Brussels, 23/09/2010

Brussels, 06/08/2010 The European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) and the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) in a joint statement declared: “We strongly protest against the arrest of 24 trade unionists on August 3 in Northern Cyprus while demonstrating against the austerity policy and the privatisation projects of the local administration. We call on the authorities to end the policy of anti-union harassment and to return to negotiations and social dialogue”.

Brussels, 23/07/2010

Brussels, 13/07/2010 The Trade Union List version 2.0 includes 334 substances or group of substances ordered by priority, this represents 29 new entries compared to the first version published in March 2009. Most of these substances are identified as causative agents for recognised occupational diseases in the EU countries.

Brussels, 08/07/2010

Brussels, 07/07/2010

Brussels, 07/07/2010 Thank you for the invitation to come along today with my trade union and social partner colleagues. This is an important moment. It’s the worst economic crisis in Western Europe since the Second World War - I do recognise that there have been worse crises in Eastern Europe. The stimulus packages are being withdrawn, austerity is a near universal European fashion, and the fragile recovery is at risk. Governments are following the example of their predecessors in the 1930s.

Brussels, 07/07/2010

Bruxelles, 02/07/2010 The ETUC and its Turkish member organisations today organised a conference on the crisis and workers' rights in Europe. The trade unions used this opportunity to reaffirm the importance of defending quality jobs, combating informal work and respecting trade union rights and fundamental rights.

Brussels, 16/06/2010

Brussels, 15/06/2010 Following the study commissioned by the ETUC, ‘Climate change, new industrial policies and ways out of the crisis’, a new brochure on the subject was presented at a press conference held on 15 June. Joël Decaillon, ETUC Deputy General Secretary, used it to sum up the proposals set out by the ETUC. There is an urgent need for the European Union: - to define coordinated European industrial policies - to promote coordinated global initiatives on research and development and the sharing of scientific knowledge

Brussels, 14/06/2010

Geneva, 14/06/2010 I take the floor to alert this conference to two key European developments. The first concerns the economic crisis. In 2007/8 the leaders of the world avoided the grave errors of their predecessors in 1931. They did not all cut public expenditure at the same time, unlike the President Hoover generation of leaders. Indeed, many introduced stimuli packages. Those actions led to the crisis not descending into a repeat of the Great Depression.