Developing Dynamic Analyses for good Levels of Union Standards and Articulation of

International And National Networking Actions - Information Consultation Participation

DEDALUS and ARIANNA

Pilot Commitee IIBarcelona, May the 6th

Strategic meaning of the project

1 •Knowledge dissemination

2 •Awareness raising

3 •Experience and experimental communication

4 •Operational practices

5 •Involvement of different bodies/roles/ rank and file

6 •Systemic game ambition

Main operational guidelines

Training Communication

Knowledge Networking

DEDALUS

Structure, main activities, decision making process, tools and outputs

PROJECT PRESENTATION

18 months of work

• Project presentation

• Information Sharing• Brain storming on

communication strategy

• Decision making on communication strategy

• Decision making on training seminars

PC Barcelona 2

National seminar

National seminar

PC Warsaw1

• Practical and operational skills

• Soft skills• Specific issues

Training seminar

3

4

National seminar

National seminar

National seminar

National seminar

National seminar

1 day

1 day

3 days

1 day

• Evaluation of training

• Decision making on final conference and final publication

PC London1

day

• Dissemination • Final

publication presentation

• Communication results presentation

Final conference

5

61 day

To disseminate the contents of the project and to externally promote trade union action at transnational level

Communication strategy

The project: where are we?

Networking

Analyzing

Building tools

• Pilot committees• Coordination• Joint decision making

• Quantitative Research

• Qualitative research• Training needs

• Training modules• Tools for union action• Knowledge on EWC• Newsletter• Focus group

methodologies

ICARUS

To share

To decide on

To develop

• Ideas• Needs• Experiences• Icarus’results

• Target groups• Training seminars• Communication

strategy• Final schedule

• Social media strategy• International and national

training seminars• Website final publication• Tools for trade union activity• Tools for trade union network• Support tools for training and

communication

DEDALUSWE are HERE

A short overview of ICARUS project: tools, experiences and processes that can be implemented during Dedalus

THE ICARUS EXPERIENCE

ICARUS: an introduction

• To analyse good or bad practices of reciprocal information and cooperation among workers reps in plants of multinational undertakings, EWCs members, trade union officers

• To provide specific and tailored education and training for the full and correct implementation of information and consultation rights

• To establish a coordinated network of trade union reps at different level

Objects

Training

Network co-ordination

MappingAssessment

What we did

• Vertical and horizontal networking

• National and international networking

Networks

• Preparation of focus group methodology

• 9 group discussions at national level

Qualitative Research

• 4 days of international training seminars

• 14 sessions of work

Training

• International survey• 3 different multiple choice

questionnaires (EWCs members, employees representative, Trade union offices)

• 158 respondents from 6 countries

Quantitative Research

What we gains

1 •Trade union network improved by this experience

2 •Analysis tools

3 •Tools and methodologies to improve the cooperation among EWC members, employees representative and trade union

4 •Greater awareness in EWC dynamics

5 •The operational structure of the project/work method

Operational structure

• Evaluation of needs

• Information Sharing

• Creation of tools• Decision making

• National use of tools and methodologies created during the pilot committee (e.g questionnaires)

• International seminar

• Evaluation of the national actions/ international seminar

• Preparation of the next activity

PILOT COMMITTEE PILOT COMMITTEEIMPLEMENTATION

FINAL CONFERENCE

• Newsletter• Website• National

conferences

DISSEMINATION

• Tools and knowledge in union disposal for future actions

OUTPUTS

www.icaruspartecipation.euMulti channel website:

• video; documents; training materials; on-line surveys; news; external links

To collect

of all the contents of the project

To support

trade union activity in MNCs

To disseminate the contents of the project

To strengthen

international trade union networks through information sharing

multi languages

• Website: ENGL, ITA• Documents are

translated in 7 languages

Tools for EWCs analysisFinal Report

methodologies; research results; project phases;

description and evaluation of each tools

Regulation

Information on European directives and legislation on

EWC

VideosThe Icarus experience, good practices, evaluation on the

training seminar, video documentary

News and links

Database, newsletters and specific website

To improve

knowledge and to disseminate

information on EWC

target EWC members, trade unionists, students of IR

Surveys

To map EWC members

To improve

knowledge on EWC

To collect

feedback from actors

To strenghen

trade union networks in MNCs

To support

unions in the definition of policies for EWC

Quantitative survey

Large scale questionnaire implementation during

research activity

Quantitative survey

3 different questionnaires:- EWC members- Trade union officers- Employees representatives

Qualitative survey

Open questionnaires to collect feedback

Qualitative survey

3 different questionnaires:- Communication- Training needs- Relation among actors

Focus GroupFocus group

Methodology definition

Check list of items

To investigate during the focus group

To improve

knowledge on EWC

To develop

a problem-solving approach

To improve

communication among actors

To promote

active learning process

To activate

decision making process

Newsletter50 publications

3 itemsMNCs, EWCs and TFAsEuropean legislationHuman rights all over

the world

Languages

Italian3 lines of Abstract

in English

External links

To collect further information on the

issues

Multichannel dissemination

EmailWebsite

Facebook

To collect news on EWC

To support

the EWC members activity

To disseminat

egood practices

To promote

European trade union action

To promote

labour start campaigns

International training sessionsIssues

EWC in a historical perspective; the role of EWC members; MNCs; negotiation TFAs; multi-cultural dimension; best

practices

Ispra (Italy)

2.5 days of class work, splitted into sessions

Interactive method

EWC meeting simulationDebate, exchange and

teamwork.

