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.
This conference was attended by more than 120 delegates and several guest speakers, including the deputy General Secretary of the EMF and the chairman of the Czech parliamentary Social Policy Committee as well as several academics. During the conference, a joint resolution was agreed on (text will be published here after translation). This conference showed the clear intention to work actively in this region on this topic.
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.