The ETUC Semester Toolkit is a work environment dedicated to Trade Union Semester Liaison Officers (TUSO) for coordination and advocacy of trade union positions throughout the European Semester at EU and national level.
The ETUC Semester Toolkit serves the ETUC objectives in the EU Semester which include fight austerity, support sustainable and social investment, empower trade unions.
anti austerity action
Providing inputs, idea and actions that promote reforms and policy priorities that aim at social progress and upward convergence of working and living conditions, in opposition to a reformed Stability and Growth Pact which leads to austerity-driven reforms.
Investments for sustainability and quality jobs
Providing inputs for investments using social and environmental criteria such as environmental sustainability, social inclusion, employment creation and quality jobs, in opposition to criteria that gives priority to fiscal or macroeconomic sustainability.
Trade union involvement and capacity building
Establishing plans and solidarity measures to ensure that trade union involvement is ensured at European level under the ETUC coordination and, with equal opportunities for all ETUC members, in all member states.
CAPACITY BUILDING
- Continuous training for TUSLO (in cooperation with ETUI)
- ETUC index for sustainable growth and social convergence (#EUSDG8 index)
- RETHINKING. High-level dialogues to reshape our development model pursuing social and environmental sustainability
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Our Future Europe – Proposals
Trade union demands for a fairer economic governance: 4 debates to adapt the economic governance of the EU to the European Pillar of Social Rights (EPSR) and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) of the UN2030 Agenda Debate 1: Quality of public services and...
EPSCO Conclusions meeting 15 March
The EPSCO Ministers met on 15 March 2019. They held a policy debate on the European Semester 2019, based on a Presidency steering note entitled "The European Pillar of Social Rights – an initiative for improving the functioning of the labour market and social...
Country Reports 2019 published
To have access click the botton on the timeline on your left. Commenting on European Commission’s ‘European Semester Winter Package’, Katja Lehto-Komulainen, Deputy General Secretary of the European Trade Union Confederation said: “The ETUC welcomes the...
A new start for social dialogue needs a change of pace in trade union involvement in economic governance
The ETUC TU-I index below shows the involvement of trade unions at the milestones of the semester cycle at national level. It is still largely unsatisfactory. Despite the commitment of the Juncker Commission to a new start for social dialogue in recent years,...
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