ETUC

European Trade Union Confederation
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Founded	1973
Cur. affiliation date
Date dissolved
Members	60 million from 34 countries
Country	Europe
Head union
Affiliation	Independent
Key people	Cándido Méedez Rodríguez, president John Monks, general secretary
Office location	Brussels, Belgium
Website	www.etuc.org

The European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) was established in 1973 to provide a trade union counterbalance to the economic forces of European integration. Following the changes in Central and Eastern Europe, a large number of new trade unions have joined its ranks. 1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1973 calendar). ... John Monks (born 5 August 1945 in Manchester) was the General Secretary of the TUC in the UK from 1993 until 2003, when he became the General Secretary of the ETUC. After studying economic history at the University of Nottingham, he joined the TUC in 1969 and by 1977 was... Emblem of the Brussels-Capital Region Flag of The City of Brussels Brussels (French: Bruxelles, pronounced in Belgian French and in International French; Dutch: Brussel; German: Brüssel) is the capital of Belgium, the French community of Belgium, the Flemish community and one of the three capitals of the European... 1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1973 calendar). ... This article or section contains information that has not been verified and thus might not be reliable. ... Economics (deriving from the Greek words οίκω [okos], house, and νέμω [nemo], rules hence household management) is the social science that studies the allocation of scarce resources to satisfy unlimited wants. ... European integration is the process of political and economic (and in some cases social and cultural) integration of European states into a tighter bloc. ... Regions of Europe Central Europe is the region lying between the variously and vaguely defined areas of Eastern and Western Europe. ... Current division of Europe into five (or more) regions: one definition of Eastern Europe is marked in orange Eastern Europe as a region has several alternative definitions, whereby it can denote: the region lying between the variously and vaguely defined areas of Central Europe and Russia. ...

At present, the ETUC has in its membership 76 National Trade Union Confederations from a total of 34 European countries, as well as 12 European industry federations, making a total of 60 million members. Other trade union structures such as Eurocadres (the Council of European Professional and Managerial Staff) and EFREP/FERPA (European Federation of Retired and Elderly Persons) operate under the auspices of the ETUC. In addition, the ETUC coordinates the activities of the 39 ITUCs (Interregional Trade Union Councils), which organise trade union cooperation at a cross-border level. World map showing Europe Europe is conventionally considered one of the seven continents which, in this case, is more a cultural and political distinction than a physiogeographic one. ... Look up country in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Eurocadres is the Council of European Professional and Managerial Staff. ...

The ETUC is recognised by the European Union, by the Council of Europe and by the European Free Trade Association as the only representative cross-sectoral trade union organisation at European level. The Palace of Europe in Strasbourg The Council of Europe (French: Conseil de lEurope, German: Europarat) is an international organisation of 46 member states in the European region. ... member states The European Free Trade Association (EFTA) was established on May 3, 1960 as an alternative for European states that were not allowed or did not wish to join the European Community (now the European Union). ...

External links

• www.etuc.org - Official website.