For the past two years the ETUC has made collective bargaining toolboxes available to its members aimed at coordinating collective agreements and remuneration within a framework of EU economic governance. The toolboxes look to garner information from the union bodies on developments at national level so as to subsequently develop common strategies. Whilst the new EU Commission is committed to improving social partnership involvement in economic and budget policies at all levels, the ETUC also fully intends to use these tools to promptly disseminate information from their own members on their specific situations, thus enabling them to better discuss reform recommendations with the EU Commission, not forgetting their other goal of increasing national union influence during the EU Commission semester.
Union response to European Economic Governance. Coordination of tougher economic and budget policies post the sovereign debt crisis has prompted the ETUC to target coordinating national collective negotiations. During the 2011 Congress the ETUC set the wheels of this endeavor in motion by focusing on 3 main axes: promptly reacting to the main phases in the European Semester (period of economic policy coordination), monitoring the development of union rights, and managing union bodies involvement at national level.
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