Defending undocumented workers - means defending all workers

ETUC Publication in the framework of the project on letterbox companies  A hunters game : how policy can change to spot and sink letterbox-type practices

ETUC Platform on the Future of Europe

Opinion of the Advisory Committee on vocational training (trade unions, employers and Member States) to the European Commission 

The Youth Guarantee (YG) is, at the moment of writing this follow-up report, high in the agenda of the European institutions. Indeed, important decisions are being taken regarding the future of the measure, its future funding and further implementation. The ETUC pushed EU institutions for the launch of the Youth Guarantee and welcomed its implementation. The establishment of such a guarantee in Europe was advocated by the ETUC and the ETUC Youth Committee as early as 2009 in its call “Towards a new social deal in Europe: Fight the crisis, put people first”.

On International Migrants Day, the ETUC wishes to express its solidarity and support for undocumented migrants. Too often, sans papiers suffer the humiliating and degrading experience of being excluded from society, on top of inhumane working conditions. 

This document is a concept example of a possible European Optional Legal Framework for Transnational Company Agreements.

Trade unions’ strategies to prevent, manage and eliminate workplace harassment and violence against women Madrid, 24-25 November 2016  

This document is the final report of the ETUC project on "Building an enabling environment for voluntary and autonomous negotiations at transnational level between trade unions and multinational companies" and was attached to the ETUC Resolution "Roadmap on Transnational Company Agreements: Progressing towards an Optional Legal Framework". It is available in EN, FR, DE, IT, ES and PL.

Today, the EU’s basic humanitarian values are challenged by the arrival of hundreds of thousands of asylum-seekers. More than 80% of them are fleeing violence and conflict in countries like Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan. Some 20% are women and one-third children. We are confronting an ongoing humanitarian disaster. In April and May alone, the Italian Navy saved thousands of refugees in the Mediterranean, but hundreds more died.

This 2016 edition is intended as one contribution to an assessment of what the EU current policies have achieved, or above all what they have not achieved, and hence as an evaluation of the extent to which the European Union is prepared for the future. All four chapters of this report conclude on a negative note, and each puts forward suggestions for some appropriate policy changes.