9.00-17.30 13 December and 9.00-14.00 14 December 2012 International Trade Union House (ITUH), 5 Boulevard du Roi Albert II, 1210 Brussels

Conference Briefing

This briefing provides a short introduction to the various sessions of the conference, highlights the main issues and provides links to relevant documents.

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Collective bargaining work plan

The 2009 collective bargaining conference discussed a work plan based on the resolution passed at Congress earlier that year. We have updated the work plan to indicate what progress has been made so far and what remains to be done in the year and a half before the next Congress at the end of May 2014.

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Main themes of the conference

This year’s conference will include major debates on:
 economic governance and its impact on wages and collective bargaining;
 the continuing impact of austerity measures on public service workers;
 attacks on collective bargaining and trade union rights; and
 evaluating the European sectoral dialogue.

Workshops

There will also be a choice of workshops. The final list has not yet been confirmed but the current proposals include: coordinating collective bargaining at national level; responding to outsourcing; dealing with decentralised bargaining; and closing the gender pay gap - an EPSU common demand?

Speakers

Confirmed speakers so far include:
 ETUC economic advisor, Ronald Janssen on economic governance
 Damien Grimshaw (Manchester University) and Stephen Bach (King’s College, London) coordinators of two research projects on austerity and social dialogue in the public services
 ETUI senior researcher, Stefan Clauwaert on the attacks on collective bargaining rights across Europe

Languages

Interpretation at the conference will be provided to and from English, French, German, Czech, Swedish, Italian and Romanian while participants will be able to speak but not listen to Danish, Norwegian, Spanish and Portuguese.

This conference is organised with financial assistance from the European Commission.

 Participations forms

participation forms

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 Practical details

appendix to GEN 11 Practical details

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 First draft agenda

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 EPSU GEN 11 Invitation to CB Conference

letter of invitation

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 Collective bargaining resolution work plan

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 Hotel list in Brussels

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 Collective bargaining Conference report

Collective bargaining conference report

This project receives a financial contribution from the European Commission