Collective Bargaining Policy
In order to improve working and living conditions for the metalworkers in Europe, the EMF has been working towards a coordinated collective bargaining policy. Thus the EMF is part of a process to create a more social Europe where there is room for a genuine negotiation culture.
Today, the EMF's activities and policy papers cover a wide range of subjects from wages and working time to employment policies, training and social security issues. The EMF approach is also implemented in regional networks.
For further information please contact
Bart Samyn, Deputy General Secretary,
Erlend Hansen, Policy Adviser or Ralf Götz, Policy Adviser.
The EMF Eucob@n Network
The European Collective Bargaining Network (Eucob@n) is both a tool to improve the EMF coordination as well as to strengthen national collective bargaining.
The first common demand 2005-2009
EMF First Common Demand: The individual right to training guaranteed by collective agreements.
The second common demand 2009-2013
The EMF Collective Bargaining Policy Conference 2009 launched the 2nd Common Demand: “For more secure employment, against precarious work”, which will be included in the collective bargaining demands of all its 75 affiliated trade unions and in future collective bargaining rounds throughout Europe over the next four years.
Coordination of Collective Bargaining
The main objective of the EMF collective bargaining strategy is the improvement of working conditions of metalworkers. Increased competition threatens the results and the structures of collective bargaining in Europe.
Regional networks
In 1998 it was decided to establish cross-border collective bargaining partnerships within the EMF. The first stage of setting up these partnerships is now almost completed.
Regional partnerships have been created all over Europe an the participation of observers and the exchange of data and information have become a daily routine. It should be noted in particular that these partnerships do not only focus on collective bargaining issues alone but increasingly also on concrete issues with regard to company-cross-border support. Reporting in the Collective Bargaining Committee should also devote more attention to these partnerships in the future.
Campaign
EMF Launches 2nd Common Demand of the European metalworkers’ unions
“For more secure employment, against precarious work”
which will be included in the collective bargaining demands of all its 75 affiliated trade unions and in future collective bargaining rounds throughout Europe over the next four years.
