European Federation of Public Service Unions

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Priorities

• European Federation of Public Service Unions
  EPSU
• Fédération Syndicale Européenne des Services
  Publics FSESP
• Europäischer Gewerkschaftsverband Öffentlicher
  Dienst EGÖD
• Europeiska Federationen For Offentlig Anstalldas
  Forbund
• Nordiske Renovasjons og Gjenvinningskonferanse
• European Waste Developments
• Keep our planet clean and green
• Jan Willem Goudriaan
• EPSU Deputy General Secretary
• 13 November 2010, Oslo, Norway

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EPSU

• gt 250 Trade Union 8 million members
• All European countries including Russia,
  Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, Turkey, Balkan
  countries e.g.
• Utilities, Local/regional, national/EU
  administration/ health and social services
• Waste Diversity of waste streams All
  services collection/ disposal, sorting,
  recycling, incineration, landfil
• Public and private, municipal and transnational
  companies
• Recognised Social Partner
• Largest Federation of ETUC
• Recognised Region of PSI (www.world-psi.org)
• Staff 23 (compare with Eurelectric 33-35,
  Eurogas 12 WWF 40 EEB 20 Greenpeace 17 BEUC 30
  ENEL 8-10)
• Affiliation fee - around 1/10th of a glass of
  beer per year per member

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Priorities

• Working Time Directive
• Consultation
• Financial and Economic crisis
• Procurement
• Lisbon Strategy EU 2020 Flagship on Resources
• Public services checklist, unit in Commission,
  EP intergroup on PS, SGI statute, EPSU network,
  cooperation with others
• Collective Bargaining network, newsletter
  information, policy

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More EU power over (public service) workers pay

• Eurozone Council wage moderation in PS to give
  example ECB Irish Times Commission demands
  cuts
• European Monetary Fund Stability and Growth
  pacts enforcement single direction keep
  public finance in check
• European coordination More directly addressing
  imbalances, MS bubbles ? addressing wage
  settlement rigidities, wages reflecting local
  developments, reducing tax/ social security part
  of labour costs and compensate this wih cuts in
  public spending (rather then other
  (environmental) taxes
• Also for trade unions a big challenge national
  IR vs European/global capital and how to relate
  to economic surveillance and EU directions on
  budgets (new proposals...)

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Coordinated Action

• NO CUTS but GROWTH EUROPEAN DAY OF ACTION 29
  SEPTEMBER BRUSSELS
• 15 December 2010, Decentralised Action
• Early March 2011, Budapest

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Utilities - Waste

• Waste
• Policy and internal market
• Social dialogue
• European Works Councils
• Coordination of Collective Bargaining

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Utilities Waste

• Out of all the municipal waste generated in the
  EU, 42 is landfilled, 38 is recovered and 20
  is incinerated.
• Poorer countries still use most landfill, richer
  countries are the biggest users of incineration.
• The highest amount of waste is landfilled in
  Bulgaria, Romania, Lithuania, Malta and Poland
  (90 or more)
• Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and Austria
  recycle or compost the most (59 or more)
• Denmark, Luxembourg, and Sweden incinerate the
  largest proportion (all 47 of more)

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Utilities WasteEU Legislation

• . GENERAL FRAMEWORK
• Directive on waste Waste disposal (until the
  end of 2010) Strategy on the prevention and
  recycling of waste Integrated pollution
  prevention and control IPPC Directive Waste
  management statistics Competitiveness of the
  recycling industries Landfill of waste Waste
  incineration Shipments of waste
• HAZARDOUS WASTE
• Controlled management of hazardous waste (until
  the end of 2010) Basel Convention
• WASTE FROM CONSUMER GOODS
• Packaging and packaging waste Disposal of
  polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and
  polychlorinated terphenyls (PCTs) Disposal of
  spent batteries and accumulators Disposal of
  waste oils End-of-life vehicles The reusing,
  recycling and recovering of motor vehicles Waste
  electrical and electronic equipment
• WASTE FROM SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES
• Management of waste from extractive industries
  A strategy for better ship dismantling practices
  Ship dismantling Removal and disposal of
  disused offshore oil and gas installations Use
  of sewage sludge in agriculture Port
  infrastructure facilities for ship-generated
  waste and cargo residues
• Titanium dioxide
• Disposal of titanium dioxide industrial waste
  Surveillance and monitoring of titanium dioxide
  waste Reduction of pollution caused by waste
  from the titanium dioxide industry
• RADIOACTIVE WASTE AND SUBSTANCES
• Shipments of radioactive waste supervision and
  control Shipments of radioactive substances
  Situation in 1999 and prospects for radioactive
  waste management Management of spent nuclear
  fuel and radioactive waste

