Report on activities

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Report on activities

• Gerhard Rohde
• Professional and Managerial Staff
• Nyon, 9 November 2004

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UNI PMS globally
Wehavegrown
75 unions47550 members
68 unions271700 members
48 unions216200 members
155 unions635000 members
346 unions 1200000 members
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1st Conference Singapore 2000
Knowledge work
New Economy
Converting data intoknowledge
Performance of companiesbased on
intellectualcapacity
Working long hoursWork was fun
New rules and principles
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New Economy
Some irritationamong tradeunionists
Post-industrial forms of cooperation?
Knowledge workers as employee-entrepreneurs?
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Dot.com bubble
Has everythinggone now?
Not new economythe dot.com bubble burst
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Singapore work program
New Economy a synomymforintellectualor
knowledgework
Singapore work-program was valid.We have gone
through it over the past four years
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UNI PMS Passport
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UNI Passport
More PMSaffiliates to set upPassportwebpages!
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Regional PMS activities
Inaugurate andconsolidateRegionalstructures
forPMS
Pan African Network
PMS Conference inAugust 2000
Regular meetings Steering CommitteeEuropa
CommitteeConference
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Responsibility of PMS
Professional,social,ethicalresponsibilityof
PMS
We support together with PSI and someNGOs
anInternational Conventionfor whistleblowers
Individual responsibility - not CSR
High burden on individuals unions to support
We will deepen the subject and possiblytake a
new initiative at this Conference
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Lifelong learning
Employability and adaptability
Lifelonglearning isessential
Trade unionsas trainingproviders
The skills you need to enter, to stay in, and
progress in the world of work.

• A EuropeanConference held
• 2 surveys amongaffiliates
• Important role of informal learning

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Organising Recruitment
Organising ofPMS is ofparamountimportance
Organising

• UNI PMS Committee platform for exchange of
  experience and good practice
• Practical support for organising IT
  Professionalsin India.

New strategiesneededincluding theInternet
Virtual trade unions

• Use Internet to reach out and involve PMS
• Services and recruitment online
• Competition in cyberspace

 Flexible work 

• Freelance and self-employed PMS
• We started to create a network, held two
  meetings in Luxembourg.

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ITPF in India
BBTK,Belgium
Amar, BangaloreProject Coordinator
Inter-national
UNI
National ServiceCenter (NSC)
National CoordinationCommittee
National
State
Andhra
Karnataka
Maharastra
Tamil Nadu
Delhi
Local
Hyderabad
Bangalore
Mumbai
Chennai
Mysore
Vizak
Pune
Coimbatore
Hubli
Vijayawada
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Other important activities
Eurocadres
(Thomas Wallberg), Christer Forslund(SIF)
Vice-President B. Segol, G. Rohde on Executive
Committe.
EU Commission

• European Forum on business-related services
• Speech HoD Management skills and offshore
  outsourcing
• Dialog with employers on lifelong learning in
  Knowledge Intense Services

Global Networkof Engineer Organisations

• We have actively participated in the preparation
  of that Conference in May 2003in Copenhagen.
• We will start tomorrow the preparation for the
  4th Conference to be held 2007 in Brazil.

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Outlook
Commitmentto our work
EffectiveCooperation
RealisticObjectives