2. 2
history and statistics
● Come è cominciato
● Primi anni 80: desiderio di estendere i comitati dei lavoratori Francesi a
livello internaizonale
● pionieri : gli accordi aziendali di Saint-Gobain, Pechiney, Danone, Usinor,
Rhône Poulenc per allargare il comitato aziendale
● Primo accordo negoziato dall’EMF : Thomson and Scanspeed nel1985
● 12.1990 : prima proposta di una direttiva CAE, motivazione per le
multinazionali a dare vita ad accorid CAE volontari
source : www.ewcdb.eu
3. 3
history and statistics
● Gli anni del boom
● 1994 : pubblicazione delle direttiva 94/45 “per l’istituzione del CAE o di una
procedura di informazione e consultazione dei lavoratori su scala
comunitaria”
● 2 anni di tempo per la transposizione della direttiva nell’ordinamento
nazionale (EU 14 + EEA)
5 paesi oltre la deadline (PT 1999, LUX 2000, IT 2002)
source : www.ewcdb.eu
4. 4
history and statistics
● Gli anni della stabilità
● 1999 : deadline per la revisione della direttiva
● ETUC : llunga lista di cambiamenti ; Business Europe : non c’è bisogno di
alcun cambiamento!
Parlamento europeo: ha chiesto alla Commissione di prendere l’iniziativa
● 2004 : EU 25 ; 2006 : EU 27
● 2009 : pubblicazione della direttiva rifusa 2009/38 “
source : www.ewcdb.eu
In September 1994 when the EWC Directive was adopted, 46 companies had already established 49 EWCs. Of these 49 EWCs there are 37 that still exist in 2005. The other established EWCs no longer exist because of company mergers or takeovers. By 2007, 972 EWCs had been created of which 833 still exist.
September 2012 : 1015 active EWCs for 943 multinationals. + 61 SNB
Thomson 1985
Danone 1988
Saint-Gobain 1988
Pechiney 1989
Nestlé 1990
Volkswagen 1990
Eurocopter/EADS 1992
May 2014 : 1056 active EWCs (includes SE WC)
More than half of all the existing EWCs falls under the responsibility of industriAll and UNI Europa covers about ¼, so these federations need a large network of coordinators to be able to follow what is happening in those companies. For the smaller ETUFs there may be less EWCs, but with less resources and staff the challenge is equally important.
Czech1
Greece1
Iceland1
India1
Liechtenstein1
Mexico1
Portugal1
Saudi Arabia1
Singapour2
Slovenia1
South Korea1
UAE1
Hungary2
South Africa2
Australia3
Cyprus3
Luxemburg4
Canada7
Ireland8
Spain13
Norway17
Austria23
Japan25
Denmark30
Finland35
Italy37
Belgium42
Switzerland43
Netherlands57
Sweden61
France106
UK111
USA155
Germany186
With relative to very high numbers of EWCs with headquarters in Germany, UK, France, Sweden, Netherlands, Belgium… there is also a need for many and good trade union coordinators in those countries. Which is a challenge, especially in countries with competing unions.
Especially since the entrance of CEE Member States in the EU, more and more EWCs have a very high number of countries represented, which complicates the internal communication and cohesion.