About Esther Lynch

Esther Lynch was elected as ETUC Confederal Secretary at the Paris Congress in 2015. She has extensive experience of the trade union movement both in Ireland and at European and international level. Before joining the ETUC, she was the legislation and social affairs officer of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU).

Trade Unions On Frontline In Battle Against Inequality

by Esther Lynch on 21 December 2017

The European Commission continues to talk about robust recovery, but with wages falling or stagnating, many people in Europe are worse off than they were a decade ago. The European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions has recently reported that more than half the population in 11 EU Member States has difficulty […]

If Europe Takes Trade Union Rights For Granted… We Risk Losing Them

by Esther Lynch on 9 May 2016

Why, in 2016, has the European Trade Union Confederation found it necessary to start ringing alarm bells in defence of basic trade union rights in the EU? The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, agreed in 1948 as a reaction to the horrors of the Second World War, states: “Everyone has the right to form and […]

Social Europe Edition Book

Zygmunt Bauman was a towering intellectual who saw and analysed – right up to his death in early 2017 – the great socio-political changes, often convulsive, in modern western society long before his peers. Here we highlight his prescient insights into what he dubbed ‘liquid modernity’ with 24 chapters on topics ranging from online loneliness via precarity/poverty/inequality to migration, fear of the ‘Other’ and the decline of the nation state. Chronicle of Crisis, 2011-16, written by one of the great chroniclers of our times, will be read and re-read for decades and more to come.

MORE INFO

New Social Europe Book

There is increasing evidence of widespread disillusion with the major shift to neoliberal economic policies that has taken place across much of the world. In this account of neoliberalism’s failings, Colin Crouch recognises some of its positive contributions but also notes conflicts within the neoliberal camp – particularly those between ‘market’ and ‘corporate’ forms of the strategy. Finally, he considers to what extent those behind the great experiment are now capable of accepting its reform.

MORE INFO

ETUI Advertisement

Benchmarking Working Europe

This year's Benchmarking Working Europe focuses on whether the European Union is really on the path towards convergence. Analysing the state of 'working Europe' with the aid of a multi-level and multi-dimensional set of indicators, Benchmarking Working Europe 2018 demonstrates that, despite renewed economic growth in GDP terms, the proceeds of this growth are being unequally shared and structural problems in the areas of education, infrastructure and R&D remain due to the EU's obsession with labour market deregulation and fiscal austerity.

FREE DOWNLOAD

Eurofound Advertisement

European Quality of Life Survey 2016

The overview report of Eurofound’s fourth European Quality of Life Survey is now available. Nearly 37,000 people in 33 European countries were interviewed as part of the Survey. The overview report, which presents findings for EU Member States, shows general progress in the three keys areas of review: quality of life, quality of society and quality of public services – though not in all countries and not for all social groups. The executive summary is available in 22 languages.

FREE DOWNLOAD

About Esther Lynch

Trade Unions On Frontline In Battle Against Inequality

If Europe Takes Trade Union Rights For Granted… We Risk Losing Them

MORE INFO

MORE INFO

MORE INFO

FREE DOWNLOAD

FREE DOWNLOAD

Social Europe

RSS Feeds

Search Social Europe

© Social Europe 2018