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| Europe's car industry crisis and the future of electrification | 30 sept. 2026 | 00:23:50 | |
A crisis has been building in Europe's automotive industry over the past few years, as it has struggled to adapt to the challenges of Chinese competition and the shift to electromobility. For a sector that employs millions of workers, this is a serious issue - for people's jobs, for Europe's industrial core, and for the green transition as a whole. So let's unpack this complicated relationship between the woes of the car industry and the push for electrification in Europe. How much is the former due to the latter, and why has electrification not happened faster? More fundamentally, what role should EU policy be playing in this delicate balancing act between climate, social and industrial objectives? With me today to do this unpacking are Benjamin Denis, Head of Industrial Policy Coordination at IndustriAll Europe, which is the trade union federation of industrial workers, and Tommaso Pardi, Senior Researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research, Director of GERPISA, the research network on the automotive industry, and contributor to the ETUI's recently published book 'Is ‘electromobility made in Europe’ still possible?' Further reading Is ‘electromobility made in Europe’ still possible? | etui Is Europe on track towards net zero mobility? | etui On the way to electromobility - a green(er) but more unequal future? | etui Heavier, faster and less affordable cars | etui Enough is Enough (IndustriAll Europe campaign on the future of industry and industrial jobs in Europe) | |||
| Working in extreme heat: regulation for a new reality | 19 juil. 2026 | 00:28:45 | |
Europe is the fastest-warming continent on Earth, a reality that all kinds of workplaces need to adapt to. Recent survey evidence tells us that around one in five workers in the EU have reported exposure to extreme heat at work, rising to one in three workers in some southern countries. So this begs the question: does the law do enough to ensure adequate worker protection? And what are the costs of inaction? This episode's guest is Marouane Laabbas-el-Guennouni (ETUI), one of the authors of a new report on the impact of climate change on workers’ health, which looks at how EU legislation can be improved to address the challenge of rising temperatures. Joining us is Ivan Ivanov, political secretary at the European Federation of Food, Agriculture, and Tourism Trade Unions (EFFAT), which represents some of the most vulnerable types of labour when it comes to extreme heat exposure. Further reading Climate change and workers’ health | etui Workers and the climate challenge | etui Heatwaves as an occupational hazard | etui [Mid-episode advert for Unsung: Cleaners, a new podcast from UNI Europa.] | |||
| EU Inc: the risks to workers’ rights | 26 juin 2026 | 00:23:48 | |
EU Inc, otherwise known as the 28th regime, has made a big splash in Brussels recently. In March of this year, the European Commission proposed what it terms a ‘single set of corporate rules across the EU’ that companies – with a particular focus on startups – could opt into rather than having to navigate the myriad of national legal regimes on the continent. It is a flagship policy of the Commission's agenda for a more competitive European economy. The Commission has claimed that the proposed Regulation includes strong safeguards against abuse, but the labour movement has strongly criticised some of the proposal's elements that present a risk to hard-won labour rights in individual Member States and the threat it poses to worker representation in corporate governance. In this discussion, Marcus Meyer-Erdmann and Sara Lafuente, senior researchers at the ETUI specialising in European industrial relations and worker participation, explain what's really at stake here. To dive deeper into the ETUI's ongoing analysis of the 28th regime project, take a look at these two recent policy briefs: How a 28th company law regime jeopardises workers’ rights | etui | |||
| Counter-app (4/4): The Platform Work Directive | 02 avr. 2026 | 00:20:54 | |
The Counter-app series explores how app-based workers can counter the power of their algorithmic bosses. Each episode is based on cutting-edge research by the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) on platform work and how workers are resisting digitised exploitation. In the final episode of this mini-series, journalist and researcher Ben Wray takes a deep-dive into the EU's recent Platform Work Directive, which Member States must transpose into their national legal regimes by December 2026. The episode is based on 'The Platform Work Directive: Trade union guide to transposition', the fourth and final report of the ETUC's Fair Platforms project, a series of manuals on work in the platform economy. Interested in hearing other 'voices on the world of work'? Take a look back at previous seasons of etui.podcast. Acknowledgements Thanks to Martin Willems, Daniel Cruz and Silvia Rainone for their contributions to this episode. Credits GeenStijl (2023). 'Uber Files: "Ruthless greed and state failure", testifies whistleblower Mark MacGann'. Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLjBzIgqVvk Timestamps 00:00 to 01:32: Introduction 1:33 to 04:52: Part 1 - The legal presumption of employment 04:53 to 08:46: Part 2 - Procedural laws 08:47 to 12:19: Part 3 - Intermediaries 12:20 to 14:47: Part 4 - Algorithmic management 14:48 to 20:24: Part 5 - Enforcement 2 0:25 to 20:54: Outro | |||
