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The latest issue of the CO-industri magazine - issued in the heat of the bargaining round - has the EMF Second Common Demand on the front-page as well as the main theme on its website.
EMF Launches 2nd Common Demand of the European metalworkers’ unions “For more secure employment, against precarious work”
The 6th EMF Collective Bargaining Conference (Madrid, 17th & 18th November) was held under the slogan "Jobs, Rights & Collective Bargaining". Over 220 participants debated the effects of the current crisis on collective bargaining rounds, structures and agreement results throughout Europe.
6th EMF Collective Bargaining Policy Conference
“Jobs, Rights and Collective Bargaining”
Tuesday 17th & Wednesday 18th November
Hotel Velada, Madrid
Junge Metaller protestieren für feste Jobs
Hamburg (dpa/lno) - Am ‚‚Welttag für menschenwürdige Arbeit’’ des internationalen Gewerkschaftsbundes haben am Mittwoch im Norden rund 15 000 Auszubildende für bessere Berufsaussichten demonstriert. Bei der Hamburger Schiffswerft Blohm + Voss baute die IG Metall Jugend am frühen Morgen Mauern aus Pappkartons auf. Um fünf vor zwölf ließen die 145 Auszubildenden des Betriebes Luftballons aufsteigen, an denen Postkarten mit ihren Zukunftswünschen befestigt waren. Sie sollten darauf hinweisen, dass Jugendliche nach ihrer Ausbildung keine klare berufliche Perspektive haben.
CC.OO and MCA - UGT Manifesto: Against Precarious Work
In the framework of the decent work campaign (WDDW) and activities organised to oppose precarious work, Spanish unions CC.OO and MCA-UGT, call for an end to the deadlock in collective bargaining.
Get the World to Work – Trade Unions Mobilise Around the Globe on 7 October, World Day for Decent Work
ITUC OnLine
155/071009
Brussels, 7 October (ITUC OnLine): Trade unions in more than 100 countries, from the eastern Pacific to the west coast of the Americas, are mobilising on 7 October to tackle the global economic and employment crisis and demand fundamental reform of the world economy. Organisations from more than 100 countries have already posted information on their events onto the special website http://www.wddw.org
International aktion mod usikre job
I ly af den økonomiske krise bliver flere og flere lønmodtagere ansat på usikre vilkår. De bliver i stigende grad ansat på gentagne korttidsansættelser, de må tage job som vikarer, hvor ansættelsesforholdene ikke svarer til de fastansattes, eller deres ansættelseskontrakt er uden et specificeret timeantal.
Derfor er 7. oktober blevet udråbt til international aktivitetsdag mod usikre job, også kaldet prekære ansættelser.
Global Union Federations Support Thai Workers: Permanent Jobs First, Ratification of ILO Conventions 87 and 98
International trade union federations lend their support to the Thai labour movement’s campaign to protect precarious workers and their demands for the ratification of fundamental International Labour Organization (ILO) conventions numbers 87 and 98, on Freedom of Association and the Right to Organize and the Right to Collective Bargaining.
Metalicy in Bulgaria publishes new brochure
TU "Metalicy"
International Department
Tel: +35929884821
Fax: +35929882710
www.metalicy-bg.com
Action against Precarious Work in Finland
On October 6 the Finnish IMF-EMF affiliates (Metalli, TU, UIL and TEK) will arrange a seminar where the afternoon session is dedicated to precarious and decent work, relating it to temporary and contract labour, the behaviour of TNCs, and the conditions of work of foreign workers in Finland.
Participants of the seminar are shopstewards of big multinational companies like Nokia, Kone, Metso, Rautaruukki, STX Europe, ABB, Sisu-Diesel and YIT as well as union officials.
Activities planned by FIM-CISL , Italy
FIM-CISL is planning two particular activities during the week of action on precarious work.
DGB calls on its affiliates to organise and participate in actions on 7th October for WDDW
Events taking place in Berlin will focus on drawing attention to such issues as: exploitation through work, the minimum wage, the financial crisis, globalisation, human rights worldwide and poverty.
CGT France Courrier Federal
October 2009
Editorial on the plans for Action Day on 7 October
IG Metall letter to heads of federal states on enforcing new regulations for agency workers
In an open letter to the prime ministers of the different federal states in Germany IG Metall supports efforts to enforce new regulations for agency workers. IG Metall President Berhold Huber and Vice President Detlef Wetzel call on the head of the federal states to "assume responsibility for the fairness on the labour market".
The National Association of Hungarian Trade Unions (MSZOSZ) plans actions for WDDW
In Hungary for the World Day for Decent Work (WDDW) the National Association of Hungarian Trade Unions (MSZOSZ) is planning an action against the unfair and unacceptable working conditions of temporary workers
Belgian trade union FGTB organises 5th Precarious Work Day
Last Wednesday the FGTB (Belgium) organised its fifth Precarious Work day
In different regions actions were held: newspapers (The Interim Times) were distributed in railway stations and a European Seminar was organised in which FGTB General Secretary (Ortwin Magnus) spoke .
