Subscribe to our newsletters → here The conference organised at the beginning of February 2021 by ETUI-ETUC constituted a focal point for its future activities. The aim of this event was to promote the ETUI as an open platform for discussing the social issues involved in the ecological and climate... Find out more

Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) embodies the battle against the SARS-CoV-2 infection – but these single-use, disposable items carry more complex occupational safety and health (OSH) issues than first seem. The global shortage of PPE has caused infections and deaths of tens of thousands of... Find out more

In a world that changes at a fast pace, strategical thinking becomes a primary skill for trade unions in order to strengthen their vision, build their own strategies, and make their own futures. In February 2021 we carried out a second edition of the training called Strategic foresight for trade... Find out more

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