@etui.bsky.social
Independent research and training centre of the European Trade Union Confederation. We support, stimulate and reinforce the European trade union movement.
📺 Watch the plenary recordings here 🔗 etui.org/4J7
🤖 Discover more about the ETUI's work on #digitalisation 🔗 etui.org/Z6Y
"The aim is to generate new ideas & needs for #research, identify gaps to dig deeper & provide new answers on regulatory responses" 💻
Agnieszka Piasna, ETUI senior researcher, at our recent #FutureOfWork conference.
🌐 This 6th edition explored how #digitalisation is reshaping the #WorldOfWork.
Wednesday 4 March joint @etuce.bsky.social and @etui.bsky.social book launch in Brussels.
'Governing Artificial Intelligence in the Higher Education Sector: Sociotechnical perspectives, regulatory challenges and working conditions.' #AIEd #AIHigherEd
Upcoming ETUI #training ▶️ Trade unionism in the islands 🌍
📍 24–25 February
This seminar is for trade unionists from European islands to exchange practices, explore EU rules on insularity & tackle transitions.
Learn more 👉 etui.org/4Je
Find your national contact organisation 👉️ etui.org/4o8
🔍️ Why we must put a gender lens on OSH (and fast)
Dimitra Theodori argues that OSH policies continue to overlook gender-specific realities despite their impact on concentration, fatigue, stress & overall work performance.
🔗 Read the editorial: etui.org/4JM
🗞️ Explore the HesaMag issue: etui.org/4JA
🔎 When “Neutral” Isn’t Neutral: Why Standards Must Consider Gender 🚺 Many standards are developed with the assumption that a one‑size‑fits‑all approach works for everyone — but evidence shows this isn’t the case. What looks neutral on paper can, in fact, fail to protect women as effectively as men. 📉 From safety equipment designed around male body types to technologies calibrated without women’s input, standards that overlook gender can lead to real risks in everyday life. When gender is not actively considered in standard development, products and systems may work for some, but not for all. 💡💪 ⚠️ This isn’t just theory — it’s about health, safety, and inclusion in design and policy. 👉 To build standards that truly serve everyone, we must ensure gender perspectives are included from the start — in data, research, testing, and decision‑making. Standards matter. And so does inclusivity. Let’s work toward a future where both go hand in hand. 💬✨ Read the full article in the new issue of HesaMag (n°31): https://lnkd.in/euTuCCWJ #TrustStandards #Standards4all
🚨 “Neutral” standards ≠ safe for everyone! When gender isn’t considered, tools, equipment & tech designed for “default” users can put women at risk. 🚺
✅ We must ensure to include gender from day 1 — in research, testing & decisions. Standards should protect all users equally💡
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Is ‘electromobility made in Europe’ still possible? Ein neues Buch unseres Projektpartners @etui.bsky.social zeigt, was der Umstieg auf #Elektromobilität für Beschäftigte und Automobilregionen in #Europa bedeutet.
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⏰ #AITalk happening next week!
🌐 How is #AI reshaping work, and how can workers and unions shape AI in return?
▶️ The talk will explore:
🔺 Union responses: learning, informing and bargaining
🔺 Why AI regulation struggles
🔺 How participatory design supports worker-centred AI systems
🔗 etui.org/4JG
What's happening in the world of #CollectiveBargaining 👇️
🔺 Austria: Agreement in social economy sector
🔺 Slovenia: Significant 16% minimum wage increase
🔺 Luxembourg: New agreement for security sector
Stay up to date with the latest bargaining highlights across Europe 🌍️
Read more 🔗 etui.org/4JT
My take on the meeting of EU leaders: a missed opportunity to launch an investment-led recovery
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If you want analysis of European economic and employment issues in your inbox - roughly weekly, I hope! - you can sign up for a free substack subscription.
📢 ETUI #training: active methodologies for trade union trainers
🗓 24–26 Feb | 📍 Turin
✍️ Boost engagement, apply active learning, and measure real training impact.
👉️ For ETT participants & training professionals.
🔗 More info: etui.org/4J3
🔗 Find your national contact organisation: etui.org/4o8
👏 Thank you to all of the researchers, trade unionists, policymakers, social partners and employer representatives whose interdisciplinary contributions made this debate on the future of work both engaging and impactful.