| Counter-app (3/4): Platform Work is dangerous | 10 mars 2026 | 00:19:08 | |
link: https://www.etuc.org/sites/default/files/publication/file/2026-02/ETUC%20Manual%20OSH.pdf | |||
| Counter-app (2/4): What is Uberisation? | 12 janv. 2026 | 00:23:55 | |
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| Counter-app (1/4): Negotiating the algorithm | 20 nov. 2025 | 00:23:55 | |
The Counter-app series explores how app-based workers can counter the power of their algorithmic bosses. Each episode is based on cutting-edge research by the European Trade Union Confederation on platform work and how workers are resisting digitised exploitation. In this first episode, Ben Wray looks at what algorithmic management is, how it affects workers and what data tools and tactics workers can use to 'negotiate the algorithm'. The episode is based on a trade union manual to Negotiating the Algorithm published by the ETUC in September, which you can download here: https://www.etuc.org/en/publication/fair-platforms-project-thematic-reports Structure
Credits Background music: ‘Embrace’, by Evgeny Bardyuzha (downloaded with a creative commons licence from pixabay.com) Interviews were conducted in-person with Fiachra Ó Luain, Lucie Morpurgo and Daniel Cruz in Nicosia, Cyprus, September 2025. Thanks to all. Ben Wray (2022). ’Data Power in the gig economy: Interview with data expert Jessica Pidoux’. The Gig Economy Project.https://open.spotify.com/episode/0XwcoHYn2FkcmHPU2FQbrU Ben Wray (2022). ‘Algorithms, Work and the European Directive: Interview with James Farrar and Sergi Cutillas’. The Gig Economy Project.https://open.spotify.com/episode/3UEBpCVRN3bRjw14Xu1YGX Sarah Beckmann (2023), ‘The Shipt Calculator: Crowdsourcing Gig Worker Pay Data to Audit Algorithmic Management’. MIT Media.https://www.media.mit.edu/videos/hd-shipt-app-tracker-2023-02-22/ Eric Gardner (2024). 'NEW: We put 7 Uber & Lyft drivers in one room and had them open their apps.’ More Perfect Union.https://x.com/MorePerfectUS/status/1833187863498002850 The Modern Mann (2025). ‘Interview: Revenge Of Gig Worker Armin Samii’. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjgKL7z4Ovw Bethany Staunton, Silvia Rainone (2025). ‘What makes the Platform Work Directive a milestone? (etui.podcast)’. ETUI.https://www.etui.org/news/what-makes-platform-work-directive-milestone-etuipodcast | |||
| Labour relations in today's United States w/ Kayla Blado | 11 juin 2025 | 00:24:09 | |
To close this season, etui.podcast went a little further afield than usual to take a look at the United States labour relations landscape with Kayla Blado, who recently served as Director of Congressional and Public Affairs at the US National Labor Relations Board. In our chat she offered some insights from her experience at the federal agency, into the recent, particularly volatile chapter in US politics, and into the country’s industrial relations system more broadly. Interested in hearing some more of our interviews? Take a look back at this and previous seasons of etui.podcast here. | |||
| Public procurement for the public good w/ Niklas Bruun and Stan De Spiegelaere | 26 mai 2025 | 00:12:23 | |
The European Commission recently launched an evaluation of the 2014 directives which shape the rules around public procurement, the process by which public contracts are put out to tender. Trade unions have called for a revision that ensures the inclusion of criteria based on quality, rather than only price. In particular, they have argued that these rules can be used as a tool to improve labour conditions and promote collective bargaining, rather than allowing some employers to be undercut by those who show less respect for workers’ rights and trade union engagement. Discussion with Niklas Bruun, professor of law at the Hanken School of Economics in Helsinki, about his recent paper for the ETUI on how EU public procurement law can be improved. Stan De Spiegelaere, Director of Policy and Research at UNI Europa, the trade union federation of service workers, lends some further insight into how the current problems play out on the ground. Further reading Promoting collective bargaining in public procurement | etui Collective bargaining and public procurement in Germany | etui | |||
| The fight for Europe’s industrial workforce w/ Judith Kirton-Darling and Ludovic Voet | 15 avr. 2025 | 00:27:50 | |
