Global Agreements, Global Alliances and EWCs

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Global Agreements, Global Alliances and EWCs
SESSION 7

• Best practices in UNI sectors

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Building Networks

• By setting up Working Groups and/or solidarity
  networks with regard to specific multinationals,
  involving the largest number of unions in all the
  regions.
• By Strengthen the International Working Group on
  Multinationals, as well as the existing Working
  Groups on Multinationals in Asia, Africa, the
  Americas and Europe.
• By Build and update databases with regard to the
  main multinationals in the sector.
• By Develop comparative charts with regard to the
  behaviour of the companies and the situation of
  the unions in each multinational.
• By Encourage, at the national level, the
  coordination of actions among the different
  unions that negotiate with the same company
• By Promote, along with the national unions,
  training and an understanding of the global
  dimension for union representatives in these
  companies.

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TRADE UNION ALLIANCES/NETWORKSIN UNI GRAPHICAL

• AMCOR (HQ, Australia)
• NAMPAK (HQ, South Africa)
• QUEBECOR (HQ, Canada)
• DONNELLEY (HQ, USA)
• KIMBERLY CLARK (HQ, USA)
• Other targets Alcan, Tetrapack, Prisa

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Building Networks UNI G and the EWC

• Establish, through UNI Graphical Europe, active
  ties to members of the European Works Councils to
  exchange information and coordinate global
  actions

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UNI G-EWC Working together Why?

• Because if the company is global, we should have
  global strategies
• Because we should fight against the double
  moral of some companies that respect human and
  trade union rights in some countries, having at
  the same time an agressive anti union behaviour
  in others.
• Because the voice of the members of the EWCs can
  be effective to persuade companies to have
  corporate social responsability
• Because to speak with the same voice make us
  strong before the companies, at regional, global
  and local levels.

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JUSTICE AT QUEBECORCAMPAIGN

• March 18, Global Solidarity Day
• 12-05 Quebecor World- European Work Council
  representatives expressed their full support for
  a Global Agreement and demanded to the company
  respect for Trade Union rights for their
  colleagues in the USA

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Why a global agreement?

• Global agreements are very valuable tools to
  ensure that core labour standards laid down by
  the ILO are observed, wherever the companies
  operate.
• Trough global agreements (signed between UNI and
  multinational companies) we defend the rights of
  the workers to form and to belong to a Union and
  to collective bargain.

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Global agreement with Quebecor World

• In May 2007, after five years of networking and
  campaigning, we signed a global agreement with
  Quebecor World
• The agreement was signed during the annual
  meeting of the EWC

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In Amcor

• In conjunction with members of the EWC and the
  support of Grafiska, Sweden, UNI GRAPHICAL
  succeded in organize the plant in Thailand and we
  are close to organize a second plant in Malaysia.
• The next meeting for the network will be in
  Poland, in 2008

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In ALCAN

• In conjunction with CEP-Canada and AMICUS we
  succeeded in organize one of the plants in
  Istanbul, get the recognition for the new Union
  and get the first CBA, signed in January.
• New Union organized in Thailand
• Our next challenge is the new plant in New Delhi,
  India
• Next November we will celebrate the first
  International TU Meeting, in Istanbul

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Through all these processes,

• We are building
• Practical solidarity between Unions
• UNI Graphical identity, specially at the level of
  the workers of the companies
• We are increasing our capacity to think globally
  and to act locally
• Support for our global strategies at the
  different levels of the Unions
• Organizing strategies, to win new members for the
  Unions and for UNI Graphical-UNI Europa Graphical
• Self -confidence, energies, new synergies, better
  understanding on the different trade union
  cultures

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Through all these processes,

• WE ARE BUILDING STRATEGIC POWER

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Building strategic power

• Kimberly Clark, Alcan, SIG, Donnelley, Nampak,
  Quebecor