Tourism

09/10/2009

ETLC launches Trade Union Charter on Tourism

Today, the ETLC launched at the European Tourism Forum, the European Trade Union Charter on Tourism, pointing out main challenges for workers in tourism and formulating expectations vis-à-vis the different stakeholders, employers, political actors and consumers.

17/06/2009

Tourism Industry: Employment and Labour Market Challenges

On 10 and 11 June 2009, more than 100 representatives of the European tourism sector met in Prague at the Conference of the Czech EU Presidency "Tourism Industry: Employment and Labour Market Challenges".

Topics of the conference were the challenges and problems associated with the current situation in the tourism industry at European level.

COP 15 - European metalworkers on the road from Copenhagen

For the European Metalworkers Federation climate change is a dangerous reality which demands a social response at international as well as European, national and regional/local and company levels. We believe that a drive towards new industrial strategies based on low carbon technologies and products can offer opportunities but also challenges for the future of industrial workplaces in Europe.

EFFAT's view on sustainable development

Sustainable development seeks to "meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs” in the sense of balance between economic, social and environmental elements. Still, increasingly rapid global changes, from the melting of the icecaps to growing energy and resource demand, are challenging this objective.