‘Invest now or deindustrialise’ was the recent, stark warning put to the EU by industrial trade unions. Continued heavy losses in manufacturing jobs over the past decades are now culminating in what has been termed a crisis for European industry and the many workers it employs. But how should this crisis be addressed? Is the European Commission taking the right approach with the recently presented Clean Industrial Deal? And what could a worker-friendly European industrial policy look like today? Discussion with Judith Kirton-Darling, General Secretary of the industrial workers’ federation industriAll Europe, and Ludovic Voet, Confederal Secretary at the European Trade Union Confederation. Further reading Industrial policy for quality jobs and a just transition | etui Benchmarking Working Europe 2024 | etui Green transition and job quality: risks for worker representation | etui Workers and the climate challenge | etui The future of the automotive sector | etui ETUC calls for adequate financing and responsible simplification in the Clean Industrial Deal | ETUC | |||
| What's really behind Europe's labour shortages? w/ Wouter Zwysen | 24 mars 2025 | 00:20:25 | |
Amidst all the current debates in Europe about competitiveness, productivity, migration, and economic transitions – both ‘green’ and ‘digital’ - the ongoing issue of labour shortages has emerged as a major policy concern, intrinsically tied to all of the above. But what are the major factors driving these shortages? Where do we see them the most? And what kinds of solutions would be the most effective? Discussion with ETUI Senior Researcher Wouter Zwysen, author of multiple recent papers on labour shortages, job quality, and workers' bargaining power. Further reading: Labour shortages, job quality and workers’ bargaining power | etui Labour shortages – turning away from bad jobs | etui Monopsony and non-competitive labour markets | etui Benchmarking Working Europe 2024 | etui Wage inequality in Europe | etui Lowering wage inequality through collectively negotiated minima | etui Green transition and job quality: risks for worker representation | etui Industrial policy for quality jobs and a just transition | etui What are governments doing about low-wage employment – and how successful is it? | etui | |||
| ‘Security Europe’ and the socio-environmental agenda w/ Christophe Degryse | 19 févr. 2025 | 00:16:06 | |
Security is the watchword across European politics today. But what is the place for social and environmental policy in a security-conscious, or even security-driven, Europe? And where does the trade union movement fit in? Discussion with ETUI Senior Researcher Christophe Degryse about his recent Foresight Brief, ‘What if? A socio-environmental agenda in a 'security Europe'?’ Further reading What if? A socio-environmental agenda in a 'security Europe'? | etui Rethinking social protection in the green transition | etui Industrial policy for quality jobs and a just transition | etui Social policy in the European Union: state of play 2023 | etui | |||
| Working time: rethinking the norm w/ Agnieszka Piasna | 16 déc. 2024 | 00:23:42 | |
The standard 40-hour work week has been around for a while now as our full-time norm. But in recent times, debates about working time reduction appear to have been making somewhat of a comeback – particularly in the form of the 4-day week idea. Is it time to rethink our working time norms? And what role is the labour movement playing in this debate? Discussion with Agnieszka Piasna, ETUI Senior Researcher and co-author of the paper ‘Negotiating working time reduction’. Further reading Negotiating working time reduction | etui ‘Winning back our time’, in HesaMag#29, Navigating the AI revolution | etui Friday on my mind - Working time in the manufacturing sector | etui | |||
| 20 years after: industrial relations in central and eastern Europe w/ Vera Scépanović | 13 nov. 2024 | 00:22:26 | |
An anniversary can be a good occasion for reflection. 20 years ago, in 2004, eight central and eastern European countries joined the European Union. Followed by the accession of Bulgaria and Romania in 2007 and Croatia in 2013, these successive enlargements nearly doubled the number of EU Member States. And they came with many hopes for economic and social cohesion, as well as for strengthened industrial relations in the region. So to what extent have these hopes been met? Discussion with Vera Scépanović, lecturer in International Relations and European Studies at Leiden University and co-editor of Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, the ETUI’s quarterly journal published by Sage Publishing. This conversation is based on the issue of Transfer, ‘20 years after: perspectives on industrial relations in Central and Eastern Europe 20 years after the EU enlargement’. | |||
| What makes the Platform Work Directive a milestone? w/ Tea Jarc and Silvia Rainone | 19 sept. 2024 | 00:29:59 | |
