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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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,...
AGS – EU needs to do more to boost investment and wages
Commenting on today’s European Commission Annual Growth Survey, Katja Lehto-Komulainen, Deputy General Secretary of the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) said: “It is too early for the EU to celebrate the end of the crisis. The fact is that total investment...
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