Documents EPSU 20 results

"The continuing advance of globalization, together with deepening European integration, has increased the significance of the transnational level of trade union organization and action. This study offers a comprehensive overview of the development, structure, and policies of global and European trade union federations to serve as a reference work on all the key trade union movements operating globally and in Europe. It presents an in-depth analysis of the challenges facing these organizations and their strategic and policy responses. As a handbook, this volume provides extensive and systematically presented data on transnational sectoral trade union federations. Applying an analogous structure in the presentation of both global and European levels, the study features extensive organizational profiles, portraits, and overviews. This empirical material serves to reveal recent innovations in cross-border policy instruments and strategic approaches since the 1990s. The changing profiles of international trade unions - as measured against a set of functional criteria drawn from political science - and key developments in transnational trade union activity since the start of the new century are also investigated."

"Die Europäische Bürgerinitiative (EBI) gibt UnionsbürgerInnen erstmals die Chance, ihr spezifisches politisches Anliegen auf die formale Agenda der Europäischen Union zu setzen. 2012 hat der Europäische Gewerkschaftsbund für den Öffentlichen Dienst (EGÖD) in einem gemeinsamen Bündnis mit anderen Gewerkschaften und Nichtregierungsorganisationen die EBI "right2water" lanciert. Dabei ging es darum, das Menschenrecht auf Wasser auf europäischer Ebene zu verankern. Welches Partizipationspotenzial hat die Europäische Bürgerinitiative, und inwiefern wurden diesbezügliche Teilhabechancen bei "rigth2water" genützt? Wie kann dieses neue demokratiepolitische Werkzeug namens "Europäische Bürgerinitiative" weiterentwickelt werden? Diese Fragen werden im Buch mit Hilfe eines qualitativen Forschungsansatzes beantwortet."