📘 Book launch: 'The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the Employment Relation' How can how international #HumanRights standards can better protect and reinforce workers’ rights everywhere? ⚖️ See here for more info and register before 3 October 🔗 etui.org/ZRR

Chapter by @silviarainone.bsky.social and Christina Hießl in 'The Elgar Companion to Regulating Platform Work: Insights from the Food Delivery Sector' Edited by @kurtvandaele.bsky.social and Silvia Rainone, and published by @elgarpublishing.bsky.social

The ETUI had a great time chatting with festival-goers at our stand in the #TradeUnion tent at #ManiFiesta, 'La Fête de la Solidarité', last weekend on the Belgian coast 🎪 Thanks to our volunteers! 👏

«Dismantling legal requirements for ESG standards, due diligence, and democratic scrutiny will not merely harm EU citizens, workers, and the environment. It will likely fail in its stated aim of accelerating innovation.» @aida.follows.technology

Investment not deregulation key to competitive economy At @ec.europa.eu event to mark a year since the publication of #Draghi report on competitiveness, @estherlynch.bsky.social r Lynch called for a shift towards strategic investment for a European industrial policy with quality jobs at its heart

📌 Brussels Together with @etui.bsky.social, we kicked off the #Right2Strike workshop! Experts are mapping how this fundamental right is protected -and restricted- across Europe. No right to strike = no collective bargaining. We'll keep fighting for this fundamental right.

What happened over the summer in the world of #CollectiveBargaining? ☀️ 🤝 🔺Austria: Collective agreements for freelancers possible from 2026 🔺 France: Unions unite against Government budget plan 🔺 Slovenia: Reduced working hours for older workers Catch up with our newsletter 🔗 etui.org/ZR2

🗣️ Last week at the #ILERA 2025 European Congress (International Labour and Employment Relations Association) @durham-university.bsky.social 👇 What can the ETUI's latest research in the industrial relations field tell us about the state of #SocialEurope today? Key points of discussion included... 🧵

⚠️ The #28thRegime proposal: unnecessary and harmful to workers’ rights 🔗 etui.org/ZRB

📣 Oikeudenmukainen siirtymä, laadukkaat työpaikat ja työntekijöiden osallistuminen ovat avaimia vihreän siirtymän onnistumiseen ja reilun työelämän rakentamiseen Euroopassa. @etuc-ces.bsky.social @etui.bsky.social 📙⬇️ finunions.org/oikeudenmuka...

Pleased to share this publication. Thanks to my co-editor @biancalunafabris.bsky.social and all authors! @etui.bsky.social @etuc-ces.bsky.social #ILERA2025 #ILERA #tradeunions #unionrenewal Order or download your copy here www.etui.org/publications...

My latest article in Social Europe: The EC argues that Europe must focus on innovation, with regulatory simplification at the centre. This reflects a profound misunderstanding of what innovation actually needs: not regulatory chaos, but a clear one www.socialeurope.eu/ctrlaltdelet...

📣 New ETUI working paper just out 🔍 With a focus on Belgium, author @wzwysen.bsky.social takes a look at pay differences between firms in today's #LabourMarket 🔗 etui.org/ZR8 🧵👇

'No European innovation strategy can succeed without long-term credibility, investor confidence, and public trust—all of which the #Omnibus packages jeopardise.' ✍ ETUI senior researcher @aida.follows.technology takes apart the EU's #deregulation drive 🔗 www.socialeurope.eu/ctrlaltdelet...

An oldie but goodie 💎 Last year, Christophe Degryse's 🔭 Foresight Brief asked what place the social and climate agendas would find in an EU increasingly focused on #security questions - and what role #TradeUnions could play in an increasingly security-driven Europe 🤔

'Ultimately, union revitalisation requires more than fresh ideas, new knowledge or improved policy. It also demands a sustained investment in unions’ internal capacity to collaborate, adapt and learn.' 🧵👇

The European Commission is soon expected to propose a European company law framework designed specifically for "innovative" companies. The "28th company law regime" would affect national labour laws, taxation, insolvency and social security. @etui.bsky.social

AI talks @etui.bsky.social “Large language models, small labour market effects” @andershumlum.bsky.social presented a research study analysing the effects of the use of AI chatbots among workers. This technology is here to stay and will continue to be used more and more.

In her #SOTEU speech, @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu again stressed the need for a so-called “28th regime” for innovative companies. But a new @etui.bsky.social analysis confirms what we have been saying all along: the proposal is unnecessary and harmful.

A heightened 'risk of letterbox companies that enable forum shopping and #SocialDumping'...⚠️ Our latest policy brief cited in this @corporateeurope.org piece about the EU's plans for a #28thRegime 👇 Full brief here: 'How a 28th company law regime jeopardises workers’ rights' 🔗 etui.org/ZRY

Recommended reading ⬇️👏

Join me tomorrow at 🕑2pm CET to discuss with Anders Hulum, University of Chicage about generative AI and the labour market AI chatbots are everywhere in workplaces but how are they changing our jobs, wages, time or bargaining dynamics? Register ⏬ and tune in to hear the evidence from 🇩🇰

@estherlynch.bsky.social, @etuc-ces.bsky.social General Secretary, and @andrewwatteu.bsky.social, ETUI General Director, introduce this year's 'Benchmarking Working Europe' report, a comprehensive analysis of today's #WorldOfWork 📊 🔗 etui.org/ZRc

Chapter by Carl Fredrik Söderqvist in 'The Elgar Companion to Regulating Platform Work: Insights from the Food Delivery Sector' Edited by @kurtvandaele.bsky.social and @silviarainone.bsky.social, published by @elgarpublishing.bsky.social Order it here 🔗 www.elgaronline.com/edcollbook/b...

