The coordinators’ role. UNI-Europa’s EWC coordinator network is taking shape. The idea isn’t new; for year, the federation has been willing to encourage exchanges between its representatives, which it chooses from an affiliated union, to improve liaison between EWCs, the national unions of the countries where businesses are present and the European federation. Besides, the new EWC directive, adopted in 2009 (see our dispatch No. 090447), enhances the role of European trade union organization, acknowledging that they need to be informed when a special negotiating body is created in a company in preparation for the establishment of a EWC, that they can act as experts during the negotiations and after the EWChas been created. On February 1-3, UNI-Europa gathered its 24 coordinators from 10 European countries to give more weight to these representatives’ function and assess their needs.
ablishment of a EWC, that they can act as experts during the negotiations and after the EWChas been created. On February 1-3, UNI-Europa gathered its 24 coordinators from 10 European countries to give more weight to these representatives’ function and assess their needs.
Exchanging information. For the union federation, the point was to gather coordinators from very different sectors in order to improve the exchange of information between them. Representatives from the financial, trade, graph
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