This year, after a long and embattled process, the EU adopted new rules to improve working conditions on digital labour platforms, particularly regarding employment status and the use of algorithmic management. The European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) has called the 2024 Platform Work Directive ‘a policy milestone’ and ‘a testament to the resilience of collective efforts’. Discussion with Tea Jarc, ETUC Confederal Secretary, and Silvia Rainone, ETUI Senior Researcher, about what exactly is in the Directive, what it took to get it passed, and what it means for the millions of people working through digital platforms today. Further reading The EU Platform Work Directive | etui Inevitable, vulnerable, unprofitable: an inquiry into food delivery platforms in Europe | etui Digital labour platforms and migrant workers | etui Exercising workers' rights in algorithmic management systems | etui Juggling online gigs with offline jobs | etui Collective bargaining in the platform economy | etui | |||
| Burnout: time for a diagnosis w/ Evangelia Demerouti | 27 août 2024 | 00:20:13 | |
The term ‘burnout’ has become a common one in recent times. But are we clear on what it really means and, even more importantly, exactly what causes it? The World Health Organization recently recognised it as an ‘occupational phenomenon’. So what should organisations be doing to prevent burnout or, at the very least, to address it when it does occur amongst their employees? Discussion with Evangelia Demerouti, Professor of Work and Organizational Psychology at the Eindhoven University of Technology and co-author (with Niels Adaloudis) of the recent ETUI report ‘Addressing burnout in organisations’. Further reading Addressing burnout in organisations | etui Psychosocial risks: a mounting crisis | etui Psychosocial risks in the healthcare and long-term care sectors | etui | |||
| Where next for EU social policy? w/ Bart Vanhercke and Sotiria Theodoropoulou | 16 juil. 2024 | 00:24:06 | |
Recent years have arguably seen a ‘social turn’ in EU policymaking, with initiatives on minimum wages, pay transparency, platform work, corporate due diligence, and health and safety coming to fruition, amongst many others. But in this moment of political change and uncertainty, can this 'social paradigm shift' be sustained? Guests Bart Vanhercke, ETUI Research Director, and Sotiria Theodoropoulou, Head of Unit for 'European economic, employment and social policies', discuss the current state of play. Further reading: Benchmarking Working Europe 2024 | etui Social policy in the European Union: state of play 2023 | etui Industrial policy for quality jobs and a just transition | etui Is the European Green Deal really leaving no-one behind? | etui | |||
| The future of Social Europe with Maarten Keune | 07 sept. 2023 | 00:17:22 | |
The resurgence of the social dimension of the EU raises a number of questions: in what way and to what extent has the EU social dimension indeed been strengthened since the adoption of the EPSR? To what extent are newly adopted social policies actually likely to contribute to improving people’s lives, and in particular the lives of those who face precarious working or living conditions? What explains the broad political support of the centre-left and centre-right for this social turn? | |||
| Regulating AI at work with Valerio De Stefano and Virginia Doellgast | 30 juin 2023 | 00:34:42 | |
AI is now widely used to automate business processes and replace labour-intensive tasks while changing the skill demands for those that remain. How are AI-based tools deployed to monitor worker conduct and to automate HR management processes? Through the dual lens of comparative labour law and employment relations research, our guest investigate the role of collective bargaining and government policy in shaping strategies to deploy new digital and AI-based technologies at work. More about the special issue: https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/trsa/29/1 | |||
| A house of dignity for domestic workers in Europe with Maddalena Colombi, Aude Cefaliello and Grace Papa | 11 juin 2023 | 00:16:05 | |
There are almost 2.6 million domestic workers in Europe working in private homes or others. Though representing a huge and vital workforce, their economic and social contribution has often been denied and they are longing for recognition. Although domestic workers are finally enjoying more social rights, trade unions have a key role to play to achieve improved working conditions for domestic workers within and across borders. | |||
| What is happening in the world of work? with Nicola Countouris and Sotiria Theodoropoulou | 07 avr. 2023 | 00:12:17 | |
How can the European Union steer a course towards long-term social and ecological well-being in the context of incessant emergencies? Two decades of perpetual crisis management have greatly eroded Europe’s capacity to pursue a sustainable future, as considerations of short-term expediency continue to hamper the four necessary transitions – green, digital, geopolitical and socio-economic. Find out more in Benchmarking Working Europe 2023 | |||
