What's missing in the new EU-India deal trade? Workers' rights #Opinion #EuropeanUnion https://euobserver.com/eu-and-the-world/arb7386135

La CES est solidaire avec ses organisations affiliées françaises qui se mobilisent aujourd'hui pour la #JusticeSociale et la #JusticeFiscale. Nous sommes à vos côtés ✊ #18septembre

Pour la #JusticeFiscale, pour la #JusticeSociale, contre l'#austerite, FO est mobilisée partout en ce #18septembre ! Ici à #Mayotte ! ⬇️

Writing on the EU-India negotiations: ”For trade unions and workers across Europe, TSD chapters are not a technical detail — they are a defining test of whether the EU is committed to the values it claims to uphold”. A moment of truth is upcoming! @etuc-ces.bsky.social @ec.europa.eu

Writing on the EU-India negotiations: ”For trade unions and workers across Europe, TSD chapters are not a technical detail — they are a defining test of whether the EU is committed to the values it claims to uphold”. A moment of truth is upcoming! @etuc-ces.bsky.social @ec.europa.eu

What's missing in the new EU-India deal trade? Workers' rights

What's missing in the new EU-India deal trade? Workers' rights ✍️ @cmstahl.bsky.social euobserver.com/eu-and-the-w...

The ETUC today joins tributes to the life of Michael Sommer, the former chairman of the @dgb.de and our former vice president He was a principled trade unionist whose contributions laid the groundwork for many of the rights that workers benefit from today 📰 www.etuc.org/en/pressrele...

Nigel Farage, it's about time you came clean about whose side you're really on.

The @tucglobal.bsky.social International at TUC Congress 2025 is kicking off at the Brighton Centre, with a host of fascinating international guests. @paulnowaktuc.bsky.social is welcoming our guests & setting out the domestic political context for them, including the threat of the far right...

Nazma highlights the lack of rights for workers and their representatives, even 12 years after the Rana Plaza disaster which killed over 100 women workers. No one has been held to account for that, and the abuses continue.

But again, we need to use our trade agreements to defend workers, and to improve union engagement on oversight bodies (domestic advisory groups) for trade agreements to ensure workers' interests are reflected, he says. But we also need info from the south to work with.

...Because we have been working for the global economy, but the global economy should be working for us, he concludes.

Claes-Mikael from the @etuc-ces.bsky.social answers that we need to practice better democracy in order to protect it. Like Luc, he says we need a better trade system - for him this requires strong & enforceable labour chapters in trade deals to protect workers. And we need a shift...

Good to see labour and social issues in the UK-Spain agreement. @tuc.org.uk has close relations with @ugtcomunica.bsky.social and @intccoo.bsky.social

@cmstahl.bsky.social 📢 "The ETUC has followed these negotiations since their beginning and the main concern has always been on protecting workers. The outcome has not assuaged this concern."

@etuc-ces.bsky.social slams weak and unenforceable sustainable development provisions in #Mercosur deal. “The bottom line is that the deal lacks even the most basic sanction for companies which violate workers' rights" @cmstahl.bsky.social www.etuc.org/en/pressrele...

“The Commission are paying lip service to labour rights because they know working conditions in Mercosur countries leave a lot to be desired, but the bottom line is that the deal lacks even the most basic sanction for companies which violate workers’ rights." 📄 www.etuc.org/en/pressrele...

As such, the deal is a source of unfair competition that will have negative consequences on workers’ livelihoods, wages, working conditions and employment for workers in key sectors of the EU economy.

EU-Mercosur trade deal: We've warned the @ec.europa.eu that its current proposals would fail to effectively sanction companies for even the gravest violations of workers’ rights.

Extremely sad facts - that calls for actions

⚠️Record wildfires show need for investments in frontline services "It is scandalous that some countries continue to reduce firefighter numbers just as wildfires grow in size, threatening people’s lives & livelihoods" @estherlynch.bsky.social

Germany’s Minimum Wage Hike In Accordance With The European Minimum Wage Directive, recognising 60% of the median wage as a formal reference point for setting the statutory minimum. @thorsten-schulten.bsky.social and Malte Lübker @socialeurope.bsky.social www.socialeurope.eu/germanys-min...

Solidarity with @aflcio.org and our American brothers and sisters! Labour Day today!🚩✊ Yes, Workers deserve freedom, fairness and security that comes with a union!

Trump’s tariffs ruled illegal by US appeals court but stay in place on.ft.com/46cXVsN

An important and welcome development for the whole Euro Area economy. In Germany, the "wage anchor" for the entire currency area, nominal wages are growing at a stable rate of around 4%, consumer prices at the ECB target of ~2%. Real wages are therefore increasing at a substantial rate, ~2% 1/3

In short: a must read! Excellent on the impossibility of compromise with those that do not respect compromise. True then, true now

At European level, she was an important voice representing the ETUC in high level fora, notably at the Tripartite Social Summit addressing President von der Leyen and business leaders to put forward trade union proposals for a European industrial strategy.

