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CIF/BIT- Torino (Evelin Toth) ; CFDT (Alain VETILLARD) ; DGB (Jens Martens) ; FGTB (Annick Clauwaert); ÖGB (Isabelle Ourny). Trade Union Education & Inequalities.
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CIF/BIT- Torino (Evelin Toth) ; CFDT (Alain VETILLARD) ; DGB (Jens Martens) ; FGTB (Annick Clauwaert); ÖGB (Isabelle Ourny)
Trade Union Education & Inequalities • “Europe and its citizens face an existential threat – the destruction of the European social model. Growing inequality – due largely to a reducing proportion of GDPgoing to wages and attacks on workers’ rights – created the conditions for the global financial crisis, followed by sovereign debt crises and trade imbalances. Most European countries are affected, although in different ways at different times. • Governments and employers across the EU have responded to that crisis by proposing more of what led to it: attacks on collective bargaining; reductions in wages, pensions and social protection; deregulation, liberalisation and flexibility leading to insecure and low value jobs; and privatisation or cuts to public services and the welfare state. Austerity in the public sector and reductions in workers’ living standards are storing up further problems for the future. “
STTK: Leo Juno;TUC: Harry Cunningham; CCOO Antonio Camacho; OPZZ:Małgorzata Dobrowolska- and/or Izabella Panuśäi
European Trade Union Education – Only a matter for ETUI • The Education Department of ETUI is the training arm of the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC). Its activities express the ETUC’s commitment to support and assist all its affiliated confederations and trade union federations throughout Europe. • Trade union education is a key resource strengthening the European trade union movement, building solidarity and shaping a European trade union identity. By making its resources and expertise available to trade union leaders, officers and representatives, ETUI plays a leading role in this collective task and in supporting European Social Dialogue. • ETUI’s dual approach is unique: whilst providing multicultural trade union education activities at the European level, it helps add a European dimension to national level trade union education through its partnerships with the ETUC’s affiliated organisations.