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Utilities - Waste

• Waste Framework Directive (2010)
• Article 4 The following waste hierarchy shall
  apply as a priority order in waste prevention and
  management legislation and policy
• (a) prevention
• (b) preparing for re-use
• (c) recycling 2015 seperate collection of
  papers, glass, plastic and metal
• (d) other recovery, e.g. energy recovery and
• (e) disposal.1

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Utilities WasteRecycling Society

• Ambitions Objectives European Recycling Society
  with a high level of resource efficiency
• (a) by 2020, the preparing for re-use and the
  recycling of waste materials such as at least
  paper, metal, plastic and glass from households
  and possibly from other origins as far as these
  waste streams are similar to waste from
  households, shall be increased to a minimum of
  overall 50 by weight
• (a) by 2020, the preparing for re-use, recycling
  and other material recovery, () of non-hazardous
  construction and demolition waste () shall be
  increased to a minimum of 70 by weight.

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Utilities WasteNetwork of Facilities

• In order to reduce trans-border shipments of
  waste out of the EU and between member states of
  the EU, member states are obliged to co-operate
  to create a network of disposal and recovery
  facilities so that the EU as a whole will be
  self-sufficient in dealing with its own waste,
  and member states can also move towards
  self-sufficiency, and waste is processed as close
  as possible to its origins.
• (an internal market ?)

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Utilities WasteWaste Plans

• Member states are obliged to develop waste
  management (and waste prevention) programmes
  covering the entire country. These plans have to
  include a comprehensive analysis of all waste
  streams, existing systems for collection,
  recovery and disposal, an assessment of the need
  for new facilities (in the framework of the
  EU-wide network required in article 16). Waste
  prevention programmes also have to be produced by
  the end of 2013, identifying specific measures
  for preventing waste
• Chances for unions to focus on health and safety/
  training ??

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Utilities WasteLandfill

• Landfill directive (1999/31/EC)
• The EU's obliges member states to reduce the
  amount of municipal solid waste in landfill by
  65 by 2016 compared to 1995 levels. But it does
  not give countries binding specifications on what
  to do with it a situation that has led most
  member states to opt for incineration.

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Utilities WasteEmployment
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Utilities Less Waste, More Jobs

• On a European level, if a target of 70 for
  recycling of key materials was met, conservative
  estimates suggest that across the EU27 up to
  322,000 direct jobs could be created in recycling
  an additional 115 million tonnes of glass, paper,
  plastic, ferrous and non ferrous metals, wood,
  textiles and biowaste. These jobs would have
  knock on effects in down and upstream sectors and
  the wider economy and could create 160,900 new
  indirect jobs and 80,400 induced jobs. The total
  potential is therefore for more than 563,000 net
  new jobs (FoE, 2010)

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Employment impact

• Waste reduction can entail job losses in the
  traditional waste collection services,
  particularly machine operators and drivers.
• Employment in recycling will increase curbside
  collection, sorting and reprocessing of
  recyclables. Incineration and such recycling/
  sorting jobs different skills profile
• Recycling is more labour intensive than
  incineration and landfilling 241 jobs for
  recycling 10.000 tonnes, 19 to 41 jobs for
  incineration and 8 to12 for landfill.
• But the risks of bio-waste and recycling to human
  health and occupational heath and safety must be
  assessed

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Utilities WasteEmployment -Exploitation

