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Unite In Brussels
Welcome to our Brussels Office!!
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TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Key Players
• Our role in Brussels
• Message from the top
• Manufacturing
• Services
• More about Unite in Brussels
• Europe
• 7 communities
• The institutional Triangle
• 20 Committees
• MEPs
• Our MEPs
• MEPs assignments
• Kill the Myth!
• Thank You

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Key Players

• Political department team of 14 people
• Brussels office 1
• London office 10
• Swansea office 1 (looking after Wales),
• Glasgow office 1 (looking after Scotland),
• Sheffield office 1 (looking after North-East,
  North West, Yorkshire, Humberside and
  East-Midlands)

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Our role in Brussels

• Message from the top

 Promote, facilitate and develop to create a
bigger Trade Union capable of tackling
Multinationals. 
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Manufacturing

• Manufacturing
• Environment/Energy Industrial Policy Competition
  Law Int.al Issues
• - Climate Change package - Defence Package -
  Mergers Acquisitions - Venezuela
• - Electricity - Car industry - State Aids -
  Columbia (JFC)
• - Car emissions, etc. - Aeronautics - ACTSA
  - WTO NAMA
• Employment and Social Policy
• - Flexicurity
• - Temporary Agency Workers Working Time
  directives (Laval, Rüffert, Viking, Luxembourg
  cases)
• - Health and Safety
• - Vocational training (Life Long Learning)
• - Information Consultation (European Works
  Council Transnational Collective Bargaining)
• Relationships with MEPs
• - Bilateral/Multilateral- One-to-one
• - Manifestos, specific campaigns (EP Elections),
  etc.

• Action for Southern Africa Nongricultural
  Market Access

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Services

• Services
• Internal Market Finance International Trade
  Devlpt
• - Services Directive - Regulations of - GSP
  (Generalised Systems of Pref.)
• - Public Services Equity/Hedge Funds - FTAs
  (Free Trade Agreements)
• - Procurement - EPAs (Economic Partnership
  Agr.)
• - Health care
• - Construction
• Employment and Social Policy
• - Posting of Workers Directive
• - Gender/anti-discrimination
• - Social Security/Pensions
• Relationships with Unions
• - Bilateral- One-to-one
• - Industry Federations

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More about Unite in Brussels

• Communication
• ...a two-way link
• Internal from the EU to our members
• External from our members to the EU and other
  organisations
• Various projects
• Petition website www.lavalvikingruffert.eu
• Dedicated EU website area http//www.amicustheuni
  on.org
• Promotion of UNITE to other Trade Unions and
  organisations
• USW merger
• Exhaustive database of the relevant players

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Europe
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7 Community Institutions
Commission
Parliament
Council of the EU
European Court of Justice
European Court of Auditors
EuropeanCentral Bank
European Council
Consultative Bodies - Committee of the Regions-
European Economic and Social Committee
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The Institutional Triangle
European Councilprovides the impetus for
European integration
27 Commissioners
European CommissionProposes drafts
legislative proposal
Heads of State
European ParliamentDecides
Council of the European UnionDecides
Co-decision
785 MEPs20 Committees
Ministers of Government
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20 Committees
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MEPs

• UNITE MEPs

Claude MoraesLondon
Arlene McCarthy North West
Gary TitleyNorth West
David MartinScotland
Neena GillWest Midlands
Richard HowittEastern
Michael CashmanWest Midlands
Richard CorbettYorkshire Humber
Eluned MorganWales
Glyn FordSouth-West
Peter SkinnerSouth-East
Catherine StihlerScotland
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MEPs Assignment per Committee

• List and assignment

• Energy/Environment (climate change bio fuel,
  electricity, gas emissions, etc.) - ITRE, ENVI
  - Mary Honeyball, Eluned Morgan, Peter Skinner
  and Neena Gill
• - Linda Mc Avan, Eluned Morgan, David Martin and
  Robert Evans
• Employment (EWC, Agency Workers, Working Time
  directives, flexicurity) - EMPL - Stephen
  Hughes, Richard Howitt, Glenis Willmott and
  Claude Moraes
• Human rights (Columbia, Venezuela,
  anti-discrimination directive) - AFET (DROI),
  INTA, LIBE - Richard Howitt, (Robert Evans),
  David Martin, Glyn Ford, Michael Cashman
• International trade devlpt (Free Trade
  Agreement, GSP, EPAs) - INTA - Glyn Ford,
  David Martin and Glenys Kinnock

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MEPs Assignments

• List and assignment

• Industrial policy, (defence package, car and a/c
  industry) - ITRE, TRAN, AFET (SEDE) - Mary
  Honeyball, Eluned Morgan, Peter Skinner and Neena
  Gill - Robert Evans, Brian Simpson and Catherine
  Stihler - (Richard Howitt) and (Glyn Ford)
• Life Long Learning - CULT - Mary Honeyball
• Health and safety - ENVI - Glenis Willmott,
  Linda Mc Avan, Eluned Morgan and David Martin
• Finance (regulations on Equity/hedge funds)
• - ECON - Peter Skinner and Robert Evans

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Kill the myth!
More info on square bananas, etc. please click
on - the EPLP website http//www.eurolabour.o
rg.uk/myths Or on - the European Commission's
Press Office in London websitehttp//ec.europa.
eu/unitedkingdom/press/euromyths/index_en.htm
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Thank You!