Together, sea workers unions from Estonia, Sweden and Finland asked the Estonian marine company Tallink – providing passenger transportation in the Baltic sea – to create a European work's council. This initiative is a first for a company from a Baltic state. (Ref. 070442)
Since it was bought off in the summer of 2006 by a Finnish competing company, Silja Line, for 450 million euros, Tallink is the main ferry company for passengers in the Baltic sea. Among its approximately 6,000 employees, there are mostly Estonians, Swedish, Finnish and Latvian workers. These employees work according to the diverse collective conventions signed in the countries where they live. “An EWC would be a good idea to improve the exchange of information and the consultation of all emplo
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