Roland Erne
@rolanderne.bsky.social
Professor of European Integration and Employment Relations
University College Dublin
https://www.erc-europeanunions.eu/
Political science
64%
Economics
8%
Reposted by Roland Erne
EU Court Upholds Minimum Wage Directive in Victory for Social Europe
The ruling preserves key provisions on wage adequacy and collective bargaining, revealing how employer lobbying inadvertently expanded EU social policy powers.
www.socialeurope.eu
EU Court ruling establishes that the EU can set meaningful standards for wage adequacy and collective bargaining coverage, creating a foundation for upward convergence in labour standards across the Union, writes @rolanderne.bsky.social
www.socialeurope.eu/eu-court-uph...
www.socialeurope.eu/eu-court-uph...
SIPTU warns of industrial unrest due to cost of living
The incoming General Secretary of the country's largest trade union, SIPTU, has warned of significant periods of industrial unrest because the cost of living crisis is "screwing workers".
www.rte.ie
“Workers would not have understood why the EU had the power to cut wages and to decentralise collective bargaining after the 2008 crisis but not the power to provide a framework for advocate minimum wages and higher collective bargaining coverage" said Prof Roland Erne www.rte.ie/news/busines...
In 20 minutes, we will know the the verdict of European court of justice on the legality of the EU directive 2022/2041 on adequate minimum wages in the European Union.
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Roland Erne
@rolanderne.bsky.social
· Oct 19
Thanks so much Stijn warm regards from Ireland Roland
Roland Erne
@rolanderne.bsky.social
· Oct 19
Politicising Commodification | Cambridge University Press & Assessment
cup.org
We are thrilled that 'Politicising Commodification' has received an Honourable Mention for the 2025 July Brian Farrell Prize for the Best Book Published in Political Science
Thank you @psairishpol.bsky.social for this honour!
Learn more about it cup.org/3HJWFnN
@universitypress.cambridge.org
Thank you @psairishpol.bsky.social for this honour!
Learn more about it cup.org/3HJWFnN
@universitypress.cambridge.org
Roland Erne
@rolanderne.bsky.social
· Oct 4
Revealed: EU Farm Subsidy ‘Bankrolls’ Widespread Labour Abuse
This investigation was developed with the support of Journalismfund Europe. Farm owners convicted of exploiting migrant workers continue to claim millions in taxpayer-funded subsidies, DeSmog can reve...
www.desmog.com
Revealed: EU Farm Subsidy ‘Bankrolls’ Widespread Labour Abuse - @desmog.com
www.desmog.com/2025/09/29/r...
see also the German version in @taz.de and the French version in @humanite.fr
www.desmog.com/2025/09/29/r...
see also the German version in @taz.de and the French version in @humanite.fr
Roland Erne
@rolanderne.bsky.social
· Oct 4
Dans l’agriculture, la traite des êtres humains bat son plein - L'Humanité
Durant cinq mois, Mohammed, travailleur marocain, a été victime de traite dans les champs du sud de la France. Il témoigne pour la première fois auprès de l’Humanité. Pour les centa...
www.humanite.fr
Roland Erne
@rolanderne.bsky.social
· Oct 3
taz.de
Kritischer, unabhängiger Journalismus der linken Nachrichtenseite taz: Analysen, Hintergründe, Kommentare, Interviews, Reportagen. Genossenschaft seit 1992.
taz.de
Saisonarbeit: Subventionen für Ausbeuter | taz.de
Roland Erne
@rolanderne.bsky.social
· Sep 4
Just back from the UACES conference, were our new book got an honourable mention
Erne, R., Stan, S., Golden, D., Szabó, I. and Maccarrone, V. (2024) Politicising Commodification. European Governance and Labour Politics from the Financial Crisis to the Covid Emergency. Cambridge UP (open access)
Erne, R., Stan, S., Golden, D., Szabó, I. and Maccarrone, V. (2024) Politicising Commodification. European Governance and Labour Politics from the Financial Crisis to the Covid Emergency. Cambridge UP (open access)
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Tom Jenkins
@tomoljenkins.bsky.social
· Feb 24
The EU Minimum Wage Directive: To Be or Not to Be?
Court challenge to EU minimum wage directive exposes tensions between legal interpretation, political compromise and social policy.
www.socialeurope.eu
The EU Minimum Wage Directive: To Be or Not to Be? Spoiler: @rolanderne.bsky.social demolishes the Advocate General's case seeking to annul the Directive and backs the @etuc-ces.bsky.social case that the AG's opinion is an 'outlier' www.socialeurope.eu/the-eu-minim...
