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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)
- Mobility of workers:
EU social security coordination, Posting of Workers, ELA (European Labour Authority)
Gabi Zimmer, MEP, GUE/NGL
- EU minimum workers´ right:
Work-life balance directive
Transparent and predictable working conditions directive
Tania Gonzalez, MEP, GUE/NGL
- 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
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
- Stephanie Blankenburg, Economist, UNCTAD
- Martin Schirdewan, MEP, GUE/NGL
Moderator: Martin Krämer, TUNE
10.00 – 12.30
´The Social Progress Protocol`
- Introduction, Esther Lynch, Confederal Secretary, ETUC
- Position of the EESC[ii], Gaby Bischoff, President of the Workers´ Group (tbc)
- Legal aspects of ´The Social Progress Protocol`, A. Garcia-Munoz, Univ. Castillia-La Mancha, Ciudad Real
- Advantages for the workers, Palle Bisgaard, 3F General Workers Union, Denmark
- 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
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