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27//01/2010
Employment and Social Affairs Council: beware of the temptation to reduce public spending
The European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) will take part in the social Troika due to meet the day before the informal Council of the European Ministers in charge of Employment and Social Security from 27 to 29 January in Barcelona. The trade union delegation will ask that employment, and especially youth employment, as well as policies for investment in training and research, be placed at the heart of the European agenda to ensure full and quality employment.
20//01/2010
The ETUC asks the Spanish Presidency of the EU to focus on employment and climate change and to strengthen the European Social Model
A European trade union delegation including John Monks, General Secretary of the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC), Józef Niemiec, Confederal Secretary of the ETUC, Candido Mendez, Secretary General of the Workers’ General Union (UGT) and Ignacio Fernández Toxo, Secretary General of the Workers’ Commissions (CCOO), will meet the President of the Spanish government, José Luis Zapatero, on 21 January to advance the European trade unions’ priorities during the Spanish Presidency of the European Union.
19//01/2010
The ETUC joins the European campaign against Poverty and Social Exclusion
Poverty and social exclusion are evils still rooted in the European Union. And the crisis has made the situation even worse. Because of its long standing involvement in those fields, the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) will take part in the “European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion” launched by the EU Executive and being implemented by the Commission.
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