@etui.bsky.social
Independent research and training centre of the European Trade Union Confederation. We support, stimulate and reinforce the European trade union movement.
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Interested in coming to work with us at the ETUI?
Background in economics?
We are seeking a full-time researcher to bring quantitative skills to questions of European economic and employment policies
See here for more info 🔗 etui.org/ZR5
📆 Deadline: 31 August
☝️ A new feature: access to our digital archives on the history of the European trade union movement
📍 And if you want to visit us in person in Brussels, our Documentation Centre is open to the public! Email to make an appointment (address on the site ☝️)
Labourline, the ETUI's online catalogue, has a brand new, user-friendly interface!
📚 Labourline is your portal to a unique collection of resources on key topics in European labour studies
Take a look here 🔗 labourline.org
There could hardly be a more interesting and challenging time to work in Brussels on European economic policy issues, in an international, multidisciplinary team. @etui.bsky.social has an exciting opening for an economist.
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www.etui.org/about-etui/t...
What a deal!
The EU has "agreed to spend hundreds of billions of dollars on additional US energy products and weapons, in exchange for the broad 15 per cent levy that covers many European exports including cars."
Not a misprint. Unthinkable during my lifetime. But this is 2025.
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📕 In this working paper, Wouter Zwysen takes a closer look at the link between labour shortages, #JobQuality (particularly #wages) and bargaining power to discover a complex relationship
Read it here 🔗 etui.org/Z84
#JobAlert, the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI) is recruiting an #economist based in Brussels. It is for a quantitative post with a focus on European economic and employment policies. See details here www.etui.org/about-etui/t...
24.07.2025 08:01 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Take a look at the ETUI’s revamped website on worker participation!
🔗 worker-participation.eu/
UNI Europa's journey has been a long one, reaching even further back into the past than its 25 years of formal existence
📕 A unique publication for those who like to dive into #TradeUnion history, available in English, German, Italian, Swedish and French!
🔗 etui.org/Z66
Heavy workload, long hours, lack of autonomy, harassment in the #workplace...
How do we define and regulate work-related #PsycoSocialRisks?
🔗 etui.org/Z2M
⚖️🔍 A deep analysis of Court of Justice case law, this report sheds light on patterns in #OSH-related litigation and helps to lay the groundwork for future litigation strategies for health and safety
Read it here 🔗 etui.org/Z6R
'It's an important book because it allows researchers, students, trade unionists, to get to very relevant information on what is happening at the European level'
Dalila Ghailani (European Social Observatory) on her contribution to 'Social policy in the EU: state of play 2024'
🔗 etui.org/Z6V
'The Elgar Companion to Regulating Platform Work: Insights from the Food Delivery Sector'
Order it here 🔗 www.elgaronline.com/edcollbook/b...
'If in the future workers and their families are made socially insecure, by for instance the rise of energy prices or trade wars, should the trade union be involved in the fight against these insecurities or not?'
🎙️ Christophe Degryse on etui.podcast
Listen here 🔗 etui.org/ZLG
For the first time, a European report puts a price on hashtag#stress at work 🪙
Read it here 🔗 etui.org/ZL5
check out the newly launched ETUC Trade Union Renewal Centre www.etuc.org/en/RenewalCe... @etui.bsky.social @etuc-ces.bsky.social
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🇧🇪 Hemos asistido al Seminario «Construyendo respuestas para combatir el fascismo, el racismo y la xenofobia», organizado en Amberes (Bélgica) por @etui.bsky.social.
🚧 Se han tratado estrategias comunicativas para hacer frente a la extrema derecha.
'A clear vision is still missing of what we want to achieve with this European Health Union'
Jessica Martini (European Social Observatory) on her contribution to the recent publication 'Social policy in the European Union: state of play 2024'
🔗 etui.org/Z6V
ETUI researchers are attending the seventh edition of the Labour Law Research Network Conference (LLRN7) held in Bangkok this year. Have a look at the key references they will be using during their presentations
www.etui.org/etui-partici...
This week, ETUI's Bart Vanhercke, Mehtap Akgüç, + Silvia Borelli presented at the European Parliament on the consequences of subcontracting on working conditions and trade union rights.
Find the slides and discussion points here: www.etui.org/events/subco...
'The Elgar Companion to Regulating Platform Work: Insights from the Food Delivery Sector'
Order it here 🔗 www.elgaronline.com/edcollbook/b...
This special issue of Transfer explores the role of governments and social partners in managing responses to the inflation crisis of 2021–2023.
🔗 www.etui.org/publications...
A new report by Silvia Borelli, Antonio Loffredo, Claire Marzo, + Manfred Walser shows that logistics subcontracting is a prevalent business model that leads to lower pay and poorer working conditions for the purpose of cutting costs and boosting profits.
🔗 www.etui.org/publications...
'I would see the four-day work week as a worthy model for working time reduction'
🎙️ Agnieszka Piasna on etui.podcast
Listen here 🔗 etui.org/ZLp
💡 The ETUI has been driving research on psycho-social risks for a long time now - take a look at our body of work, including our recent publications calculating the high health and economic costs of PSR, right here 🔗 etui.org/ZLi
More info on the conference here 🔗 etui.org/Z6L
Sonia Nawrocka (ETUI) highlights the high stakes of confronting the problem of #PsychoSocialRisks at work, in discussion with Helene Sultan-Taieb (Université du Québec à Montréal) and Aude Cefaliello (ETUI) at our recent conference on the fight for a directive on PSR ⚖️ ✊
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'The numbers of deaths due to #PsychoSocialRisksa are much higher than those due to workplace accidents, but PSR are much more invisible and misunderstood'
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In a recent debate on the UK's Employment Rights Bill, Lord Hendy referenced ETUI's European Participation Index
Watch 👁️: www.ier.org.uk/news/lords-d...
Learn more 📖: www.europeanparticipationindex.eu#Title
A recent Equal Times article on by Jose Alvarez Diaz explains that translators are at the forefront of the deterioration of employment caused by technology
🔗 www.equaltimes.org/intelligence...
