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Ludovic Voet


Ludovic Voet was elected confederal secretary of the European Trade Union Confederation in 2019.

Ludovic Voet

Platform work directive—delivering rights for all

Ludovic Voet 29th March 2024

Having seen off the platforms’ obstruction, the battle moves to how the directive will be transposed and implemented.

Farmers’ protests: against whom the horn honks?

Ludovic Voet 21st February 2024

The fragility of our food system and lack of social acceptance of EU policies must be addressed in the next mandate.

Trade unions take on platform companies in the struggle for decent work

Ludovic Voet 7th October 2021

On World Day of Decent Work, the European Trade Union Confederation puts the spotlight on justice for platform workers.

EU migration and asylum pact abandons compassion and human rights

Ludovic Voet 10th June 2021

Faced with escalating deaths in the Mediterranean, official Europe needs to relocate its moral conscience.

Managing the unavoidable impact of climate change

Ludovic Voet 22nd February 2021

While doing all it can to arrest climate change, the EU must place workers and their concerns at the heart of its adaptation strategy.

Combating Covid-19 and climate change—one fight

Ludovic Voet 7th April 2020

The same socially oriented approach must be taken to defeat the coronavirus and, over the longer run, stop climate catastrophe.

A Just Transition Fund: one step on a long march

Ludovic Voet 3rd December 2019

Continuing our series on a ‘just transition’, Ludovic Voet stresses that allocating European funding is no substitute for a strategy to achieve it.

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Spring Issues

The Spring issue of The Progressive Post is out!


Since President Trump’s inauguration, the US – hitherto the cornerstone of Western security – is destabilising the world order it helped to build. The US security umbrella is apparently closing on Europe, Ukraine finds itself less and less protected, and the traditional defender of free trade is now shutting the door to foreign goods, sending stock markets on a rollercoaster. How will the European Union respond to this dramatic landscape change? .


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WSI Minimum Wage Report 2025

The trend towards significant nominal minimum wage increases is continuing this year. In view of falling inflation rates, this translates into a sizeable increase in purchasing power for minimum wage earners in most European countries. The background to this is the implementation of the European Minimum Wage Directive, which has led to a reorientation of minimum wage policy in many countries and is thus boosting the dynamics of minimum wages. Most EU countries are now following the reference values for adequate minimum wages enshrined in the directive, which are 60% of the median wage or 50 % of the average wage. However, for Germany, a structural increase is still necessary to make progress towards an adequate minimum wage.

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The Politics of Unpaid Work

This new book published by Oxford University Press presents the findings of the multiannual ERC research project “Researching Precariousness Across the Paid/Unpaid Work Continuum”,
led by Valeria Pulignano (KU Leuven), which are very important for the prospects of a more equal Europe.

Unpaid labour is no longer limited to the home or volunteer work. It infiltrates paid jobs, eroding rights and deepening inequality. From freelancers’ extra hours to care workers’ unpaid duties, it sustains precarity and fuels inequity. This book exposes the hidden forces behind unpaid labour and calls for systemic change to confront this pressing issue.

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