📣 New publication! We're used to hearing about the prevalence of #PlatformWork in the food delivery and ride-hailing sectors 📱 But the platform economy has also been edging into #care and #cleaning, sectors that are of increasing importance as Europe's population ages 👵

Worth reading: Why Slow Decarbonisation Threatens Employment More Than Climate Action, by B. Galgóczi of @etui.bsky.social www.socialeurope.eu/europes-gree...

" Profs usés, écoles en danger" dossier de la revue de @etui.bsky.social avec beaucoup d'articles intéressants, dont un malheureusement d'actualité sur les enseignants & enseignantes LGBTQIA+ www.etui.org/fr/publicati...

www.etui.org/news/not-muc... A very quick tour d'horizon of the challenges for the EU that have built up over the normally quiet summer period.

🎒 It's quite literally 'back to school' for Europe's teachers - but under what kinds of conditions? 🗞️ #HesaMag, the ETUI's health & safety magazine, takes a deep dive into the teaching profession, to understand the many challenges it is currently facing 🔍 Plenty to discover in this issue 🧵👇

📆 One for your post-summer agendas: the first #AItalk of the season! 🔗 etui.org/ZRp

Here's a very good briefing on the 28th regime and its potential threat to workers' rights. @etui.bsky.social

🗨️ Labour law professor Silvia Borelli talks to @equaltimes.bsky.social about substandard working practices in the #logistics sector, which she documents in her recent study for the ETUI, 'Sorry we subcontracted you' 🔗 www.equaltimes.org/subcontracti... Read the full study here 🔗 etui.org/ZRM

"While the green and digital transitions will inevitably lead to job losses, the real danger lies elsewhere. A lack of investment in green technologies risks seeing new low-carbon industrial jobs created outside Europe, leaving the continent behind in the race for clean-tech dominance."

@etui.bsky.social Director @andrewwatteu.bsky.social adds to growing doubts at EU-US 'deal' www.etui.org/news/editori...

📣 New policy brief just out 'How a 28th company law regime jeopardises workers’ rights' 🔗 etui.org/ZRY 🧵👇

Last chance to apply! ⌚

✍ The ETUI's Béla Galgóczi in Social Europe on #GreenJobs 🔗 www.socialeurope.eu/europes-gree...

🚚 Informal employment, particularly in the rapidly expanding #PlatformEconomy, often results in limited or no social security contributions and protection for the workers involved So how can policy frameworks better ensure #SocialProtection for informal workers❓

🌡️📢 A new UN report backs our key demand for mandatory workplace heat risk assessments. Extreme heat is a workplace hazard — and it’s time employers treated it that way.

The 2022 EU #MinimumWageDirective aims to ensure adequate #MinimumWages and strengthen #CollectiveBargaining, in order to reduce in-work poverty and #WageInequality 🧵👇

'È proprio difficile entrare nell’ecosistema digitale, parlare con questi lavoratori, capire chi sono e le loro esigenze' @silviarainone.bsky.social e @casilli.bsky.social intervistati dal 📺 Rai sui lavoratori invisibili dietro l'Intelligenza artificiale 💻 www.youtube.com/watch?v=QE4v...

My latest piece: Protecting data in the EU means protecting an independent EDPS Independence is the foundation of trust in Data Protection Everyone talks about AI, but who protects our data in the EU? An authority that must stay independent My analysis👇🏼 www.computerweekly.com/opinion/Prot...

🚨Just one week left to apply!🚨 Exciting opportunity to work on EU economic policy issues at @etui.bsky.social in Brussels.👇 Don't miss it - the window closes this weekend. #econsky

Last week to apply! ⌛

📣 Job opportunity in Brussels! ⏰ Apply latest by 31 August. 👇

Agnieszka Piasna, Mehtap Akgüç and @wzwysen.bsky.social take a look at the state of play in Europe's #LabourMarkets in Chapter 2 of this year's edition of 'Benchmarking Working Europe' 🔗 etui.org/ZRc

What do the latest Eurostat trade data tell us about the risks to the European economy and jobs from the ongoing #trade and #tariff turmoil? A short 🧵. Spoiler: No drama yet (in June data), but some worrying signs that require policymakers' attention Data: ec.europa.eu/eurostat/en/... 1/8

📆 One for your post-summer agendas: the first #AItalk of the season! 🔗 etui.org/ZRp

Job opportunity 👇 Apply by the end of August! ⌛

What does the EU stand to lose if the #MinimumWageDirective were to be annulled as a result of the case currently before the Court of Justice of the European Union?