JOINT REPRESENTATION UNION REPRESENTATION

� Union section

� Trade union delegate

� Industrial or other sector

union

� Employees' delegate

� Works Council

� Employee Council

(officials)

� Strike Committee

WORKERS DELEGATE

Basic representation body for those working in companies with 6to 49 employees.

Elected with secret and individual vote

Length of term: 4 years

Hour credit for union activities: 15

Vacancies are assigned based on number of votes

COMPOSITION: 1 delegate in companies with 6 to 30 employees

3 delegates in companies with 31 to 49 workers

COMPETENCES: The same competences and guarantees of works councils

DECISIONS AND AGREEMENTS: si prendono a maggioranza nel caso di 3 delegati.

CHARACTERISTICS

� Productive centers with over 50 workers

Election, secret vote, proportion with number of votes obtained,and presented lists

Representation 4 years, extendable if new elections are not held

Hour credit proportional to number of workers

�Right to information.

� Right of association

� Right to participate in the organization of working condition. (Labor Reform)

Hour credit. (Labor Reform)

� Premises for activities and announcement board

� HEALTH AND SAFETY COMMITTEE

� JOINT COMMITTEE

� EUROPEAN COMMITTEE

• A company is considered a european society if it has more than 1000 workers in the EU, or employs 150 workers in at least two States.

• We call for the creation of a European Council for reps, or of 100 workers in two workplaces located in diffrent States.

• The company must create a bargaining committee aimed at creating a European works council

� Law 10/1997, 24th April. Direttiva 94/45/EC

� Law 10/2011, 19th May, Transposition of Directive 2009/38/EC

� Right to information and consultation

� Doubts that institutions organizes: - workers' reps - employers

� Implementation of EWCs in Europe is34,8%.

� In Spain it is 14,6%.

� Percentages are lowering, effect of the crisis

� Economic crisis

� Attacks to workers' rights

� High rates of job losses and precarious

employment

� Loss of importance in the industrial sector

� Changing company structures

� Stagnant collective bargaining

� Debilitation of trade union organisations

� Out sourcing in foreign countries

� Risk for European social model

� National realities, retirement from European

environmente

� Dispersion of initiatives. Trade union federations

� Weak trade union strength facing negative

companies

�Interpretation on behalf of employers, right to

information I

� Language barriers, key element

� Trade union intercomunication

� Agreements with global brands

� Knowledge of local companies

� Exchange of national information

� CSR as a strategy

� Training, Information and Qualifications

Continuous information and assesment

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Emilio Ferrero López

Translation notesslide 1: Workers' representation, Spain

slide 2:Joint representation

slide 3: Employee delegate

slide 4: Works councils

slide 5: workers' reps rights

slide 6:Works council, representation council

slide 7: European Works Council, MuMMIA

slide 8:EWC Spain

slide 9:EWC Spain

slide 10: current scenario

slide 11: current scenario

slide 12: Weaknesses CEE

slide 13: Strengthening CEE

slide 14: European works councils, Impulse

consultation, information, EWC

slide 15: European works council, strengths

Companies, EWC, workers, trade unions

slide 16: many thanks