The European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) with the support of the three Italian Trade Union Confederations, CGIL, CISL and UIL, is organising the Final Conference of the “REBALANCE” project – Trade unions’ and social partners’ actions to improve reconciliation of work, family and private life for women and men”. The objectives of this Conference are to disseminate and promote the final results of the study on social partners’ practices tackling work-life balance issues in collective bargaining, as well as to launch the transposition guide of the Directive. It will also aim at raising awareness on the better use of collective…
The Education Department of the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI) will organise with EFJ a second workshop on ‘Trade Union Leadership Training II’ which will be held from 28 to 30 October 2019 in Porto, Portugal. Aims: To equip future leaders with leadership and trade union mobilising skills; To provide networking opportunities for future leaders to exchange among themselves; To find innovative and inclusive ways to mobilise and organise members Participants Participants are future leaders or key person making decisions and leading change in the organisation in the next five years.
Opening day of DJV Congress.
The international conference will bring together national and international journalists and activists to increase international attention and awareness of the plight of journalists and provide a crucial morale boost to the activists in Turkey. The conference will showcase the achievements of the project and the TGS, make the case for strong journalists unions and strengthen the platform and collaboration between journalists groups campaigning for improved rights and conditions. The conference will bring together over sixty journalists, unionist and activists and experts on press freedom and labour rights. They will address the key concerns facing Turkey’s journalists including press freedom, media…
The Group on Fundamental Rights and the Rule of Law (FRRL) of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) is a horizontal body within the EESC tasked to provide a forum for European civil society organisations to meet and share their assessment on the state of fundamental rights, democracy and rule of law in the Member States. The Group aims to promote the respect for the European values listed in Article 2 TEU, the Charter of Fundamental Rights, as well as the check list on the rule of law by the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe. Its objective…
The OSCE is organising the conference “Freedom of the Media and Safety of Journalists in the Russian Federation and in the OSCE region: Challenges and Opportunities in the Digital Age”, on 6 November 2019 in Moscow. The conference will expectedly bring together more than 150 Russian journalists, experts from the media community and academia, policy makers, and representatives of government institutions.
Seminar: Disinformation, Misinformation, Malinformation – How to Tackle Fake News and Information War in the EU? The Finnish Foundation for Media and Development (VIKES) and The Union of Journalists in Finland are organizing the seminar “Disinformation, Misinformation, Malinformation – How to Tackle Fake News and Information War in the EU?” Their goal is to identify different forms of misinformation and influence operations, as well as to introduce measures to tackle and regulate them. The seminar programme can be found here: https://vikes.fi/osallistu/disinformationseminar. It will also be possible to follow the seminar online. Stream link: https://www.mediaserver.fi/live/vikes The EFJ GS is invited as…
The European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF) and other organisations, including EFJ, are organising an expert talk on Anti-SLAPP solutions in Brussels, Belgium. The event will take place on November 12, 2019 from 10:00 – 12:30. Venue: TBC. This expert talk will bring together journalists, politicians, lawyers and civil society organisations with an expected audience of 20-30 people. It will create a platform to share and gather expertise on potential anti-SLAPP solutions. In the long run, the ECPMF in co-operation with other organisations hopes to convince EU institutions to find mechanisms that would help to limit the abuse…
The education department of ETUI, in cooperation with CGT and CC.OO organise a course: “Bogus self-employed” to be held from 13- 15 November 2019 in Brussels, Belgium. This course aims to develop common trade union actions to protect bogus-self-employed workers. Marcelo Ortega, member of the Freelance Expert Group of the EFJ, will attend the course.
Meeting about labour rights for freelancers and self-employed workers.