To provide

effective and practical information tools

To re-use

the session in the national context

To improve

soft and hard skills of EWC members

To share

Good union practices at transnational level

Target, tools, channel to communicate and to disseminate the contents of the project … multiplication of information and sensitiveness as learning process

COMMUNICATION STRATEGY

Mediactivism

Multilanguage

Monthly publishing schedule

Social Media Strategy

Website

Smart and interactive

Different type of publications

Multichannel

Network and community

Multilevel

COMMUNICATION STRATEGY

Shifting stress from ‘information’ to ‘narrative’

A multilevel target for communication

Social network usersTrade

union’s rank and fileTrade

union officersEWC

Members

Multichannel tools for communication

• Deepening contents

• Tools• Links• Network• Procedures

ICARUS WEBSITE • The core of our

communication strategy

• Dynamic structure

• Multilanguage• Contents in

different format (video, photos, article)

DEDALUS WEBSITE

SOCIAL NETWORK

NEWSLETTER

TRADE UNION NETWORKS

ALLIANCES

INTERNATIONAL UNIONISM

EWC

Web site general structure

1. Labyrinth library: to organize existing materials in different languages about training and dissemination of EWC work.

2. Arianna’s Threads: short stories of EWC members who tell their experiences in EWC but in a narrative way.

3. Dedalus’ Maps. These are longer stories about ‘epic’ moments in the life of a EWC.

To collect and to disseminate all the materials developed during the project

DEDALUS TOOLS AND MATERIALS

News, documents and items to disseminate trade union international dimension

Five examples of Arianna’s Threads The number shouldn’t be too high and the concepts should be very clear.Nor technical, neither philosophical approach, but narrative, storytelling,

emotional and socializing one.The best anecdote you never experienced in a EWC?

Purple Thread

Who important it is to have an intercultural approach in EWCs?Worse enterprise practices in being ‘helpful’ to EWC workWhat do you discovered about Europe in your EWC experienceWhat do you think is the real potential of EWCs?

Blue ThreadGreen Thread

Red Thread

Orange Thread

Perhaps starting from a general approach of storytelling based onGood and bad practices inputs and debate

Storytelling

Social media strategy

Goals definitionQualitative goals

Quantitative goals

To build a trade unionist

community

Internal Training

Political meetings

Mediactivism

Publishing plan

Editing team composition

• Pils• Deep

information• News• Campaigns• Plan of

translation

• Contents• Dissemination

strategy

Monthly planning

Publication plan/final report

Repartition of the work among partners

• Human dimension in EWCs: faces and anecdotes from EWCs members

• News from European institutions and trade union federations• News on human rights violation• National reportage• Positional paper on EWCs, MNCs and trade unionism• Trade union network analysis in some MNCs from

Montenegro and Serbia• IR in Europe (www.workerparticipation.eu)• Labourstart campaigns (www.labourstart.org)• Dissemination of Dedalus tools• Cooperation with bloggers (e.g Annotazione.de)

What else?What else?

Categories

Guidelines; objectives, items, know how

TRAINING

Guidelines

Objectives

Items

Know how

ObjectivesParticipants will have the possibility to:

on EWC issues not frequently included in training activities- Hard skills- Soft skills

Get knowledge

on strategies and tools for raising awareness and disseminate knowledge and information in their organizations and networks

Reflect

techniques of participative and cooperative decision making methods

Experience

Items

1 •Methods for specific and innovative information on EWCs

2 •Specific issue concerning EWCs and MNCs for trade union action

3 •Problem-solving

4 •Active learning methodology

5 •Techniques to support decision making process and teamwork

Know how

to talk and to present the training contents to others To disseminate:

techniques and methods experienced To use:

the known contents into their own trade union activityTo bring:

how to introduce new tools and approaches to their activity

To plan:

practices and techniquesTo experience:

National seminars

Participants description: name, role, sector, previous experience

Training sessions description: issues, modalities, sum up of the debate

Photos: to use for our web site and for the final report for the Commission

• date and location• contents• target group

Flexible structure on

Seminar report

One day training for each organization involved

International seminar

• Budget• Bargaining• MNCs structures and cultures• Confidentiality

EWC and MNCs Issues

• Networking• Procedures (i.e. Info&Cons)• Offensive … taking the

initiative

Innovation in Trade union action in MNCs and EWCs

• The use• The potential• The strategy• The plan

Communication:

• The planning of the strategy• The meeting with the

management

Simulation activity

• To use them in the seminar• To experience, understand,

debate the potential• To plan the possible

application in the Trade union activity

Techniques

Is that what we want?