Organising and recruitment in CEE region: Tendencies, problems and prospects

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Organising and recruitment in CEE
regionTendencies, problems and prospects

• Sergejus Glovackas,
• PERC

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Problems which are the main obstacles for
membership growth

• Lack of experience in this field
• There are no professional organisers
• Existing TU structures are not fit to organising
• Financing
• There is no strategic planning.

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Problems which are the main obstacles for
membership growth

• Youth
• New economy sectors and informal economy
• Illusions of applicant countries
• The lack of basic knowledge about trade union
  rights and ILO Conventions.

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4 key factors of successful organising

• It is necessary to remember and use daily 4 key
  factors of successful organising
• to allot and attract more financial means for
  organising
• to involve good professionals
• to prepare and realise the strategic plan
• to mobilise all union members for organising
  activities.

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RECOMMENDATIONS

• Having summarised experience in CEE region and
  analysed problems, there are the following
  recommendations how to make recruitment more
  efficient

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RECOMMENDATIONS

• It is necessary to prepare a long-term realistic
  strategic plan and the mechanism of its
  realisation
• Structural reforms and changes are necessary to
  adapt existing TU structures to organising
• It is necessary to foresee a long-term financing
  including this to yearly TU budgets as a separate
  budget-line, confirming it on the highest TU
  decision level

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RECOMMENDATIONS

• Youth activities should not end with the creation
  of a formal structure
• Professional selection and preparation of
  organisers, formation of a good organisers team
• IT should be used as efficiently as possible
• It is necessary to develop closer co-operation
  with other TU departments

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RECOMMENDATIONS

• Organising campaigns in new economy fields and
  informal economy
• Work with migrants
• Use of international information and experience
• Basic education and information on TU rights and
  main ILO Conventions, promotion of the code of
  conduct.