| What are eco-social policies? with Philippe Pochet & Béla Galgóczi | 15 mars 2023 | 00:08:37 | |
Until recently, the discussion of social welfare systems in Europe was disconnected from ecological concerns and policies. The relevant objectives, instruments and actors were largely different. Environmental and climate science, on the one hand, and the analysis and theoretical foundations of welfare systems, on the other, emerged and developed in disparate silos. While the welfare state was designed to reduce social risks and ensure (relative) stability of income and societies, it was also created as an institution that favours economic growth and the maintenance of income and consumption. Its aim was not to change behaviour but to maintain it, with a focus on redistribution. With environmental inequalities increasingly embedded in social ones, environmental policies are becoming social policies, and vice-versa. | |||
| How should we think about modern capitalism? with Lucio Baccaro, Mark Blyth, and Jonas Pontusson | 20 févr. 2023 | 00:28:02 | |
Advanced capitalist societies seem to limp from one existential crisis to the next, becoming ever more fragile and unstable. Yet the dominant theoretical frameworks in political economy view capitalism as fundamentally stable or, at most, subject to incremental change. Baccaro, Blyth and Pontusson emphasise the diversity of capitalist trajectories or, rather, growth models. | |||
| The EU adequate minimum wages directive with Esther Lynch and Torsten Müller | 21 sept. 2022 | 00:19:01 | |
One should be careful using the word ‘historic’. But in the case of the directive on adequate minimum wages in the European Union it might actually be appropriate. Minimum wage directive boost to struggling workers Energy now costs month’s wages for low paid EU confirms prices not wages driving inflation The European minimum wage on the doorstep - Torsten Müller & Thorsten Schulten Minimum-wages directive—history in the making - Torsten Müller & Thorsten Schulten | |||
| Trade unions, unemployment benefits and labour market outsiders with Daniel Clegg and Elke Heins | 12 sept. 2022 | 00:24:06 | |
Even in Continental Europe, trade unions are the most powerful voice defending outsiders in welfare state politics, and reducing their institutional power in unemployment insurance and elsewhere will likely make things worse for outsiders and not – as certain political leaders in these countries often imply – make things better. Unemployment benefit governance, trade unions and outsider protection in conservative welfare states - Daniel Clegg, Elke Heins, Philip Rathgeb | |||
| How is AI impacting our lives? with Hamid Ekbia and Nicola Countouris | 04 août 2022 | 00:10:58 | |
In this episode, you will be hearing a conversation between Hamid Ekbia and Nicola Countouris on AI, the concept of Heteromation and how artificial intelligence is impacting and will impact our (working) lives. This episode is part of the Reconstruction Beyond the Pandemic Project. | |||
| Psychosocial risks in Europe with Aude Cefaliello | 11 juil. 2022 | 00:15:20 | |
What are psychosocial risks? PSRs are increasingly impacting all industries in every Member State. The effects of psychosocial risks can be long-lasting and have both physical and psychological impacts on workers’ lives (such as depression, musculoskeletal disorders or burnout). Find out more: https://www.etui.org/publications/psychosocial-risks-europe https://www.etui.org/sites/default/files/2021-12/01-ETU%20BM2021-Chap5-Occupational%20health%20and%20safety%20inequalities%20in%20the%20EU_1.pdf | |||
| Covid-19 and the world of work with David Natali | 04 juil. 2022 | 00:17:44 | |
This episode with David Natali (Professor of Comparative and EU politics at the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies) addresses some of the key questions stemming from the pandemic. The magnitude of the crisis, in terms of both its impact on health and well-being, and its consequences on economic prospects, is enormous. The massive spread of the virus, higher mortality rates, lockdowns and the huge decline in economic activity in 2020 all seemed to bode ill for our future. | |||
| European social citizenship: what does the public think? with Marius Busemeyer and Gianna Eick | 25 avr. 2022 | 00:18:32 | |
What type of European social citizenship does the public across the European Union (EU) prefer on the national- and EU-levels? This episode looks into the development of public opinion towards European social citizenship from 1985 to the present from a birds-eye perspective. Further readings: 35 years of public opinion surveys and European social citizenship: What can we conclude? Welfare chauvinism across benefits and services | |||
| The platform economy in Europe with Wouter Zwysen and Jan Drahokoupil | 11 avr. 2022 | 00:29:01 | |
