UNI-Europa, die europäische Sektion des internationalen Dachverbands der Gewerkschaften des Medien- und Unterhaltungssektors (UNI-MEI), hat sich in der Debatte um Netzneutralität für eine Totalüberwachung jeglichen Netzverkehrs ausgesprochen.
Freie Journalisten sollen von Leistungsschutzabgaben freigestellt werden. Wie nun zeigt, könnte das gar nicht so einfach werden - weil die Berufsbezeichnung nicht geschützt ist.
In February 2011, three European-level trade union federations representing manufacturing workers agreed on a joint strategy to achieve stronger worker involvement in multinational companies. This joint approach has been triggered at least in part by a revised European Works Council directive, which came into force in June. The three federations want companies to find better ways to anticipate and manage change to minimise the negative impact it can have on employees.
In February 2011, three European-level trade union federations representing manufacturing workers agreed on a joint strategy to achieve stronger worker involvement in multinational companies. This joint approach has been triggered at least in part by a revised European Works Council directive, which came into force in June. The three federations want companies to find better ways to anticipate and manage change to minimise the negative impact it can have on employees.
The main journalist trade union in Europe and the UK wants citizens to be given ‘European Democracy Vouchers’, funded by internet service providers, which can be used to buy newspapers and pay for online media subscriptions.
This study sets out to provide the necessary information for assisting the existing sectoral social dialogue in the banking sector. First, the report identifies the relevant national organisations on both sides of the industry. Second, it analyses the sector’s relevant organisations at European level.
The impact of the Racial Equality Directive - Views of trade unions and employers in the European Union (Strengthening the fundamental rights architecture in the EU IV) - FRA - European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights
Country Reports on the impact of the Racial Equality Directive: a survey of trade unions and employers - FRA - European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights
This is a list of websites which may be of interest to EIROnline users. The links are grouped by country, and within countries under the categories of ‘employers’, ‘trade unions’, ‘government’ and ‘other’.
Transfer: European Review of Labour Research is a quarterly peer reviewed journal which stimulates dialogue between the European trade union movement and the academic and research community. Transfer helps to foster understanding of significant developments in the field of European trade union policy and industrial relations. Transfer contributes research findings of practical relevance to the trade unions.
Organisers of a European Citizens’ Initiative that seeks to halt sales of public water utilities say they have gathered one million signatures from across Europe, becoming the first such group to do so since the grass-roots efforts were launched last spring.
Stronger participation is a step towards sustainable corporate governance in the economic, social and ecological dimension, which in itself is a step towards a sustainable company. The ETUC reiterates its call for a strengthening and broader scope of the information and consultation procedures, in particular by a revision of the general framework directive, but also of the participation rights in the Member States where such rights exist.
On 2 October 2013, the European Commission announced that it will not consider giving a legal basis to the 2012 social partner agreement in the hairdressing sector until a broader review of EU occupational health and safety legislation has been carried out in 2015. Representatives on both employers’ and employees’ sides have expressed disappointment and anger that measures which could lead to cost-savings and improve employee welfare have been delayed by political pressure.
In a decision published yesterday (20 November) the European Committee of Social Rights (ECSR) found that Sweden violated the revised European Social Charter in several respects. Supported by the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC), its two Swedish affiliates Landsorganisationen i Sverige (LO) and Tjänstemännens Centralorganisation (TCO) filed a complaint against Sweden criticising the ‘Laval’ legislation, which had been introduced in order to conform to the so-called Laval judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union (Court of Justice) (C-341/05 - Laval un Partneri).
The EU’s austerity policy is unlawful, according to Professor Andreas Fischer-Lescano, a professor at the Centre for European Law and Politics (ZERP), University of Bremen, who drew up a paper for the Austrian Trade Union Federation (ÖGB), the Austrian Federal Chamber of Labour, the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) and the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI).
International Framework Agreements (IFA) are important in international labour regulation. As the globalization of production and markets is increasing, an international regulation of labour is strongly needed.
