Promotion of the Social Dialogue,Strengthening of Workers Organizations and the Collective Representation through Education, Information and Consultation with a Special Focus on Nordic Companies in the Baltic States

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Promotion of the Social Dialogue,Strengthening of
Workers Organizations and the Collective
Representation through Education, Information and
Consultation with a Special Focus on Nordic
Companies in the Baltic States
Project supported by the European Commission
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Project Partners

• Main partner organisations
• ITUC International Trade Union Confederation
• ETUC-European Trade Union confederation
• LO/TCO Bistånsnämnd (Sweden)
• LPSK Lithuanian TU Confederation
• LBAS Latvian TU Confederation
• EAKL Estonian TU Confederation
• TALO Estonian TU for Professional Employees.
• LDF- Lithuanian Labour Federation
• LPSSolidarumas Lithuania
• Other possible partner organisations
• GUFs, Norwegian, Finnish, Danish TUs, other
  labour movement NGOs.

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Project Co-ordination Office

• ITUC Vilnius Bureau
• Jasinskio 9
• Vilnius, Lithuania
• E-mail ituc.vilnius_at_post.5ci.lt
• Tel. [phone]
• Fax [phone]

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Project Co-ordination Office
LO-TCO Biståndsnämnds
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Project Advisory Group
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Information flow
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Target Sectors

• Commerce
• Finances
• Services
• Industry
• Transport
• Telecommunication
• And other interested areas having Nordic
  investments.

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Expected Results

• Strengthened Social Dialogue in the targeted
  sectors
• Trade Unions have better skills organisational
  development and collective negotiations
• Informational network
• Increasing membership,number of collective
  agreements and negotiations
• Efficient cross border co-ordination in the
  Nordic-Baltic TU family
• Young workers and women activated in targeted
  sectors

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Project Activities Work plan
Phases Dates No. of participants Venues Events
Preparatory December 13 10 Stockholm, SE Baltic Co-ordination meeting for Swedish Tus
January 22 15 Vilnius, LT Project Working Group meeting
January 23-24 46 Vilnius, LT Introduction conference for Nordic-Baltic partners
Main event March 5-7 27 Parnu, EST Workers organisation capacity building. How to develop social dialogue in service sector-seminar
March 26-28 23 Jurmala , LV Strengthening gender perspective in social dialogue - seminar
June 17 16 Vilnius, LT Baltic TU Council meeting
June 27-July 3 42 Palanga, LT Training for Young workers representatives
Sept 16-18 20 Jurmala LV IT Training for TU activists
Follow up October 23-24 57 Druskininkai, LT General evaluation conference for Nordic-Baltic partners
October 22 6 Project Working Group meeting
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Background Information

Number of population 1.340.900 2.270.900 3.366.400
Number of labour force 655.300 1.142.000 1.510.300
Unemployment, 4,4 6,2 5,1
Inflation, 11,3 17,9 12
Minimum wages, Euro 278 228 232
Average wages, Euro 850 679 648
Foreign direct investments, per capita, Euro 8759 3323 2967
GDP, millions Euro 8284 5364 8284
GDP per capita 11382 8723 8420
Growth of wages in 2007, 15,2 23,6 22,5
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POPULATION AND SIZE
ESTONIA Population 1,341 mill. Area 45,226 sq
km
LATVIA Population 2,271 mill. Area 64,589 sq km
RUSSIA Population 142.2 mill. (2007) Area
17,075,200 sq km
LITHUANIA Population 3,366 mill. Area 65,200 sq
km
BELARUS Population 9.685 mill. (June
2008) Area 207,600 sq km
KALININGRAD OBLAST Population 947,000 Area
15,100 sq km
POLAND Population 38.5 million (2008) Area
312,685 sq. km
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Membership numbers, thousands
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Results achieved in the targeted sectors in three
Baltic countries
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Challenges

• Staff turnover inside union organisations
• TU organisations are overloaded with different
  projects
• Lack of co-ordination among international
  organisations
• How to maintain the established organisation?
• Lack of professionalism and competence
• Disability to accept criticism.

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Recommendations

• ETUC, PERC, BASTUN should act together in the
  Baltic region
• BASTUN should become the main umbrella
  organisation for programmes and projects
• European Federations, GUFs and Nordic federations
  should work closer in the region
• Once a year a joint Baltic region meeting of all
  interested partners should be organised
• Migrant workers after coming back may become the
  active members in TUs
• East-Baltic-Nordic tripartite co-operation should
  be encouraged.