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GUE/NGL Trade Union Conference
in cooperation with TUNE (Trade Unionists Network Europe)
Wednesday 27 September 2017, 15.00h – 18.30h
Thursday 28 September 2017, 9.00h – 12.30h + 14.30h – 17.30h
European Parliament Brussels, ASP 1 G 2
Wednesday 27 September 2017, 15.00h – 18.30h
Wednesday 27 September
15.00 – 15.15 Welcome by Patrick Le Hyaric, vice-president, GUE-NGL, Heinz Bierbaum, TUNE
15.15 – 16.30: Precarious Work – which trade union response?
Speakers:
- 15.15 – 15.45 Simonetta Ponzi, CGIL, Italy
- 15.45 – 16.15 Cristina Faciaben, CCOO, Spain
- 16.15 – 16.30 Debate
Moderator: Antonio Morandi
16.30 – 18.30: Pillar of Social Rights: What we need and what to expect from the EC?
Speaker:
- 16.30 – 17.00 Esther Lynch, Confederal secretary, ETUC
- 17.00 – 17.30 Kostadinka Kuneva, MEP
- 18.00 – 18.30 Concluding remarks
Moderator: Heinz Bierbaum and Peter Damo
Thursday 28 September
09.00 –09.15 Arrival
09.15 – 10.45 What’s in the EU pipeline for workers and trade unions?
Speakers:
- 09.15 – 09.35 Rina Ronja Kari, MEP, EMPL-co-coord.
– Overview Employment Policy, Posting of workers
- 09.35 – 09.45 Questions and answers
- 09.45 – 10.05 Paloma Lopez, MEP
Road package
- 10.05 – 10.15 Questions and answers
- 10.15 – 10.35 Kostadinka Kuneva, MEP
Work-Life balance
- 10.35 – 10.45 Questions/answers
Moderator: Martin Krämer
10.45 – 13.00 Right to strike, collective bargaining – challenges for the workers
Speakers:
- 10.45 – 11.15 Charles-André Quesnel, chairman, European Transport Workers Federation-Air Traffic Management
- 11.15 – 11.45 Jonathan Hayward, International Officer (UNITE the Union)
- 11.45 – 13.00 Debate
Moderators: Enrique Carmona and Henrik Bay Clausen
13.00 – 15.00 Networking lunch
15.00 – 16.15 Workers struggles:
- 15.00 – 15.15 Heiner Reimann, Amazon workers,
IG Metall, Germany
- 15.15 – 15.30 Zoran Markovic, FIAT, Conf. of Autonomous Trade Unions of Serbia (CATUS)
- 15.30 – 16.00 Questions and debate
Moderator: Mads Bruun Pedersen
16.00 – 17.00 A message to the Summit in Gothenburg 17 November
Interpretation: FR – DE – IT – NL – EN – DA – EL – ES – PT – SV – CS – HR
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