EU: unions form the Visegrad group adopted a joint declaration on the strengthening of social dialogue

During a conference entitled "social dialogue in central and western Europe: Experience and prospects", organized on April 24, 2007 in Poland, unions from the Višegrad (*) group adopted a joint declaration on social dialogue in which they want to see it strengthened in their countries. (Ref. 070386)
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In this declaration, unions called on their governments and national managerial organizations to “respect social dialogue regulations, [and] to cooperate with and understand claims from workers’ representatives.” According to unions, group collective conventions and companies agreements are important tools to social dialogue and that their promotion is a vital condition for social dialogue to exist at all levels of labor relations. “recognizing all representation union organizations as legitima

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