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Highlights
- Socialising the European Semester? Measuring Member States’ implementation of country-specific recommendations in the social policy field
- Anticipating change, staying relevant: why trade unions should do foresight
- Convergence to fair wage growth? Evidence from European countries on the link between productivity and real compensation growth, 1970–2017
- Legislative implementation of European social partner agreements: challenges and debates
- What has the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union delivered for workers?
- The future of Europe
- Unions are only as old as they feel: lessons on young worker engagement from the UK, France, Germany and the US
- Bleak prospects: mapping trade union membership in Europe since 2000
- The European Union versus the Better Regulation Agenda
- ‘Algorithm breakers’ are not a different ‘species’: attitudes towards trade unions of Deliveroo riders in Belgium
- A European Social Semester?
- À la recherche de l'Europe sociale
- Benchmarking Working Europe 2019
Publication
05/2019
This Working Paper surveys the extent to which Member States comply with CSRs relating to social policy.
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05/2019
Why do foresight? To look at reality from different perspectives. Like any organisation, trade unions have to navigate a complex and interconnected environment where they face constant and evolving social, economic, environmental and technological realities. Foresight can help trade unions by shedding light on ‘blind spots’, enable them to make better decisions and shape different possible futures.
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05/2019
This Working Paper addresses the issue of ‘fair’ wage growth over the last few decades. It assesses whether growth in real compensation is systematically associated with labour productivity growth and, if so, whether the two have ‘decoupled’ in recent years. The paper examines country-specific evidence from 25 Member States and finds evidence for a widening of the wage-productivity gap in the 1970s and 1980s which has only been partially closed in recent years.
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05/2019
This Working Paper analyses the development of the interpretation that the European Commission has given to the TFEU provision concerning mechanisms for extensions of collective agreements. The paper examines how the Commission has reinterpreted these provision and the challenges this poses for the social partners.
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05/2019
This policy brief assesses the impact of the European Union’s Charter of Fundamental Rights, ten years on. The Charter is intended to guide EU institutions, particularly the CJEU, in recognising and promoting the social rights of EU citizens and workers. The briefing, which is based on a book-length project by the authors, analyses how the Charter has actually been used the EU institutions in their legal and political actions. Overal...
Publication
05/2019
This collected volume aims to inform and advance the debate on how to achieve a more social and sustainable Europe. Its four chapters and a conclusion address the nature of Europe, the future of the European Union and the political and economic development of the continent. The book argues that strong and assertive trade unions are the most reliable representatives of working people; however they need to change and evolve in order to...
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05/2019
This Policy Brief discusses trade union strategies towards engaging young workers in union campaigns or organisational structures, as well as initiatives from young workers themselves directed at gaining a collective voice at work. The brief is based on a three year research project and includes a number of case studies of young worker engagement, as well as some suggestions on strategy for trade unions as they try to reach out to yo...
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05/2019
This report details shifts in trade union membership and density in 32 European countries since 2000, with a particular focus on the age structure within trade unions. The report uncovers substantial variations in unionisation rates, with the least unionised countries in the 2000s having largely stayed at the bottom of the ‘unionisation league’ in the 2010s and countries with higher incidences maintaining their positions further up. Overall, however, membership and density...
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05/2019
This report critically examines progress on the European Union’s ‘Better Regulation Agenda’. Although originally intended to simplify the EU’s legislation and improve its quality, there are suspicions that the Agenda has been hijacked to be used as a tool to make companies more competitive. The author argues that this risks further fueling suspicion of ‘technocratic elites’ by ordinary Europeans. The first part of the report provides...
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05/2019
This working paper investigates a rare case of platform work performed in the realm of regulated employment and explores the attitudes of platform workers towards collective representation. Using a case study of Deliveroo, a food delivery platform, the paper argues that platform workers are not essentially different to their peers in their attitudes towards trade unions. The paper finds that the riders do not generally hold negative...
Publication
04/2019
This working paper examines the EPSR’s practical use in the context of European ‘soft’ governance. It studies how the EPSR has been deployed in the 2018 European Semester and suggests some areas for reform in order to enhance its role in coordinating social policy.