More information on activities can be found here
Information from Metalicy, Bulgaria about planned activities
In the period 3-10 October, as a part of the global week of action against precarious work, TU “METALICY” is planning the following:
Precariously employed workers in Serbia die in factory explosion
Seven workers, out of which five were precariously employed at the Prvi partizan ammunition factory in Uzice, Serbia, died in a tragic accident on September 3rd 2009.
October 7 World Day for Decent Work – Get the World to Work
With four weeks to go until the World Day for Decent Work on October 7, ITUC General Secretary Guy Ryder has issued a call to action headed “Get the World to Work” to encourage participation in the worldwide mobilisation to tackle the global economic and employment crisis and ensure fundamental reform of the world economy. Trade unions in every region are gearing up for their October 7 activities, with organisations from more than 30 countries having already posted information on their events onto the special website www.wddw.org.
World Day for Decent Work (WDDW) 7th October 2009
Global labour’s World Day for Decent Work next month will reveal a wide swath of economic, social, and gender neglect that assails millions of workers, but nowhere is that neglect as evident anywhere as it is to contract and agency workers.
The ICEM, in unity with several other Global Union Federations (GUFs) and the Council of Global Unions, will use the day – 7 October, and indeed, the days before and after – to highlight the need to bring respectability and work rights to contract and agency workers. See more on the event on the ICEM website
OS KOVO Activities linked with the Global Action Day against Precarious Employment
Among other things OS Kovo (Czech Republic) is:
Information about the Second EMF Common Demand „ FOR MORE SECURE EMPLOYMENT, AGAINST PRECARIOUS WORK“ is included in the Methodological Guide for company collective bargaining
Information about planned activities for Action Day against precarious work from VASAS, Hungary
On 7 October Vasas performed a "freezing flash mob", which was an action taking place in major Hungarian cities such as Budapest, Győr, Pécs, Miskolc, Zalaegerszeg, Dunaújváros with cooperation of the cofedaretion /MSZOSZ/.
The objective was to act at the same time and do the same thing. In the city of Győr the union also invited people to an "after party" called "the late night shift", which was a concert with a very popular Hungarian hip-hop group.
IMF Campaign Material 2009
In the continuing fallout from the global financial crisis, millions of workers in precarious employment have lost their jobs. For employers, cutting temporary and agency jobs has proven to be a cheap and easy way of reducing their workforce. But for workers it has resulted in hardship, uncertainty and a complete lack of control over their working lives.
Funktionswandel von Leiharbeit 2009
IG Metall demands a return to secure jobs
Otto Brenner Stiftung
International conference on 7 October in Norway
Fellesforbundet together with the Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions and the research institute FAFO are planning an international conference for the world day for Decent Work on 7 October.
IG Metall bikers - For Decent Work
On 5 September at 9.30 in Frankfurt the IG Metall bikers (Workers Wheels) are riding for decent work - decent lives.
Working conditions survey in Italy
THE VOICE OF 100,000 WORKERS
Results of a national study on the working conditions of Italian metalworkers.
Brochures by ACV-CSC, Belgium
Danish activities in relation with the action day on the 7 October
The danish unions chose to focus on the problem of unserious temporary agencies. They did this through articles (see attached below) in a number of regional newspapers where we warned enterprises in Danish manufacturing industry against employing workers through an unserious agency. Essentially the employers were reminded that in most cases it was their responsibility that the temporary agency workers got what the collective agreement proscribed and that the unions would raise the demand with them directly in cases of under-payment, lacking holiday-pay or other such problems.
Manif Travail Décent + GM - Delphi - Ford Strasbourg le 07.10.2008
Nous étions environs 220 GM (dont 200 sous la bannière CGT) et 30 Delphi et par solidarité nous avons porté des tee shirt Ford.
Aux camarades des autres syndicats Européens de GME, de Ford, de Delphi et des autres constructeurs Automobile et équipementiers, nous démontrons qu'en France nous arrivons quand même à faire cause commune.
Au niveau GME il a été décidé que si Strasbourg fait une action les syndicats de GME nous soutiendraient !
En ces temps obscures,
Ou le capital déstructure,
Il faut une contremesure
Pour notre société future.
Il est temps que ensemble nous arrêtons la machine infernale !
David POIROT, CGT GM
Conference of memorandum group on precarious work - Prague
The Vienna Memorandum group (Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Hungary, Austria & Bavaria), a transnational regional network of the metalworkers' trade unions, organised a large conference in the framework of the global action day against precarious work.
Activities of Solidarnosc, Poland
Posters and booklets received from the IMF were distributed to our plant commissions with information about the campaign.
