1. Special Negotiating Body - Third Meeting
London, 25-26 February 2009
“ Do we have any
data to help us in
the choices? ”
2. Founded in May 2004 by ETUC
(European Trade Union
Confederation) and supported by
ITUC (International Trade Union
Confederation), EIF (European
Industry Federation) …
Sources
www.sda-asbl.org:
1) Infopoint database
"analysis of the EWC
agreements 2004-2008" -
October 2008
2) Analysis of the SDA
INFOPOINT database "EWC
AGREEMENTS", 2006
3. Sample
The EWC data-base of SDA contains more than
770 (ALL) agreements with over 60 search
criteria. The data concern:
102 agreements ruled by England-Wales law (GB)
30 (198) agreements of chemical/pharmaceutical industries (C5)
20 agreements of Japanese companies in Europe (J)
139 overall EWC agreements (T), 18% of 770.
46 agreements dated 2004-2006 (04-06)
102 agreements dated 2004-10/2008 (04-08)
4. Code Sector N° Agreements %
C1 Leather/textiles/clothing 30 3
C2 Banking/Insurance 41 5
C3 Mechanical and metallurgical industries 222 24
C3-1 Basic industry 9 1
C3-2 Manufacturing, machines and appliances 53 6
C3-3 Manufacturing, electric/electronic appliances 39 4
C4 Agri-foodstuffs 73 8
C5 Chemical industries 198 22
C6 Building, timber and public works 66 7
C7 Graphics and media industries 49 5
C8 Civil Service 1 0
C9 Transport 25 3
C10 Mining and quarrying industries 16 2
C11 Commerce and services 19 2
C11-1 Wholesale and retail traders 7 1
C11-2 Hotels and restaurants 13 1
C11-3 Other service activities (supplied to companies) 27 3
C13 Other (specify) 20 2
Sector
13. T J C5 GB
Workers
2128 / 109
20
219 / 13
17
524 / 23
23
1599 / 84
19
Employers
287 / 73
4
26 / 9
3
89 / 20
4
193 / 51
4
W / E ratio 5 : 1 5,5 : 1 6 : 1 5 : 1
National or
European
Branch
Federations
8% / / 9%
Trade Union
Expert 12% / / 14%
Other Expert 2% / / 4%
Composition
14. Competencies: economic
0 20 40 60 80 100
researches
environment
new technol.
closures
merger
delocalisation
field of actv.
production
market
%
04-08
ALL08
ALL 06
GB
C5
J
T
15. Competencies: financial
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100
joint venture
investments
balance sheet
%
04-08
ALL 08
ALL 06
GB
C5
J
T
16. Competencies: social
0 20 40 60 80 100
trade union's rights
equality
training
work condition
health & safety
mass redundancies
employment
%
04-08
ALL 08
ALL 06
GB
C5
J
T
17. Competencies: others
0 20 40 60 80 100 120
excluded areas
confidentiality
other
%
04-06
04-08
ALL 08
ALL 06
GB
C5
J
T
18. 0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
100
%
W E W+E W E W+E W E W+E W E W+E W E W+E W E W+E
president 38% secretary 52% selected committee
53%
technical
secretariat 35%
w orking
commission 8%
budget
administered
by 39%
T
J
C5
GB
ALL 08
president secretary selected Technical working budget
committee Secretariat commission administered by
38% 52% 53% 35% 8% 39%
Ratio W:E = 4:1
Resources: charges
19. Resources: charges summary
president secretary
selected
committee
technical
secretariat
working
commission
or group
budget
administered
by
responsible
for the
agenda
W x x x x
E x x x
W+E
x x x
25. Resources: others
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90
%
training
access to subs.
comm. syst.
exp. cost
exp. fees
time off of duty
simult. transl.
04-08
04-06
ALL 08
ALL 06
GB
C5
J
T
26. Resources:
themes of
the expert
assistance
& training
topics
0 10 20 30 40 50
%
economic
social
financial
themes of the expert assistance
ALL 06
GB
C5
J
T
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50
%
economic
social
financial
language
training topics
04-08
04-06
ALL 08
ALL 06
GB
C5
J
T
27. “ Yes, we have ”
“ Do we have any
data to help us in
the choices? ”