GUE/NGL Trade Union conference in cooperation with TUNE, Brussel - Hoofdinhoud

Challenges for the future of work Wednesday 23 May, 15.00h - 18.30h

Date

23 May 18 - 24 May 18

GUE/NGL Trade Union conference in cooperation with TUNE

23 and 24 May 2018, European Parliament, ASP 1 G 2, Brussels

Challenges for the future of work

Wednesday 23 May 2018

15.00-15.15

Welcome by Gabi Zimmer, President of the GUE/NGL and Heinz Bierbaum, TUNE

15.15 - 16.45

Overview of the parliamentary agenda in the Employment and Social Affairs Committee (EMPL)

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  Mobility of workers:

EU social security coordination, Posting of Workers, ELA (European Labour Authority)

Gabi Zimmer, MEP, GUE/NGL

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  EU minimum workers´ right:

  Work-life balance directive

  Transparent and predictable working conditions directive

  Tania Gonzalez, MEP, GUE/NGL

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  Road mobility package

  Posting of workers, weekly working times, cabotage (EMPL + TRAN)

  Merja Kyllönen, MEP, GUE/NGL

Moderator: Heinz Bierbaum, TUNE

16.45 - 17.45

´Just Transition` and energy democracy - the perspective of trade unions

Sean Sweeny, TUED

Cornelia Ernst, MEP

17.45 - 18.30

Workers’ Struggles:

Organising among migrant workers in the German meat industry

Matthias Brünner, Food Workers Federation, NGG, Germany

Moderator: Mads Bruun Pedersen, TUNE

Thursday 24 May 2018

09.00- 10.00

After the Panama Papers - the fight against tax havens

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  Stephanie Blankenburg, Economist, UNCTAD
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  Martin Schirdewan, MEP, GUE/NGL

Moderator: Martin Krämer, TUNE

10.00 - 12.30

´The Social Progress Protocol`

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  Introduction, Esther Lynch, Confederal Secretary, ETUC
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  Position of the EESC[ii], Gaby Bischoff, President of the Workers´ Group (tbc)
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  Legal aspects of ´The Social Progress Protocol`, A. Garcia-Munoz, Univ. Castillia-La Mancha, Ciudad Real
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  Advantages for the workers, Palle Bisgaard, 3F General Workers Union, Denmark
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  Moving political process forward - means and aims, Rina Ronja Kari, MEP, GUE/NGL

Moderator: Henrik Bay Clausen, TUNE

12.30 - 14.30 Lunchbreak

14.30h - 16.00h

Digitalisation - platform workers? Self-employed? Falsely self-employed? Or precarious workers?

Jürgen Klippert, IG Metall, Germany

Paloma Lopez, GUE/NGL MEP

Moderator: Enrique Carmona, TUNE

16.00-17.00h

Concluding remarks

Trade Unions for Energy Democracy

[ii] European Economic and Social Committee

For more information please contact: karola.boger@europarl.europa.eu