It meet with positive reaction in our commissions of NSZZ "Solidarnosc".
We asked our colleagues to write letters to responsible people in government, Employers' associations etc. And it was done.
With best regards
Adam Ditmer
President
Birlesik Metal-Is Sendikasi - Turkey - Demonstration for Action Day
We organized a demonstration and a press statement on 6 October 2008 in front of the ISUZU(A company that we are organising in Gebze,Istanbul). There were the workers of Isuzu and also our members from other companies, we were aproximately 500.
In the declaration that our General Secretary made at the end of the demonstration, the importance of the unity of the world working class and fighting against the precarious work was mentioned.
Meeting of the EMF shipbuilding committee in Istanbul
Meeting of the EMF shipbuilding committee in Istanbul – an activity within the framework of mobilising against precarious work.
France - An estimated 100.00 present for Action Day - 7th October 2008
Up to an estimated 100.000 workers participated in actions all over France in the framework of the EMF & IMF global action day against precarious work and the global action day of the confederations for decent work. These actions culminated in a big meeting on the Trocadero Place in Paris, where several European, international and French trade unions leaders spoke. The rally was followed by a free concert that was greatly appreciated.
„Aktionstag gegen prekäre Beschäftigung“ am 7. Oktober in Hannover
Die Gewerkschaften haben den 7. Oktober zum Welttag für menschenwürde Arbeit ausgerufen, um in unterschiedlichster Form weltweit gegen unsichere und ungeschützte Arbeitsverhältnisse zu protestieren.
Die IG Metall unterstützt diese Aktivitäten mit dem „Aktionstag gegen prekäre Beschäftigung“ und stellt das Thema Leiharbeit in den Mittelpunkt. Tagtäglich wird mit der Leiharbeit Missbrauch betrieben. Leiharbeit ist zum Inbegriff für Arbeitnehmer zweiter Klasse geworden.
MARDI 7 OCTOBRE 2008, journée mondiale pour le Travail décent
La coalition belge pour le Travail décent composée d’organisations et de syndicats,présente sa campagne 2008-2010
Boîte à outils géante à Schuman pour dénoncer les conditions de travail injustes au Nord, comme au Sud
Decent work and global framework agreements, around the world, would be an asset for Finnish companies
Council of Finnish Industrial Unions TP:
On 7 October, the World Day for Decent Work, Council of Finnish Industrial Unions TP proposes that all Finnish-based multinationals, in tandem with respective trade union organisations, embark on a process with the aim of negotiating global framework agreements. Henceforth, Finnish-based multinationals could genuinely profile themselves as socially responsible actors and place themselves in a different moral category from companies that are blacklisted because of their socially irresponsible behaviour.
Activities of ACV-CSC, Belgium
Our campain is online. In French In Dutch We have a brochure and an online enquête. We have tried to explain the metal workers what rools we have discussed in collective barganing to minimize precarious work or to make the work more comfortable. We ask people what is most important in that discussion.
Activities of NF"Metallurgy"CL"Podkrepa" Bulgaria
The massive expansion of precarious work must be stopped!
NF"Metallurgy"CL"Podkrepa"
Bulgaria
Activities undertaken by Metalicy, Bulgaria
Activities undertaken by Metalicy in the framework of the campaign 'Mobilising globally against precarious work'.
EMF Campaign on Precarious Employment 6 October 2008
Filmed statement by Peter Scherrer, EMF General Secretary
The European and International Metalworkers Federations are jointly organising a global action against precarious employment in 2008. It is an essential element of both federations.
The objective is clear:
- The massive expansion of precarious work must be stopped
- Where precarious work does exist, wages and conditions must be equal to those of regular workers and full coverage of social security should be guaranteed
- Workers should be directly hired and indirect employment discouraged
- Basic job security has to be guaranteed, as well as full protection in the field of health and safety Therefore urgent trade union action is required.
The global action day is a clear signal to employers and governments all over the world that this is no longer acceptable.
Turkey - Birlesik Metal-Is
On October 7 Birlesik Metal-Is is organizing a demonstration on the subject of precarious work. The demonstration will have two basic titles:
- Our demands at collective agreement (because employers are insisting on flexibility, and we declared that it is a reason of strike for us; and
- Precarious work.
After October 7, the union's actions will continue on the collective bargaining process as it is related with its demands it will keep continuing to emphasize an end to precarious work.
Macedonia - SIER
The union, SIER, will use the IMF campaign materials to increase awareness about this issue. It will organise an open session of the union council with the presence of the public and present IMF materials.
For more secure employment, against precarious work
The EMF Collective Bargaining Policy Conference 2009 launched the 2nd Common Demand:
“For more secure employment, against precarious work”,
which will be included in the collective bargaining demands of all its 75 affiliated trade unions and in future collective bargaining rounds throughout Europe over the next four years.
