European Union - European minimum wage report The European minimum wage report published by the Institute of Economic and Social Research (WSI) in Düsseldorf, Germany, illustrates that at the beginning of 2021, minimum wage increases in Europe were much less pronounced than in previous years due to... Find out more

Subscribe to our newsletters → here The live-streaming platform Twitch has removed anti-union ads that its parent company Amazon ran on the platform targeting its workers in Bessemer, Alabama. The ads encouraged workers to vote no on whether to join the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union... Find out more

Subscribe to our newsletters → here A ‘socio-ecological contract’ has emerged as a way to conceive together the transitions needed to steer out of today’s crises to safer harbour. But what does it entail? The challenges of the ecological transition are immense and a socio-ecological contract is... Find out more

Subscribe to our newsletters → here ‘No Profit On Pandemic’, a new European Citizen’s Initiative (ECI), demands the European Commission to make anti-pandemic vaccines and treatments a global public good, freely accessible to everyone. The ECI is a way to propose concrete legislative action to the... Find out more

Subscribe to our newsletters → here The start of the Covid-19 vaccination campaign and the end of the winter season give us reason to hope that we will finally manage to master the virus and reopen our societies. Nevertheless, it seems that the exit strategy out of this crisis will do nothing to... Find out more

Subscribe to our newsletters → here The last edition of the ETUI “European training for young trade union leaders” started in October 2019, with its first week in Budapest, followed by the second one in February 2020 in Brussels. Because of the pandemic, the third and last training week, planned in... Find out more

Subscribe to our newsletters → here Cancer is the leading cause of work-related deaths, counting for over 100,000 deaths each year in the European Union alone. Workers are being put at risk by being exposed to deadly carcinogenic, mutagenic and reprotoxic substances in their place of work. Tony Musu... Find out more

Subscribe to our newsletters → here The Eurofound survey aims to capture the far-reaching implications of the pandemic for the way people live and work across Europe. Two rounds of the online survey have been carried out to date: one in April 2020, when most Member States were in lockdown, and one... Find out more

Subscribe to our newsletters → here Most discussion of gig workers has focused on their material insecurity. More attention also needs to be paid to what goes on in their heads. The ‘gig’ economy has grown to become an intrinsic part of our society and yet the benefits and risks of this new way of... Find out more

Subscribe to our newsletters → here In its response to the first stage consultation with the social partners on the revision of the Asbestos at Work Directive 2009/148/EC and the Chemical Agents Directive 98/24/EC, the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) is calling on the European Commission... Find out more