Laurie Parsons:
“Contemporary global supply chains increase environmental risks through greenhouse-gas emissions while siphoning off the resources needed to deal with them. Rather than environmental progress, this is environmental trade.”Read the full article
Tuscany Bell:
“Long-term care facilities are subsidised to a large extent by public money. When financial risks aimed solely at increasing profitability do not pay off, it is the state which must ultimately step in to ensure the welfare of care recipients, once again from the public [...]Read the full article
Livia Spera:
“Profit-focused policies have only led to a transport industry defined by poor wages and poor working conditions, as the skyrocketing profits of companies mean that transport workers are the ones paying the price.”Read the full article
Nadja Salson:
The use of consultancies often goes unnoticed because it is seen as a transfer from the public to the private sector that also generates jobs. The fact that they provide much more than advice is raising concerns about transparency, accountability and the cost of public [...]Read the full article
Nea Pakarinen:
If planned with care and co-created with citizens, nature-based solutions can be a revolutionary way to change our urban environments to be more sustainable and inclusive.Read the full article
Emmanuel Jacob:
If we want to implement and respect human rights and fundamental freedoms, and if we want to respect social rights for military personnel, associations and trade unions have an essential role to play. So why do so many political and military leaders refuse the right of [...]Read the full article
Eoin Coates:
Social dialogue and collective bargaining are needed in every airport and with every airline to ensure working conditions improve across the industry and that cabin crew, pilots and ground handling workers are paid the wages they are [...]Read the full article
a cross-party alliance of Members of the European Parliament:
Collective bargaining is essential. It’s time we ensured essential workers benefitted from it. We join over 100 MEPs across party lines to call for companies to only be awarded public contracts if they have implemented collective agreements. Here’s [...]Read the full article
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