Gerhard Rohde

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Oral report on activitiesIBITS 2004 - 2007

• Gerhard Rohde
• IBITS Head of Department
• Gerd.rohde_at_union-network.org

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• 1998 FIET IBITS Conference, Düsseldorf
• Making change work for people
• 2004 UNI IBITS Conference, Stockholm
• From manufacturing to services
• 2007 UNI IBITS Conference, Nyon
• Breaking into knowledge services

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• 1st IBITS Conference Stockholm 2003
• 35 targets in 10 action areas
• Some things did not work, some things worked,
  some things not planned worked very well.
• What did not work as intended?
• Consolidate Industry Committee
• One meeting held (Oct. 2004, Vienna)
• No critical mass most affiliates with EIF
• Focus on industrial policy
• Cooperation with EMCC
• Participation in CCMI

Seek closer cooperation on white collar issues
with EMF/IMF
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• Areas for improvement
• Business Services
• Several meetings held, yet low participation
• 2004, 2005 active involvement in EU BSRF (DG Ent)
• Cooperation with employers EBSRT to establish
  Social Dialogue mobility, retention, life-long
  learning
• EBSRT made little efforts to become a recognised
  social partner (no legal foundation) leadership
  change leaves uncertainty
• CCMI co-rapporteur for business services and
  productivity of manufacturing industries

This Conference to give fresh impetus to
revitalisework on business services, in
particular KIBS
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• Freelance Network
• Close relation with Business Services high
  percentage of freelancers
• Meetings held in Amsterdam, Luxembourg, Nyon
• Survey and publication Opening doors wide to
  self-employed
• Recent initiatives
• ETUC
• Government, employers and trade unions Andalusia
  Seville Charter 2007

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• Organising, trade union building
• ITPF India (www.itpfindia.org) now with nation
  wide structure new funding program, clear
  objectives and measurable target defined
• UNITES targeting call centers and ITES
  (www.unitespro.org)
• More efforts needed in CEE
• Ukraine new IT union support program developed
• Russia new initiative software developers
  union
• Targeted programs needed for New Member States
• Multinationals
• IBM initiative launched meetings and seminars
  planned
• Atos-Origin and Cap Gemini next on the agenda

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• IT Committee
• Regular meetings, well attended
• Annual IT Forums on several subjects
• 2006 anticipate and manage change in ICT
• 2007 managing diversity ICT Forum
• Despite several approaches towards EICTA, ESA no
  progress towards social dialogue industry mantra
  multistakeholder partnerships
• Played a relevant role in the EU ICT Taskforce
  for competitiveness
• Now to monitor implementation of objectives

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• IT Committee
• Key projects - work in progress
• Contract clauses for IT professionals
• Migration of IT professionals
• Important role in EU Commissions e-skills Forum
• Addressed conferences and workshops Social
  aspects of e-skills paper
• involvement in several projects
• E-skills foreshight scenarios
• E-skills compentence framework
• Quality standards for ICT certification
• Several others also under CEN/ISSS
• E-skills career portal
• Mature

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http//www.eskillseurope.eu/eskills/
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http//www.mature-project.eu/index.html
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http//www.union-network.org/unisite/sectors/ibits
/moos/
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• MOOS good exercise of cooperation between UNI
  Europa and affiliates, between unions and
  academia
• Raised our profile, UNI Europa and affiliates
• Invitations to many EU and other events as
  experts
• Today we know more than we did in January 2005
• Roughly analysed 95 cases, involving almost
  26000 jobs
• We have understood the anatomy of offshore
  outsourcing gt Handbook, CD-ROM, website, etc.

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• MOOS kicked off national activities by
  affiliates
• Publications, guidelines, policies adopted by
  affiliates
• Training courses involving rank and file members
• EU draft Communication on e-skills for the 21
  century (March 2007)
• Study impact of global sourcing
• Sustainable offshoring as developed by MOOS
• UNI Europa IBITS will continue the project
• Maintain and update the website
• Continue offshore tracking
• Publish newsletters

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Role of PMS in offshoring

• Target group managers, professionals involved in
  offshoring,
• Role of managers in the process of outsourcing
  and offshoring
• Managers initiate, develop, coordinate,
  implements and monitor offshore outsourcing
• Social and professional responsibility
• UNI Europa PMS Conference on Offshoring and the
  role of Managers
• October 2007 Luxembourg

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• In conclusion
• MOOS was not part of the Stockholm conclusions,
  yet worked very well
• We need a certain flexibility to react on new
  developments
• The involvement in EU initiatives was challenging
  and required extensive learning beyond standard
  answers
• We will have to redress our weaknesses and expect
  this Conference to give a fresh impetus
• We have to expand our geographical reach
• CEE, New Member States
• Develop activities in UNI Regions, become global
  player
• We need to adapt our structures to changing
  environments, technology and business models