Carmen Jaffke from CESI’s Luxembourgish member union CGFP will be a full member in the Board of Administration, Eva Fernández Urbón from CESI’s Spanish member union CSIF will serve as alternate. The mandates run until 2025 when new elections will take place.

CESI has been a member of the EWL since 2006. Carmen Jaffke was already a member and alternate in the EWL Board of Administration prior to 2021, now coming back to an official position within the EWL and replacing Kirsten Lühmann from CESI’s German member organisation dbb, who did not run again. Eva Fernández Urbón enters her second mandate as alternate. Both Carmen Jaffke and Eva Fernández Urbon have an extensive track record as trade unionists and supporters of gender equality and women’s rights.

In Luxembourg, Carmen Jaffke is a member of the Executive Committee of the CGFP and has been President of the Equality Law Commission of the CGFP since 2007. Within CESI, she has been a long-serving Vice-President of the statutory horizontal Commission on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality.

Eva Fernández Urbon has been National Secretary for Equality and Social Responsibility at CSIF, the Spanish Central Independent and Public Employees’ Trade Union, and a member of the union’s National Executive Committee since 2019. She has been working on women’s rights and gender equality as a trade unionist for the past fifteen years, and, in 2021, was elected President of CESI’s statutory horizontal Commission on Employment and Social Affairs.

CESI Secretary General Klaus Heeger said: “I am glad that CESI continues to be represented in the EWL, Europe’s chief voice of women’s rights. As highly competent and experienced trade unionists in the field, Carmen and Eva will bring the important voice of independent trade unions to the EWL. For CESI, gender equality and equal opportunities are a central element of today’s society, and in labour markets in particular.”

The names of all elected Board of Administration members will sooon be available on the website of the EWL. The General Assembly on June 10-11 also saw the election of the EWL Executive Committee and its new President. Further details will be available here.