Transcript ITALCEMENTI BUZZI UNICEM EWC agreements

ITALCEMENTI
BUZZI UNICEM
EWC agreements
NEW EWC DIRECTIVE
Trevi, April 16, 2009
EFBWW/FETBB
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European Industry Federation for the construction
industry, the building materials industry, the wood
and furniture industry and the forestry industry.
The EFBWW has 74 affiliated unions in 30 countries
and represents a total of 2,350,000 members.
The EFBWW is a member organisation of the
European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) and
has its headquarters in Brussels.
EFBWW/FETBB
• General Assembly every 4 years
• Executive Committee (meets twice a year)
• Management Committee (meets twice a year
before the ExCo meetings)
• 2 Standing Committees (Building and Wood)
• 1 Health & Safety working group
• 1 Multiproject Coordinators Group (EWCs)
EFBWW/FETBB
• President: Domenico PESENTI (Italy)
• 1° Vice President: Luc Van Dessel (Belgium)
• 2° Vice President: Hans Tilly (Sweden)
• General Secretary: Sam Hägglund (Sweden)
HISTORY
• ITALCEMENTI
• 1864: Italcementi
Foundation
• End of ’80s: first
internationalization
initiatives
• April 1992: Take over of
Ciments Français
(globalization process)
• BUZZI UNICEM
• 1907: Buzzi Foundation
• 1872: Unicem
Foundation
• 1999: Buzzi-Unicem
• 2004: Take over of
Dyckerhoff A.G.
(founded in 1864)
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ITALCEMENTI
Multinational enterprise of cement,
ready mix and aggregates (5° in the
world)
Employs 23,000 workers
Present in 22 countries in 4 continents
of the world:
EU perimeter: Italy, France, Belgium,
Spain, Greece, Bulgaria.
Other European countries: Albania,
Cyprus, Turkey
Asia: Saudi Arabia, China, Kazakhstan,
Kuwait, India, Sri Lanka, Thailand
Africa: Egypt, Gambia, Mauritania,
Morocco
North America: Canada and U.S.A.
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BUZZI UNICEM
International multi-regional enterprise
of cement, ready mix and aggregates.
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Employs 11,000 workers
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Present in 11 countries in the world:
EU perimeter: Italy, Germany, Poland,
Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Czech
Republic and Slovakia.
Other countries: Russia, Ukraine,
Mexico and USA.
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EWC agreements
• EWC agreement signed
in June, 1995 (art. 13)
• Renewed in 2003 and
2007
• Next renewal: 2011
• EWC agreement signed
in June, 2008 (art. 6)
• Next renewal: 2012
EWC Compostion
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ITALCEMENTI: 26
11 Italy
8 France (1 cadre)
2 Belgium
2 Spain
1 Greece
2 Bulgaria
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BUZZI UNICEM: 15
6 Italy (1 cadre)
4 Germany
1 Poland
1 Czech Rep
1 the Netherland
1 Luxembourg
1 Slovakia
Select Committee Composition
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Italcementi: 5
1 Italy
1 France
1 Belgium
1 Spain
Secretary: from one of
the Italian TUs
• The Italian EWCs
coordinator is invited on
behalf of EFBWW
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Buzzi Unicem: 5
2 Italy
2 Germany
Secretary: from one of
the Italian TUs
• The Italian EWCs
coordinator is invited on
behalf of EFBWW
Meetings
• Italcementi:
• 1 EWC annual meeting
• (possibility of a 2° annual
meeting if needed to be
agreed in advance with the
Management)
• Buzzi Unicem:
• 2 EWC Select Committe
meetings
• 2 EWC Select Committe
meetings
• Possibility of an
extraordinary meeting when
needed
• Possibility of an
extraordinary meeting when
needed
• 1 EWC annual meeting
Items for EWC meetings
• In both Italcementi and Buzzi Unicem EWC meetings:
• - production and sales final figures and their probable evolution;
– economic outcome;
– employment situation and its probable evolution;
– relevant investments and important and substancial technological
innovations that may affect occupational levels and/or organisation and
working methods;
– enterprises and establishments’ restructurings and transfers of production
that may affect the employment in general;
– vocational training;
– Health and Safety at workplace initiatives;
– environmental issues with particular reference to sustainable
development initiatives.
