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  • 30.11.2018 Publication

    Building on experience-A win-win approach to transnational industrial relations in multinational companies

    Building on experience-A win-win approach to transnational industrial relations in multinational companies
    In recent years, Transnational Company Agreements (TCA) have become an increasing practice in multinational companies (MNCs). This is the result of the internationalisation of industrial relations in which European and International trade unions on the one hand, and some MNCs, on the other hand, have found a common ground for action. Over the last decade, TCAs drew the attention of EU Institutions and ILO too.
  • 12.11.2018 Publication

    Standardisation

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    Standards are present everywhere in our daily life. Initially associated with product safety and interoperability, their reach has extended to affect a wide range of issues such as occupational health and safety, competences and training, service provision and privacy at work. Many of these areas are right at the centre of trade union work.
  • 25.10.2018 Publication

    Joint ITUC-Africa/ETUC/ITUC Statement on the EU Economic Partnership Agreements with Central Africa, Eastern and Southern Africa, the East African Community, the Southern African Development Community, and West Africa, and the EU-Africa trade relations

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    Trade unions from Africa and Europe have followed with grave concern the negotiation and conclusion of Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) between the EU and regional groupings in Africa. The ITUC-Africa and the ETUC have called for in-depth changes to the content and guiding principles of current EPAs[1] to ensure they promote economic growth and sustainable development, guarantee respect for workers’ rights and universal access to public services and contribute to the full achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
  • 16.10.2018 Publication

    Trade Unions protecting self-employed workers- Brochure

    Trade Unions protecting Self- Employed Workers
    22 million workers in the EU (10% of the total) are self-employed and have no employees. Across Europe, self-employed workers often have fewer rights than employees. For instance, in some countries they have no right to join a trade union and to benefit from union protection and support. This brochure gives an overview about: Why self-employed workers need better rights? What unions are doing? Which priorities for the future? Link to Report
  • 11.10.2018 Publication

    Trade Unions protecting self-employed workers

    Self-employed
    Organising and protecting atypical workers better – especially self-employed workers – is an ETUC commitment.This research shows that union membership for the self-employed is widely accepted among ETUC affiliated organisations. Contrary to those who claim that trade unions are rigid organisations rooted in the industrial fabric of the last (or even 19th) century, this is a(nother) sign that unions are adapting to the dynamics of the labour market and do seek to better defend the rights of workers.
  • 27.09.2018 Publication

    UnionMigrantNet Brochure

    UnionMigrantNet in your Country
    The UnionMigrantNet is a European network of contact points providing services to migrants, established, managed and supported by trade unions. 
  • 26.09.2018 Publication

    LABOUR-INT: Integration of migrants and refugees in the labour market- Leaflet

    General information of the project
    The LABOUR-INT project aims to promote employment as a key part of the integration process of asylum-seekers and refugees in society. Building on the interest and capacities of businesses, chambers of industry and commerce, trade unions and migrant associations, it promotes multi-layered integration paths, from arrival up to the workplace.  If you would like to know more about the LABOUR-INT project, please click here. 
  • 26.09.2018 Publication

    LABOUR-INT: Integration of migrants and refugees in the labour market through a multi- stakeholder approach expert group

    The recent upsurge of migration flows to Europe, consisting particularly of people seeking international protection, has made the need for effective and targeted integration policies ever more urgent. Regarding migrants’ integration into the labour market, a special emphasis is placed on the importance of early identification and validation of skills and qualifications.
    The recent upsurge of migration flows to Europe, consisting particularly of people seeking international protection, has made the need for effective and targeted integration policies ever more urgent. Regarding migrants’ integration into the labour market, a special emphasis is placed on the importance of early identification and validation of skills and qualifications. If you would like to know more about the LABOUR-INT project, please click here.
  • 14.09.2018 Publication

    Digitalisation and workers' participation: what trade unions and workers think

    Digitalisation and workers' participation - E.Voss report
    Report for the final conference of the project "Workers' participation - a key to fair digitalisation" by Eckhard Voss of Wilke, Maack & Partners.  Available in English, French, Polish, Spanish and Italian.
  • 14.09.2018 Publication