The attack on workers’ rights, wages and collective bargaining systems in Europe is continuing. The latest incident can be found in the new DG ECFIN report on labour market developments in Europe.
A new report by Public Services International (PSI) warns that governments are planning to take the world on a liberalisation spree on a scale never seen before.
As my talk, and this subsequent post, focused on how Keynesian ideas are pretty mainstream elsewhere, this raises an obvious puzzle: why does macroeconomics in Germany seem to be an outlier?
La directive sur le secret des affaires pose des premiers jalons. Mais la création d’un véritable statut des lanceurs d’alerte risque de se faire attendre.
French unions go on strike not because they are too strong, but rather because they are weak (really strong unions, such as in Belgium and Scandinavia rarely need to show it). And when they descend into the street or "bossnap" managers, it is probably not to take the Bastille and guillotine opponents – it may well be because they are desperately crying out for talks.
At 9.00 this morning, in the Paul VI Hall, the Holy Father Francis received in audience delegates from the Confederation of Trade Unions in Italy (Confederazione Italiana Sindacati Lavoratori, CISL), on the occasion of its 18 th National Congress, on the theme “For the person, for labour” (28 June to 1 July 2017).
Pope Francis delivered an address to the Confederation of Trade Unions in Italy (CISL), and his message is a compelling one. It can be read in its entirety here. For me, there were at least four important points. We should not think about labor without understanding, and having due regard for, the human being that…
Many trade unions are in trouble today. The percentage of employees paying a union fee has almost universally declined across Europe in recent decades. Moreover, what is left of the unions…
The Union of Free Trade Unions of Slovenia (ZSSS) has criticised an increase in funding by the Ministry of Labour, Family and Social Affairs for workers who want to become self-employed. The ZSSS claims that the ministry is promoting a precarious form of work, and that the ministry needs to focus on training for self-employed people. It also argues that the ministry is allowing the practice of bogus self-employment, which is rife in the construction sector, to go unchecked.
Nahezu alle Lebens- und Arbeitsbereiche sind von Standards betroffen. Die Arbeitnehmerseite ist ihrer Umsetzung in den Unternehmen ausgesetzt. Über welche aktuellen Standardisierungsprojekte sollten Arbeitnehmervertreter informiert sein?
Unions can get reinvigorated by tapping into young people's energy, creativity and transformative leadership potential, write Maite Tapia, Lowell Turner and Salil R. Sapre
La Federación Sindical Europea de Servicios Públicos (EPSU, en sus siglas en inglés) en colaboración con la Juventud de la CES y el Foro Europeo de la Juventud (EYF), publica la encuesta "Trabajadores jóvenes: actitudes hacia el trabajo, los sindicatos y la sociedad".
The office, like other international organisations, creates its own labour law and has its own social security system, a draft SUEPO handout for strike pickets said.
Last week during the EU summit, the Portuguese Union, CGTP-Intersindical, organised the biggest demonstration in Lisbon in 20 years. How did they manage to demonstrate more or less unnoticed and without being mentioned by the media, asks Thomas Rupp, coor...
We are warehouse workers, climate activists, and citizens around the world, taking on the world's richest man and the multinational corporation behind him.
This project, “The Road Towards a Carbon Free Society A Nordic-German Trade Union Cooperation on Just Transition”, is a collaboration between the Council of Nordic Trade Unions (NFS), the Friedrich-Ebert Stiftung (FES) and the German Trade Union Confederation (DGB).
Trade union delegates, including representatives from IndustriALL Global Union and industriAll Europe, spent two intense weeks lobbying and organizing at COP26 in Glasgow to make sure that workers’ issues were on the agenda at the climate conference.
OPINION -Frank Hoffer 9 December 2022 is a historic date. For the first time in the history of the international trade union movement, its highest representative, the general secretary of the ITUC, was arrested in Brussels by the police as part of an investigation into suspected corruption. Investigators ‘suspected a Gulf country (of influencing) the…
In my previous opinion piece for Equal Times, I argued why workers and unions must engage in the topic of the digitalisation of work. This article picks up from the previous one by offering (...)