This guide provides an analysis of past trade agreements, set within the context of developments in international economic relations. It shows that there can be gains from more trade and economic integration, but that there have also been losers.
L’objectif de ce livre est de retracer l’histoire du dialogue social, de sa genèse à son autonomisation au travers de témoignages croisés des protagonistes qui l’ont conçu et développé, des différents textes élaborés, des avis communs aux accords autonomes et de l’analyse du fonctionnement du dialogue social.
This book provides a detailed account of the innovative practices pursued by trade unions in Central and Eastern Europe since 2008. The book covers eleven post-socialist states that joined the EU in 2004, 2007 and 2013: Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia.
This book analyses the development of trade unions in eleven countries (Austria, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Sweden and the UK) since the early 2000s. The individual chapters focus on unions' structural, organisational, institutional and discursive power resources.
This working paper looks at wage developments in central and eastern Europe (CEE) over the past twenty years and shows that wages are not only low compared to western Europe but, as demonstrated by a number of variables, also tend to be lower than what the economic potential of these countries would allow for.
This book looks at the effects of changes in employment regulation on levels and forms of employment in ten EU countries (Spain, Italy, Estonia, Slovakia, Poland, Germany, France, Denmark, and the UK).
This 2017 edition of Benchmarking working Europe focuses on the question 'overcoming cleavages across the EU?'. It analyses in four chapters and with the help of 58 visual graphs latest trends and outcomes of European policies in the areas of macro-economics, wages and collective bargaining, labour markets and, last but not least, social dialogue and workers' participation.
This policy brief discusses the implications for labour and trade unions of new forms of work that are organised via distributed digital networks using the internet.
It has been more than 20 years now since the first formal European Works Councils have been established. About 20.000 worker representatives travel around Europe to meet at least once a year and discuss topics which are of interest for the workforce of their companies across borders. New EWCs are being established every year and new members are being elected and appointed continuously. This means there is a great need for training on some of the basic aspects. This on-line course is intended to respond to that need. It will involve about 12 hours of work.
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Le Comité des représentants permanents (Coreper) a approuvé le 11 juillet 2017 le projet de compromis négocié entre la présidence maltaise du Conseil et le Parlement européen en ce qui concerne la première phase de la révision de la directive sur les cancérogènes et mutagènes au travail. Le texte établit une série de valeurs limites d’exposition professionnelle (VLEP) qui devraient permettre d’améliorer sensiblement la protection des travailleurs.
On 29 June 2017, a landmark day for ETUI Education and trade union training, seven Eurotrainers who have been working directly with the ETUI in recent years had their competences and skills recognised and accredited by Lille1 University in France.
The ETUI is delighted to welcome María Luz Rodríguez, Associate Professor in Labor and Social Security Law at Castilla-La Mancha University (Spain) as associate researcher for the month of July. She will be conducting a research on crowdworkers and platform capitalism in the framework of the Foresight Unit.
Slovakia has in recent years become the worldwide number 1 in car production per capita and the trade unions in the sector have been rather successful in their bargaining. On the other hand, industrial observers notice the vulnerability of an economic structure that is depending on one economic sector.
The 13th edition of the ETUI’s annual Seminar on Chemicals was held in Ljubljana (Slovenia) on 29 and 30 June 2017. It brought together some 40 trade unionists from 17 countries across the European Union. Revision of the Carcinogens and Mutagens Directive was at the heart of the discussions.
Here are the most important developments at European and member state level from the June issue of the Collective Bargaining newsletter:
In recent years, trade unions have repeatedly underlined the need for wage increases in Central-Eastern European countries. One of the most emblematic initiatives in this regard has been the campaign ‘The end of cheap labour in Czechia’, launched in September 2015 by the Czech trade union confederation ČMKOS.
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15 Jun - 20 Jul 2017
ETUI Documentation Centre, 4th floor / ITUH, 1st floor (Boulevard du Roi Albert II, 5 – 1210 Brussels)
12 Sep 2017
European Economic and Social Committee, Rue Van Maerlant 2, 1040 Brussels, Room VM3; 14h-16h30
28 Sep 2017
ITUH, Bd du Roi Albert II, 5; 1210 Brussels, 1st floor; 12h30 - 14h
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