ITINERARIUL DIALOGFund for Decent Work and Tripartite Dialogue

Closing Conference Oslo, 25 November 2014

General context2004•Prison workers changes from Military to Civil Servants. Prisons are still part of the National Defence Sector•The National Trade Union of Prison Workers is formed

2008•First Collective Agreement regarding prison services is signed

2009•First Collective Labour Conflict. •First strike in the National Defence Sector•Major protests against lack of transparency

General context2009•L 329/2009 – 26 hours without pay for the staff working in prisons

2010•25% cuts of wages in public sector•31.05.2010 – prisons are on STRIKE•November 2010 – Constitutional Court states that union reps should not be pay by the employer for union work

2011•Changes of the Labour Code and Social Dialogue Law:•Strike becomes forbidden for prison staff•The Parliament do not allow the Unions representatives to be present in the room when the laws are voted.

Competencies

Process/relation

Impact/visibility

Internal resources:

people

What is to be done?What should be the proper strategy?

Partnership:• SNLP- Romania

• KY - Norway

• NAP -Romania

• KDI- Norway

• EPSU- Belgium

Invited organisations:

• SNCGP – Portugal• UFAP - France

The project mission can be stated as follows:

“Deliver an immersive social dialogue model targeting the negotiation of a decent work agenda in public administration

putting public administration bodies and Unions working together to set priorities and filled them acknowledging resources scarcity

and cultural specificities.”

So it can be easily assumed as a project with high complexity level.

Project Overview

Research &

Development

Policy proposal

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Best practice sharing

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Transnational dimensio

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Workers Engagement

Emphasize SNLP’s Identity and action plan

Adding to existent site, phone, email, chats, events and direct local contact the following tools and channels:

• Social Dialogue exhibition• Facebook• Quarterly newsletter• Learning management

system• Research tool• LinkedIn

Increase the use of recently adopted ICT tools and research techniques:

• Feedback on agreements implementation

• Branch leaders panel• Standard guidelines for

annual focus groups• Instant feedback survey

Increase, embed and diversify direct contact actions, especially to local branches and regions:

• Local / regional meetings

• Social Dialogue training• Focus groups

Obtain :

• Regular feedback (implementation monitoring)

• Participative local/regional action plans

• Diversify local branch social/cultural events

Involving people - Regional

Norway study visit Focus groups Research State of

the art Training manual Online platform Training provided

Competencies

Social Dialogue Process

Clasification of units

Budget & working

condition

S1 December 2013 – Initial

meetingEPSU case

S2 January 2014 – Subjects identification

and priorites / Norvegian case

S3- February 2014 – Budget &

staffDutch case

S4 Februry 2014-Vaccant positions,

extra staff

S5-March 2014- Endowment of

uits

S6 – May 2014 – Decent work

conditions

S7 – May 2014 – Extra staff,

clasification of units

S8 – May 2014 – Statute, social

dialogue Portuguese case

S9 – May 2014 – staff benefits,

training, Portuguese case

S10 - June 2014 – analise & review policy proposals

PROCESS/RELATION

Impact /visibility

Measures decided on:

• Decent work condition

• Social Dialogue “traffic rules”

• Strategic plan of sistem recovery

SOCIAL DIALOGUE - OUTPUT

INTERACT 2014

New meetings in plan:

• December workshop • General Assembly of SNLP January 2015 • General Assembly of KY September 2015

• New bilateral plan of KY/YS and SNLP/BNS

Added value: People will continue to be involved into Justice Area project of Norway Grants

Parallel lines may never intersect in infinity but surely will meet on the horizon…