With the European Commission’s proposal for public procurement reform expected this year, a recent ruling by the European Court of Justice sends a clear signal: improve legal certainty for public authorities promoting collective bargaining.
En Bruselas he mantenido un encuentro con Esther Lynch para seguir fortaleciendo la Europa social. Defender el Fondo Social Europeo, combatir el dumping laboral y avanzar hacia más derechos y empleo de calidad es clave para el futuro de Europa.
¿Alguien sabe cuánto ha subido el precio del sol desde el ataque a Irán?
UNI Europa joins a broad coalition of Europe’s creative community to call on the European Parliament's Culture and Education Committee to safeguard the rights of authors, performers and creative workers in the age of artificial intelligence.
Every month the United States provides even more reason to boycott its products and companies — the strikes on Iran being just the latest.
In light of that, it’s a great time to ditch the products and services of US tech companies. I made a comprehensive guide to help you.
"Her outlook towards life has improved drastically."
That's what happens when cleaners move from dark and often unsafe nighttime shifts to daytime cleaning.
📽Kevin Abela from General Workers Union (Malta)
Daytime cleaning — the practice of cleaning spaces during daytime hours — doesn't just improve the well-being of cleaners.
Companies, too, can benefit from lower turnover and higher employee engagement.
#SocialEconomy drives the EU forward. 🇪🇺
The latest Eurobarometer shows:
👥 most Europeans see it as key to society’s well-being;
🙌 around 50% have engaged with it in the past 5 years.
Social economy organisations need continuous support, something we have long underlined.
ℹ️ link.europa.eu/cqNTJQ
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Amazon pushes workers to the brink and busts their unions.
It has lined up behind Trumpism and its attack on Europe’s data protections.
And for the last five years, it has evaded any democratic scrutiny.
But yesterday, Amazon faced workers, trade unions and MEPs in the European Parliament.
BREAKING🇬🇧: Heathrow airport cleaners are on strike today.
They challenge low pay, insecure contracts and the growing use of lowest-price procurement in one of Britain’s most profitable transport hubs.
The race to the bottom in procurement must stop.
It has become received wisdom in Brussels and Washington that there is a new “euro-sclerosis”: that the EU economy is lagging the US
This view is wrong
A little primer on the measurement of productivity – and why reports of the economic death of Europe are greatly exaggerated🧵
good analysis on the origins and state of social democracy
🇪🇺 mini-scoop! 🇪🇺
The EU's watchdog is probing whether the European Commission acted secretively in its dealings with industry before launching a series of business-friendly initiatives
www.politico.eu/article/ombu...
"some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily execute civilians" says today's New York Times, continuing their long tradition of whitewashing fascism
Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com
Very soon we will see Big Tech as we see now tobacco. I hope we will do so also on the policy sphere
Von der Leyen failed to mention how the cost-of-living affects workers in private services, the backbone of our economy representing two-thirds of European employment.
The answer is raising wages through collective bargaining. Public procurement reform is the means to achieve that objective.
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BREAKING🇪🇺: After the European Parliament adopted a report on public procurement today, we call on the Commission to ensure that public money is only given to companies whose workers are covered by collective agreements.
Un tecnofetichista, parafraseando a Oscar Wilde, es alguien que conoce el precio de todo y el valor de nada.
Por aquí va la cosa, me parece. Espero poder conseguir pronto el libro
I'm trying to think about how I would have reacted if shown this headline five years ago
🤯"Pretend to be suicidal. Write like a predator."
This is what some Meta content moderators are asked to do—every day.
But @cwuireland.bsky.social & The Global Trade Union Alliance for Content Moderators are organizing and demanding new safety protocols. #TechWorkersRising
✊Join us!
If an Amazon worker would have behaved like this they would have been fired long ago
Amazon did not show up to a European Parliament hearing on working conditions inside its warehouses.
UNI Europa stands in full solidarity with striking workers and our affiliates in Luxembourg – OGBL and LCGB – as they take united strike action tomorrow to defend workers’ rights, secure fair wages and demand engagement with the government and employers.
🎥 now live: European Parliament hearing on working conditions at Amazon
Amazon itself refused to send (sufficiently senior) to the hearing, again.
multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/en/webstream...
@uni-europa.bsky.social @left.eu @eppgroup.bsky.social @socialistsanddemocrats.eu @greens-efa.eu
Cleaners like Hayat have seen their working conditions erode over past decades.
Employers haven't bid for public contracts because of lowest-price competition.
MEPs in the Parliament's IMCO Committee, we all want stronger collective bargaining in public procurement rules – and we want it now.
