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2022-06-08 09:09

On May 31, CESI’s statutory Expert Commission ‘Public Administration’ (PA) met for the second time this year to discuss the parameters of well-functioning public services in the EU and what advocacy steps are needed for improving their situation.

2022-06-07 04:15

We must strengthen the voice of workers and citizens and involve them in the processes that will determine their future!

2022-06-03 02:37

On June 6, CESI met with French members to discuss about digital transition.

2022-06-02 09:33

In the context of a consultation by the European Commission, CESI has reiterated its longstanding demand for further investments by the EU and the Member States for an improved access to essential services – which must especially target the staff which deliver, often as exposed frontline workers.

2022-06-01 10:36

On June 8, CESI will hold a further edition of its event series CESI@noon, this time focussing on the topic ‘Towards a New Normal: How to Regulate Remote Working?’ Registrations are now open.

2022-06-01 08:11

Two days of interactive workshops and plenary debates brought to you by the European Confederation of Independent Trade Unions (CESI), the Bertelsmann Stiftung and EU Observer (media partner)

2022-05-20 02:32

On May 20, CESI met USLIP as part of the DiWork project.

2022-05-17 04:12

Between May 16-20 2022 the European Commission hosts this year’s European Vocational Skills Week, an annual initiative launched in 2016 to provide stakeholders -among them teachers, students and parents organisations, trainers and social partners- with an opportunity to advocate for better vocational education and training (VET) in Europe.

2022-05-13 07:44

On May 10, CESI’s Expert Commission ‘Education, Training and Research’ (EDUC) convened for its first meeting of the year.

2022-05-13 07:30

In April, the European Commission consulted about a possible promotion by the EU of so-called ex-ante distributional impact assessments in national policy making in order to prevent new legislation from having direct or indirect adverse effects on poverty levels and household incomes. CESI agrees with the objective of the initiative.

2022-05-12 11:50

The Pillar sets out 20 key principles and rights essential for fair and well-functioning labour markets and social protection systems, structured around three chapters: equal opportunities and access to the labour market, fair working conditions, and social protection and inclusion.

2022-05-12 04:41

A new comparative study, commissioned by CESI under its EU co-funded DiWork project to the Lithuanian consultancy Visual Analytics, shows that trade unions and their members must participate constructively in ongoing digital transformations if they do not want to be sidelined and be adversely affected in the process.

2022-05-12 10:22

May 12, the birthday of Florence Nightingale, marks the International Nurses’ Day. CESI’s Expert Commission ‘Health Services’, reunited on May 10 to collectively recognise the inestimable contribution that nurses bring to our societies.

2022-05-04 10:14

May 1 was the International Workers’ Day – May Day.

May Day. Mayday?

2022-04-30 09:49

As the European Commission drafts a long-awaited new EU Care Strategy, including proposals for Council Recommendations on long-term care and on early childhood education and care, CESI has updated its position with priorities on what the Care Strategy should contain for workers and employees in the sector, which it represents at the EU level.