4/2007 – open issue The annual “open issue” of Transfer covers a series of different issues that are relevant to both academics and trade unionists. In this issue, flexicurity, older employees, gender and quality of work and the marketisation of the public sector are four important subjects covered. 3/2007 (Racism at work, the challenge facing European trade unions) The latest issue of Transfer examines the findings from the first major piece of research, covering five European Union member states, on how trade unions fight racism in the workplace. 02/2007 Accommodating and managing change: trade union strategies in Europe European trade unions need to strengthen their proactive capacity to successfully respond to the forces of change. The strengthening of this capacity requires trade unions to further develop their ability to anticipate as well as respond to events that affect their members’ interests. It also requires trade unions to find additional ways of ensuring that the increasingly specialised needs of their members and potential future members are understood and catered for. Finally, trade unions need to further develop ways of influencing decision making at several different levels: European, national, regional and local. 01/2007 Can Europe’s trade unions represent and organise workers in small and medium-sized enterprises? Even though national systems with extensive collective bargaining coverage may offer some protection to pay and working conditions in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), they do not necessarily provide workers with rights to representation at workplace level; European SMEs do not generally adopt formal equality policies or procedures that may offer protection against discrimination. The informality characteristic of employee relations in SMEs does not encourage equality; For workers in SMEs, multi-level representation at regional, sectoral, but also workplace level is crucial to the protection of their terms and conditions, but also to ensure rights to representation and to collective organisation.http://www.etui-rehs.org/research/media/files/transfer/how_to_subscribe_to_transfer
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