate change and set its own just transition framework
- Cross-border standardisation and reorganisation in European multinational companies
- Will trade unions survive in the platform economy? Emerging patterns of platform workers’ collective voice and representation in Europe
- Living wage a relevant topic for Europe
- Benchmarking Working Europe 2018
Publication
07/2018
This policy brief discusses how social media can help renew trade union collective action and strengthen the labour movement’s capacity to mobilise. It demonstrates how social media can strengthen campaigning activities by examining two recent union-led campaigns in the United States: ‘OUR Walmart’ and ‘Fight for 15’.
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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...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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06/2018
This Policy Brief examines implications of the EU’s targets for reductions in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions for labour markets. The brief argues that, given the enormous challenges, an equitable transition to a zero-carbon economy should be given higher priority and a clear allotment of EU financial resources.
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07/2018
Multi-national corporations (MNCs) are constantly undergoing a process of standardisation and reorganisation (S&R), which is fuelled by the rapid development of information technology (IT). These developments require an in-depth and systematic inquiry as they have serious ramifications for labour and workers’ participation across Europe. Moreover, there is a lack of systematic research into the effects of these new, and especiall...
Publication
06/2018
Via a non-exhaustive mapping of various examples in Western European countries, this Working Paper explores to what extent the collective representation and voice of digital platform workers are being shaped by current dynamics in the platform economy. The argument is developed that currently emerging patterns hint at a possible co-existence or combinations of mainstream trade unions and other unions and union-like organisations defending platform workers’ needs and intere...
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06/2018
This policy brief examines the concept of a ‘Living Wage’ and its place in European political discourse. A Living wage is commonly understood as a needs-based estimate of the funds necessary for provision of basic goods for a worker and his/her family. Although the idea has seen a resurgence following the launch of the European Pillar of social rights, there is still no widely accepted conceptualization of it, or its relationship wit...
Publication
03/2018
Analysing the state of 'working Europe' with the aid of a multi-level and multi-dimensional set of indicators and thus assessing what current EU policies have achieved or have not achieved, the Benchmarking Working Europe 2018 demonstrates that, despite renewed economic growth in GDP terms, the proceeds of this growth are being unequally shared and structural problems in the areas of education, infrastructure and R&D remain due t...
News
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.
Collective Bargaining June 2018
5 July 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:
EU Commission’ s country-specific recommendations for 2018-2019 show clear influence of the European Pillar of Social Rights, say ETUI researchers
4 July 2018The ETUI’s analysis of the European Commission’s latest set of Country-specific Recommendations (CSRs) for 2018-2019, has been published. While this set of CSRs, published on 23 May 2018, is the eighth produced under the European Semester system since its launch in 2011, it is the first issued since the proclamation of the European Pillar of Social Rights (EPSR) in November 2017. As a result, this years’ CSRs were much awaited as the Commission had already on several occasions indicated that the European Semester, and in particular the CSRs, were going to serve as the main vehicle for the implementation of the 20 Principles in the EPSR.
500 Movers and shakers meet to discuss how to manage the future world of work
27 June 2018Four global mega trends that are radically changing the world of work – decarbonisation, digitalisation, globalisation and demographic change - cannot simply be left to the market and will bring changes that need to be anticipated and managed together, warn the European Trade Union Confederation and Institute (ETUC and ETUI).
HesaMag n°17: All that glitters is not gold: the dark side of the beauty industry
22 June 2018
The latest issue of HesaMag, the ETUI periodical dealing with occupational safety and health, investigates the working conditions in the beauty industry. Because they contribute to our wellbeing, beauty professionals are rarely seen as workers who face health and safety risks. And yet, those who take care of the body of others pay the price with their personal health.
ETUI further develops its online learning project
14 June 2018The ETUI Education department has opened a new phase of its project for develop online learning for unions launched in 2015. A first course addressed to union trainers dealing with online training took place in late May and early June. This initiative aimed at sharing knowledge and best practice among training organisations.
Publication of the month
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The power of social media as a labour campaigning tool: lessons from OUR Walmart and the Fight for 15
This policy brief discusses how social media can help renew trade union collective action and strengthen the labour movement’s capacity to mobilise. It demonstrates how social media can strengthen campaigning activities by examining two recent union-led campaigns in the United States: ‘OUR Walmart’ and ‘Fight for 15’. Read more
Video of the day
Education
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Course Prague, Czech Republic, 29 Aug - 31 Aug 2018
Wage coordination in the EU: a case for decent wages
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Course Brussels, Belgium, 10 Oct - 12 Oct 2018
European Pillar of Social Rights: how trade unions could play an active role in its implementation 1
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