The pandemic seems to have accelerated the expansion of all kinds of platform work and at the same time, platform work is being increasingly associated with difficult working conditions, health and safety risks, and inadequate levels of income for those that rely on it as a source of living. This podcast episode will shed light on some of the key insights from the second wave of the Internet and Platform work survey conducted in fourteen EU countries in Spring 2021. | |||
| Re-emerging social ambitions in EU policy making? with Bart Vanhercke and Slavina Spasova | 22 mars 2022 | 00:28:38 | |
The European Union is currently fighting on two main fronts, Covid-19 and climate change, though with skirmishes elsewhere – including migration and the rule of law. While science seems to be slowly gaining the upper hand in the fight against the pandemic, despite setbacks like the latest Omicron attack, Covid-19 continues to hold global society in its grip. But the second nut is even harder to crack. Climate change is rolling out its forces, in the form of floods, droughts, tornados and hurricanes, and striking indiscriminately. Vanhercke, Spasova et al. (2022) Social policy in the European Union: state of play 2021 Sabato et al. (2022) A ‘Social Imbalances Procedure’ for the EU | |||
| Quo vadis, Social Europe? with Caroline de la Porte, Maurizio Ferrera and Philippe Pochet | 15 févr. 2022 | 00:25:36 | |
In this episode, we had the pleasure of interviewing Caroline de la Porte (Copenhagen Business School), Maurizio Ferrera (Università degli Studi di Milano) and Philippe Pochet (ETUI) on the recent developments in EU Social Policy. The discussion stems from their recent contribution to Transfer. In the second half of the episode, we had the pleasure to talk to Hyojin Seo, the winner of Transfer's young scholar award and her article on labour market segmentation. Social Europe 2.0? New prospects after the Porto Social Summit - Maurizio Ferrera Opening up the Pandora’s Box of EU Social Rights - Caroline de la Porte | |||
| A conversation with Nobel Prize winner, Klaus Hasselmann and Susanne Hasselmann-Barthe on climate change and climatology | 18 nov. 2021 | 00:12:46 | |
In this episode, we had the honour of discussing with pioneer climate activist in science: Klaus Hasselmann, who laid the foundations for linking climate change to human-made CO2 emissions and has been very recently awarded a Nobel Prize in Physics. Show notes: Klaus Hasselmann und Luisa Neubauer, Kriegen wir das hin? (Zeit online) Hasselmann et al. Reframing the Problem of Climate Change - From Zero Sum Game to Win-Win Solutions | |||
| Why is the ETUI’s Education department learning approach unique? with Gabriela Portela | 25 oct. 2021 | 00:16:58 | |
The ETUI Education department offers a wide range of high-quality training on key competencies and skills to European Trade Union members. The end goal? Strengthening and expanding the labour movement. More info: www.etui.org/education | |||
| Do trade unions and industrial relations effectively reduce inequality? with Lisa Dorigatti and Roberto Pedersini | 13 oct. 2021 | 00:24:05 | |
Inequality has been a growing concern in recent years. The internationalisation of production and markets, the rampant financialisation of the economy, the deregulation of labour markets, and the retrenchment of welfare systems are only some of the factors that have been feeding into increased inequality in terms of income, property, job security, and working and living conditions. The weakening of industrial relations institutions has also been regarded as part of this broad picture since trade unions and collective bargaining have usually been considered as vehicles of fairness and capable of reducing or at least containing inequality. This podcast episode revolves around Transfer's issue on Industrial relations and inequality and intends to contribute to this strand of research by investigating the analytical premises and the empirical evidence of such claims. The issue can be viewed here: https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/trsa/27/1 | |||
| The creative industry & Covid-19 with Valeria Pulignano | 08 juil. 2021 | 00:20:26 | |
The Covid‑19 pandemic is still causing tremendous human suffering, with serious and long-term implications for people’s health, wellbeing and quality of life as well as for the economy, work and employment overall. In this episode, we will be exploring together with Valeria Pulignano how millions of workers especially in the creative industries have been vulnerable to layoffs and income loss. Valeria Pulignano et al.'s publication can be downloaded here: https://www.etui.org/publications/creative-labour-era-covid-19 | |||
| (How) can international trade union organisations be democratic? with Richard Hyman and Rebecca Gumbrell-McCormick | 31 mai 2021 | 00:40:17 | |
International trade union organisations, like unions at national level, commonly affirm their commitment to internal democracy. But what does this mean? We will be discussing this with two academic giants, Richard Hyman and Rebecca Gumbrell-McCormick. Find out more in Rebecca's and Richard's latest article in Transfer: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1024258920938499 | |||
