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Patricia Velicu

@patricia-velicu

Head of Collective Bargaining and Social Policy at industriAll Europe (own views) Trade unionists, European🇪🇺 with Romanian roots🇷🇴 for social justice, equality and workers’ rights✊🏼

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Our Youth Working Group agreed today to develop a new European Youth Strategy that will lay down the path for the next 4️⃣ yearmandate period, so that young unionists strengthen their voice in trade unions ✊🏼

@ibarthes.bsky.social @patricia-velicu.bsky.social

11.09.2025 13:37 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you for inviting @industrialleurope.bsky.social to this important hearing on defence!
We stressed that to be strong externally, we need to be so internally and this relies on economic security, underpinned by social stability!

@ibarthes.bsky.social

23.04.2025 12:49 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Trade unions call for a worker-centred EU defence industrial policy – discussing today with Isabelle Barthès, Eric Brune and Patricia Velicu @industrialleurope.bsky.social European Trade Union 🇪🇺

14.04.2025 15:37 👍 10 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0

Here comes @industrialleurope.bsky.social reaction to the #UnionOfSkills 👉 the proposal falls short of concretely delivering on lifelong learning and employment security for workers

Read our full analysis👇
news.industriall-europe.eu/Article/1228

06.03.2025 16:00 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Rearm Europe – Europe’s security demands more than military spending Today, the European Commission’s President, Ursula von der Leyen, has brought forward a major boost to Europe’s defence spending with the announcement of ‘Rearm Europe’, in response to the volatile ge...

Check out @industrialleurope.bsky.social reaction to Rearm Europe 👉 EU initiatives on defence or security should not come at the expense of social progress, workers’ rights, working conditions, and investments in the twin transition!
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news.industriall-europe.eu/Article/1226

06.03.2025 07:32 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

May I strongly recommend European policy makers and pundits to read Keynes’s Economic Consequences of the Peace before pondering to slash the welfare state to build the warfare state.

05.03.2025 22:51 👍 222 🔁 62 💬 5 📌 6
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Delighted to meet @socialistsanddemocrats.eu & @greens-efa.eu in Strasbourg to discuss how the #CID can deliver on good industrial jobs. Deregulation is not a solution to the industrial crisis! @industrialleurope.bsky.social

11.02.2025 14:39 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Last #youth workshop of @industrialleurope.bsky.social EU-funded project in Bucharest🇷🇴 👉🏼 discussing the differences between collective bargaining models across Europe & transnational trade union instruments to enhance collaboration, #solidarity & youth involvement 💪🏼✊🏼

12.02.2025 07:14 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
High-Productive Firms and the Labour Share: When Productivity Gains Don't Benefit Workers - TUAC The Trade Union Advisory Committee (TUAC) to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is the interface for trade unions with the Organisation and its members.

📊 Productivity ≠ Prosperity: New OECD study shows how some high-productivity "superstar" firms achieve record productivity while paying wages 40% below their peers, undermining labour's share across the economy.

Read more:

tuac.org/news/high-pr...

#FairWork

07.02.2025 13:34 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Great to be in Frankfurt at @igmetall.bsky.social and discuss their recent wins - more pay, overproportional increase for apprentices and more time off👏🏻 workers win more when they act in #solidarity 💪🏼👇🏼
@ibarthes.bsky.social

07.02.2025 13:48 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0