Working Time, Energy
Negotiating and campaigning on working time
After pay, working time is core collective bargaining issue but is also an important area of employment regulated by national and European legislation. EPSU has been very active in defending and calling for proper implementation of the Working Time Directive and is involved in current debates on working time. The why and how of working time reduction is a guide produced for EPSU by the European Trade Union Institute and examines long-term trends in working time, the arguments for reducing it and examples of how this has been achieved.
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Nov. 09, 2007
Baltic Energy Representatives call Latvian EU Energy Commissioner's plans "More Unraveling than Unbundling"Government, Company, Trade Union and Energy Regulator combine in opposition to EU energy plans for unbundling
(9 November 2007, Riga) EU Energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs', proposal for ownership unbundling remains hotly contested including in his home country of Latvia and neighboring Estonia. At a seminar in
Oct. 18, 2007
South Eastern Europe signs Energy Accord with European Commission"A positive sign if social aspects taken seriously" says EPSU boss
Embargo 12.00 18 October 2007 PRESS COMMUNICATION, 18 October 2007 (Vienna ,18 October) Energy and Social Affairs Ministers from South East Europe today signed an agreement with the European Commission
Oct. 04, 2007
Sceptisicm over impact of third liberalisation package by social partners
A Commission representative introduced the new package of measures to liberalise Europe's energy markets as published 19 September 2007. Important issues in this package are: ownership unbundling, cooperation of transmission
Sep. 26, 2007
Proposals for liberalising the European energy market fail to meet the real challenges
Brussels, 20/09/2007 {{ {Yesterday, the European Commission published its plans for liberalising European energy. In the name of consumer protection, it continues in the pursuit of liberalisation of the European
Sep. 18, 2007
Keynes on why competition in electricity and other network industries doesnot work
(18 September 2007) John Maynard Keynes identified in the 1920s cost and demand conditions under which competition doesn't emerge. This seems largely forgotten. Keynes goes further, to explain how economists