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2020-02-01 12:00

As part of its work programme for the year 2020, the European Commission is currently working on an updated Skills Agenda for Europe. In a social partner consultation statement in the context of this update, CESI made concrete suggestions on how the Skills Agenda for Europe can be adjusted to reflect skills requirements in tomorrow’s labour markets while at the same time not losing sight of the task of education systems to educate responsible and open-minded, engaged citizens.

2020-01-30 12:00

On 30 January 2020, CESI kicked off its new EU funded project entitled « PULSER – Performing public services and performing public service personnel for the best possible implementation of the European Pillar of Social Rights » (December 2019-December 2021).

2020-01-30 12:00

On January 30th, the Presidents and Vice-Presidents of CESI’s horizontal Commissions and sectoral Trade Councils – CESI’s specialised internal forums of debate for its member organisations – met in Brussels to discuss their priorities for 2020.

2020-01-29 12:00

On January 29th 2020, CESI and MEP Lukas Mandl hosted a European Defence Round table (EDRT) at the European Parliament.

2020-01-23 12:00

On Wednesday January 29 CESI together with MEP Lukas Mandl will hold a parliamentary breakfast meeting entitled ‘European Defence Roundtable: How to ensure better stakeholder consultation in the context of the future European Defence Union?’ The event is by invitation only.

2020-01-16 12:00

Dear colleagues, members, partners and friends,

The new year has started with quite some punch: On January 14 the European Commission, just six weeks into its new term, presented fresh ideas on how to make Europe more socially just and fair.

2020-01-14 12:00

Today the new European Commission presented its first ideas on how to make Europe more socially just and fair. In an explanatory communication entitled ‘A strong social Europe for just transitions’, the European Commission sets out its social timetable and initiatives for the year ahead, all centrally bundled under the umbrella of the European Pillar of Social Rights. CESI Secretary General Klaus Heeger welcomes the speedy start of the European Commission into the new term.

2020-01-10 12:00

At its meeting on December 12, the Board of CESI approved a membership application of the Romanian USLIP Iaşi trade union, which joins CESI as its 44th member organisation.

2019-12-23 12:00

With the new European Commission engaging in the development on a framework for minimum wages in the EU, CESI’s Presidium adopted a position paper at its meeting on December 11 in order to prepare upcoming social partner consultations.

2019-12-20 12:00

As the Council of Ministers and the European Parliament have adopted their mandates to enter into trilogue negotiations on a new EU directive on transparent and predictable working conditions, the President of CESI’s Employment and Social Affairs Commission, Javier Jordán de Urries Sagarna, calls for an ambitious trilogue agreement.

2019-12-19 12:00

On Wednesday, December 18, CESI’s Trade Council ‘Post & Telecoms’, bringing together CESI’s sectoral telecommunications and postal services trade unions, convened for its last meeting of the year in Brussels. The agenda featured, above all, strategic work on CESI’s position in the current evaluation and potential revision of the EU postal services directive.

2019-12-15 12:00

On the occasion of the beginning of the new EU legislative term, the CESI Presidium adopted a new position paper on ‘The future of work: social protection, decent employment and interest representation’. As a key topic area for both trade unions and the incoming European Commission, the paper is intended to be a basis for further discussion and give impetus and guidance on how to manage employment and labour market in the era of digitalisation and work diversification during the next years.

2019-12-11 12:00

On December 6 2019, at a plenary meeting of the European sectoral social dialogue committee on postal services, its component members -UNI Europa and CESI for the employees and PostEurop for the employers- adopted a joint statement on the review of the EU postal services directive 97/67/EC and a joint declaration on personnel training in the sector.

2019-12-10 12:00

On December 10 the members of the Board of the CESI Youth convened in Brussels in order to set the CESI Youth’s overarching priorities and objectives for the next year.

2019-12-09 12:00

On December 9, the European Policy Centre (EPC) held the closing high-level conference on its CESI-supported project ‘The future of work: Towards a progressive agenda for all’, in conjunction with the publication of a study on the same topic.