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
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