    Collective voice in the platform economy: challenges, opportunities, solutions

    Collective voice in the platform economy
    Report by Professor Jeremias Prassl of Oxford University for the final conference of the project "Worker participation:  a key to fair digitalisation".  Available in English, French, Italian and German  
  • 10.07.2018 Publication

    Future ESF - Better Support Capacity Building of Social Partner Organisations

    Future ESF - Better Support Capacity Building of Social Partner Organisations
     
  • 23.06.2018 Publication

    Guide for mobile European Workers

    Cover Mobile workers
  • 20.06.2018 Publication

    Promoting Social Partnership in Employee Training - Joint Recommendations and Report

    Promoting Social Partnership in Employee Training - Recommendations and Report (ETUC, BusinessEurope, CEEP, UEAPME)
    Joint Recommendations addressing social partnership in employee training were adopted during a conference held on 19 June 2018 in Brussels. A report was also presented during the conference.
  • 01.06.2018 Publication

    Youth Friendliness Indicator: A critical assessment of the situation of young workers in European labour markets

    Youth Friendliness Indicator
    This research is an initiative of the ETUC Youth Committee, developed by the German consultancy company FIA with the support of the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung. It analyses how youth-friendly the different European labour markets are. It is based on a survey to which trade unionists, officers from the public employment services, academic researchers and employers’ representatives all contributed. It comprises eight chapters, each developing findings around a specific theme appertaining to youth employment and transitions.
  • 15.05.2018 Publication

    Involving Trade Unions in climate action to build a Just Transition: guide & video

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  • 10.02.2018 Publication

    TRADE UNIONS: Organising and Promoting Undocumented Migrant Workers' Rights; Migrant workers' rights are HUMAN RIGHTS

    These are central to trade union activities so it is impossible today not to support them.
  • 18.12.2017 Publication

    Investment in Education and Training

  • 05.05.2017 Publication

    Defending undocumented workers

    Defending undocumented workers - means defending all workers
  • 28.02.2017 Publication

    A hunters game : how policy can change to spot and sink letterbox-type practices

    ETUC Publication in the framework of the project on letterbox companies  A hunters game : how policy can change to spot and sink letterbox-type practices
  • 26.02.2017 Publication

    ETUC Platform on the Future of Europe

    ETUC Platform on the Future of Europe
  • 06.12.2016 Publication

    A Shared Vision for Quality and Effective Apprenticeships and Work-based Learning

    Opinion of the Advisory Committee on vocational training (trade unions, employers and Member States) to the European Commission 
  • 28.10.2016 Publication

    3 Years of Youth Guarantee: What next ? A follow-up report by the ETUC Youth Committee

    The Youth Guarantee (YG) is, at the moment of writing this follow-up report, high in the agenda of the European institutions. Indeed, important decisions are being taken regarding the future of the measure, its future funding and further implementation. The ETUC pushed EU institutions for the launch of the Youth Guarantee and welcomed its implementation. The establishment of such a guarantee in Europe was advocated by the ETUC and the ETUC Youth Committee as early as 2009 in its call “Towards a new social deal in Europe: Fight the crisis, put people first”.
  • 13.10.2016 Publication

    Defending undocumented workers - Means defending all workers

    On International Migrants Day, the ETUC wishes to express its solidarity and support for undocumented migrants. Too often, sans papiers suffer the humiliating and degrading experience of being excluded from society, on top of inhumane working conditions. 
  • 30.09.2016 Publication

    Concept example of a possible European Optional Legal Framework for Transnational Company Agreements

    This document is a concept example of a possible European Optional Legal Framework for Transnational Company Agreements.
  • 21.09.2016 Publication

    Briefing notes on the ETUC project 'Safe at home, safe at work'

    Trade unions’ strategies to prevent, manage and eliminate workplace harassment and violence against women Madrid, 24-25 November 2016  
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