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05/2019
The European project is in crisis. The Brexit vote in the United Kingdom is a spectacular symptom of this. However, since the 1957 Treaty of Rome, the close integration of the Member States has always been a priority of the European Union. An economic integration was often promoted at the expense of the social aspect of the European project. And, from the crisis in the euro zone to the management of migrants and asylum seekers, Europe has also faced many difficulties that...
Publication
03/2019
Benchmarking Working Europe, the annual stock-take of European economic, labour market and social affairs is published today by the European Trade Union Institute. This year’s report calls for action to stimulate investment, as well as reforms to fiscal rules to allow policy to play a more active role in stabilising economies and securing sustainable growth.
News
Brian Bercusson Award 2019 goes to Dr. Pieter Pecinovsky
22 May 2019On 21 May 2019, at the 14th statutory ETUC Congress in Vienna, the Brian Bercusson Award 2019 was awarded to Dr. Pieter Pecinovsky, legal counsel with the law firm ‘Van Olmen & Wynant’ (Brussels), for his PhD thesis entitled ‘EU economic governance and the right to collective bargaining - a legal research on the problematic relationship of European economic policy and fundamental social rights’.
Play and learn with ETUI: ETUI app for Congress
21 May 2019We launched today the ETUI app for Congress.
The battle to win back new generations to unions
20 May 2019Many outside observers have commented on the membership crisis afflicting trade unions in Europe, following decades of economic and financial crisis undermining their position in the labour market. Now, trade unions themselves are attempting to quantify the challenge they face.
Pesticides: European Commission accused of keeping hazardous products on the European market
10 May 2019Senior European Commission officials have been working to water down the criteria used for defining endocrine disruptors and to promote the continuing existence of dangerous pesticides on the European market. This is revealed in more than 600 confidential documents obtained by the NGO Pesticide Action Network (PAN) after two years of legal proceedings before the Court of Justice of the European Union.
Europe Day: the way forward for a new social Europe
9 May 2019On Europe day, recognizing peace and prosperity within Europe and annual celebrated every 9 May in commemoration of the 1950 Schuman Declaration, it is central to look at the past and assess what the European Union (EU) has achieved since its creation 70 years ago. The common conclusion of many specialists and observers is the same: the European project is today in crisis and needs to be redefined.
France: a link between working conditions and suicides
23 April 2019A study published in the Bulletin épidémiologique hebdomadaire (BEH) – a weekly epidemiological bulletin – of the French public health agency helps us to better gauge the impact of working conditions on thoughts of suicide. In 2017, 3.8% of the French population in employment stated having considered suicide in the course of the past twelve months (4.5% of the female population and 3.1% of the male population).
A guide on detoxifying workplaces
18 April 2019The US Center for Progressive Reform (CPR) has just published its new Guide to Securing a Nontoxic Work Environment.
Publication of the month
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Anticipating change, staying relevant: why trade unions should do foresight
Why do foresight? To look at reality from different perspectives.
Like any organisation, trade unions have to navigate a complex and interconnected environment where they face constant and evolving social, economic, environmental and technological realities. Foresight can help trade unions by shedding light on ‘blind spots’, enable them to make better decisions and shape different possible futures.
Read more
Video of the day
Education
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Publication
ETUI Education Course Programme 2019-2020
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Course Brussels, Belgium, 11 Jun - 13 Jun 2019
Representing and organising platform workers and freelancers
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Course IG Metall Bildungszentrum Lohr - Bad Orb, Germany, 3 Jul - 5 Jul 2019
Shared service centres as an organisational model: fields for action for EWCs
Events
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Jun13 Jun 2019
ITUH, Bd du Roi Albert II, 5; 1210 Brussels, Room B, 1st floorImplementing and enforcing the European Pillar of Social Rights (EPSR): Quo Vadis?
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Dec3 Dec - 4 Dec 2019
International Trade Union House (ITUH), Bd du Roi Albert II, 5; 1210 BrusselsConference: The future of health and safety in Europe
Past events
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Apr1 Apr 2019
ITUH, Bd du Roi Albert II, 5; 1210 Brussels, Room B, 1st floor; 12h30-14h30ETUI Lunch debate: Rebooting Social Europe. Some proposals to improve the social dimension.
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Mar26 Mar 2019
Permanent Representation of Austria to the EU, 1st floor; Avenue de Cortenbergh 30, 1040 Bruxelles; 18h30 - 20hWhat does it take to have a European union working for workers?
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- 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
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