In this final report, strategies for capacity building of European workers’ organisations are contrasted with the manifold challenges of the societal and technological transformation:
an ageing society with changing needs at the workplace and in care, rapidly changing technologies, more migration, a growing number of non-standard jobs, new risks for workers’ health, international pressure on the right to strike or centralisation in collective bargaining are causing changes in the requirements of representing workers. A reduction in the numbers of members and trade union density in most European countries and ageing of the organisations make it necessary to look for new solutions: young people should once again unionise; alternative solution tools have to be tested and global problems countered with global organisations. In this report, five seminars from the European Centre for Workers’ Questions (EZA) in the 2018/19 education year on the topics outlined above are documented, analysed and addressed; secondly, the results of the education process are embedded in an academic framework.
