EU: interview with Maria Helena André, deputy general secretary for the European Trade Union Confederation

Outside the European trade union confederation's 11th Congress, e-europnews questioned Maria Helena André, the trade union's deputy general secretary, about European social partners' projects on the joint analysis of the labour market and on the balance sheet of collective agreements. (Ref. 070531)
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  • The ETUC is currently committed, with European employers, in the establishment of a joint analysis of the labour market’s challenges.

Social partners absolutely have to integrate the problems of the impact on the labour market of population ageing and the integration of women and young people, or even the role of macro-economic policies on employment. Until now, with BusinessEurope, we came to an observation of the data, based of course on statistic and non-political elements. We are now st

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