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UNI Europa (Finance) EWC policy
“CONCILIATION AND ARBITRATION: two ways to manage the effects of disputes on information
and consultation rights in the context of Banking mergers, acquisition and restructuring”
APF-FIBA/CISL European Conference
Brussels, 5 July 2011
Claudia Saller, UNI Europa EWC Policy Officer
Overview
1. UNI Europa and UNI Europa Finance
2. Stronger EWCs @ UNI Europa
3. UNI Europa finance strategy and work on EWC-MNC
4. The future
UNI Europa and
UNI Europa Finance
UNI Europa – the European trade union federation for workers in
the private services sector
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Covers 13 sectors
UNI Europa EWC work is sector based, with 1 cross sector EWC coordinator
Europe one of 4 regional branches
7 million members in 330 trade unions
UNI Europa Finance
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108 unions; 1,5 mio. members in Europe
Organising workers in the bank and insurance sectors
Stronger EWCs @
UNI europa!
•About 250 EWCs within UNI Europa sphere of responsibility
•Need for improving EWC quality, but limited capacity
•Need for bringing sectoral experiences together
•Working Group „Stronger EWCs@UNI Europa“ in 2010
•Develop cross-sectoral EWC Guidelines
•Develop a cross-sectoral strategy to improve EWC work
•Explaining UNI Europa EWC policy and goals
•How to make good use of the existing legislation
•Explaining all steps for setting up an SNB/EWC
•Focus on EWC coordination
•To be used as the basic common approach by UNI sectors and affiliates
UNI Europa’s goals
•Ensure
that employees’ rights to information and consultation are
respected at all times
•Ensure trade union support for EWC members
•Strengthen trade union alliances in the companies concerned
•Develop the EWC into a powerful tool of employee participation in the
company’s decision making
Setting up a Special Negotiation Body
•Motivation and unionisation of employees
•Contacts to other countries
•Sufficient trade union support
•Establishing communication structures
Negotiating an EWC agreement
•Minimum: legal requirements, Preferred: more rights for employees, more
concrete provisions
•Sufficient time for meetings
•Sufficient means (languages, communication facilities, etc)
•Trade union expert PLUS other experts
•Confidentiality not in contradiction with reporting duties
•Training: employees to choose trainer(s)
SNB/EWC coordination
•1 coordinator for each SNB/EWC
•Trade union official mandated by UNI Europa
•To support the SNB/EWC and be the link to UNI Europa
•Help develop the EWC into a strong European team that can influence
company’s decisions
UNI Europa Finance
EWC-MNC strategy
UNI Europa Finance Strategy
on Multinational Companies, EWC‘s, and SEs
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Developed in 2006, currently under revision
• Integrated approach to MNC‘s - going beyond Europe and
EWC‘s
• UNI Finance Network covers 50 EWCs and 1 SE
• Key principles same as UNI Europa EWC Guidelines, but
more encompassing and adapted to the Finance sector‘s
structure and need
• Decentralised organisation - pooling resources of employees‘
representatives and unions at all levels
UEF Multinational strategy:
Key elements and actors
1. Trade union alliances (Network of affiliates that organise in a
multinational, Coordinated by MNC Facilitator)
2. EWC/SE networks (Network of EWC/SE-WC members from
affiliates in an MNC & the experts mandated by UNI, coordinated by
EWC Coordinator)
3. Multinational Task Force and national advisors
4. UEF Steering Group and secretariat
Further developing UNI Europa cross sectoral policy
•Cooperation and synergies across sectors
•Going beyond EWC towards an integrated policy on Multinationals
•Strengthening trade union alliances and cooperation with affiliates
•Focusing on strengthening CEE trade union movement
•“Restructuring” is a key issue for the future
Claudia Saller
UNI europa EWC coordinator
UNI europa
rue de l'Hôpital 31
1000 Bruxelles
Belgium
Tel: +32 2 235 08 64
Fax: +32 2 235 08 70
[email protected]
www.uni-europa.org