Wage-up - raising wages and equality

"Wage-up" project builds upon the outcomes of the ETUC project “New Frontiers for Collective Bargaining”, that increased the capacity of trade unions by identifying new frontiers for collective bargaining, creating a deeper understanding of the issue of equal pay for work of equal value, and exploring how to extend collective bargaining to meet the challenges post COVID-19. A series of documents were developed in the framework of the project's activities. A Guidance on emerging topics, a Checklist for Negotiating Equal Pay for Work of Equal Value, and a Report on Equal pay. All these documents are available in several languages in the Resources section of this website.

The new project "Wage-up - raising wages and equality" aims to support ETUC members to play a strong role in an ambitious transposition of the two Directives - Directive on Adequate Minimum Wage and Gender Pay Transparency Directive - and to strengthen collective bargaining.

On the Adequate Minimum Wages Directive, the project aims at strengthening the role of social partners in defining statutory minimum wages and in defining practices for strengthening collective bargaining via the Directive.

About UnionShare

UnionShare is an online repository of clauses and agreements on the following collective bargaining issues: work time reduction, workers' data and surveillance, the fight against the far right and equal pay. UnionShare was developed in the framework of the ETUC's project "New Frontiers for Collective Bargaining", co-funded by the European Union. The project aims at promoting and strengthening collective bargaining at all levels by extending its scope and developing bargaining strategies to incorporate emerging issues as well as gender inequalities into negotiations.

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New Frontiers for Collective Bargaining

The ETUC project "New Frontiers for Collective Bargaining", co-funded by the European Union, aims at promoting and strengthening collective bargaining at all levels by extending its scope and developing bargaining strategies to incorporate emerging issues as well as gender inequalities into negotiations.

The project increased the capacity of trade unions by identifying new frontiers for collective bargaining, creating a deeper understanding of the issue of equal pay for work of equal value, and exploring how to extend collective bargaining to meet the challenges post COVID-19.

A series of documents were developed in the framework of the project's activities. A Guidance on emerging topics, a Checklist for Negotiating Equal Pay for Work of Equal Value, and a Report on Equal pay. All these documents are available in several languages in the Resources section of this website.