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The GPA-DJP and vida trade unions have been lobbying for better funding for the care sector and improvements to employment and working conditions of care workers. The unions have also been calling for a parliamentary enquiry into the sector to establish what level of funding and what kind of changes are needed to ensure that the sector can deal with the future demand for care. There has been no response to the call for an enquiry and so the unions have organized their own public hearing in Vienna on 19 September.
English: http://www.epsu.org/cob/436
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This article was published in the Collective Bargaining Newsletter. It aims to facilitate information exchange between trade unions and to support the work of ETUC's collective bargaining committee. For more information, please contact the editor Maarten van Klaveren, Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies (AIAS) M.vanKlaveren@uva.nl. You may find further information on the ETUI at www.etui.org, and on the AIAS at www.uva-aias.net. © ETUI aisbl, Brussels 2011.