Brussels, 9th January 2020
To Executive Committee
For information to ETUC Member Organisations
Dear colleagues,
Following the Executive Committee meeting which took place on 17-18 December 2019, we would like to share the enclosed ETUC Position on the Proposals for a Budgetary Instrument for Convergence and Competitiveness (BICC) and new developments of the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) that was adopted.
Best regards,
Liina Carr
Confederal Secretary
Brussels, 20th December 2019
To Executive Committee
For information to ETUC Member Organisations
Dear colleagues,
I am pleased to share with you the ETUC and EESC Workers' Group Cooperation Agreement adopted at the Executive Committee meeting on 17-18 December 2019 (item 13).
With best wishes for the New Year!
Liina Carr
Confederal Secretary
Brussels, 7th January 2020
To Executive Committee
For information to ETUC Member Organisations
Dear colleagues,
Happy New Year!
Please see attached the ETUC position on the EU enlargement adopted at the last Executive Committee meeting on 17-18 December 2019 (item 12).
Best regards,
Liina Carr
Confederal Secretary
ETUC Executive Committee statement on the lack of Social Dialogue on Labour Law reform in Ukraine
Adopted at the Executive Meeting of 17-18 December 2019
The ETUC Executive Committee expresses its concerns about the perceived lack of willingness of the Ukrainian government to undertake a proper consultation process with the social partners on the Labour Law reform and pledges to raise this with the European Commission and Parliament.
ETUC Position for a European directive on mandatory Human Rights due diligence and responsible business conduct
Adopted at the Executive Committee Meeting of 17-18 December 2019
Key Messages
Brussels 18/12/2019
ETUC position on the EU-Vietnam Free Trade and Investment Protection Agreements
Adopted at the Executive Committee Meeting of 17-18 December 2019
Background
Statement on Albania and North Macedonia accession to the EU
We regret the decision of the European Council not to open accession negotiations with Albania and North Macedonia and express our solidarity with workers and their trade unions from these counties. They face enormous challenges of decent work deficits, non-respect of the law, low wages, high levels of informal work, as well as systematic violation of fundamental workers’ rights and freedoms.
The ETUC stands in solidarity with the Chilean trade unions and the Chilean people in the biggest crisis of the country since the end of the military dictatorship.
We join the call of CUT Chile and the ITUC for the Government to restore the country's democratic institutions and give way to the biggest protest since 1990.
The ETUC has been calling for improvements of the rules on the coordination of social security systems for years.
We need improvements to the current rules to better fight against abuses and fraud and to strengthen mobile workers’, posted workers’ and frontier workers’ rights, as well as to improve and operationalise the cooperation between Member States.
Now it is possible to deliver much needed improvements to the legal framework by completing in a positive manner the negotiations on the revision of the Regulations on the coordination of social security systems.
Dear Presidents, Prime Minister,
Vice President, Commissioner, Ministers,
Colleagues from the social partners,
This is the last Tripartite Social Summit of the current European Commission, and also the last for Donald Tusk as President of the Council.
I would like to warmly thank Donald for the support and leadership you have shown in organising and driving the TSS over the last years. You have done this giving great consideration to the social partners’ ideas and proposals.