Event Publication Democracy and the Welfare State Trade Union Victories after the Pandemic Post-pandemic hopes and disappointments Pelling, Lisa Lisa Pelling has compiled trade union victories and setbacks after the crisis in the report "Post-pandemic Hopes and Disappointments – Perspectives of Care Workers in Seven European Countries". Join us for the Swedish release on March 24th 2023. Across Europe, the COVID-19 pandemic put care workers on the corona frontline of an underfinanced, understaffed and undervalued care sector. This report is a follow-up to a series of reports that described the conditions of elder care workers during the first wave of the pandemic that the FES Nordic Countries produced and published in cooperation with Arena Idé and the Swedish trade union Kommunal in 2021. Representatives from academia and the trade union sector from nine different countries was involved and altogether nine country studies and one summary report were published. The series showed, how years of austerity policies and neoliberal new public management have increased the level of privatisation and precarisation, and decreased the rate of unionization in the elder care sector. But also, the victories and importance of trade union work during the crises. On March 24th, 12-13 there will be a Swedish online release-event of the report with the author Lisa Pelling, Head of the thinktank Arena Idé and Malin Ragnegård, Chairperson of the Swedish trade union Kommunal. Sign up to join the event here! The report is written by Lisa Pelling, Head of the think tank Arena Idé, and is a cooperation with Arena Idé and trade union Kommunal. The report is based on contributions from a two day roundtable in 2022 at the headquarters of Kommunal in Stockholm, Sweden with the following panel contributors: Mari Huuponen, Care Expert, Kommunal Ingvar Skjerve, Advisor, Fagforbundet Anne Mari Samskott, Advisor, Fagforbundet Charlotte Bredal, senior consultant, working environment, FOA Amalie Dam-Hansen, consultant, health policy, FOA Dave Watson, Independent researcher Gerry Mitchell, Social policy researcher Barbara Susec, Union Secretary for Care Policy, Ver.di Manuel Pereira-Puga, Researcher, Institute of Public Goods and Policies (IPP-CSIC) Jorge Hernández-Moreno, Doctoral researcher, Institute of Public Goods and Policies (IPP-CSIC) Daniel Carolo, Researcher, Institute of Public Policy Thursday, 07.10.2021 News Event Democracy and the Welfare State On the Corona Frontline: The Experiences of care workers in nine European countries A report series on the impact the pandemic has had on elder care and the justified demands of the care workers’ trade unions.