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Roland Erne
@rolanderne.bsky.social
· May 2
Ohne EU-Mindestlohn kein soziales Europa
Nach Jahren antisozialer Politik infolge der Finanzkrise von 2008 standen soziale Fragen in der vergangenen Legislatur der EU wieder weiter oben auf der Agenda. Zwischen 2022 und 2024 verabschiedeten ...
www.blaetter.de
www.blaetter.de/ausgabe/2025...
Sollte sich der EU Generalanwalt durchsetzen, wird der EU Skeptizismus wachsen. Viele werden nicht verstehen, warum unsoziale #EU Interventionen zu Lohnkürzungen legal sind, eine soziale Richtlinie zu angemessenen #Mindestlöhnen jedoch nicht. @blaetter.bsky.social
Sollte sich der EU Generalanwalt durchsetzen, wird der EU Skeptizismus wachsen. Viele werden nicht verstehen, warum unsoziale #EU Interventionen zu Lohnkürzungen legal sind, eine soziale Richtlinie zu angemessenen #Mindestlöhnen jedoch nicht. @blaetter.bsky.social
Roland Erne
@rolanderne.bsky.social
· Jul 23
Roland Erne
@rolanderne.bsky.social
· Jul 23
The exposure to horizontal market pressures in the EU economy alone cannot explain the rise in collective transnational protest actions. Rather, increasing vertical political pressures triggered by commodifying policy interventions of EU authorities play a key role in driving transnational action.
Roland Erne
@rolanderne.bsky.social
· Jul 23
Transnational socioeconomic protest in Europe since 1997: Reflecting greater horizontal market or vertical political integration pressures? - Roland Erne, Jörg Nowak, 2025
This paper draws on a novel database of 360 collective transnational socioeconomic protest actions across Europe that we found in a comprehensive, multilingual ...
doi.org
We have explained its methodology here
Erne, R and Nowak J (2025). Transnational socioeconomic protest in Europe since 1997: Reflecting greater horizontal market or vertical political integration pressures? European Journal of Industrial Relations, OnlineFirst, doi.org/10.1177/0959...
Erne, R and Nowak J (2025). Transnational socioeconomic protest in Europe since 1997: Reflecting greater horizontal market or vertical political integration pressures? European Journal of Industrial Relations, OnlineFirst, doi.org/10.1177/0959...
Roland Erne
@rolanderne.bsky.social
· May 16
Opinion | Romania Is About to Experience Disaster
www.nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/o....
On the social failures explaining the challenges exposed by coming Romanian elections
On the social failures explaining the challenges exposed by coming Romanian elections
Roland Erne
@rolanderne.bsky.social
· May 4
www.blaetter.de/ausgabe/2025...
Sollte sich der EU Generalanwalt durchsetzen, wird der EU Skeptizismus wachsen. Viele werden nicht verstehen, warum unsoziale #EU Interventionen zu Lohnkürzungen legal sind, eine soziale Richtlinie zu angemessenen #Mindestlöhnen jedoch nicht. @blaetter.bsky.social
Sollte sich der EU Generalanwalt durchsetzen, wird der EU Skeptizismus wachsen. Viele werden nicht verstehen, warum unsoziale #EU Interventionen zu Lohnkürzungen legal sind, eine soziale Richtlinie zu angemessenen #Mindestlöhnen jedoch nicht. @blaetter.bsky.social
Ohne EU-Mindestlohn kein soziales Europa
Nach Jahren antisozialer Politik infolge der Finanzkrise von 2008 standen soziale Fragen in der vergangenen Legislatur der EU wieder weiter oben auf der Agenda. Zwischen 2022 und 2024 verabschiedeten ...
www.blaetter.de
Roland Erne
@rolanderne.bsky.social
· Apr 7
Here's the link to follow the healthcare crisis conference in the European Parliament 2pm Brussels time online:
: meet1495.webex.com/meet1495/j.p...
: meet1495.webex.com/meet1495/j.p...
