ETUC for a Directive on Fair Minimum Wages and Collective Bargaining
Key documents:
- Leaflet - ETUC calls for improvements to the Directive to achieve fair minimum wages and collective bargaining
- Debunking the myths on the Directive on Adequate minimum wages in the EU
- Statement of the ETUC Collective Bargaining and Wage Coordination Committee "Opinion of the Council Legal Service better late than never!
- ETUC reply to the Second Phase Consultation of Social Partners under Article 154 TFEU
on a possible action addressing the challenges related to fair minimum wages
Press releases:
- Workers €649 poorer this Christmas as pay lags behind productivity
- Pay inequality up in majority of EU countries
- Minimum wages vote: Critical milestone but not end of the road
- MEPs must pay back Covid heroes in minimum wage vote
- Rent costs over 40% of minimum wage in 11 countries
- Mazzucato and Piketty support stronger EU wage law
- Minimum Wage Directive improvements: the least working people deserve
- 24m could get pay rise under EU directive
- Crucial wages directive needs improvement
- Wages initiative needed even more after coronavirus
- Wage increases not reflecting productivity increases in most EU states
- Workers' share of economic prosperity down in 18 EU member states
- Statutory minimum wages leave workers at risk of poverty in at least 17 EU member states
- Workers in 6 EU countries worse off than 10 years ago
- EU countries with weak collective bargaining have lowest wages
Videos:
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We want a proper Directive on Minimum Fair Wages and Collective Bargaining!
- ETUC Webinar on Trade-union busting
- ETUC Webinar on Why the Directive on adequate minimum wages should ensure that Member States increase their statutory minimum wages and stop wage theft
ARTICLES:
Letters:
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Higher statutory minimum wages and stronger collective bargaining are good for the economy, written by leading economists including Mazzuccato, Piketty and De Grauwe
PresentationS:
- Directive on adequate minimum wages in the EU Priorities
- Promotion of collective Bargaining and fighting anti-Union busting are 2 sides of same coin