This meeting is part of the European Commission funded project, "Evaluating the European sectoral social dialogue and the impact of austerity on collective bargaining in the public services", and is to follow up the collective bargaining conference organised in Brussels in December 2012. Annotated Agenda This programme includes some short explanations about each of the items on the agenda with links to relevant documents and web pages. Draft Programme for December Collective Bargaining (...)

9.00-17.30 13 December and 9.00-14.00 14 December 2012 International Trade Union House (ITUH), 5 Boulevard du Roi Albert II, 1210 Brussels Conference Briefing This briefing provides a short introduction to the various sessions of the conference, highlights the main issues and provides links to relevant documents. Collective bargaining work plan The 2009 collective bargaining conference discussed a work plan based on the resolution passed at Congress earlier that year. We have updated (...)

The briefing document for EPSU’s 2012 collective bargaining conference refers to a number of presentations and documents which can be found below. ETUC presentation on economic governance and wages This presentation to the ETUC Collective Bargaining School in October goes through the different elements of economic governance and the implications for wages and collective bargaining. Wages and European economic governance First Alert Mechanism Report This note from the ETUC explains the (...)

A report of the meeting is given below and the briefing note provides background information on the main themes discussed during the seminar: EPSU’s collective bargaining network the impact of economic governance on collective bargaining coordination of policy within the ETUC how industriAll coordinates collective bargaining collecting data collective bargaining priorities and work programme improving the flow of information Conference Report The seminar was convened to (...)