Digital work environment and the resulting requirements
for "digital" trade unions and employee organisations

 

Invitation to the European Seminar

26 to 28 September 2018 at the Hotel Park Plaza Belvedere, Medulin, Croatia

 

Conference languages

Macedonian / German / English (plus French or Portuguese according to demand)

 

 

Program

 

Wednesday, September 26, 2018

11.00 h registration and welcome coffee

 

12.00 h Lunchtime snack

 

13.00 h Welcome by moderators and organizers

 

13.15 h Greetings from EZA

Herbert Metzger, vice president EZA

 

13.20 h Report by EZA - Project Coordination

"new industrial relations: Digitisation and trade union strategies "

Jelena Soms - LDF (Lithuanian Labor Federation) Lithuania

 

13.45 h Keynote speech

"The 12 theses on digitisation and their effects on work in trade unions and workers' organisations".

Andreas Gjecaj, General Secretary of the Christian Trade Union Group - FCG - in the ÖGB

 

15.30 h Coffee break

 

16.00 h Follow-up discussion

 

18.00 h Dinner

 

 

Thursday, September 27, 2018

08.00 h Breakfast

 

09.00 h Specialist presentation

"The digital world - possible approaches to modern trade unionism"

Dr. Erik Meyer - Lecturer and political scientist

 

10.30 h Coffee break

 

11.00 h Social dialogue 4.0 - Panel discussion

with Dr. Erik Meyer, Andreas Gjecaj and Jelena Soms

 

12.30 h Lunch

 

14.00 h Social Dialogue 4.0 - Panel Discussion II

with country report (15 min each)

 

Slobodan Antovski, President of the Association of Independent Trade Unions in Macedonia (UNASM)

Rainer Rißmayer, Department Manager (NBH)

Rebecca Peters, Trade Union Secretary (CSC East Belgium)

 

15.00 h Workshops

 

17.00 h Creative development of strategies and recommendations for action for works councils, trade unions, interest groups and politicians (coffee break in the workshop)
 

17.30 h departure to Pula

 

18.00 h Guided tour of Pula and dinner in restaurant

afterwards time at free disposal

 

 

Friday, September 28, 2018

08.00 h Breakfast

 

09.00 h Presentation of the results of the working group

plenum discussion

 

10.00 h Coffee break

 

10.30 h Digitisation - a new pitfall for disadvantage of women workers?
Panel discussion with impulses from

 

Helga Jungheim, Trade Union Secretary - ver.di (Aachen/Düren/Erft district) Germany

Vaiva Poskaite, Tomasevic Chairwoman of the Women's Committee - LDF (Lithuanian Labor Federation)

Divna Zmejkovska, Vice President UNASM Macedonia

11.30 h Summary, closing remarks and evaluation

12.00 h Lunch

 

12.30 h Departure