ETUC Priorities for the current phase of the European Commission Consultation on the European Pillar of Social Rights, adopted at the ETUC Extraordinary Executive Committee Meeting on 6 September 2016 Working for a Better Deal for All Workers This Position Paper sets out the ETUC’s observations and recommendations on the European Pillar of Social Rights at the halfway point of the consultation process and summarises the ETUC demands under seven priority areas. These are:

ETUC position paper - Orientation for a new EU framework on information, consultation and board-level representation rights  Adopted at the extraordinary ETUC Executive Committee on 13 April 2016 in The Hague and the ETUC Executive Committee on 9 June 2016 in Brussels Background

Brussels, 14 June 2016 update : the French version is available   ETUC Position on Commission’s proposal for  an Investment Court System in TTIP and CETA Adopted at the Meeting of 9 June 2016

Country Specific Recommendations 2016 and role of social partners in the EU Semester (ETUC position) Adopted at the ETUC Executive Committee on 8-9 June 2016   From Country Reports to Country Specific Recommendations

ETUC position on the flexibilities within the Stability and Growth Pact Adopted at the ETUC Executive Committee on 8-9 June 2016   On 13 January 2015, the European Commission released a Communication on “Making the best use of the flexibility within the existing rules of the Stability and Growth Pact”. The Communication was endorsed by the Council in February 2016.

Brussels, 20 June 2016 To the members of the Executive Committee Towards a real and effective Youth Guarantee in Europe Adopted at the Executive Committee of June BACKGROUND

ETUC position on the European Commission’s Anti Tax Avoidance Package Adopted at the Extraordinary Executive Committee on 13 April 2016.  

Brussels 18, 2016  To Excutive Committee Members For Information to ETUC Members Orgaisaitons   New Skills Agenda”: Improving training opportunities for workers in Europe (ETUC position) Adopted at the Meeting of the executive committee on the 13th April 2016

Brussels, 15 April 2016   ETUC position paper Orientation for a new EU framework on information, consultation and board-level representation rights (Part I) Adopted at the extraordinary ETUC Executive Committee on 13 April 2016 in The Hague Background

Dear President, At the end of January, we sent a letter to Vice-President Dombrovskis and Commissioner Thyssen to ask for a social partner consultation regarding the proposed targeted revision of the posting of workers directive.

The COP 21 has delivered a universal agreement which will frame the long term action on climate change. The ETUC welcomes that agreement which concludes a long and complex negotiation process. Giving to the world a global instrument to tackle climate change is a major political breakthrough even though, as stressed below, this agreement is in many respects not as ambitious as we would have wished.

China has been a member of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) since 2001 but it is not recognised as a market economy by any of its major trading partners, including the EU and the US. China's WTO Accession Protocol allowed WTO members not to grant “Market Economy Status” (MES) to China for a period up to 11 December 2016. Not applying MES to China allows the EU to use alternative methods for calculating dumping margins (that apply to Non-Market Economies, NMEs, often based on the higher prices applying in third countries).

ETUC position on single market strategy for Europe    Adopted at the ETUC Executive Committee on 16-17 December 2015 Key points The conflict between the exercise of fundamental rights and economic freedoms and the development of unfair competition in the single market can no longer be ignored. The ETUC recalls the importance of quality jobs, the principle of equal treatment between all workers at the same workplace and urges the EU institutions to adopt a social progress protocol.