🇸🇰✊ CETUN stands in full solidarity with Slovak workers and the Confederation of Trade Unions of the Slovak Republic (KOZ SR) against unfair budget cuts. Yet again, workers risk to be forced to carry the heaviest burden while corporations&fortunes remain untouched. www.oegb.at/der-oegb/eur... 🧵👇 1/5

🔴The Quality Jobs Act announced today by President von der Leyen must meet the urgency of the situation facing working people Trade unions have clear tests and, having waited so long for action, will not settle for half measures #SOTEU25 📰 www.etuc.org/en/pressrele...

🇪🇺 Wage gaps. Worker shortages. Social fragmentation. Central Europe needs stronger collective bargaining to tackle these issues, as EU institutions have consistently stressed in various documents and legislative acts. Our new resolution shows how we get there. 👇 🧵1/5

🚨 The 2025 ITUC Global Rights Index is out — and the picture for workers worldwide is grim with Central Europe no exception. 🔗 www.ituc-csi.org/global-right... Governments & employers must be held accountable. Rights are not optional - they’re fundamental. 1/2

🔻 A new bill in #Hungary threatens media and civil society - including trade unions. The “Transparency of Public Life” law could have devastating effects. #MASZSZ, the biggest trade union confederation in 󠁧󠁢󠁷🇭🇺, calls for its withdrawal: maszsz.hu/hirek/222/Vo... Continue reading for more details 👇

🧵1/ 🚨 Public procurement = 14% of the EU’s GDP—over €2.4 trillion/year. Too often, these contracts reward the cheapest bidder, regardless of labour rights, sustainability, or regional development. That has to change. 🛑

Free belarusian trade union activists! Solidarity action in front of ÖGB. #FreeBelarusUnionists #Unionism_NOT_exstremism

Great to link up with colleagues from the Baltic Sea Trade Union Network (BASTUN) at their meeting in Riga - thanks for the warm welcome, invitation and powerful discussions! 🤝🌱 A powerful reminder of what cross-border trade union cooperation can achieve. Stronger cooperation = stronger voices 📣✊

A just 🌱 transition needs more than climate goals. It needs fair wages, strong workers' rights & real social dialogue. Across Central Europe, these foundations are threatened. Join us in Vienna to explore how social dialogue can enable a fair transition. veranstaltung.akwien.at/de/social-di...

In #Munich today a car crashed into a group of @social.verdi.de colleagues demonstrating for better wages. We hope that all injured survive. Our thoughts are with all those directly affected and their families.

The EU Commission has asked the ETUC to endorse the Competitiveness Compass - we cannot do this if it continues to undermine jobs, rights and standards There is a need to create jobs and competitive companies but it’s not workers and their rights which are the problem www.etuc.org/en/pressrele...

A highly controversial opinion was submitted to the Court of Justice of the EU today. ⚠️ It calls for the axing of the Adequate Minimum Wages Directive 🤯 "This opinion, if confirmed, would be a huge blow to working people and their trade unions." www.etuc.org/en/pressrele...

🆘 🚗 The automotive industry is in crisis and Europe needs to respond quickly. We need negotiated plans with genuine efforts to look for alternatives to layoffs and, where necessary, to put in place a moratorium on forced redundancies. news.industriall-europe.eu/Article/1173

💶The minimum wage directive - where are we? This week, the transposition deadline for the Minimum Wage Directive passed, meaning that all EU countries should've taken action, among other things to promote #collectivebargaining The @etuc-ces.bsky.social made a state of play 1/3

The EU must stop pushing for weaker worker protections & public service deregulation in negotiations for a 🇨🇭-EU framework agreement. 🇪🇺 Neighboring countries should NOT have to compromise on labour standards & public services. Read our latest resolution 👉 www.oegb.at/der-oegb/eur...

🤝Inspiration from NFS & BASTUN: Our study trip to Stockholm highlighted the power of regional trade union cooperation & explored: ✅ Nordic model 🇮🇸🇫🇴🇬🇱🇳🇴🇩🇰🇸🇪🇫🇮 ✅ Cross-border union coordination&solidarity ✅ Defending workers' vs MNCs 👉https://t.ly/It1Y3 Tags below ⬇️

🔴 Most European governments failed to meet Friday's deadline to put the minimum wage directive into national law - and some are even working against the aims of the directive www.etuc.org/en/pressrele...

Inspiring discussion on 'enhanced multi-union transnational cooperation', esp. re/ new work challenges. Thanks @etui.bsky.social for spotlighting CEE industrial relations 20y post-EU accession & having us on session 3! Watch the recording at: youtube.com/watch?v=SZaS...

🚨 The EU Adequate Minimum Wages Directive (#AMWD) is a milestone for EU Employment Policy: It is key to fairer wages & more collective bargaining across 🇪🇺. Some Member States will miss today's (15 NOv'24) transposition deadline. Even worse: Some proceed to frankly cynical "transpositions".⬇️ 1/5

It's 20 years since 2004⏱️ This🧵takes stock of past 🇪🇺 enlargement rounds from a CE perspective & draws lessons for the future: Both concerning #EU #convergence & potential #enlargement. 1/16 Read below 👇the key messages from our latest resolution 👉 www.oegb.at/der-oegb/eur...

📢Only 9/27 🇪🇺 member states have >80% collective bargaining coverage. The Adequate Minimum Wages Directive (#AMWD) and @ec.europa.eu aims to remedy this. A timely & faithful transposition must be ensured to reduce 📉differences in 🇪🇺 #wages & get a fair deal for #workers⬇️ www.oegb.at/der-oegb/eur...

In March 2024, CETUN participants reaffirmed their commitment to closer cooperation between trade unions in the region🤝 The launch event emphasised #SocialDialogue as a cornerstone of the European Social Model More at: oegb.at/der-oegb/eur... co-funded by 🇪🇺 @EU_Social 1/4

In 2021, trade unionists from Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Liechtenstein, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Switzerland decided to improve their cooperation in the region and at 🇪🇺 level. 🧱The foundations for a Central European Trade Union Network were laid.🧱