In March, the European trade union movement has launched its campaign to fight the social and economic crisis, because it has become unacceptable for workers and citizens to shoulder the burden of a crisis they did not cause. ETUC is therefore on the offensive for a New Social Deal in Europe, calling for: an extended recovery programme; stronger welfare states; an end to the recent decisions of the European Court of Justice favouring market freedoms over workers' fundamental rights and collective agreements; an effective regulation of financial markets and a fair distribution of wealth.
This wide-ranging campaign ‘Fight the crisis: put the people first’ places citizens at the heart of the campaign and will serve to make the governments assume their responsibility of providing European responses to the crisis, rather than simply taking case-by-case measures.
Table of content
- Routes, maps and time of demonstrations
- Support material for demonstrations
- Economic and social crisis: ETUC positions and actions
Routes, maps and time of demonstrations
- Brussels, 15 May 2009 (651Kb PDF)
For more practical information on the Brussels demonstration, please contact Antonio Moreira by email or by phone +32 2 224 05 83.
- Berlin, 16 May 2009 (865Kb PDF)
See also the website of the Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund (DGB).
- Madrid, 14 May 2009 (855Kb PDF)
- Prague, 16 May 2009 (804Kb PDF)
See also the website of the Czech Trade Union Confederation ?eskomoravská konfederace odborových svaz? (CMKOS).
Support material for demonstrations
ETUC Declaration
To download the ETUC Declaration ‘Fight the crisis: put the people first’ in PDF format in one of the languages available, please click on the respective link below.
Poster
Poster ‘Fight the crisis: put the people first’ for downloading
Press contacts
Information regarding press activities at the various demonstrations, as well as the date and time of press conferences, will be made available soon. To get further information on the demonstrations in Brussels, Berlin, Madrid and Prague, please contact ETUC or the press officers of ETUC affiliates by email or phone in the respective countries.
ETUC
| Patricia Grillo | Head of Press and Communications | | +32 2 22 40 430 | | +32 477 77 01 64 |
| Daniele Melli | Press officer | | +32 2 22 40 431 | | +32 473 94 25 63 |
| Nicole Romain | Press officer | | +32 2 22 40 432 | | +32 473 94 26 47 |
Belgium
| CSC | Diana De Crop | | +32 2 246 32 84 |
| ACV | Greet Vandendriessche | | +32 2 224 63 482|
| FGTB| Audrey Lhoest | | +32 2 506 83 65 |
| ABVV | Nora Cassiers | | +32 2 506 82 43 |
| ACLVB-CGSLB | Sofie Van Haele | | +32 9 242 33 15 |
Czech Republic
| CMKOS | Jana Kasparova | | +420 2 344 62 32 9 |
| CMKOS | International department | | +420 2 344 61 11 1|
Germany
| DGB| Marion Knappe | | +49 30 240 60 21 6 |
Spain
| CC.OO| Fernando Lezcano | | +34 91 702 81 06|
| UGT| Paola Jimenez | | +34 91 589 09 97 |
| USO| Vanesa Rodríguez | | +34 91 577 4113 |
