Held as part of CESI’s Europe Academy ‘EcoTra’ project on ‘A smooth and fair ecological transition – for workers, with workers’, the meeting brought together representatives from CESI’s member organsiations interested in the future of work in the context of green transitions.

Together with Frank Siebern-Thomas, Head of Unit for Fair Green and Digital Transitions at the European Commission, the working group held an orientation debate on ‘Green transitions in an era of permacrisis: Reconciling social fairness and economic competitiveness agendas – with workers and unions’ and discussed in this context in particular a possible inclusion of social dialogue and involvement of workers within the governance and implementation of the EU’s forthcoming Critical Raw Materials Act and Net Zero Industry Act.

Members of the working group sketched according work priorities during the next months, and agreed to have first trade union demands ready by the end of June, when CESI will hold the third edition of its SUMMER DAYS that will this year be themed ‘The green economy and new forms of work’.