IRTUCs and interregional cooperation

The Inter-Regional Trade Union Councils (IRTUCs) bring together the regional organisations of ETUC-affiliated trade unions in cross-border areas, to support mobile and frontier workers and their families.

They deal with, for example, cross-border labour legislation and social dialogue, obstacles to mobility, regional labour markets and cross-border cohesion.

The IRTUCs Coordinating Committee is coordinated by the ETUC secretariat and meets twice a year in Brussels. The IRTUCs Coordinating Committee helps to define ETUC positions on EU policies, particularly those concerning border regions.

Maps of IRTUCs (2019) is available here

17.07.2019 Publication

Map of the Interregional Trade Union Councils 2019
10.05.2019 Page

Balkan unions agree to cooperate

The Union of Free Trade Unions of Montenegro (UFTUM) and the Union of Independent Trade Unions of Albania (BSPSH) have concluded a cooperation agreement for the next four years, pledging mutual respect and an exchange of knowledge and experience. Srdja Kekovic, the Secretary General of UFTUM – an existing ETUC affiliate – and Gezim Kalaja, President of BSPSH, which has requested affiliation, signed the deal in the Montenegrin capital, Podgorica.
23.06.2018 Publication

Guide for mobile European Workers
01.12.2016 Page

Protection for cross-border commuters

Living in one country and working in another is not unusual in European border regions. The Dutch FNV and German DGB trade unions are uniting to provide legal protection for members This assistance could benefit thousands of workers crossing between Germany and the Netherlands. The cooperation agreement, signed in Krefeld in November, is "a good and important signal in these times," said DGB President Reiner Hoffmann. "It can serve as a blueprint for further agreements of this kind."
24.03.2015 Document

ETUC's recommendations on how to overcome obstacles to the mobility of frontier workers in Europe

ETUC’s recommendations to the national governments and to the European Union on how to overcome obstacles to the mobility of frontier workers in Europe Adopted by the ETUC Executive Committee at its meeting on 10-11 March 2015
16.10.2013 Page

6. Interregional Trade Union Councils (IRTUC)

  List of IRTUC
30.09.2013 Page

Final Report: IRTUC Coordination Committee

Brussels, 30/09/2013
30.09.2013 Page

Interregional Trade Union Councils (IRTUCs)

Luca Visentini (send a mail) Advisor: Claude Denagtergal (send a mail) Sec: Bezaye Girma (send a mail) Tel :+32 2 2240444 fax: +32 2 2240454/55
30.09.2013 Page

Report - Meeting of the IRTUC Coordination Committee
20.01.2012 Publication

Development of the role of the IRTUCs in strengthening cross border cooperation in the field of collective bargaining

Brussels, 2011
21.12.2011 Page

Mobility Guide (Publication)
21.10.2011 Publication

Development of the role of the IRTUCs in strengthening cross border cooperation in the field of collective bargaining

Brussels, 21/10/2011
09.12.2010 Publication

Map of IRTUCs 2010 (Publication)

09/12/2010
25.11.2010 Press release

The ETUC denounces the discrimination against border workers

Brussels, 25/11/2010
15.02.2010 Publication

'IRTUCs - collective bargaining -- cross-border cooperation" I

Brussels, 2010
02.06.2009 Speech

The EU in world trade – Features of EU trade policy and current perspectives

Brussels, 26/05/2009 I am glad this meeting is being held in the International Trade Union House (ITUH), home of ETUC and ITUC. I’m glad also that the Commission is seeking to involve civil society in dialogue over trade. This isn’t a subject that can or should be ghettoised to trade experts. International trade is high on the trade union agenda. And the EU’s exclusive competence on trade issues makes this a European subject par excellence. Hence the key interest of the European Trade Union Confederation.
16.12.2007 Document

The coordination of collective bargaining 2008

Brussels, 05-06 December 2007 I. The economic and political context

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