| What can we learn from Alphabet workers? with Stan De Spiegelaere | 01 avr. 2021 | 00:13:09 | |
In this episode of etui.podcast we will explore the whys and the hows of the Alphabet workers and what this experience means for the wider trade union movement. Show notes: Trabsfer article by Stan De Spiegelaere on transnational trade unionism & the Ryanair case https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1024258920921106 De Tocqueville was right about trade unions: they are the schools of democracy https://medium.com/@ETUI_org/trade-unions-the-schools-of-democracy-93caa690ef71 | |||
| EU Social policy - state of play with Bart Vanhercke | 24 mars 2021 | 00:23:58 | |
Despite a spectacular economic reaction to the pandemic crisis, which stands in stark contrast to the austerity-driven response to the 2008 financial and economic crisis, Bart Vanhercke and the co-authors of Bilan Social express concerns about the so-called ‘social affairs players’ being sidelined in the new Recovery and Resilience Facility, the fuzzy EU commitment to gender issues, the EU response to rising in-work poverty and the setting a new social-ecological contract. The pandemic's longer-term economic consequences are not clear at this stage. No one can exclude that a real social crisis will quickly follow the vaccination campaign in the headlines. For the time being, however, it’s the unprecedented –and unexpected coordinated response by the EU’s and its 27 Members States and the European Commission that stands out. The EU’s response indeed contributed to mitigate the impact on unemployment (compared to the rest of the world) and demonstrated that the EU can react quickly and forcefully. | |||
| The EU pay transparency directive with Kalina Arabadjieva | 15 mars 2021 | 00:16:01 | |
The EU Commission has recently released a proposal for a directive on equal pay. Kalina Arabadjieva will unpack the flaws of such a proposal and spell out why women are still, on average, paid less than men. | |||
| Benchmarking Working Europe, the impact of a pandemic with Romuald Jagodzinski | 28 janv. 2021 | 00:14:00 | |
In this episode, Romuald Jagodzinsk, points out the main takeaways of the 20th-anniversary issue of Benchmarking Working Europe. The Covid-19 pandemic, and the ensuing economic recession, has proved to be the harshest of ‘stress tests’ for the European Union, probing policymakers’ ability and willingness to emerge from this new crisis without repeating the mistakes of the past. | |||
| European economic policy developments during Covid-19 with Sotiria Theodoropoulou | 18 nov. 2020 | 00:32:29 | |
In this episode, Sotiria Theodoropoulou sheds light on the economic developments in Europe since the onset of possibly the deepest recession in European history. The analysis will contextualize the economic and social challenges of member states and provide a preliminary analysis of the autumn package and the economic policy priorities of the EU. | |||
| How Covid-19 has impacted workers in the healthcare sector with Paula Franklin | 10 nov. 2020 | 00:18:28 | |
In this episode, Paula Franklin, Senior Researcher at the ETUI will shed light on how the Covid-19 has heightened and amplified the pre-existing cracks in the healthcare sector, imposing difficult working conditions for (female) health workers. | |||
| Nicola Countouris: Covid-19 and the world of work, an overview | 21 oct. 2020 | 00:17:55 | |
In this episode, the ETUI's new Research Director, Nicola Countouris, sheds light on the importance of research for strengthening the trade union movement, the short term and long term goals for the Institute's research department, and provides insights on how the pandemic has hit the EU labour markets after decades of deregulation and austerity. | |||
| Episode #11 with Ludovic Voet, migrant workers and COVID19, trade unions in action | 08 juin 2020 | 00:19:53 | |
In this episode we talk with Ludovic Voet, Confederal Secretary of the European Trade Union Confederation (www.etuc.org) about the overlooked theme in this current health crisis, which is the migration and refugee crisis and the role trade unions in Europe are playing.
All migrant workers, and particularly the undocumented, are among the least protected. This was true before the crisis, but the health and economic crisis, has acerbated inequalities. We’ve seen some positive reactions to protect and include migrants in Portugal, where the government has said that it will Grant Migrants and Asylum Seekers Full Citizenship Rights During COVID-19 Outbreak and also the case of Italy, where there is a proposal to regularise migrant workers working in the food and agricultural sector. (https://www.etuc.org/en/document/overlooked-migrant-workers-covid-19-crisis)
The www.unionmigrantnet.eu portal offers services and information in different languages, and real-time advice from experts. The network also provides a forum for cross-border exchange of best practice.
