Kurt Vandaele
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Kurt Vandaele
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Researcher ETUI, PhD #TradeUnions #IndustrialAction #platformEconomy #PoliticalEconomy of #LowCountries
Download publications here: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kurt-Vandaele
Europa Endlos; I'm so bored with the U.S.A. .. more

Political science 46%
Education 15%
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The Elgar Companion to Regulating Platform Work, co-edited with @silviarainone.bsky.social, is now available @elgarpublishing.bsky.social @etui.bsky.social
Thanks to the authors for their insights on app-based food delivery!

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#GigEconomy #FoodForThought
The Elgar Companion to Regulating Platform Work
‘Bringing together leading voices, this Companion offers a critical and forward-looking analysis of how to regulate the industry''s impact on work and workers. With insightful case studies and expert ...
www.e-elgar.com

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🔍 A new ETUI policy brief, co-authored by Ioannis Katsaroumpas, ETUI senior researcher, compares protections from detriments short of dismissal across 9 European countries, and shows how the UK risks remaining at the restrictive end, even after the Employment Rights Act.

Read it here🔗 etui.org/4ZS

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Open brief van BTB Voorzitter Frank Moreels - Flexi-jobs zijn geen hefboom, maar een systeem dat vaste jobs doelbewust ondergraaft. www.demorgen.be/meningen/fl...
Flexi-jobs zijn geen hefboom, maar een systeem dat vaste jobs doelbewust ondergraaft
Frank Moreels is voorzitter van de Belgische TransportBond BTB-ABVV. Hij schrijft een open brief aan Bart Buysse, de gedelegeerd bestuurder van ondernemersorganisatie Unizo.
www.demorgen.be

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'When trade unions learn to innovate: case study evidence from across Europe'

🔍 This chapter by Christian Lyhne Ibsen, University of Copenhagen, analyses and discusses two innovative organising cases in 3F (the General Workers’ Union), the largest trade union in Denmark.

📕 etui.org/Z9S
This is a great piece on Trump's near-destruction of the National Labor Relations Board. (And I'm betting they don't let the Acting GC go on-the-record about anything after his performance here. Kudos to @msainato.bsky.social for a very effective interview.) www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘A very hostile climate for workers’: US labor movement struggles under Trump
National Labor Relations Board, the federal watchdog for workers’ rights, has been rendered toothless as employees grapple with corporations
www.theguardian.com

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'When trade unions learn to innovate: case study evidence from across Europe'

🔍 This chapter analyses two cases of policy innovation involving novel types of union-building projects within the General Confederation of Labour.

📕 Download or order a copy of the book 🔗 etui.org/Z9S

Lees de meer gedetailleerde studie hier: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

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Boeiend stuk van Luc Cortebeeck over het sociaal overleg. Een beetje historiek is altijd goed om het heden mee te verklaren en de toekomst -met sociaal overleg- vorm te geven. www.demorgen.be/meningen/luc...
Luc Cortebeeck: ‘Het wegduwen van sociaal overleg is bedreigend voor de democratie’
Luc Cortebeeck is ervaringsdeskundige sociaal overleg, gewezen voorzitter van het ACV en oud-voorzitter van de Raad van Bestuur Internationale Arbeidsorganisatie. Hij betreurt het verdwijnen van het s...
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How can trade unions boost their membership numbers again?

🗞️ Read a new article by @kurtvandaele.bsky.social in @sampolmaandblad.bsky.social, analysing what innovations Belgian unions can introduce to reverse the downward trend & strengthen their role in a changing world of work.

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Hoe kunnen vakbonden hun ledenaantallen weer opkrikken?
Decennialang was België de uitzondering op de dalende syndicalisatiegraad, maar nu niet meer. Welke innovaties kunnen vakbonden uit de neerwaartse spiraal trekken?
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🗣️ ETUC General Secretary, Esther Lynch, stressed how renewal is also about narrative. It’s about crafting a modern, unifying story of working people. "The fundamental building block towards trade union renewal is to build a unified story of working people in which everyone stands up for one other."

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Participants highlighted how innovation isn't an isolated act but a strategic mindset: a way of designing, implementing, and scaling ideas that respond to today’s realities. 🤝

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👉 During this joint ETUI–CRIMT event, leading scholars and trade union practitioners from Europe and North America came together to share concrete examples of unions experimenting with new approaches, strengthening capacity, and developing diverse pathways to #renewal.
How can trade unions innovate & stay strong in a changing world?

📚 Last week's launch of two ETUI publications, 'Experimenting for Union Renewal: Challenges, Illustrations, and Lessons' & 'When Trade Unions Learn to Innovate', offered insights into how unions can adapt in an evolving world of work.

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🗞️ The ETUI in the #media

✔️ @kurtvandaele.bsky.social on why Belgian unions must innovate to stay close to workers in @lesoir.be, & on the surge in Belgian strikes in @nieuwsblad.bsky.social, @knack.be and more.

