Transcript International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC)

ITUC, ETUC and PERC - International
and European dimensions of trade
union work
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International Trade Union
Confederation (ITUC)
• 1 November 2006, Vienne
• ICFTU and WCL
• 168 million workers in 155 countries and
territories and has 311 national affiliates
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ITUC mission
• promotion and defense of workers’
rights and interests, through
international cooperation between trade
unions, global campaigning and
advocacy within the major global
institutions
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ITUC priorities
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trade union and human rights
economy, society and the workplace
equality and non-discrimination
international solidarity
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ITUC structure
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Congress (every 4 year)
General Council (once a year)
Executive Bureau (twice a year)
General Secretary
Secretariat
The ITUC regional organizations are the Asia-Pacific Regional
Organization (ITUC-AP), the African Regional Organization
(ITUC-AF) and the American Regional Organization (TUCA)
• Plus PERC
• CGU
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European Trade Union
Confederation
• The ETUC was founded in 1973, with the
specific aim of operating at cross-border level
with the institutions of the expanding
European Union.
• 82 trade union organisations in 36 European
countries,
• 12 industry-based federations.
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ETUC mission
• The ETUC works for the development of
a united Europe of peace and stability,
where working people and their families
enjoy full human and civil rights and
high living standards.
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ETUC
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The ETUC works with all the EU institutions - Presidency, Council,
Commission and Parliament - in developing employment, social
and macroeconomic policy:
annual Tripartite Social Summit each spring;
putting the trade union point of view on European Commission
proposals;
liaising with a cross-party Intergroup of MEPs in the European
Parliament;
coordinating trade union participation in a number of advisory
bodies, including the Economic and Social Committee and the EU
agencies for vocational training, living and working conditions,
health and safety.
It also takes part in negotiations with employers at European level
to reach ‘autonomous’ agreements on topics affecting European
workers, such as teleworking (2002), work-related stress (2004),
and harassment and violence at work (2007).
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ETUC structure
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Congress
Executive Committee
Steering Committee
General Secretary
Secretariat
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Pan-European Regional Council
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19 March 2007, Rome
ITUC and ETUC contribution
Members of ITUC = members of PERC
GS of ETUC = GS of PERC
89 trade unions from 43 countries
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PERC mission
• to promote in the region the strategies, priorities and policies of
the ITUC.
• to contribute to the social development, to the consolidation of
democracy and to a better respect of human and workers’ rights.
• to determine policies and action on matters that affect the
interests of working people in the region, support bilateral and
multilateral cooperation and promote trade union action and
representation through
• the strengthening of the trade union movement in all its
constituencies
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PERC structures
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Assembly
Executive Committee
Women and Youth Committees
Task-forces
Workplan
Secretariat
Offices
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Youth: ITUC Congress
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The Congress recognises that dealing effectively with the concerns and
expectations of young working women and men, and achieving their full
integration in trade unions, is crucial to the strengthening, revitalisation,
creativity and future of the trade union movement everywhere.
It commits the ITUC to campaign for decent work, and quality education
and training for young people and to promote action to improve
organisation and representation of young women and men in trade
unions.
The Congress calls on the ITUC to develop and implement policy and
action on young workers’ issues, to facilitate the exchange of national
experiences, to involve young trade unionists in its campaigns, and to
be a catalyst to develop their potential for the movement
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Youth work: ITUC
• Campaigning for decent work and influencing the policies of
important international organizations such as the World Bank,
International Monetary Fund and the World Trade Organisation.
• Promoting action for organisation and representation of young
men and women in trade unions, so that their voice is heard at
all levels within unions and their rights are protected at work.
• Improving transition from school to work, reach out people in
schools and in their first experience in employment to shorten
the time they might find themselves unemployed and to increase
their participation in trade unions.
• Ensuring universal access to quality education and training.
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Youth work: ITUC
• Youth Committee
• Youth coordinator (Philippe
Gousenbourger)
• Youth Community Blog
http://youth.ituc-csi.org/
• Youth mailing list [email protected]
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Youth work: ITUC
Skype: itucyouth
MSN Messenger: itucyouth
ICQ: itucyouth
AIM: itucyouth
Yahoo! Messenger: itucyouth
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ETUC Youth committee
• adopts positions on matters affecting young people at work, to
be submitted to the ETUC Executive Committee;
• influences the work of the ETUC, ensuring that there is a youth
perspective in policies as appropriate;
• develops action programmes and co-ordinates the normal
activities on the basis of these action programmes;
• organises seminars, conferences, study sessions and
campaigns where appropriate, for the delegates of its member
organisations;
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ETUC Youth Committee
• Meets at least twice a year
• Steering Committee which is composed
of 7 elected members
• The youth secretariat
• http://youth.etuc.org/-en
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ETUC youth committee
Young people and trade unions:
• recruitment
• organisation
Young people and employment
• level of unemployment
• quality of jobs
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ETUC Youth Committee issues
The role of young people in the union movement:
• conference in March 2003 on young people and trade
unions entitled: ‘Our future: our unions!’
