Great to link up with colleagues from the Baltic Sea Trade Union Network (BASTUN) at their meeting in Riga - thanks for the warm welcome, invitation and powerful discussions! 🤝🌱

A powerful reminder of what cross-border trade union cooperation can achieve. Stronger cooperation = stronger voices 📣✊

🤝Inspiration from NFS & BASTUN: Our study trip to Stockholm highlighted the power of regional trade union cooperation & explored:
✅ Nordic model 🇮🇸🇫🇴🇬🇱🇳🇴🇩🇰🇸🇪🇫🇮
✅ Cross-border union coordination&solidarity
✅ Defending workers' vs MNCs
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Inspiring discussion on 'enhanced multi-union transnational cooperation', esp. re/ new work challenges.
Thanks @etui.bsky.social for spotlighting CEE industrial relations 20y post-EU accession & having us on session 3! Watch the recording at: youtube.com/watch?v=SZaS...

⚖️ The #SocialEurope Gap: Despite economic gains, Social Europe hasn't expanded equally. Wage differences between member states are still stark. See e.g.: ec.europa.eu/eurostat/sta...
The 4 freedoms of the #SingleMarket reached new members quickly, but the social acquis did not.
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Nicolas Schmit (Commissioner for Jobs & Social Rights), Cedanka Andric (UGS Nezavisnost) & Oliver Röpke, EESC President, insisted that beyond economic factors, strong social dialogue, effectice collective bargaining & welfare state structures must be central to
#EUenlargement
negotiations.
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@wolfgangk.bsky.social, @etuc-ces.bsky.social and
@oegb.bsky.social president: EU promise hinges on robust unions, coll. barg. & worker representation - All vital for better wages & work conditions.
As businesses incresingly act cross-border, trade unions need to strenghten their cooperation.
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Trade unionists uphold workers' rights, human rights & democracy.
Monika Uhlerova (KOZ SR) highlighted regional challenges: weak social dialogue, low wages, lax labour laws, poor social protection, youth emigration.
Tea Jarc of @etuc-ces.bsky.social voiced her support to CETUN. 2/4

In March 2024, CETUN participants reaffirmed their commitment to closer cooperation between trade unions in the region🤝
The launch event emphasised #SocialDialogue as a cornerstone of the European Social Model
More at: oegb.at/der-oegb/eur...
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@EU_Social

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In 2021, trade unionists from Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Liechtenstein, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Switzerland decided to improve their cooperation in the region and at 🇪🇺 level.
🧱The foundations for a Central European Trade Union Network were laid.🧱