The majority of EU member states did not take concrete action last year to increase the number of workers benefiting from collectively bargained wages and working conditions, a new report shows.
Adopted at the Executive Committee meeting of 24-25 June 2024
Introduction
Preventing and combatting gender-based violence in the world of work is a key priority of the ETUC. The recently adopted Directive combatting violence against women and domestic violence fails to deliver meaningful provisions to make the world of work safer for women workers. It also fails to recognise our role as trade unions to end gender-based violence.
Ensuring security: New impulse for peace needed
Adopted at the Executive Committee meeting of 24-25 June 2024
In line with its Constitution and with its Charter of Values, the ETUC recalls that peace is a precondition for the full exercise of human rights and stable democracy and that there is no peace and security without social justice.
Industrial policy for quality jobsSocial conditionalities for social progress
Adopted at the Executive Committee meeting of 24-25 June 2024
A momentum for social conditionalities
Speaking at its 2024 Annual Conference on 27 June, which marks the 5th anniversary of the European Labour Authority, Esther Lynch, General Secretary of the ETUC gave the following keynote speech on ‘Navigating Europe’s Labour Mobility Landscape:5 years of ELA and 30 years of EURES’:
Dear Executive Director Boiangu, Commissioner Schmit and Deputy Prime Minister Dermagne and distinguished guests,