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Upcoming on June 8: CESI@noon on the regulation of remote working 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. |
SAVE THE DATE: Summer Days 2022 June 30 & July 1 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) |
CESI exchanges with USLIP to discuss the digital transition of public services 2022-05-20 02:32 On May 20, CESI met USLIP as part of the DiWork project. |
CESI Youth celebrates European VET week by encouraging better education-to-work transitions and early career counselling 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. |
CESI Expert Commission on Education: More investments necessary for quality education 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. |
CESI supports ex-ante social impact assessments in policy-making 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. |
European Pillar of Social Rights Action Plan 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. |
DiWork study: Trade unions and workers must play an open-minded role in digital transitions 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. |
International Nurses’ Day: No health without the health care workforce! 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. |
May Day. Mayday? | Editorial of the Secretary General Klaus Heeger 2022-05-04 10:14 May 1 was the International Workers’ Day – May Day. May Day. Mayday? |
Updated CESI position on an EU Care Strategy 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. |
CESI@home on energy Crisis and Inflation: What impacts on workers & citizens and what consequences for unions? 2022-04-29 12:10 On Friday, April 8, CESI hosted a further edition of its CESI@home event series, this time on the topic of ‘Energy inflation: What impacts on workers & citizens and what consequences for unions?’ It made clear: The purchasing power of workers needs to be maintained, and this requires action far beyond short-term relief measures on high energy prices. |
CESI welcomes new EU initiative to attract skilled labour to the EU 2022-04-28 03:08 On April 27 the European Commission put forward a long-awaited set of measures to attract skills and talent to the EU, including proposals for a revised Single Permit Directive and Long-Term Residents Directive and a Talent Pool to facilitate legal migration and attract skills and talent from around the world. |
Occupational safety first! Making health and safety a fundamental right at work 2022-04-28 08:00 On April 28, the World Health and Safety Day also known as the International Workers’ Memorial Day or the Commemoration Day for Dead and Injured Workers, CESI pays tribute to all workers who have suffered from work accidents, distress and diseases. CESI advocates in favour of making health and safety a fundamental right at work and through its campaigns raises awareness on the importance of occupational safety. |
Ukraine crisis: one month on | Editorial of the Secretary General Klaus Heeger 2022-04-11 01:20 Ukraine crisis: one month on – and what are the consequences for us in Europe? |
