Rahvusvaheline vaade õpetamisele ja õppimisele. OECD rahvusvahelise õpetamise ja õppimise uuringu TALIS 2013 tulemused

OECD rahvusvaheline õpetamise ja õppimise uuring TALIS (OECD’s Teaching and Learning International Survey TALIS) on rahvusvaheline võrdlusuuring, milles uuritakse õpetajate töökeskkonda ja õppekeskkonda koolides. TALIS-e uuringut korraldab Majanduskoostöö ja Arengu Organisatsioon (OECD) ning selles osales 2013. aastal 34 riiki, teiste hulgas Eesti. TALIS-e uuringu eesmärk on pakkuda asjakohast, rahvusvaheliselt võrreldavat ja vajalikku informatsiooni eesmärgiga aidata riikidel üle vaadata ja kindlaks määrata oma hariduspoliitika, et arendada välja tipptasemel õpetaja elukutse. Koolijuhtidel ja õpetajatel on võimalus anda oma panus hariduspoliitilisse analüüsi ja võtmevaldkondade arengusse. TALIS-e uuringut korraldatakse osalevate riikide uuringukeskuste, OECD, IEA Sekretariaadi, IEA andmetöötlus- ja uuringukeskuse ning Kanada Statistikaameti omavahelise koostööna.https://www.hm.ee/sites/default/files/talis2013_eesti_raport.pd

PLUS.WP7 Sopolabs.Estonia

The dataset consists of summaries of the two social policy laboratory (Sopolab) sessions conducted in Tallinn. The goal of the labs was to engage variety of stakeholders and to trigger a debate on problems, challenges and possible policy solutions related to platform work, including to disseminate PLUS results and to produce shared policy proposals and disseminate best practices. “PLUS_16E_PLUS.WP7 Tallinn Sopolabs_Labour_20220509” gives an overview of the local level SoPo lab on the topic "Labour Rights and organization in Platform Economy” that took place 6 November 2020. Several stakeholders engaged with platform economy were recruited to discuss issues related to labour organization and platform workers’ rights in the context of COVID19 pandemic. “PLUS_16E_PLUS.WP7 Tallinn Sopolabs_Welfare_20220509” gives an overview of the local level SoPo lab on the topic “How to innovate Welfare for Platform Workers” that took place in two parts: 16 December 2021 and 29 December 2021. It aimed to identify practical initiatives that can be taken to extend welfare and social security coverage for platform workers

Post-crisis innovation within Estonian private sector unions

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Trade union project-based revitalization strategies in Central and Eastern Europe

This article studies trade union revitalization within broader trends of projectification that marks a shift towards project work and its temporary organization. It accordingly compares instances of project-based organizational restructuring in post-crisis Estonia and Slovenia in order to identify their drivers, power resources employed and their outcomes and wider impact. In both countries, project-based organizational restructuring was driven by proactive activists capable of innovatively utilizing available power resources and new opportunity structures that had opened up with EU integration. While Slovenian unions utilized a more diverse set of power resources and revitalization strategies, activists in both countries stimulated trade union project-based organizational restructuring in order to initiate and sustain their main, context specific, revitalization strategies. Findings also show that project-based organizational restructuring can be an interim phase for unions to increase their resources and use them to turn their revitalization strategies into more permanent ones

Enhancing Economic Democracy for Posted Workers : The Case of Finland

This report is based on two focus group interviews with three Finnish Construction Trade Union (Rakennusliitto, RL) representatives and two Industrial Union (Teollisuusliitto, TL) representatives and on individual interviews with Finnish Electrical Workers´ Union (Sähköliitto, SL), and the Federation of Finnish Enterprises (Suomen Yrittäjät, SY) representatives. Interviews were conducted between April and May 2018. It also relies on interviews with Estonian construction workers working in Finland conducted between 2011 and 2017, under other projects: TWES, ERC grant #263782 and Academy of Finland, Industrial Citizenship and Labour Mobility in the EU, a Migrant Centered Study of Estonia-Finland and Albania-Italy Labour Mobility.nonPeerReviewe

