As the economic landscape is deteriorating fast with the crisis hitting countries worldwide, the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) has established a specific section focusing on the economic and social crisis. It highlights the early warnings that the European trade union movement has issued regarding the risks inherent to financial capitalism, as well as the positions and actions proposed by ETUC to prevent the recession from deepening further.

To provide an overview of trade union actions, demands and resolutions in relation to financial capitalism and the now deepening global recession, ETUC has compiled a dossier on the

 Economic and social crisis: ETUC positions and actions

ETUC campaign to fight the crisis

Workers, through no fault of their own, are paying a very high price for the reckless and greedy excesses of the business world and the banks in particular. With unemployment rising fast, precarious work and poverty spreading, purchasing power falling, as well as public debt increasing, ETUC is on the offensive for a New Social Deal in Europe:

 Fight the crisis: put people first
 Euro-demonstrations 14-16 May: Practical information
 Euro-demonstration 29 September 2010 :"No to austerity – Priority for jobs and growth! " ( Practical information)
 The European Trade Union Confederation continues protesting against austerity
 European Summit 24 March: ETUC organizes a European Trade Union Rally
 9th April 2011 Budapest : Euro-demonstration "No to Austerity, for Social Europe, for Fair Pay and for Jobs"
 21 June 2011 Luxembourg City: Euro-demonstration - Action and Information Day in Europe
 17 September 2011 in Wroclaw: Euro-demonstration - "Yes to European Solidarity - Yes to jobs and Workers’ rights - No to Austerity "
 ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! TROP CEST TROP!


 Why the ETUC is against bonuses