The Personnel of the European Trade Union Confederation: Specifically European Types of Capital?

Abstract

In May 2011, at the launch of the 12th congress of the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC), delegates were greeted by protesters shouting ‘ETUC bureaucrats go home.’ A union representative commented with dismay, ‘It is an unusual experience for us to be on the other side of the protest, to be associated to international financial organizations rather than to the trade union movement.’1