Overcoming Barriers to Transnational Organizing Through Identity Work : Finnish-Estonian Trade Union Cooperation

This article analyses a project by Finnish and Estonian unions to adopt ‘organizing model’ strategies through establishing the transnational ‘Baltic Organising Academy’. Initially aimed at Estonian workplaces, successful campaigns inspired Finnish unions to copy the model in Finland. This cooperation was originally motivated by labour market interdependence between the two countries, and the failure of past social-partnership oriented union strategies in Estonia. The willingness of Finnish and Estonian unions to commit resources to transnational cooperation around an ‘organizing model’ marks a dramatic departure from the unions’ previous strategies. This change was accomplished by transnational activists who have developed and raised support for the adoption of an ‘organizing model’ in the face of structural challenges and ideological opposition by some union officials. The project’s transnational organizing exemplifies one possible solution to union weakness in Eastern Europe, and underlines the importance of ‘identity work’ in building transnational trade union coalitions around organizing.peerReviewe

PLUS.WP2 Qualitative analysis of platform labor.Estonia

This dataset consists of summaries of the qualitative interviews with Airbnb hosts (16) and summaries of the qualitative interviews with Uber drivers (15) conducted in Tallinn. All interviews covered the topics of labour process, skills, and social protection. It is not possible to provide the full transcripts nor the NVivo fail with the transcripts due to the nature of consent the interviewees gave. In addition, the dataset contains summary/notes of the focus group interview with Uber drivers and Airbnb host. The focus group guidelines were constructed with the aims to introduce participants to the first results of the analysis of interviews done in Tallinn, and to ask for additional reflections, comments and further experiences related to the topics. Some slides with the main results were prepared and presented to the participants as a stimulus for the discussion. Time was also dedicated to discuss Covid-19 period experiences. For detailed information about the methodology of the qualitative interviews please check the following publications: Kall, K., Roosalu, T., Unt, M., & Ojamäe, L. (2021). Platformisation of Tallinn’s taxi industry: Results from the PLUS Project. RASI toimetised nr 13. Tallinna Ülikool. Ojamäe, L., Peik, K., Kall, K., Roosalu, T., & Unt, M. (2021). Hosting in Airbnb: platform work at the intersection of hospitality, accommodation and home-making. RASI toimetised nr 14. Tallinna Ülikool

Union campaigns against precarious work in the retail sector of Estonia, Poland, and Slovenia

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Regional Case Study. From Ukraine to Finland and Estonia via Poland : Migration and posting of third country nationals. Work package 4

This report gives an overview of the Con3Post project1 research that analyses a new and understudied phenomenon of posting third country nationals (TCNs) in the European construction sector, with a special focus on the posting flow involving workers from Ukraine being posted to Finland and Estonia through Poland. The research highlights severe regulatory challenges related to the phenomenon. These include posted TCNs being exposed to multiple vulnerabilities that are even more extreme than intra-European Union (EU) posted workers are usually exposed to. These are: lack of occupational safety and health training and having no accident insurance coverage, not receiving wages and other employment conditions the workers should be entitled to, not asking for help from authorities/unions and falling through the cracks of social security systems. We argue that, although posting of TCNs happens for a variety of reasons (including labour market disparities between the sending and receiving countries, established migration routes and ever increasing migration industry), there is also clear evidence that some companies are trying to gain competitive advantage by avoiding inspections and by opting out of more expensive and difficult ways of hiring migrants. As with conventional posting, this can stem from the availability of undemanding TCN workers, and the possibility to hire them via complex corporate constructions which shield employers from liability for violations and inspections. TCN posted workers are even more vulnerable to exploitation and abuse than intra-EU posted workers, because of the increased difficulties in monitoring TCN posting, the lower expectations of TCN workers, and their often unclear immigration status. To improve the situation for posted TCNs, and ensure fair functioning of the free movement of labour (and labour as services), we provide multiple recommendations (see Chapter six) at the workplace, sector, country and regional level including extensive cooperation between regulatory actors, more resources for inspections, better regulations throughout the whole posting chain and lowering the barriers for TCNs to know their rights and ask for help in case of problems.nonPeerReviewe