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The ETUC is calling on Members of the European Parliament to vote down the Omnibus I proposal in plenary next week. The proposal by Rapporteur Mr Warbon (EPP) dismantles key protections in the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CS3D) and threatens workers’ rights across supply chains. 

The European Parliament has confirmed its backing of measures to enforce workers’ voice within multinational companies. The ETUC now urges Member States to confirm their support to the adoption of the revision of the European Works Council Directive. The long-standing overdue revision ensures meaningful consultation, timely access to information, delivering concrete outcomes for a fair deal for workers, for social progress and upwards convergence. 

On World Day of Decent Work, trade unions from across Europe will today hold a symbolic street action and high level event in Vienna to call for EU action to ensure every worker has a safe, well-paid and secure job.

“My colleague Mykailo died on the GHdC construction site in Charleroi on 27/9/21. He was Ukrainian and was working here in Belgium as a worker posted by a Polish company for which he had not performed any work in Poland. This company subcontracted to a firm registered in the Netherlands, which had no workers. The investigation revealed numerous violations of code. The Polish company no longer exists and did not report the accident to the Polish social security authorities. As a result, four years later, the family is left with nothing.

As countries approach the final deadline to put the platform work directive into action, workers have testified as to how it will help end “anxiety” over low pay, accidents and algorithmic management. Platform workers, trade union representatives, policymakers and academics from all 27 EU member states gathered in Cyprus for the fourth edition of Platforum, the flagship event on platform work organised by the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC).

A groundbreaking new study led by Prof. Johannes Jäger will be presented today at the European Parliament, unveiling strong evidence that the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) will bring significant economic benefits for Europe and beyond. The study is published by CIDSE, ETUC, Misereor, Ver.di and other organisations.  

The trade deal between the European Union and Indonesia shows that improving workers’ rights is no barrier to diversifying Europe’s supply chains. The Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) signed yesterday includes binding and enforceable sustainable development chapters containing a clear non-regression clause on labour rights. This is crucial at a time when Indonesia ranks among the worst countries in the world for workers’ rights, according to the ITUC’s 2025 Global Rights Index.

The European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) is today launching a guide to help workers prevent the abuse of algorithmic management and put the human back in control in their workplaces.   ‘Negotiating the Algorithm: A Trade Union Manual’ is a comprehensive guide for unions in how to ensure workers’ rights, pay and conditions are protected in the age of algorithmic management.

Fulfilling the promise of the European Pillar of Social Rights is a moral imperative as well as an economic necessity, the General Secretary of the European Trade Union Confederation told EU leaders today.

Dear trade unionists of France, The European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) stands in full solidarity with your mobilisation on 18 September. We salute your determination and unity in the face of a government agenda that seeks to make working people pay, once again, for a crisis they did not create.

The rising danger posed to workers by climate change is demonstrated by new EU data showing that the number of people exposed to heat waves at work has increased by 60% over the last 20 years – highlighting the need for a European directive on maximum working temperatures.

Europe’s path to more competitiveness needs to focus on increased investment in people and technology – not lowering rights and standards, the General Secretary of the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) told EU leaders today. At a European Commission event to mark a year since the publication of the Draghi report on competitiveness, Esther Lynch called for a shift towards strategic investment for a European industrial policy with quality jobs at its heart as the only way to secure long-term resilience and prosperity for Europe. 

ETUC endorses the Herning Declaration at the Informal Meeting of Ministers in charge of Vocational Education and Training   At the invitation of the Danish Presidency, the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) took part in the Informal Meeting of Education Ministers on 12 September 2025 in Herning, Denmark, and proudly endorsed the Herning Declaration on Attractive and Inclusive Vocational Education and Training for Increased Competitiveness and Quality Jobs 2026–2030.

Two Belarusian trade union leaders imprisoned by the country’s authoritarian regime because they spoke up working people have finally been freed – now the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) calls on the EU to secure the release of the 20 others still behind bars. Aliaksandr Yarashuk, Chair of the Belarusian Congress of Democratic Trade Unions (BKDP), and Hennadz Fiadynitch, former chairman of the Belarusian Radio and Electronics Industry Workers’ Union (REP), were among the 52 political prisoners released this week.

The Quality Jobs Act announced today by President von der Leyen must meet the urgency of the situation facing working people who cannot be asked to settle for half measures after years of falling real wages and rising precarity at work.

The European trade union movement today joins tributes to the life of Michael Sommer, the former chairman of the DGB and former Vice President of the ETUC who passed away in June. As the head of the German Confederation of Trade Unions between 2002 and 2014, he laid the foundation for the adoption of a statutory minimum wage and led the fight to prevent the expansion of precarious employment.

EU rules must ensure public money is given to companies whose workers are covered by collective agreements, trade unions say after the European Parliament adopted a report on public procurement.

A new official European Union poll showing that the cost-of-living remains the top priority for citizens proves why Commission President Ursula von der Leyen must centre her State of the Union address on the needs of working people and not the deregulation demands of corporate lobbyists.

Trade unions are raising serious concerns about the lack of protections for workers in the EU-Mercosur trade agreement proposals being put forward by the Commission. The ETUC has warned the Commission that its current proposals on the EU-Mercosur trade agreement would fail to effectively sanction companies for even the gravest violations of workers’ rights.