👉 Check out the full round-up of our latest appearances on European media: etui.org/4kd

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Trade unions slam latest deregulation push in @oecd-ocde.bsky.social Economic Outlook. @tuac.bsky.social TUAC strongly contests the OECD’s push for deregulation, warning that weakening worker protections will not drive innovation and risks increasing inequality. tuac.org/news/oecd-ec...
OECD Economic Outlook: Trade unions slam latest deregulation push - TUAC
The Trade Union Advisory Committee (TUAC) to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is the interface for trade unions with the Organisation and its members.
tuac.org

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'When trade unions learn to innovate: case study evidence from across Europe'

📕 Download a copy of the new book: etui.org/Z9S

📆 Don't miss the launch on 4/12, where you can hear Barbara Samaluk, University of Ljubljana, speak about her Slovenia case study.

Last day to register! 👉 etui.org/Z9T

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Amazon workers in over 30 countries are striking this 'Black Friday' weekend, demanding fair wages, union rights, and environmental accountability. The "Make Amazon Pay" campaign marks its sixth year of turning the retail giant's busiest sales period into a global day of protest.
Instead of Black Friday, unions call for Make Amazon Pay Day
Amazon workers in over 30 countries are striking this 'Black Friday' weekend, demanding fair wages, union rights, and environmental accountability. The "Make Amazon Pay" campaign marks its sixth year of turning the retail giant's busiest sales period into a global day of protest.
euobserver.com

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Chapter by Anke Hassel in 'The Elgar Companion to Regulating Platform Work: Insights from the Food Delivery Sector'

Edited by Kurt Vandaele and Silvia Rainone, and published by Edward Elgar Publishing

Order it here 🔗 www.elgaronline.com/edcollbook/b...

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"Amazon’s business model is pushing workers, and the societies they live in, to a breaking point."

Writing in The Wire, Christy Hoffman explains why workers and citizens across more than 30 countries will be taking to the streets to #MakeAmazonPay.
Heat, Crunch, and Algorithmic Control: The Human Cost Pushing Amazon Workers into the Streets
This Black Friday, as protests unfold from New Delhi to Berlin to Montréal, we have a choice to make.
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Eén ding is al zeker: 2025 wordt een historisch stakingsjaar. In die zin is het sociaal protest tegen de plannen van De Wever vergelijkbaar met het protest tegen het Globaal Plan (1993) van Dehaene I @vakbondabvv.bsky.social @hetacv.bsky.social @aclvb.bsky.social
Toevallig of niet, maar vandaag zijn de cijfers voor het aantal #stakingsdagen in het eerste semester van 2025 bekendgemaakt: 792.847 of voorlopig 185 stakingsdagen per 1.000 werknemers. De regering-De Wever lijkt daarmee op weg om het stakingsrecord van de regering-Dehaene I te breken.

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Register here for the conference 🔗 etui.org/Z9Y
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📕 'When trade unions learn to innovate: case study evidence from across Europe' takes a deep dive into key cases of grassroots efforts and international collaboration, uncovering a need for sustained investment in unions’ internal capacity to collaborate, adapt and learn

🔗 etui.org/Z9S

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📗 'Experimenting for union renewal: challenges, illustrations and lessons' examines how trade unions from across the world are responding in experimental ways to disruptions that are destabilising traditional structures and practices

🔗 etui.org/Z9M
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At this vital debate about the future of trade unionism, a joint event from the ETUI and CRIMT, two important multi-author studies on union renewal will be launched 👇

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How can trade unions innovate and stay strong in a changing world❓

📆 Join us on 4 December to hear some of the leading scholars of union renewal from Europe and North America present their latest research in discussion with trade unionists from a diverse range of sectors

🔗 etui.org/Z9Y

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'When trade unions learn to innovate: case study evidence from across Europe'

Download a copy of the new book🔗 etui.org/Z9S

📆 Don't miss the launch on 4 December, where you can hear Katarzyna Rakowska, University of Warsaw, speak about her Poland case study.

Register for the event 👉 etui.org/Z9T

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🪧 Sociaal overleg: richting noorden of zuiden?

Opiniemakers willen richting een noord-europees sociaal overleg model én stellen voor om de macht van de vakbond aan te pakken

Dat duwt het Belgische model richting het zuiden, niet het noorden.

Kom dan niet klagen over een staking! 🤷‍♀️

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Belgian unions are escalating to a historic three-day general strike in a final showdown with the right-wing government, aiming to stop the most significant rollback of the country's strong welfare state and workers' rights since the post-war era.
In Belgium, Labor and the Government Face a Showdown
Belgian unions are escalating to a historic three-day general strike in a final showdown with the right-wing government, aiming to stop the most significant rollback of the country's strong welfare…
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