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The Audiovisual Sectoral Social Dialogue Committee

The Audiovisual Sectoral Social Dialogue Committee. A presentation by Allan Jones SDC Employers Coordinator Legal & Public Affairs, EBU Geneva, 29 th May 2009. Members of the AV SDC. Employers' representatives European Broadcasting Union Association of European Radios

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The Audiovisual Sectoral Social Dialogue Committee

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  1. The Audiovisual SectoralSocial Dialogue Committee A presentation by Allan Jones SDC Employers Coordinator Legal & Public Affairs, EBU Geneva, 29th May 2009

  2. Members of the AV SDC Employers' representatives • European Broadcasting Union • Association of European Radios • European Coordination of Independent Producers • International Federation of Film Producers Association • Association of Commercial Television in Europe

  3. Members of the AV SDC Employees' representatives • Euro-Mei • European Federation of Journalists • International Federation of Actors • International Federation of Musicians

  4. The Audiovisual sector • In the EU over 1.25 million people work in the audiovisual sector. Just under half (46%) are women, 82% have employee status and 75% work full-time. • The five employers associations on the SDC cover over 12,500 individual enterprises , varying in size from <10 staff to >25,000 staff • The four trade union organisations represent jointly around 330,000 workers and UNI-MEI acts as the employees' secretariat.

  5. History and background • The Audiovisual SDC was formed in 2004 • We have 2 plenary and 3 working group meetings per year • Average of 12 employers and 24 union delegates • Primarily North-western European delegates, on both sides of the committee

  6. Challenges to AV sector • Public sector – threat to licence fee/public funding • Private sector – collapse of advertising revenue and fall in commissions • A skilled and diverse workforce • Piracy

  7. Agenda ‘Internal’ projects • Training • Enlargement • Equal Opportunities

  8. Agenda ‘External’ Projects • Labour Legislation • 2006 Green Paper • Work-life balance • Flexicurity

  9. Challenges to AV SDC • Unions looking for ‘hard’ results • EC looking for ‘hard’ results • Employers looking for ‘soft’ results • Representation from new MS • Expertise of the delegates

  10. Achievements • Still meeting after 5 years !! • Intangible benefits • Warsaw Conference 2006 • Prague Conference 2008 • What does the EC think?

  11. The Audiovisual SectoralSocial Dialogue Committee Questions

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