The ETUI hosted the Annual Strategic Meeting of the Workers' group of the Advisory Committee for Safety and Health at Work (ACSH) on the 15th and 16th of September. The two-day panel, gathered experts in the field of Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) coming from the ETUC, ETUI, ILO, national... Find out more

An executive order, published on Tuesday 15 September 2020, restricts the automatic recognition of Covid-19 as an occupational illness only to those healthcare workers who have needed oxygen supply to treat an infection caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The French government had announced at the end... Find out more

Citizens’ climate assemblies Britain and France have asked citizens to develop ideas and recommendations for future climate policies. These ‘citizens’ climate assemblies’ are rapidly becoming a useful tool for governments to get buy-in for the difficult policymaking of the Social-Ecological... Find out more

The European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) wrote a letter to the Presidents of the European Council and the European Commission to ask for urgent meetings with the aim to discuss how to reinforce the social partners’ involvement in the design, governance and implementation of the Multiannual... Find out more

Ludovic Voet is confederal secretary of the European Trade Union Confederation. His responsibilities at the ETUC cover sustainable development and climate change, migration, youth policy, non-standard work and the platform economy, education and training, and equality and non-discrimination, plus... Find out more

The European Union is facing huge uncertainties. The Covid-19 health crisis is far from over with countries struggling to prevent or halt a second wave, and their economies digesting the worst recession since the Great Depression. At the same time, the global climate emergency is intensifying and... Find out more

At her first State of the European Union speech delivered on 16 September 2020, President von der Leyen showed a valiant effort to demonstrate Europe’s resolve to put itself on a strong new path in de midst of the global emergencies of the corona pandemic, runaway climate chaos, accelerating... Find out more

Workers at the Jupille brewery near Liege (Belgium) came out on strike on Thursday, 3 September 2020, claiming insufficient protection against Covid-19. Despite strong pressure from the company, the strike is now in its second week. Workers in other breweries also belonging to the AB Inbev group... Find out more

After Covid-19 was declared a pandemic in Europe, the virus causing the disease, SARS-CoV2, needed to be classified so as to allow the provisions of the European directive on the protection of workers from risks related to exposure to biological agents at work to be applied. Alongside general... Find out more

Each year, thousands of tonnes of pesticides banned in Europe are being exported to poorer countries. This is revealed by a recent Greenpeace study analysing the export notifications submitted by Member States to the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA). In 2018 alone, more than 81,000 tonnes of... Find out more