Daniel Seikel, 12.10.2020 : Die Formel für ein soziales Europa

Quelle: picture alliance/bluedesign

Die Stärkung der sozialen Dimension Europas ist zurück auf der Agenda. Doch wie soll ein sozialeres Europa genau aussehen und wie kann es erreicht werden?

Daniel Seikel, Thorsten Schulten in: Working under pressure. : Upgrading public services

Quelle: etui.org

Against the European trend, employment and working conditions in the German public sector have improved after the financial crisis. Trade union strategies played an important role.

Torsten Müller/Thorsten Schulten in: ETUI Policy Brief 01/2020 : The European minimum wage on the doorstep

Quelle: WSI

The EU-Commission has just launched an initiative for a EU framework regulation on Minimum Wages. Torsten Müller (ETUI) and Thorsten Schulten have analysed this initiative against the background of recent minimum wage developments in Europe.

Thorsten Schulten/Torsten Müller in: Transfer Vol. 25 (3), 2019 : Europe: From Minimum to Living Wages

Quelle: WSI

Minimum wages are often set only at a rather low level, which does not allow for a decent standard of living. More recently, however, many European countries have seen political initiatives for a more substantial increase of minimum wages. As analysed by Thorsten Schulten (WSI) and Torsten Müller (ETUI), these initiatives fit quite well to the concept of a European minimum wage policy.

Florian Blank in: Handbook of European Welfare Systems : The German welfare system: The calm after the storm

Quelle: WSI

The new handbook offers comprehensive information on the welfare systems of all 28 EU member states and their recent reforms, on EU social policy, and comparative analyses. WSI-researcher Florian Blank contributed a detailed description and analysis of developments in German social policies in the last twenty years, distinguishing a period of major reforms followed by a period of relative stability.

Daniel Seikel in: Trade Unions and European Integration : European economic governance, autonomy of collective bargaining and democratic capitalism

Quelle: Routledge

The book chapter shows how reform measures imposed on programme countries have led to a substantial deterioration of the bargaining power of trade unions, undermining one of the cornerstones of post-war democratic governance.