Roland Erne
@rolanderne.bsky.social
· Apr 7
Pictures from today European demonstration against the commodification of public #healthcare services @epsu.bsky.social @fagforbundet.bsky.social @fnv.bsky.social @sudsantesociaux35.bsky.social @bigmacca.bsky.social @socialistsanddemocrats.eu @greens-efa.eu
Roland Erne
@rolanderne.bsky.social
· Mar 27
S&D Seminar: Symposium on the Minimum Wages Directive Court Case | 27/03/2025 | EN
YouTube video by Socialists and Democrats
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www.youtube.com/live/3oIBKSP...
European Parliament seminar on the attack on the minimum wage directive.
Commissioner Nicolas Schmit who has drafted the Directive is speaking first. My contribution is at 1:02:00.
@mmartinezlucio.bsky.social @socialistsanddemocrats.eu @kurtvandaele.bsky.social
European Parliament seminar on the attack on the minimum wage directive.
Commissioner Nicolas Schmit who has drafted the Directive is speaking first. My contribution is at 1:02:00.
@mmartinezlucio.bsky.social @socialistsanddemocrats.eu @kurtvandaele.bsky.social
Roland Erne
@rolanderne.bsky.social
· Mar 23
S&D Seminar: Symposium on the Minimum Wages Directive Court Case | 27/03/2025 | EN
YouTube video by Socialists and Democrats
www.youtube.com
I will be speaking live in the EU Parliament on the attack on the EU minimum wage directive this Thursday 27-3 at 9:30
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www.youtube.com/live/3oIBKSP...
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Roland Erne
@rolanderne.bsky.social
· Feb 26
Reposted by Virginia Doellgast
Roland Erne
@rolanderne.bsky.social
· Feb 26
The EU Minimum Wage Directive: To Be or Not to Be? Spoiler: @rolanderne.bsky.social demolishes the Advocate General's case seeking to annul the Directive and backs the @etuc-ces.bsky.social case that the AG's opinion is an 'outlier' www.socialeurope.eu/the-eu-minim...
The EU Minimum Wage Directive: To Be or Not to Be?
Court challenge to EU minimum wage directive exposes tensions between legal interpretation, political compromise and social policy.
www.socialeurope.eu
If the EU Court cancels the minimum wage directive, the popular legitimacy of the EU will be in tatters.
Workers will not understand why the many business-friendly EU governance prescriptions on wage cuts are legal while a labour-friendly directive on adequate minimum wages is not.
Workers will not understand why the many business-friendly EU governance prescriptions on wage cuts are legal while a labour-friendly directive on adequate minimum wages is not.
Reposted by Michele Ford
Roland Erne
@rolanderne.bsky.social
· Jan 19
Chapter 32: Regional integration: a promising tool to advance the international decent work agenda?
The role of regional organisations in support of the decent work agenda depends not only on their enforcement power but also on the prevailing views and the balance of social class forces within them....
doi.org
New open access chapter
Regional integration: a promising tool to advance the international decent work agenda?
Roland Erne
@profmicheleford.bsky.social
Tamara Kay @bigmacca.bsky.social @madelinemoontarp.bsky.social
Christoph Scherrer
@marcelvanderlinden.bsky.social
doi.org/10.4337/9781...
Regional integration: a promising tool to advance the international decent work agenda?
Roland Erne
@profmicheleford.bsky.social
Tamara Kay @bigmacca.bsky.social @madelinemoontarp.bsky.social
Christoph Scherrer
@marcelvanderlinden.bsky.social
doi.org/10.4337/9781...
Roland Erne
@rolanderne.bsky.social
· Jan 11
Commodifying Public Utilities: EU's New Governance Prescriptions for Rail and Water
In the mid-2000s, the Single Market Program and European Monetary Union lost momentum, as public services advocates increasingly succeeded in tempering attempts to liberalize public utilities through...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Just published in “Governance”.
Our analysis shows that the shift to a new economic governance regime after 2008 provided EU leaders with new tools that allowed them to revive their stalled rail and water commodification agenda; at the price of accentuating the EU democratic & justice deficit.
Our analysis shows that the shift to a new economic governance regime after 2008 provided EU leaders with new tools that allowed them to revive their stalled rail and water commodification agenda; at the price of accentuating the EU democratic & justice deficit.
Roland Erne
@rolanderne.bsky.social
· Dec 3
Not many national anthems refer to inward migration …
„Some have come from a land beyond the wave, Sworn to be free, no more our ancient sireland
Shall shelter the despot or the slave“
„Some have come from a land beyond the wave, Sworn to be free, no more our ancient sireland
Shall shelter the despot or the slave“