– Corporate Social Responsibility
Confidentiality
• Italcementi:
• Confidential information: SNB
and EWC members, all those
attending the meetings are
not authorised to reveal to
third parties, information
received in confidence by the
Management
• Buzzi Unicem:
• Confidential information: SNB
and EWC members, experts
who assist them and all those
attending the meetings are
not authorised to reveal to
third parties, not employed in
the undertakings of the
Group, information received
in confidence and defined
and justified in such way, by
the Management.
Communication
• Both for Italcementi and Buzzi Unicem Ewc
members:
• In order to make communication among the
EWC members easier, they are entitled to use
information systems (computer, printer, ext..)
available in the dedicated trade union reps’
rooms or at their working position.
SNB: possibility for requesting assistance by represetatives of
competent recognised Community-level TU organisations
Italcementi SNB (1995) was composed of workers reps,
Italian TUs at national level and Management
Buzzi Unicem SNB (2008) was composed of workers
reps(15), Italian TUs at national level (5), a German TU rep,
EFBWW rep and Management
Trade unions’ presence is foreseen in the negotiation and
renegotiations phases (SNB)
Italcementi: At the annual EWC meetings composed
of the preparatory, plenary and follow-up sessions, a
trade union rep at national level for each Italian TU
organisation (3), and the Italian EWCs coordinator
(on behalf of EFBWW) will be invited
Buzzi Unicem: see above “plus together with an
external expert chosen by the EWC”
Transnational character: matters which concern the
entire undertaking or a group or at least 2 Member States
Italcementi: as described in the new Ewc Directive
Buzzi Unicem: Buzzi Ewc members will receive
information and will be consulted on initiatives
concerning potential effects on workforce even if just
one country is involved.
The information has to be given simultaneously at
national and transnational level
Information shall be given in order to enable workers’ reps to
acquaint with the subject matter and examine it, at such time,
fashion and with content as are appropriate to undertake an
in-depth assessment and prepare for consultations
Both for Italcementi and Buzzi Unicem:
Managements will send at least 30 days before the
annual EWC meeting the documents concerning the
information-consultation matters together with the
agenda, date and venue of the meeting in all the Ewc
members’ languages
EWC members have the possibility to be assisted by
experts
Italcementi: On specific matters, the EWC, through
its select committee, can request an external expert
assistance for the preparatory session, agreed in
advance with the Management. His fee will be paid
by the Management.
Buzzi Unicem: Buzzi Ewc members have the
possibility to consult an external expert, chosen by
them (paid by the Management) who can actively
attend all the meetings (preparatory, plenary, followup, extraordinary) and take part in all the items of the
agenda
External expert max fee per day: € 800,00
The right for Ewc members to be trained
Both for Italcementi and Buzzi Unicem
The EWC Select Committee and the Management
will verify the possibility of training seminars on
workers’ reps interest, also co-financed by the EC
through project submission.
BWI – Building and Wood workers
International
• BWI is the Global Union Federation grouping free and
democratic unions with members in the Building, Building
Materials, Wood, Forestry and Allied sectors.
The BWI groups together around 318 trade unions representing
around 12 million members in 130 countries. The Headquarters
is in Geneva, Switzerland. Regional Offices are located in
Panama and Malaysia, South Africa, India, Australia, Burkina
Faso, Bulgaria, Lebanon, Kenya, South Korea, Russia, Argentina,
Peru and Brazil.
BWI mission is to promote the development of trade unions in
the sectors throughout the world and to promote and enforce
workers rights in the context of sustainable development.
Italcementi and IFA
• IFA is based on the signatories’ joint
commitment to respect basic human and trade
union rights according to the fundamental
principles of human rights as defined in the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the
ILO Declaration on the Fundamental Principles
and Rights at Work, ILO Conventions and the
OECD guidelines on Multinational Companies.
Italcementi and IFA
• In June, 2008 an IFA was signed by Italcementi
Management, a BWI representative, the Italian
TUs at national level and the Italcementi EWC,
through its Select Committee.
• Italcementi Group, through this IFA, commits
itself to promote these principles with its
subsidiaries, contractors, subcontractors and
suppliers.
THANKS FOR YOUR
ATTENTION