For more information on the European Commission proposal on a new pact for Asylum and Migration, due to release later this year (2020) https://www.europarl.europa.eu/legislative-train/theme-promoting-our-european-way-of-life/file-a-new-pact-on-migration-and-asylum
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| Episode #10 with Torsten Müller and Thorsten Schulten, short-time work and Covid19, is this the new normal? | 26 mai 2020 | 00:31:35 | |
At the end of April 2020, in the EU27 there were more than 42 million applications for support for workers on short-time work or similar schemes. This corresponds to almost 27 percent of all employees. If one includes the United Kingdom and Switzerland, the number of applications for short-time work rises to more than 50 million. Dr. Torsten Müller of ETUI and Prof. Dr. Thorsten Schulten, head of the WSI collective agreements archive talk about their recent study on "Ensuring fair Short-Time Work - a European overview" in a conversation with Elisa Bruno of the ETUI. | |||
| Episode #9 with Jan Drahokoupil, COVID19 and platform workers, what rights and protections? A look into Czechia | 18 mai 2020 | 00:24:40 | |
In this episode we look at the struggle of platform workers during the COVID19 pandemic with Jan Drahokoupil, senior researcher at the ETUI. From the issue of health and safety at the workplace to the recent strikes in the Amazon factories in the US and in Europe, Jan talks us through what the EU is doing in this field. Before the Covid19 crisis: estimates on the extent of platform work (according to ETUI) found that a significant share of the population in Europe has some experience with platform work, but it probably did not exceed 20% of adults by 2019 (https://www.etui.org/Publications2/Working-Papers/Digital-labour-in-central-and-eastern-Europe-evidence-from-the-ETUI-Internet-and-Platform-Work-Survey). Finally, Jan talks to us about his role as a Member of the Economic advisory board of the Crisis response team of the Czech government. We get to know what is the Czech Republic doing to fight the crisis and sustain its economy and workers. | |||
| Episode #8 (EN) with Aída Ponce Del Castillo, privacy in times of COVID19, the case of contact-tracing applications | 11 mai 2020 | 00:32:17 | |
In the 8th episode of etui.podcast, Aída Ponce Del Castillo, senior researcher at the ETUI talks with Elisa Bruno (ETUI) about her recent policy brief on Covid-19 and contact-tracing apps (https://www.etui.org/Publications2/Policy-Briefs/European-Economic-Employment-and-Social-Policy/Covid-19-contact-tracing-apps-how-to-prevent-privacy-from-becoming-the-next-victim). The topic of contact-tracing with apps emerged very early in tackling the pandemic in the Asian countries and it was rapidly implemented in Singapore and South Korea. We get to talk about the implementation of contact-tracing apps in Europe, at government and at the company level, and the implications on the privacy of citizens and workers. Trade unions should be at the forefront in trying to assess and negotiate the use of contact-tracing apps at the workplace. Aida gives very hand-on indications on what unions can do to protect workers from live in a surveillance work-environment.
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| Episode #7 (EN) with Silvia Rainone, COVID19 with a little help from the EU and the case of Italy | 07 mai 2020 | 00:44:38 | |
In the 7th episode, Silvia Rainone, legal researcher, in conversation with Elisa Bruno (ETUI) about the EU recovery plans and the different instruments put in place at EU level to save the economy and the labour market following the coronavirus outbreak. This episode gives a detailed overview from the resercher's perspective of all the instruments the EU has deployed to help Member States during the pandemic, and it digs into the implications on the world of work and labour law.
Don't miss the important facts at the end of the podcast when the discussion turns around Italy, Silvia describes the measures taken at national level, their impact on the world of work and the role of the trade union movement in the Italian case.
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| Episode #6 (FR) avec Philippe Pochet, Quatre scénarios pour l'avenir de l'Europe après la crise | 03 mai 2020 | 00:28:20 | |
Philippe Pochet (directeur général de l'ETUI, Institut syndical européen) discute avec Mehmet Koksal et développe ses arguments sur les quatre scénarios pour l'avenir de l'Europe après la crise. L'article est disponsible en EN sur Four scenarios for Europe’s future after the crisis - https://www.socialeurope.eu/four-scenarios-for-europes-future-after-the-crisis et prochainement en FR sur Alternatives économiques Le coup de coeur de Philippe Pochet: Les routes de la soie [The Silk Roads] de Peter Frankopan | |||