A Space for meeting and reflecting

UGT Unión General de Trabajadores

"Desde UGT rechazamos el informe del Banco de España sobre pensiones donde se las tratan como un activo financiero" Mari Carmen Barrera vía Diario16
https://diario16.com/mari-carmen-barrera-ugt-rechazamos-el-informe-del-banco-de-espana-sobre-pensiones-donde-se-las-tratan-como-un-activo-financiero/ ... See more

European Public Service Unions (EPSU)

Two PSI affiliates, the Beirut Port Syndicate and the Workers Union of the Electricity of Lebanon, were directly hit by the explosion that took place on 4th August - five members of their staff died, two are still missing, and the union buildings were destroyed.

We are extending a PSI call for donations to help re-build the unions and support their members during this incredibly difficult time.

For details: https://www.epsu.org/article/beirut-call-donations-union-staffed-killed-missing-and-injured-offices-destroyed
https://psishort.link/SolidarityLebanon

Your #Solidarity is needed. ... See more

People you may not know about, but probably should

When Frances Perkins was a little girl, she asked her parents why nice people could be poor. Her father told her not to worry about those things, and that poor people were poor because they were lazy and drank. Eventually, she went to Mount Holyoke College, and majored in physics. In her final semester, she took a class in American economic history and toured the mills along the Connecticut River to see working conditions. She was horrified. Eventually, instead of teaching until she married, she earned a masters degree in social work from Columbia University. In 1910, Perkins became Executive Secretary of the New York City Consumers League. She campaigned for sanitary regulations for bakeries, fire protection for factories, and legislation to limit the working hours for women and children in factories to 54 hours per week. She worked mainly in New York State’s capital, Albany. Here, she made friends with politicians, and learned how to lobby.
On March 25th, 1911, Frances was having tea with friends when they heard fire engines. They ran to see what was happening, and witnessed one of the worst workplace disasters in US history. The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire was devastating, killing 146 people, mostly young women and girls. Frances watched as fire escapes collapsed and fireman ladders couldn’t reach the women trapped by the flames. She watched 47 workers leap to their deaths from the 8th and 9th floors.
Poignantly, just a year before these same women and girls had fought for and won the 54 hour work week and other benefits that Frances had championed. These women weren’t just tragic victims, they were heroes of the labor force. Frances at that moment resolved to make sure their deaths meant something.
A committee to study reforms in safety in factories was formed, and Perkins became the secretary. The group took on not only fire safety, but all other health issues they could think of. Perkins, by that time a respected expert witness, helped draft the most comprehensive set of laws regarding workplace health and safety in the country. Other states started copying New York’s new laws to protect workers.
Perkins continued to work in New York for decades, until she was asked by President Elect Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933 to serve as Secretary of Labor. She told him only if he agreed with her goals: 40-hour work week, minimum wage, unemployment and worker’s compensation, abolition of child labor, federal aid to the states for unemployment, Social Security, a revitalized federal employment service, and universal health insurance. He agreed. Similar to what she had worked for in New York, her successes became the New Deal, and changed the country and its workers forever.
So while you may not know her name, you certainly know her legacy. ... See more

Les chantiers de l’Europe post-Covid19, par Stéphane Rodrigues

9 mai 1950 – 9 mai 2020 : soixante-dix ans après la déclaration Schuman qui l’a portée sur les fonts baptismaux, la construction européenne affronte peut-être sa plus grave crise existentielle. L’esprit de solidarité qui la sous-tend est mis à mal. Ses institutions n’ont pas été tout de suite au rendez-vous des défis de la pandémie. L’Union européenne (UE) tente depuis lors tant bien que mal d’apporter une réponse coordonnée et efficace aux conséquences économiques et sociales de ce choc mondial. [ 807 more words ]
https://europagora.eu/les-chantiers-de-leurope-post-covid19-par-stephane-rodrigues-2/ ... See more

9 mai 1950 – 9 mai 2020 : soixante-dix ans après la déclaration Schuman qui l’a portée sur les fonts baptismaux, la construction européenne affronte peut-être sa plus grave crise existentielle… ... See more

European Public Service Unions (EPSU)

Solidarity with Italian Public Service Unions for their national demonstration in Rome tomorrow. We condemn the recent refusal of private health employer associations, Aris and Aiop, to ratify the sector collective agreement that they had endorsed in June ✊
https://www.epsu.org/article/italy-unions-protest-private-health-employers-refusal-ratify-agreement
Fp Cgil Nazionale CISL FP Nazionale UIL FPL Nazionale ... See more

Spi Cgil Nazionale

40 anni fa
85 morti
Oltre 200 feriti
Noi non dimentichiamo!

European Parliament

Parliament cannot accept the EU long-term budget deal as it stands. Find out why 👇🏿

ETUC

#PostedWorkers
Two million Europeans working abroad will begin benefiting from better pay and conditions from today as the revised posted workers directive comes into force.
The revision, once transposed into national law by member states, enshrines the principle that people doing the same work in the same place must receive the same wage.
It should also oblige employers to cover the cost of travel, board and accommodation of posted workers.
https://www.etuc.org/en/pressrelease/two-million-posted-workers-finally-receive-equal-pay ... See more

Guy Verhofstadt

Scandalous decision by Polish government to leave the Istanbul Convention. Violence is not a traditional value. EU and all of its members signed, because Europe stands for human rights, equality and decency.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/world-europe-53538205?__twitter_impression=true ... See more

Le Taurillon

EXCLUSIF : Clément Beaune, Sherpa européen d'Emmanuel Macron, est nommé secrétaire d’État aux affaires européennes.