Social Partners

Social Partners

The social partners are the trade unions and the employers (or their representative organizations) engaged in social dialogue. The idea of social partnership is strongly founded in many European models of industrial relations and is now adopted across the European Union. At the European inter-professional level, the social partners are the ETUC, Business Europe, CEEP and UEAPME.

Social partners" is a term widely used throughout Europe to refer to representatives of management and labour (employers' organisations and trade unions).

Social partners have a unique role in social and economic governance: they represent in all respects the interests and problems of the ...