• Declaration of the International Trade Union Conference: "The Voice of Integration of the Western Balkans"
    ETUC team

    Declaration of the International Trade Union Conference: "The Voice of Integration of the Western Balkans"

    Declaration of the International Trade Union Conference “The Voice of Integration of the Western Balkans”, Sofia, 9 May 2018 As the EU-Western Balkans Summit is about to take place in Sofia on 17 May 2018, under the auspices of the Bulgarian Presidency of the Council of the European Union, at which the EU is expected to reaffirm its commitment to the integration of its partners in the Western Balkan countries and once again emphasise the region's place within the European family:
    Document Published on 11.05.2018
  • Declaration of Support to all Public Sector Workers and their Unions in Denmark
    Luca Visentini

    Declaration of Support to all Public Sector Workers and their Unions in Denmark

    ETUC urges the Danish public employers to ensure unrestricted collective bargaining and withdraw threat of lockout.   Dear Colleagues, The ETUC supports your demands and struggle to win fair wage growth in the public sector, reflecting the wage development in the private sector.  We also support your call for a collective agreement to regulate the teachers working hours.
    Document Published on 12.04.2018
  • 2019 ETUC Brian Bercusson Award on European labour law - Call for applications by 7 October 2018
    Brian Bercusson prize

    2019 ETUC Brian Bercusson Award on European labour law - Call for applications by 7 October 2018

    The European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) has instituted an award to honour the outstanding and dynamic scientific work, of great value to the European trade union movement, of the late labour law Professor Brian Bercusson: the ETUC Brian Bercusson Award. Through this Award, the ETUC and the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI) support academic research that deepens understanding and promotes transnational workers’ rights in Europe.
    Document Published on 09.04.2018
  • EU-Turkey Summit: ETUC-ITUC joint letter to Presidents Borissov, Tusk and Juncker

    EU-Turkey Summit: ETUC-ITUC joint letter to Presidents Borissov, Tusk and Juncker

    Brussels, 23 March 2018 Dear Presidents, Dear Prime Minister The ITUC and ETUC have several times expressed to you their deepest concerns, directly or indirectly, about the developments taking place in Turkey since the failed coup of 15 July 2016.
    Document Published on 23.03.2018
  • Hands-on Training for experts in Standardisation

    Hands-on Training for experts in Standardisation

    Brussels, 22 January 2018 To the members of the permanent committee on Standardisation   Dear Friends and Colleagues, On Thursday 25th January, from 9h00 to 12h50, we give a hands-on training on standardisation for our new experts. You can remotely join in, learn and actively participate by clicking on the following link: https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/295928229 - But you do need a camera, micro and headphones to join our training.
    Document Published on 22.01.2018
  • Implementation of the European Pillar of Social Rights - Letter sent to President Tusk

    Implementation of the European Pillar of Social Rights - Letter sent to President Tusk

    Re: implementation of the European Pillar of Social Rights Dear Donald, Dear Prime Ministers/Heads of States, I thank you, on behalf of the European Trade Union Confederation, for the commitment you are going to endorse in the European Council this week on the implementation of the European Pillar of Social Rights, proclaimed in Gothenburg on 17 November 2017.
    Document Published on 14.12.2017
  • ETUC Assessment on the Reflection Paper on the Future of EU Finances
    EU Reflection Paper on the Future of EU Finances

    ETUC Assessment on the Reflection Paper on the Future of EU Finances

    ETUC Assessment on the Reflection Paper on the Future of EU Finances Adopted by the Executive Committee at its meeting on 25-26 October 2017     INTRODUCTION The Reflection Paper on the Future of EU Finances, published on 28 June 2017, is the last one out of the five that the European Commission announced when publishing its White Paper on the Future of Europe on 1st March 2017. The Reflection Paper presents five scenarios for the future of European finances.
    Document Published on 31.10.2017
  • 8th European Union – Latin American Trade Union Meeting and Panama Declaration
    8vo Encuentro Sindical Union Europea, America Latina y Caribe

    8th European Union – Latin American Trade Union Meeting and Panama Declaration

    Brussels, 30 October 2017.    8th European Union, Latin America and Caribbean Trade Inion Meeting and Panama Declaration The 8th EU-CELAC Trade Union Meeting, organised by the Trade Union Confederation of the Americas (TUCA) and the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC), and held in Panama, publishes its Panama Declaration here.  
    Document Published on 30.10.2017
  • A new start for social dialogue needs a change of pace in trade union involvement in economic governance

    A new start for social dialogue needs a change of pace in trade union involvement in economic governance

    The ETUC TU-I index below shows the involvement of trade unions at the milestones of the semester cycle at national level. It is still largely unsatisfactory. Despite the commitment of the Juncker Commission to a new start for social dialogue in recent years, governments have too often largely disregarded the involvement of trade unions in the design and implementation of their reform plans.
    Document Published on 27.10.2017
  • Madrid Declaration on 'The Rights of LGBTQI* People in the Workplace'

    Madrid Declaration on 'The Rights of LGBTQI* People in the Workplace'

    The European Trade Union Confederation celebrated the 2017 World Pride at a trade union conference, hosted and co-organised by the Spanish trade unions CC.OO and UGT, on ‘The Rights of LGBTQI* People in the Workplace’, which took place on 29-30 June. The conference was an opportunity for the ETUC and its affiliated organisations, represented via the LGBTQI* rights trade union network, to strengthen their cooperation in the fight for human rights, trade union rights and equality for all workers.
    Document Published on 30.06.2017
  • Report and summary: ETUC mid-term conference in Rome - Democracy at work: the future of workers' participation

    Report and summary: ETUC mid-term conference in Rome - Democracy at work: the future of workers' participation

    To the: ETUC affiliates ETUFs Worker's participation and company policy committee Participants on the ETUC mid-term Conference in Rome     Dear colleagues,   From the 29.5. – 31.5.2017 the ETUC and the ETUC affiliates came together for the ETUC mid-term conference in Rome.  
    Document Published on 19.06.2017