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EMF Collective Bargaining Summer
College – Costa da Caparica 9/2010
Draft overview of Topics for the Collective
Bargaining & Social Policy Work
Programme 2011-14
• To Include both collective bargaining as well as social
policy elements
• To include input from ad hoc SWP white collars
• To take into consideration new to be created work group
“temporary agency work”
• No general introduction: elements to be put forward for
general political resolution: WP = +/- 4 pages
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EMF Collective Bargaining Summer
College – Costa da Caparica 9/2010
Economic background
•Crisis – recovery ?
•Restructuring Competition
•Financial background
•Speculation – markets
Social background
• unemployment & insecurity
Demographic background
• labour market
• pensions
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EMF Collective Bargaining Summer
College – Costa da Caparica 9/2010
CONTINUED NEED COORDINATION
COLLECTIVE BARGAINING
•Collective bargaining is the main tool in protecting and
improving the wages and conditions of European
Metalworkers
•Continued threat for collective bargaining results and
structures
• European campaign on coverage rate for collective
agreements (opt out clauses, exemptions, opening
clauses)?
•More than ever high levels of unemployment, precarious
jobs and an on-going deregulation process.
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EMF Collective Bargaining Summer
College – Costa da Caparica 9/2010
WAGES
• Wage coordination rule
• current difficulties
•How to strengthen? How to improve?
• Implications for national <> company
• further decentralisation tendencies, negative wage
drift
• Wage development <> job protection
• equal treatment precarious contracts
• minimum wages
• advantages <> dangers
• different systems > clarity - honesty
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EMF Collective Bargaining Summer
College – Costa da Caparica 9/2010
Working Time
• Working Time directive – continued debate ?
• how to introduce / improve the EMF action
points?
• end of opt out – including managerial staff –
lower de max limit ???
• (re)new(ed) debate on working time
(re)distribution (reduction?), working time
organisation (individual / collective organisation,
individual flexibility, ...).
• Individual career development: sabbaticals,
interruptions, career redistribution, ...
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EMF Collective Bargaining Summer
College – Costa da Caparica 9/2010
Precarious work
• 2nd common demand
• state of the art? Missing road maps ....
• Intermediate evaluation 2nd half next year
• more visibility: press communications
• creating new work group in CBPC TAW
• debate with employers
• objective soc. dialogue committee
• work together with IMF other EIFS and ETUC ITUC
• Attentive for flexicurity debate Commission
• position paper EMF
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EMF Collective Bargaining Summer
College – Costa da Caparica 9/2010
Social Policy Issues
• Pensions – pension funds
• green book commission
• relevance information
• comparison systems
• pension funds collective & individual
• ageing workforce and transfer of knowledge
• how to organise this? Coll agreements? Role 1st
common demand
• work life balance: how not to remain slogan
• practical elements and examples
• Whistle blowing / Ethical charts: newer item
• Ethical question
• how to protect workers
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EMF Collective Bargaining Summer
College – Costa da Caparica 9/2010
Future European IRS
• Evaluation of our internal procedure MNC
negotiations
• how to organise in practice – means, staff
• how to integrate with other EIFs in mixed
companies
• how to integrate consultation method
(consulting trade unions, reaching majorities,
...)
• Continued work with expert group Commission
• How to ensure procedure and method are
respected
• Initiative Commission on restructuring ...
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EMF Collective Bargaining Summer
College – Costa da Caparica 9/2010
STRUCTURAL
• Regional networks
• revitalising ? How
• evaluating
• extending ? Is there a need, a use, a
possibility?
• Closer cooperation other EIFs
• how to proceed ?
• Eucoban
• Annual report > how to improve?
• Day by day > how to improve
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EMF Collective Bargaining Summer
College – Costa da Caparica 9/2010
STRUCTURAL
• White Collars
Overview of structure, membership, organising
methods, exchange of best practice
• Equal Opportunities
• All Collective agreements should include these
elements?
• how to ensure this? how to extend this?
• What about debate for further common demands
• procedure and principle is foreseen
• what about the need?
• what about future topics if any?
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EMF Collective Bargaining Summer
College – Costa da Caparica 9/2010
OVERVIEW
• Campaign Coverage rate collective agreements
• wages
• coordination rule – minimum wages
• wages <> job protection
• Working Time
• working time organisation
• WT directive
• Social Policy Issues
• pensions – work/life – whistle blowing
• Future IRS
• procedure – integration other EIFs
• Structural
• Eucoban – regional networks – cooperation – survey
white collars – equal opportunities - common
demands
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