• Lots of industrial conflict exploitation
• Danish research, the outsourcing process has
  damaging effects on health and safety and
  security of employment The results of a recent
  study of developments in the working conditions
  at commercial collection companies show
  deterioration in respect of health and safety,
  competence building and job security concurrent
  with the increase in outsourcing and competition
  in the sector.
• Health and Safety Swedish research

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Utilities Waste

• Grunnleggende punkter for et EPSU standpunkt om
  utviklinger i den europeiske avfallssektoren
• Økte miljøkrav og kontrollverktøyer for
  avfallssektoren bør gjennomføres i samtlige
  Eumedlemsland.
• Krav om å begrense miljøskadelige stoffer i
  produkter og garantere at produktene kan
  resirkuleres
• Krav om sertfiserte systemer for miljø- og
  kvalitetskontroll, blant annet opplæring av
  personale i samtlige deler av avfallssektoren
• Sektorspesifikke retningslinjer for
  arbeidstakernes arbeidsmiljø
• Økonomiske verktøy som vil kontrollere
  avfallsstrømmene
• Krav om "grønt regnskap" i sektoren
• Krav om miljømessig- og arbeidsmiljømessig
  kvalitet for avfallsoperatører i offentlig anbud.

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Utilities Waste

• ECJ 2009 - local authorities are allowed to
  cooperateusing each others resources without
  applying the EU public procurement directives.
  The decided case dealt with the disposal of waste
  by neighbouring local authorities at an
  incinerator owned by the city of Hamburg,
  Germany, under a cooperation agreement between
  the public authorities (Case C-480/06).
• a public authority has the possibility of
  performing the public interest tasks conferred on
  it by using its own resources, without being
  obliged to call on outside entities not forming
  part of its own departments, and that it may do
  so in cooperation with other public authorities
  .....
• Community law does not require public
  authorities to use any particular legal form in
  order to carry out jointly their public service
  tasks (such as a specially created and jointly
  owned company) and that such cooperation between
  public authorities does not undermine the
  principal objective of the Community rules on
  public procurement, that is, the free movement of
  services and the opening-up of undistorted
  competition in all the Member States , where
  implementation of that cooperation is governed
  solely by considerations and requirements
  relating to the pursuit of objectives in the
  public interest.

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Utilities Social Dialogue waste

• EPSU active in several social dialogues
  (electricity, gas, health, local government,
  central administration)
• Waste sector a target
• Not one European organisation
• FEAD (private sector) SRI - Swedish Recycling
  Industries' Association, Atervinningsindustrins
  Service AB YYL - The Association of
  Environmental Enterprises (Finland)
• Municipal Waste Europe (new and weak capacity)
  RenoSam, Danish Waste Association Avfall Norge
  Avfall Sverige JLY, Jätelaitosyhdistys, Finnish
  Solid Waste Association
• CEMR (European organisation of municipalities
• CEEP (Employers with public participation)
• Several branch organisations for different waste
  streams
• Several clubs of municipalities and regions
• Issues can be Health and Safety, training/
  skills, restructuring, European Waste policy,
  procurement

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The recast EWC directive
European Works COUNCILS

• Directive 2009/38/EC

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Waste European Works COUNCILS

• While in electricity and gas almost all companies
  covered latest Statkraft not in waste
• Veolia, GdFSuez (SITA)
• Attempts in Van Gansewinkel, Ragn-Sells, Spanish
  companies (FCC/ASA, ACS) Lassila-Tikonoja , Alba
  low levels of organisation, hostility employer
• EPSU Coordinators Network
• Legal Assistance Fund

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Utilities Coordination Collective Bargaining

• Intersectoral/ Sectoral/ Company
• Pay and Conditions
• Pay guideline
• Policy
• Research
• Seminars Annual Conference
• Newsletter
• Coordinated Action companies

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Utilities Coordination Collective Bargaining
http//www.epsu.org/a/6868
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Utilities European Day of Action

• Visibility
• Recruitment dimension
• Decent Pay and Conditions
• Jobs to Keep the Planet Green and Clean
• Integrate Social Demands in Waste Policy
  Procurement
• Link with Single Market Act proposals
• Annual

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