Trade Unions

Over a year after the EU “proclaimed” a series of social rights, little has been done and the initiative risks becoming an empty promise.

An analysis of the possibilities for organised labour in an age of automation and climate change.

Could a proposal to get people actively involved in the green transition trump the basic income?

An interview with Yannick Vanderborght on why trade unions oppose basic income and whether we can expect that to change.

An interview on the 21st-century challenges facing the trade union movement, from energy transition to new forms of work.

Does renewed discussion at EU level present an opportunity to advance social Europe?

Now the economy has overshot key ecological limits, more sustainable social protection systems that do not depend on environmentally destructive forms of work must be found.

Trade unionist Philippe Pochet on changing perspectives on climate change and transition within organised labour and the essential and challenging task of working with Greens.

As digitalisation turns the world of work upside down, Reiner Hoffmann discusses the situation of employees in the future labour market, and the role of the EU and trade unions.

The Labour Party leadership in the UK is over. Confounding the critics and the bookmakers (the odds for Corbyn to win were 100-1 when the campaign began!), the maverick left-winger Jeremy Corbyn has been elected as Labour’s leader, and by a thumping majority!