🔗 Delve deeper into the ETUI's work on #digitilisation: etui.org/4JJ
🔦 Digital technologies are not neutral. Their impact depends on governance, worker voice and regulatory choices. The challenge ahead is to ensure that innovation strengthens, rather than undermines, job quality, fundamental rights and collective power.
13.02.2026 09:01 — 👍 0 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0⚖️ Competitiveness through standards
Europe cannot compete by lowering labour standards or replacing people with machines. Its strength lies in quality jobs, democratic governance, investment in skills, and clear rules that protect fundamental rights.
🤝 Collective bargaining as a regulatory tool
Social dialogue is emerging as a crucial instrument to govern AI and algorithmic management in practice, ensuring workers have a real voice in how technologies are deployed.
🌍 Regulation beyond the "workplace"
Work is no longer bounded by place or time. As the notion of the "worksphere" suggests, protection must follow the worker across hybrid, remote and platform settings.
📊 AI, surveillance & platformisation
Digital technologies intensify monitoring and reshape labour processes, often affecting autonomy and inclusion. While fully platformised work remains limited, digital monitoring & AM are widespread & frequently linked to work intensification and reduced autonomy.
🔎 Rethinking job quality in a turbulent era
As work and the workforce change, we must better understand people’s evolving experience of work to overcome conceptual confusion and fragmentation. A changing workforce calls for questioning and revising existing approaches to defining ‘good work’.
💭 Across plenaries and sessions presenting cutting-edge research, several key themes emerged 👇️
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🌐 🤖 Over two intensive days in Brussels, the 6th ETUI #FutureofWork Conference explored how #digitalisation, #AI and #AlgorithmicManagement are reshaping #work, and how regulation and industrial relations must evolve to keep pace.
📽️ Watch the plenary recordings here: etui.org/4Jo
➡️ Foresight Lab: Analysing the future impact of the Digital Omnibus on workers
🌐 How will the European Commission’s Digital Omnibus reshape #data protection and #AI safeguards in the workplace?
🗓️ Join the discussion on 5 March
Explore the programme and register by 2 March ✍️ etui.org/4J4
👀 Have you read the latest issue of HesaMag yet?
📰 Issue n°31 examines how #OSH policies still reflect a male norm, overlooking gendered risks at work. From psychosocial risks to #AI, care work, menopause & LGBTQIA+ inclusion, it calls for gender-responsive OSH.
👉 Subscribe for free: etui.org/4o9
➡️ ETUI conference: The road to 80% #CollectiveBargaining coverage
Only 9 EU countries meet the 80% target under the Minimum Wages Directive. What’s next for the other 18?
Join this discussion on strengthening collective bargaining across Europe 🌍️
📅 2 March
Register by 27 February 🔗 etui.org/4JZ
An analysis of the Digital Omnibus @socialeurope.bsky.social
The core argument is about how EU digital law is being structurally re-engineered
www.socialeurope.eu/the-digital-...
'The Oxford Handbook of Belgian Politics' is published. Five parts, 41 chapters. Congratulations to the editors: Min Reuchamps Marleen Brans Petra Meier Emilie van Haute.
Chapter 20 in Part III is on 'Trade Unions in Belgium’, written with Jean Faniel
ToC here: lnkd.in/eA2RvtmU
👉 Read the article: buff.ly/UzncXN9
📖 Explore the ETUI book for detailed case studies: etui.org/4Jk
📘 New publication on SAGE
In a new article published in the European Journal of Industrial Relations, @kurtvandaele.bsky.social uses the country chapters from the ETUI book 'When trade unions learn to innovate' as cases for QCA, interpreting the results through a critical realist approach.
⏰ Join the next ETUI lunchtime session on 26 February
🚗🔋 This session explores how automotive transformation could unlock new opportunities, while ensuring a #JustTransition for workers.
📝 Register by 20 February 🔗 etui.org/4oR
Learn more 👉 etui.org/4oL
Find your national contact organisation 👉️ etui.org/4o8
🚨 ETUI training happening this week!
✅️ EWC Training Seminar for EWC/SNB negotiators (10–12 Feb, Torremolinos).
✍️ The aim of this training is to build legal & practical negotiation skills, prepare for the EWC Directive revision, and strengthen workplace democracy.