• trainings (for the participants) on the European Union
institutions, the Constitution and the Community
‘acquis’, the European dimension of trade unionism,
with particular reference to the social dialogue.
• a campaign entitled: ‘The first time, alone, it’s much
more difficult’, on the subject of youth unionisation
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ETUC Youth Committee
Thematic discussions:
• Globalisation
• Employment
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Examples of ETUC youth
committee activities
• Young trade unionists in @ction
• Demographic changes
• Yes for Europe
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PERC: youth work
“A Decent Future for Young Workers”:
The PERC will:
•Set up a Youth Committee that, in collaboration with the ETUC and the
ITUC Youth Committees, will provide advises and recommendations to
the PERC EB, and will be in charge of promoting programmes and
initiatives to implement these recommendations
•Support the “Youth Networks”; define the new forms that these
Networks should take in the framework of the PERC.
•Promote a rights-based approach to the problems of young workers;
oppose any kind of discrimination that the young workers could suffer
in terms of employment or participation in the life of the society.
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PERC: youth work
“A Decent Future for Young Workers”:
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Promote specific programmes to facilitate the transition of the young
people from school to professional life, programmes of vocational
training, active employment and labour market policies that should aim
at providing a decent work for all the young workers.
Analyse with its members the obstacles to a full participation of the
young workers in the trade union movement; encourage its members at
actively promoting young trade unionism, at setting up specific
programmes to recruit and organise young workers, at adapting their
structures to facilitate young workers participation in the decision and
action process of their organisations;
Encourage the setting up of specific training programmes for young
leaders and activists; support the organization of exchanges between
young leaders and activists, through joint meetings, assemblies, youth
camps or summer schools.
Support the participation of young trade unionists, through the Youth
Committees and Networks, into the ILO, the Council of Europe and
other European, regional or international forums and institutions where
issues of interest for them could be discussed.
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PERC youth dimension
• In accordance with article 10 of the PERC
constitution, the “Executive Committee shall set up a
Women’s and Youth Committee and determine their
mandate, composition, and procedural rules, as well
as their relation to the ETUC’s Women’s and Youth
Committees and the existing Women’s and Youth
networks operating in the CEE and NIS region.”
• The 1st meeting of the PERC Executive Committee
decided to approve the establishment of Women’s
and Youth Committees of PERC
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Youth work: PERC
• Youth committee – how to build?
• Are there existing youth representation
mechanisms?
• What are relations with ITUC and
ETUC?
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PERC Transitional youth
committee
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to ensure a) the process of consultations is coordinated with the
existing youth settings and b) the youth of the PERC organizations is
participating in the PERC and ITUC activities.
This transitional committee is composed by 9 members with 5 titular
members representing PERC organisations from the EU, at least one of
them being from the new member states; 3 – from the NIS countries,
and 1 – from the counties of Western Balkans.
The transitional committee shall operate on a base of the terms of
reference and its activities shall be part of the PERC working plan. It
shall also nominate its representatives to the PERC Executive
Committee and to the ITUC Youth Committee.
The transitional period shall be finished in 2009 by the Pan-European
conference to build the Committee.
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PERC transitional youth
committee
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Robert Hansen, LO-Norway, Norway
Fuad Mammadov, AHIK, Azerbaijan
Oksana Shevchuk, KVPU, Ukraine
Mina Vucojicic, Nezavisnost, Serbia
Erika Brselova, KOZ, Slovakia
Panjikos Argyrides, SEK, Cyprus
Tanja Mattias, LCGB, Luxembourg
Mikel Panos Bartolome, CC.OO, Spain
Evgeniy Sivaikin, FNPR, Russia
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And Vasil Andreev (FPU, Ukraine) and Ivan Djurisic (SSCG, Montenegro) were
proposed as substitutes. Nomination of other substitute members shall be
coordinated by the Youth committee members.
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Future Youth Committee basics
 The T.Y. Committee requested its members to organise
informal consultations in their regions – to make as broad
inclusion as possible in this consultative process on a base
of the initial concept of the meeting to be prepared by the
secretariat. The Committee has requested the secretariat to
explore funding possibilities.
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Made by the affiliates by the means of voting at conference
All are entitled to send their representative
It shall have mandate
It shall be responsible for implementation of the respective
PERC policies
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Priorities
• youth representation mapping in Europe;
• Contribution to PERC task forces
discussions;
• Youth conference in 2009: concept and
arrangements;
• Reporting to the PERC Executive Committee;
• Working plan for 2009
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Activities: perc.ituc-csi.org
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http://perc.ituc-csi.org/spip.php?rubrique81
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Demographic changes: challenge for Europe
19 September 2008
Trade union youth of Ukraine
14 July 2008
Trade Union Youth Summer School in Lithuania
1 July 2008
20 June: Action Day of Young Trade Unionists in South East Europe “It’s Time – Against
Youth Unemployment and for Greater Opportunities”
30 June 2008
Promoting Young Workers Interests through Social Partnership Channels project Evaluation
conference, Kiev, 13-14 May
15 May 2008
The 1st PERC Youth Committee meeting
22 April 2008
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