ROLE OF TRADE UNIONS IN PROGRESS

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ROLE OF TRADE UNIONS IN PROGRESS

• Start with the needs of the trade unions in the 5
  areas of action of Progress (for the project to
  be a tool, not an objective)
• Make the most of the opportunities for
  negotiation
• Use the opportunities for social dialogue EU
• National
• Encourage cooperation among the various trade
  union departments
• Use the research and training centres of the
  trade unions (as well as of universities and
  other centres)
• Concentrate on utilising and spreading the
  results, while attempting to make some elements
  of the project structural and continuous, through
  the involvement of local and national
  institutions, the tools of the ESF, of other
  partners.

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FLEXICURITY PROJECT (2006/2007) PROGRESS AREA
WORKING CONDITIONS/ANTI-DISCRIMINATION

• Focus flexibility and job insecurity in the
  credit sector
• Budget line 04.03.03.02
• Promoter FISAC CGIL (I)
• Partners ETUC, UNI EUROPE FINANCE, 31 trade
  unions from 25countries (I, B, F, D, GR, SP, DK,
  UK, P, HU, CZ Rep, Slovakia, Slovenia, Malta,
  Cyprus, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Romania, Croatia,
  Turkey)
• Objectives in view of the labour market in the
  credit sector in times of globalisation,
  determine the factors that can promote
  flexibility without job insecurity.
• Stages 1) Analysis of the situation in each
  country (organisation of labour, collective
  bargaining, standards and laws, role of
  vocational and continuing training)
• 2) Final seminar (Rome 26-28 March 2007)
• - Presentation of the situation in the
  different countries
• - Role of the European Works Councils
• - Role of social dialogue (joint
  recommendation on training in the credit sector/
  
• framework of action
  ETUC/UNICE/CEEP)

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AWARE PROJECT (2006/2007) PROGRESS AREA
EMPLOYMENT

• Focus Over-45s and role of training
• Programme Art.6 ESF
• Promoter Province of Trento (I)
• Partners Ministries, Regions, Research centre,
  Trade unions, Universities of Italy, Finland,
  Spain, Malta, Slovenia
• Objectives Use training to improve the image of
  over-45s in the labour market and in society
• Stages 1) Analysis of employment in the
  different countries/regions
• 2) Strategy for training the over-45s
• 3) Conditions of context for the
  development of training for the over-45s and
  good practices
• 4) Guide to training the over-45s
• 5) Testing of training courses for trainers
• 6) Evaluation and recommendations
• 7) Mainstreaming
• - international meetings
• - training courses (for school
  teachers, job centre operators, trade unionists)

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PROJECT LEADER (2005/2008) PROGRESS AREASocial
protection and inclusion/anti-discrimination/gende
r equality

• Focus discrimination in the labour market
• Programme Equal II
• Promoter IMED (Mediterranean Institute)
• Partners Cultural, social and trade union
  associations working for immigrants in 6 Italian
  regions. Research centre of trade unions in these
  6 Italian regions
• Objectives
• - Achieve continuous areas of synergy among
  those actively involved in anti-discrimination
  work, using good practices
• - Promote the implementation of national and
  Community anti-discrimination legislation

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• Stages
• 1) Identifying the parties (public, private,
  trade union, NGO) working against discrimination
  on the same territory (of the 6 Italian regions)
• 2) Creation of an informal network for each
  territory
• 3) Training for the network members
• 4) Revelation of acts of discrimination and
  creation of a data bank
• 5) Assumption of responsibility for the most
  serious cases by each network (legal service,
  newsletter, etc.)
• 6) Creation of a stable network on each
  territory based on sharing a common map
• - synergy of the activities of different
  offices
• - planning a common intervention strategy
• - cooperating in spreading information and
  results
• - common commitment to the continuous
  promotion of the institutions