Italiano English Español Deutsch Polski Română Српски језикFrom the perspective of council members, the organisation must commit itself to the ultimate implementation of all agreed measures across all its facilities. But this doesn’t mean that trade unions may quickly back off. They will continue to do their work, applying essential procedures. And I don’t only…
Italiano English Español Deutsch Polski Română Српски језикIt was 1995 when Mario Ongaro started working on a project to establish EWCs in large groups from the banking sector. In just three years, engaged unionists embarked on joint efforts to expand the presence of European Works Councils and have them established at all banks with an…
Italiano English Español Deutsch Polski Română Српски језикA favourable stellar configuration – this is how Massimo Mensi describes circumstances that led him to EWC. When he was reading social studies, his professor included European Works Councils in the curriculum. Today, as a Filcams officer, Mensi is dealing with companies 90% of which are multinational organisations….
Italiano English Español Deutsch Polski Română Српски језикWhile talking about his work, Giuseppe Iuliano often uses the word “talk”. “We want to talk about the employee relations system… Let’s talk about the European union movement….” And he’s a good narrator whose description of the character offers a rare glimpse into the entire context. We are…
Italiano English Español Deutsch Polski Română Српски језик“The most genuine thing I remember is friendship. It grew with time, after a period when the relationship between us trade union delegates and EWC members struggled to take off. French members did not trust us. It went on like this for two, three years: we kept saying…
Italiano English Español Deutsch Polski Română Српски језикMarisa Menolotto is about to retire. She takes a look back and analyses her experience in the EWC: “There have been highs and lows”, she says. She is a bit disheartened –times have been difficult, but in spite of everything she has not lost her enthusiasm. On 15th…
Italiano English Español Deutsch Polski Română Српски језикIn 2014, during a meeting between European works councils, the Unilever EWC was awarded a prize. It was a prize acknowledging its innovative skill, because it had launched a new tool to increase the effectiveness of the consultation mechanisms: the so-called Barcelona agenda. “We were feeling the need…
Italiano English Español Deutsch Polski Română Српски језикThe future challenge is unifying workers’ goals and interests by sharing legitimate local interests and also launching common trade union initiatives to this purpose. For many years now I have been experiencing the EWC of ST Microelectronics, and it is not easy to briefly sum up this experience…
Italiano English Español Deutsch Polski Română Српски језикIn Europe the only thing we have in common, even today, is the currency, since contracts (some don’t even have a national contract), protections, and the way of practicing trade unionism are very different from country to country. I have been a delegate since 2002. I have witnessed…
Italiano English Español Deutsch Polski Română Српски језикI absolutely believe that an experience in an EWC can only be positive. Both due to the fact that you become familiar with analyses and situations that lie outside your national reach, and due to the fact that you can assess and learn about the different realities of…
Italiano English Español Deutsch Polski Română Српски језикI participated in the EWC for Renault, which took place in Paris from June 26th to July 3rd, 2015. The most significant experience was meeting the company’s European and non-European EWC delegates and directly perceiving the situations in different places in all professional spheres, production, commercial, and financial….
Italiano English Español Deutsch Polski Română Српски језикWhen Mario Principe first heard of EWCs, not many people knew them. At the time, he was working in a pharmaceutical company. Years later, he became a full-time trade unionist. Today, among other things, Principe deals with European Works Councils. «Observing the dynamics of industrial relations from up…
Italiano English Español Deutsch Polski Română Српски језикWhen Marco Beretta was a union delegate, in the beginning of the year 2000, Carrefour already had a very active EWC. The current official of Filcams remembers the meetings with the then member of the council, the discussions that put everything into relation: Europe, Italy, the reason for…
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