Congratulates Inga Ruginiene on becoming Prime Minister of Lithuania 💐 Her leadership within the European trade union movement has always been focussed on delivering European solutions for the working people of Lithuania, the Baltic region and the whole of Europe.

Nerdy but important @davidkleimann.bsky.social piece examining the mechanics of the transposition of the US framework agreement into EU law via a Regulation or a Treaty, with crucial consequences for @europarl.europa.eu input. Lucky MEPs, while @ukparliament.parliament.uk =🤐

Time for democracy. The 🇪🇺🇺🇸 trade deal seems to be become proper law. Outcome uncertain, full support for @bernd-lange.bsky.social Many questions remain to be addressed in the EP and the Council www.euractiv.com/section/econ...

Great news!👍

I know it's August, but isn't there anyone @ec.europa.eu to pick up on this? @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu @marossefcovic.bsky.social @hennavirkkunen.bsky.social ?

New report World Health Organisation confirms @social.verdi.de is on solid scientific grounds on heat stress ⚠️ Heat can kill ➡️ Employers are responsible for guaranteeing safe workplace📢 European unions demand EU directive on heat @cmstahl.bsky.social @gabischoff.bsky.social @epsu.bsky.social

Thread on the WHO report on Heat stress and what can be done to deal with the impact on workers Trade unions in the EU have demanded a Heat Directive Will this be part of the Quality Road Map of Commissioner @roxanaminzatu.bsky.social ? @hazardmag.bsky.social @cmstahl.bsky.social

"This deal seems to favour the US and could undermine the EU's right to regulate in a number of areas, a far cry from the 'reciprocal, fair and balanced trade' its title proclaims. "We call on the EU to reclaim its economic and regulatory sovereignty." - @estherlynch.bsky.social

@estherlynch.bsky.social 📢 "The deal does not take into account the impact on jobs and flanking measures to support good jobs creation in Europe are not foreseen alongside this agreement to cushion its effects."

🚨 EU-US deal: we're raising concerns on the impact 15% tariffs on most industrial goods would still have on jobs, coupled with the lack of accompanying measures to protect jobs and production in Europe.

European Chemical Agency has published updated universal (= banning all) #PFAS restriction proposal It's position is clear - PFAS do not belong in nature, are harmful for human health, and continued release has long-term (accumulative) impact @epsu.bsky.social @cmstahl.bsky.social

Excellent 🧵 No alarming numbers yet, but worrying that policymakers appears to postpone actions to maintain output and jobs

Did anyone ask whether he doesn’t own a suit?

@ec.europa.eu launches review of Foreign Subsidies Regulation. Important consultation, notably re the impact on public procurement, which has been followed closely by @etuc-ces.bsky.social @uni-europa.bsky.social @industrialleurope.bsky.social @epsu.bsky.social ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

Was du heute hast, ist kein Zufall. Urlaub, Pausen, Sicherheit – das alles gibt’s nur dank harter Gewerkschaftsarbeit. Und die geht nur, wenn du mitmachst. www.oegb.at/mitgliedwerden

The media should report this sort of thing more often: good public policy that, over time, improves people's lives. www.politico.eu/article/hels... Relentless "breaking bad" news creates a sense of powerlessness. Good policies create benchmarks for other countries. 👍@politico.eu 👏 Helsinki/Finland

2/2 compare and contrast EU factsheet to the White House's. www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...

@ec.europa.eu wriggle room "The political agreement...is not legally binding. Beyond taking the immediate actions committed, the EU and the US will further negotiate, in line with their relevant internal procedures, to fully implement the political agreement". 1/2 ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

,well, it's piped. It could replace RU's share of LNG (17%), but US already supplies 50%. And anyway LNG is ~2.5% of energy imports, €9bn or so. However you look at it, $250bn of energy purchases from the US is a complete fantasy. And no-one seems to have noticed. ec.europa.eu/eurostat/sta... iii

Von der Leyen claims the aim of the additional purchases is to decouple from Russian gas. But total fossil fuel imports from Russia (2024) are put at €21.9 bn (google). $250bn would thus be an overkill by a factor of ~10. The US can't easily replace Russian piped gas (11.1% share) because... ii

European unions react to EU-US trade deal Good 30% tariffs are avoided (huge job impact) 15% is still high. Will have an impact. Hence EU/ Member States need to ensure measures to counter impact. But (forced additional) investment in the US goes at expense investment EU @epsu.bsky.social 1/3

”For my part, I see an asymmetry set in stone.What is the price we are paying for this deal? Many questions still remain on this deal and I’ll make sure that […] Parliament gets answers to all the outstanding questions”Agree! Supporting @bernd-lange.bsky.social www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/pres...