John Monks
John Monks has been General Secretary of the ETUC since 2003. This followed sixteen years as Deputy General Secretary and then General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress in the UK. He has been a member of the Council of the Advisory Conciliation and Arbitration Service (ACAS), and of the Economic and Social Research Council; he was for seven years Vice-Chair of the Learning and Skills Council, and has been Chairman of the UK Co-operative Commission. He is Chairman of the People’s History Museum in Manchester and also a visiting professor at the University of Manchester.
What now for Social Democracy in Europe?
Only social democratic solutions are capable of addressing the crises we face. I was listening to a French trade unionist recently who started his speech by saying ‘there is not one crisis, there are three crises’ – and then added, rather cheerfully, ‘at least’. He was referring to the economic crisis, the environmental crisis and [...]
European Court of Justice (ECJ) and Social Europe: A Divorce based on Irreconcilable Differences?
In a recent interview with Mitbestimmung, Professor Fritz Scharpf, one of Europe’s most prominent social scientists, spoke about the radicalising effects of the recent ECJ rulings in the Viking, Laval, Rüffert and Commission vs Luxembourg cases: ‘the basic treaty freedoms are now deemed not just to prevent protectionist discrimination against foreign suppliers but more broadly [...]
